Roast Dinners... good or bad?

We have a roast dinner twice a week, but I don't have what everyone else has on there plates lol. I used to have yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, potato croquettes, meat with all the fat, mashed potato with a ton of butter.

Now I have eliminated the yorkshire puddings because of the carbs and sodium, the roast potatoes because of the saturated fat from the meats to roast it in, the potato croquettes, well why have 3 types of potato on one dish? I trim the fat, if we are having pork or beef. I limit the amount of butter in my mash, I enjoy the mashed potato and the taste of the butter, but I don't blindly dollop it in.

I also limit the amount of potato I am having. I try to fill my plate with the meat and veggies and it's usually filled and so is my stomach.


If you want a roast dinner, have a roast dinner, but be smart about it. Have only the roasted potatoes, but use spray oil or olive oil and use sweet potato instead. They taste amazing when roasted. Skip the yorkshire pudding. Take off the skin of the chicken and only have the breast. The gravy is high in sodium, but I enjoy gravy as well, just water it down a little bit, use less bisto or the fat from the meat.