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How to Eat Out While Watching Your Weight

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Restaurant dining: Better and poorer choices

When it comes time to order your food, it can be useful to have a list of better and poorer choices in mind and be alert to which menu items to avoid. Also be mindful that portion control is hugely important.  Occasionally eating from the “poorer choices” can be okay; the problems occur when “occasional” becomes regular.

 

Better Choices Poorer Choices

Appetizers

Shrimp cocktail

Oysters on the half shell

Seafood platter (not deep-fried)

Raw vegetable platter

Fried appetizers

Tempura vegetables

Buffalo wings

Potato skins

 

Entrees

Fish: grilled, baked, broiled or steamed

Chicken breast: baked, grilled or rotisseried

Beef tenderloin and sirloin trimmed of fat

Pasta with tomato-based sauce

Fish and fowl: fried or breaded

T-bone, porterhouse or ribeye steak

Lasagna

Any pasta with a creamy sauce 

Side dishes

Vegetables: steamed, lightly seasoned

Potatoes: baked, no butter or sour cream

Rice: steamed or boiled

Green salad with light dressing

Tabouli salad

French fries

Onion rings

Fried rice

Mayonnaise-based salads

Green salad with high-fat dressing

Breads

Whole-wheat and whole-grain bread or rolls

Lightly buttered

Lightly dipped in olive oil and vinegar

Garlic & herb bread; cheese bread

Heavily buttered bread

Bread dipped in oil

Soups

Clear broth soups

Minestrone

French onion

Bean or legume

Manhattan clam chowder

New England clam chowder

Any cream-based soup

French onion soup gratinee

Desserts

Fruit compote

Sorbet

Gelato

1 scoop of ice cream

Pie, cake, pastries

Cheesecake

Sundaes

Crème Brulee

Dessert soufflés

Beverages

Tomato juice

Water: plain/mineral/soda

Diet soda

6-8 oz glass fruit juice

Light beer

Non-alcoholic beer

1 glass of wine

Tea, coffee

Herbal or flavored teas

Regular soft drinks

Sugared mineral water

Full-strength beer

Full-alcohol cocktails

Creamy or milky drinks

 

 


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