Healthy Eating: Get the Food Nutrition Facts at Restaraunts
When you try to limit your eating, or go on a diet for lack of a better term, you typically try to refrain from eating out. There are too many unhealthy options on restaurant menus and most restaurant nutrition choices are not helpful when you are trying to lose weight. However, you can make good food choices while eating out. Don’t hesitate to ask your server or a manager for the food nutrition facts if you don’t see them on the table. When you have the food nutrition facts you can make decisions that stay within your particular eating plan and still enjoy a meal out.
What To Look For
When you ask for food nutrition facts, many restaurants will provide you with a sheet of paper or a card stating the calorie content of the various foods on the menu, the fat, sodium and even the carbohydrate content. If your goal is to order low fat, then this paper or card will tell you exactly which menu items you can order. You can add a ton of calories, fat, and salt into a meal just by the condiments or sauces, so always ask for these to be served on the side. So even though a salad may seem very fattening when looking at the food nutrition facts, realize that it’s probably the dressing that comes on the salad that provides most of those excess calories and fat.
How to Order Without Nutrition Facts
If you happen to be out at a restaurant and you ask for food nutrition facts, but they don’t have any available, you should still be able to make good food choices based on your knowledge of basic nutrition. You know for instance, that a double bacon cheeseburger and fries is not going to be your best weight loss option. Instead, you might want to choose a chicken sandwich, not fried, and a baked potato or even a salad with just a little bit of dressing.
Most large restaurant chains do have food nutrition facts. You just have to request them. Perhaps restaurants are afraid that leaving the food nutrition facts along with the menu might cause a rapid drop in orders of the unhealthy options. It is reasonable to assume that if most people know how much fat was in an entrée, they might reconsider ordering it.
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