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• Avoid fatty meats including pork, streaky beef, veal.
• Don’t eat full fat dairy products including whole milk, cream and butter and dips
• No processed meats like salami and sausages
• Replace high fat snack foods like chips, corn chips and crackers with popcorn, low fat pretzels, cottage cheese and fresh salsas
• Avoid takeaway foods, especially pizzas, pies, chicken skin and deep fried chips, fish, potatoes and donuts
• Limit cakes, biscuits, snack bars and pastries.
• Restrict calamari, prawns and caviar to once fortnightly and replace mayonnaise with good quality olive oil

You should also consider

• You don’t need to avoid some seafood and eggs because of the high cholesterol content. In moderation they will be OK to eat if your overall diet is low in saturated fats.
• A single egg yolk contains 200–250mg of cholesterol almost the recommended daily intake (300mg).
• Seafood including prawns is a healthy food and although it contains cholesterol it is low in saturated fat and some have healthy omega-3 fatty acids.
• People with high cholesterol do benefit from taking plant sterols but US studies show those with metabolic syndrome don’t appear to lower their cholesterol levels by consuming plant sterols. Researchers aren’t sure why just yet but it is one area which many scientists are concentrating their work on. 
• Foods fortified with plant sterols must be clearly labeled advising that plant sterols should only be eaten as part of a healthy diet. These foods aren’t suitable for children under five, pregnant women or breastfeeding mothers.