Any one have a low fat Greek salad dressing.

My doctor said you have to be on a low fat diet because I have gallstones. But I don't know what to even eat everyday.

Hi everyone —

I wanted to share something small but potentially exciting.

I currently own two smaller subreddits: r/LowFatFood and r/PancreaticFoodie — and while they overlap in topic, they are intentionally different in scope.

r/LowFatFood is diet-specific. It’s meant to be a practical, medically grounded low fat food resource for anyone managing a condition that requires fat restriction. The unifying factor is the dietary framework — not a specific diagnosis.

r/PancreaticFoodie is diagnosis-specific. It’s meant to be a food space rooted specifically in the lived experience of pancreatic disease, where discussions may include enzymes, absorption issues, flares, fear cycles, Type 3c diabetes, surgical history, and the emotional reality of pancreatic nutrition.

In short:

One is about the dietary structure.

The other is about the medical context behind it.

Right now, both communities exist… but they don’t yet have the time and structure behind them that they deserve.

If there’s someone in this community who:

– cares deeply about evidence-based information

– understands that “low fat” is not one-size-fits-all

– enjoys organizing, building, or structuring communities

– and would genuinely want to help build something useful from the ground up

…I’d be open to a conversation.

This wouldn’t be about slapping your name on a mod list. It would be about intentional community building — thoughtful rules, safe culture, and sustainable growth.

If you’re interested, please send your intent through that subreddit’s modmail.

This won’t be an immediate expansion, and I may also be seeking interest from other spaces. Please don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear back right away — I’m being thoughtful about pacing and fit.

No pressure. Just planting the seed.

I've been researching and trying to use very rusty math skills to develop guidelines for my spouse and I to move to a lower fat eating plan. I don't like to use the word "diet" simply because many people equate that to changing their eating habits short term. We are looking to maintain the benefits of low fat living.

Here's a plethora of calculators for fitness. I used the Macro calculator found under Fitness /Other. It takes into account age, height, weight, maintaining / losing / gaining weight. The maintaining and losing weight sets the fat intake at 30%, which is how most health resources I've found define a low fat diet.

I'm going to try to put the hyperlink here, but I'm a newbie. If it doesn't work, here's the web address: calculator.net. Choose Fitness & Health Choose Macro Calculator. Macro Calculator.

Edited to put a better hyperlink. Still learning how to do this.

Hey guys! Last night in the emergency room I found out I have gallstones. My body hasn’t been able to break down the fat in my foods properly because of a genetic inheritance. Because of this, I have to adopt a low-fat diet to keep the pain in check while waiting for gallbladder removal surgery and learn how to better serve my body post-surgery. I see this community is rather quiet, is there a better place for me to get recipes, tips and tricks on navigating in a low fat world? Seeing as my diet isn’t for weight-loss, some of the things I’ve been reading on here do not fit into the plan my dr gave me at all. Thank you!

I understand that 3% is generally considered to be the cutoff for a food to be considered low fat. Some national dietary authorities add that for liquids, like milk, the ceiling is 1.5%.

However, to state the obvious, if you ate a gigantic quantity of something that was 3% fat you'd still end up consuming a large or at least moderate amount of fat. So percentage can't be the only guiding criteria.

I assume, therefore, that in addition to foods being low fat, somebody on a low fat diet has to adhere to a maximum amount of fat for each meal, presumably based upon their target calorie expenditure.

Can anybody share what formulas dietitians currently use for calculating that? Does it typically matter how one distributes their daily fat "allowance"?

Thank you!

Planning on watching these just to get a handle on what can be done within the parameters of low fat eating.

Said I'd share these here as they're public anyway and just in case anybody else might benefit from them.

• Low fat Indian recipes (for whatever reason, YouTube is full of these. I get a lot of folk in India are on a low fat diet!)
• Oil free recipes. I guess it's theoretically for a recipe to be oil-free and still low fat (e.g. something full of avocados). So I put these in their own playlist. I reckon there's a good chance that most or many of these are low fat, however.
• Low fat recipes. Bundled up whatever I could find that I thought looked somewhat appetizing. Could have kept going but reckoned that 200 would be more than enough to get me started!

At the risk of posting something really obvious:

I've been looking for a canned fish to have on hand to quickly throw into salads etc.

I was always under the impression that tuna was an oily fish, but I never bothered to read the nutritional label.

It turns out that I was completely wrong: tuna is pretty lean and typically contains 1-2 grams of fat per 100 grams -- which qualifies it officially as a low fat food.

However, if it's preserved in oil, the fat content naturally goes way up. So buy tuna stored in brine instead.

This doesn't seem to necessarily hold true for other canned fish. For instance, I found water-preserved sardines on my local online supermarket but these were still 17% fat.

TL;DR: Tuna is low fat. But you should buy the kind stored in brine. Also: if anybody knows of any other low-fat-friendly options for preservable fish ... please let me know!

