Healthy alternatives to mayonnaise

Those who face cholesterol problems need to find alternatives to mayonnaise for chicken salad and other recipes.

BY SHERREL JONES | Published: May 12, 2010 Comment on this article

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Those of us who cook and prepare food daily for heart-healthy living approach this hold-the-mayo issue as a "cease or decease” order.

This challenge at our house meant some retraining of our tastes to enjoy other options for salad dressings and sandwich spreads. You don’t have complete control when dining away from home, but "hold the mayo” can become a necessary automatic response if your doctor says you must.

My husband enjoyed his mother’s fabulous chicken salad made strictly by the recipe of Neiman-Marcus cooking and dining maven Helen Corbit. My mother-in-law even sent me to a Helen Corbit cooking class in Houston to make sure I mastered her techniques. Mayonnaise was key to potato salad, chicken salad and tuna salad. Steering my husband away from these lifelong favorites was not easy, but it has become possible.

I must say I have nothing against mayonnaise. I was a mayonnaise fan after being shown by a childhood friend how to make a mayonnaise sandwich: Spread the stuff nice and thick on white bread, fold over and chow down. It was best made with bread so fresh it stuck to the roof of your mouth and behind your front teeth if you had them. Mayonnaise was and is good stuff. Many of us just have to find other options now.

Mustard, of course, becomes a player, but it doesn’t exactly fit with a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

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