What to Eat When Dining Out

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Restaurant:

Grilled meat, fish or fowl, large green salad with ranch, blue cheese or olive oil vinaigrette dressing, steamed or sauteed vegetables in place of potatoes, pasta or rice - hold the bread and crackers.

Chef's salad or grilled chicken Caesar salad. Hold the croutons.

Quiche and green salad - eat only the filing, scooping it out of the crust.

Chicken, tuna or crab salads. Hold the crackers.

Barbecue

Sliced beef, pork, chicken or dry rub ribs with cole slaw and tossed salad. Deviled eggs are fine. Hold the beans, fries or other potatoes and breads.

Fast Foods/Burgers

Grilled chicken sandwich or burger with cheese and bacon if you like along with a side salad, ranch, blue cheese or italian dressing. Remove the buns and eat with a knife and fork.

Grilled chicken salad with ranch or italian dressing.

Sub sandwich style (but no bread)

Chinese Restaurant

Soups: egg drop or hot and sour soup.

Appetizers: skewered beef or chicken

Beef, chicken, pork, shrimp with broccoli or assorted mixed chinese vegetables

Avoid: egg rolls, noodles, mu shu pancakes, and rice. Read your fortune but give away your cookie.

French Restaurant

Clear soups, and fresh green salads

Medallions of beef or pork finished with buttersauce, green peppercorn cause or choron sauce

Roasted lamb, duck, quail, game hen

Grilled or poached fish

Sauteed vegetables

Avoid: breads, potatoes and rice and heavy cream sauces which may contain significant carbohydrates from flour.

Indian Restaurant

Tandoori chicken or lamb; chicken, beef, or lamb curry, chicken rikka or chicken masala

Tossed green salad, tomato and cucumber salad, pickled onion, zukeni bhaghi (stewed zucchini and yellow squash), saag panir (creamy spinach)

Avoid: the breads, breaded and fried vegetables, potato dishes and rice.

Italian Restaurant

Sauteed (not breaded) calamari or antipasto appetizers.

Chicken or veal piccata, grilled fish or pork cutlet, or rotisserie or grilled chicken with tossed salad and any sauteed or steamed vegetables available to substitute for pasta.

Avoid: pasta dishes and bread.

Japanese Sushi/Terriyaki Restaurant

Sushi or sashimi (without rice)

Miso soup (seaweed, broth and bean curd)

Terriyaki chicken, beef or fish with salad

Avoid: Tempura which is breaded and fried

Mexican Restaurant:

Chicken or beef fajitas, minus the tortilla wrappers. East the garnishes, lettuce, chopped tomato, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo.

Grilled chicken, fish, beef, beef or port medallions, or shredded beef, port or chicken with insalata mista (tossed salad)

Avoid: rice, beans, tortilla wrappers or chips

Pizza Parlor

Pizza and a tossed salad with ranch, blue cheese, or italian dressing. Load up on toppings and eat only the toppings, and leave the crust.

Avoid: breadsticks, garlic toast, spaghetti or other pasta dishes.

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