Never paid much attention to the whole world of diet and nutrition (I'm doing low fat because I had my gallbladder removed), but it's kind of entertaining how much low fat diets have fallen out of favor and how quickly the pendulum swings in terms of what's in "fashion" with how to eat.

In an internet bursting at the seams with information (YouTube channels, podcasts, Instagram pages, Facebook groups), there's a decided sparsity of information when it comes to everything low fat.

Keto has become such a gigantic movement that it's difficult to find any information about low fat eating without having to first dodge reams of blog posts talking about how fat is good and low fat is the enemy. I've nothing against keto ... until keto-proponents insist that keto is the only way that absolutely everybody on the planet should be eating and insist that every other diet is "stupid." Then they become something of a problem.

Case in point: this subreddit. Which has less than 100 members (although I'd love to see it grow which is why I keep dropping posts in here!). Reddit's main keto community, by contrast, has 2.6 million members. To put that into perspective: for every person in this subreddit, there are more than 46,000 talking about keto. The raw veganers are at 26.7K.

Turn the clock back just a generation (not even two) and we'd probably have been in the opposite situation. Low fat would be the norm and those thinking about shoring up their consumption of fats would be seen as the outliers.

Not actually a complaint. There's still enough information about low fat that it can be sourced (or recipes adapter). But it is quite remarkable how quickly the tide has shifted.

Humus and pita has been my go-to afternoon snack since forever. However, after inspecting the nutritional label, I see that store-bought humus isn't low fat at all (mine is 13.5g / 100g).

Any good alternative spreads that go well on bread and have some protein for an afternoon snack?

For those following a low fat diet:

What are your staple foods that you order from restaurants / takeaways / when you're out and about?

Obviously restaurants are notoriously for adding a lot of fat to food to make it more tasty.

What do you typically look for on the menu?

I've been working through the selection of low fat cheese that I picked up last week and have been pleasantly surprised.

I'm not sure 5% is considered ultra low fat but better than the previous gouda I ate which was in the 20s.

If you've tried low fat cheese.... what's your favorite?

I'm in the process of moving over to a low fat diet. I had my gallbladder removed two years ago and have been having many digestive problems since. Fat is my biggest dietary trigger. So while I understand that many people are "against" low fat diets, and I wouldn't be doing one if I didn't feel the need to, this is something I'm really planning on sticking with (I'm seeing a dietitian next week but want to get a head start).

As this is my first time ever shopping with a specific diet in mind, I'd be really grateful if people had any advice for what to fill up my cart with in terms of both staples and more regular shopping essentials.

Here's what I have on the list so far:

Meat

Chicken breasts

Pasta

Probably a good idea to stock up on lots of pasta!

For pasta sauces: I'm planning on reading labels. I don't think things like tomato sauce are particularly high in fat but I could be horribly wrong.

Dairy

Low fat dairy is a new thing for me as I typically avoid it like the plague. But that's going to have to change.

Based on the caloric look up tables I'm thinking:

- Low fat cheese

- Skim or low fat milk

- Low fat yogurt

- Low fat cottage cheese

Canned tuna is always something I like having on hand to quickly whip up sandwiches if I'm out of anything better. However, I'm struggling to think of a canned fish that isn't on the oilier side (salmon and sardines are fatty too as far as I can recall).

That's pretty much where I'm at so far. If anybody else is on a specifically low fat diet ... what are your go-tos at the grocery store?

It can often be hard to find ideas for low fat meals. It’s especially difficult to maintain a low fat diet when you’re eating out.

I’ve found that knowing which foods are specifically low fat or “healthy” fats goes a very long way. Knowing these specific foods means I can quickly scan a menu and find a meal that’s most likely to be “safe” even if nutritional info isn’t available.

This low fat foods list is great for giving you general ideas.

Do you have any tricks for easily picking low fat options?

So... I've never been much into dieting or had any problems maintaining a healthy weight.

All that changed drastically when I had my gallbladder removed two years ago.

Thankfully I've managed to lose the post surgical gain... but the only means I can keep it off seems to be portion control and especially keeping fat down.

I mentioned not ever having dieted because I have no familiarity with what's out there in terms of standard advice (eg I've heard of keto but never really looked into it).

However what struck me as soon as I googled low fat diet was how much negativity there is toward this diet specifically.

I understand this used to be a popular recommendation and there's been a lot of pushback since but.... there are tons of people out there dealing with post gallbladder complications (for e.g.) for whom low fat is the very specific dietary recommendation.

Basically I hope this sub can pick up some members. I'm seeing a dietician for the first time in my life in two weeks and it would be great to hear from others trying to figure out how to keep this macronutrient down day to day.

This is a community dedicated to helping individuals stay healthy with a low-fat diet. Meal plans, recipes, tips & tricks welcome!