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So I have to go on a low-cholesterol diet.  However, I HATE HATE HATE trying to make food for just one person while Justin has nothing but cheese toast for dinner, so I have to try to find healthy, inexpensive meals to cook that both of us will eat.   This means that the meals may contain:

- Chicken breasts (no dark meat)
- Beef of any kind
- Salmon, perhaps, if it's prepared a certain way

It may not contain:
- Cooked tomatoes
- Peppers (bell or hot)
- Carrots
- Mushrooms
- Any sort of sauce that gets poured over top of a meat
- Cheeses other than cheddar and possibly mozzarella, but again, the cheese can't be on top of the meat

So basically we're just going to be having sautéd chicken every night and some vegetables that I cook on the side (except that I don't know what to do with a vegetable besides put butter on it, and the butter is bad for me).

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WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW

Here I am blaming my high cholesterol on the twinned circumstances of our very high proportion of fried foods, and my love of putting margarine (which I call "butter," incorrectly, because that's what my mom calls it - margarine is "butter" and butter is "real butter") on stuff.

Turns out that 1) the brand of margarine I use is cholesterol free anyway suckers, and 2) there is a family history of high cholesterol, so it might be partially hereditary.

So actually my high cholesterol is a result of our high proportion of fried foods and my familial predisposition.  I can cook with butter after all, guys! 

But keep throwing butter-free recipes my way anyway - the more methods I can add to my repertoire the happier I'll be, and even if it's cholesterol-free it's still pretty high in calories.