In general, what should I eat?
A normal diet should be balanced. Most of what you eat should not be fat. Most of what you eat should be breads, grains, pasta, vegetables, and fruits. Your body still has a need for fat, especially growing children, but it should not be more than 1/3 of what you eat.

What are the foods with the highest Cholesterol?
Animal fat and meat has the highest amount of cholesterol.

How do we measure Cholesterol in food?
Most of the time you will find food refered to as portions, ounces, milligrams, pounds, quarter pounds, half pounds, and so on. All of these are means of measuring and it's a good idea if you familiarize yourself with what they mean.

Before we talk about how much cholesterol is in different foods, let us first agree on how we can compare things (apples to apples - using an equal comparison of measurement). It is only fair to look at how much cholesterol is in one type of food compared to another using an equal measurement. We will use ounces and milligrams.

Cholesterol is measured in milligrams (mg). The body only needs a very small amount of cholesterol in the blood, so a small unit is used to measure it.

1 potato chip = 1 gram
1 gram = 1,000 milligrams
1/5 potato chip = 200 milligrams

When your doctor tells you that your cholesterol level is 200, this means if we take a measurement of your blood equivalent to 100 cc (about 3 oz of blood) you have 200 milligrams of cholesterol in it. This amount is about the equivalent of 1/5 of a potato chip.

1 pound = 16 ounces
1 ounce = 30 milligrams
1 gram = 1,000 milligrams

The Quarter Pounder
When you go to McDonalds and order a Quarter Pounder, you are getting 1/4 pound of meat.
1 pound = 16 ounces (oz), and 1/4 pound is only 1/4 of that, or 4 ounces of meat. In that 4 ounces of meat there is about 1 ounce of fat. In that ounce of fat there is 80 milligrams (mg) of cholesterol.

(1 Quarter Pounder = 4 oz meat = 1 oz. fat = 80 mg cholesterol)

The Egg McMuffin
Say, for example, instead of eating a Quarter Pounder your child orders a breakfast Egg McMuffin. This has 260 mg of cholesterol. A Sausage McMuffin with Egg has 290 mg of cholesterol which is almost all of the amount of cholesterol allowed by an adult in an entire day. So, it is better to eat lunch at McDonalds than breakfast.
(Sausage McMuffin = 1/2 oz fat = 290 mg cholesterol)

Imagine how much cholesterol you child would be eating in one meal if you add fries to a meal. You will also be adding more cholesterol.

The Egg McMuffin has only 1/2 oz. of fat, but the Quarter Pounder has 1 oz. of fat, so why does the Egg McMuffin have more cholesterol?
You cannot just count fat grams, you must look at the cholesterol. The egg in the Egg McMuffin is very high in saturated fat which has cholesterol. Eggs are one of the highest sources of cholesterol. You have to keep in mind that if the food your child is eating has an egg in it, your child is getting close to the amount of cholesterol he should not exceed in a day.

What is the WORST thing to eat at McDonalds (highest cholesterol)?
The Sausage McMuffin with Egg. Why? The Sausage McMuffin has almost 300 mg of cholesterol and 500 calories. The total calorie need of your child per day is about 2,000 calories. By eating just one Sausage McMuffin he already is getting 1/4 of his calorie needs and has almost reached the cholesterol limit for one day.