If you need to reduce your cholesterol because of health reasons or are just wanting to make a healthy change to your diet, the 2-day low cholesterol diet plan is a good option. This diet plan provides you with breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as two snacks that totals approximately 2000 calories for each day. You can make easy adjustments to this diet to give it variety so that it can be adapted for much longer use.
2-Day Low Cholesterol Diet Plan - Sample Menu: Day 1
Low Cholesterol Breakfast
- 1 cup corn flakes with blueberries
- 1 cup 1 percent milk
- 1 slice rye toast with 1 teaspoon margarine
- 1 cup orange juice
- Black coffee or tea
Low Cholesterol Snack
- 1 toasted pumpernickel bagel with 1 teaspoon margarine
- 1 orange
Low Cholesterol Lunch
- 1 tuna salad (3 ounces) sandwich on whole wheat bread with lettuce and tomato
- 1 graham cracker
- Tea with lemon
Low Cholesterol Snack
1 crisp apple
Low Cholesterol Dinner
- 3 ounces broiled lean ground beef with ketchup
- 1 baked potato with low-fat plain yogurt and chives
- 3/4 cup steamed broccoli with 1 teaspoon margarine
- Garden salad with 1 tablespoon oil and vinegar dressing
- 1 cup 1 percent milk
- 1 small piece homemade gingerbread (made with unsaturated fat)
- Black coffee or tea
Nutritional Values
- Calories 2,000
- Total fat (percent of calories) 30 percent
- Saturated fat (percent of calories) 10 percent
- Cholesterol 186 mg
Low Cholesterol Diet Plan - Sample Menu: Day 2
Low Cholesterol Breakfast
- 1 cup shredded wheat with peach slices
- 1 cup 1 percent milk
- 1 slice whole wheat toast with 1 teaspoon margarine
- 1 sliced grapefruit
- Black coffee or tea
Low Cholesterol Snack
- 1 toasted English muffin with 1 teaspoon margarine
- 1 orange
Low Cholesterol Lunch
- 3 ounces turkey salad on lettuce with tomato wedges
- 1 thick slice of French bread
- 10 animal crackers
- Tea with lemon
Low Cholesterol Snack
1 banana
Low Cholesterol Dinner
- 3 ounces broiled white fish with lemon and herb seasoning
- 1/2 cup brown rice with mushrooms
- 1 dinner roll with 1 teaspoon margarine
- 3/4 cup carrot strips with 1 teaspoon margarine
- Spinach salad with 1 tablespoon oil and vinegar dressing
- 1 cup 1 percent milk
- 1 small piece homemade yellow cake (made with unsaturated fat)
- Black coffee or tea
Nutritional Values
- Total calories 2,000
- Total fat (percent of calories) 30%
- Saturated fat (percent of calories) 10%
- Cholesterol 172 mg