I wonder how much raised cholesterol has anything at all to do with outside influence?

I had mine checked last January.  I eat quite a high fat diet because I have butter, cream, eggs and chocolate etc.  They asked me if my life was stressful so after much consideration ( ) I said yes.  They asked if there was any heart disease in the family and up the paternal line the answer was yes.  By this time the nurse was looking a bit pensive - but I had the test and when the results came back, my cholesterol was 2.8. 

So I reckon it must be all about how your own body/metabolism/whatever copes with it all.

Breakfast for me is the same as with Mary I think.  Two large mugs of tea, one to even get me out of bed.  Then while I do the child's breakfast - which consists every morning of a bowl of fresh chopped strawberries and bananas, followed by scrambled egg/bacon, a couple of Scotch pancakes, a Thomas the Tank fromage frais, plus a small carton of apple juice and a multi-vitamin pill  - I have another mug of tea. When I've dropped him off at school I might have porridge or boiled egg and toast, but more often than not I don't really bother eating till lunchtime.  I had a cooked breakfast this morning in Debenhams but that's very unusual indeed.

I LOVE avocados!  I thought the type of fat they contained was the one that was ok re. cholesterol.    I know they're high fat but I assumed not the "bad" sort.  Am I wrong then?

Not that I care because they're obviously not doing me much harm - but I'd be interested to know.....

Oh, it was just that once, at a local veggie take-out, they had these gigantic jaffa-class cakes.  Like: the size of a saucer, with a monstrous disk-shaped bulge in the middle: the orange wassit must have been almost a centimetre thick.  Wasn't exactly lovely.

Gosh! Someone save me a bar stool at the Coach and doofers while I raid the Taj! Don't let my seat at The Dome get nicked either!

Milly, originally when there was the big cholesterol scare and eggs, butter etc., were forbidden, avocados were included in the baddies list, then they were excluded.  I love them and if you scoop some out and mash it up it makes a lovely face pack (because of the high fat content) but a bit scary answering the front door with a green face (unless you are Martle of course)!  Never tried it but you can now get avocado oil for cooking with.

I have bought myself a pack of Weetabix to keep at work and I will endeavour to have brekkie when I get there, probably with an added chopped banana.  It is bad to miss what is the most important meal of the day because brekkie kickstarts your metabolism.

I forgot the deli - I've never tried the moussaka but I'm at working at home tomorrow (trying to finish a paper against an ominously advancing deadline) and I see an excuse for a lunch-time trip into town coming on ...

Doesn't the taste of the avocado get swamped by the mayo and chilli powder?

I fill the hole in each half with balsamic vinegar - yummy!