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Eating Out? 42 of the best choices

Posted on Sep 26th 2008 1:13PM by Martha Edwards

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements

Does being on a diet mean never eating out? Cooking your own meals is one really good way to keep track of what's going into your food -- and your belly. But let's be realistic here -- who wants to cook every night of the week? I'm guessing all of us eat out from time to time.

Eating out doesn't have to spell diet disaster though -- Prevention Magazine recently put together a list of the best foods to nosh on when you're out on the town:

If you're at an Asian restaurant ... order a shrimp stir-fry
If you're at an Indian restaurant ... order Chicken Tikka
If you're at a Seafood restaurant ... order grilled fish with lemon
If you're at an Italian restaurant ... order pasta alla marinara

Click here for more awesome restaurant rules ... and let us know if you have any of your own.

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... 9-26-2008 @ 3:54PM

I prefer restaurants that allow better eating to begin with.

For example, I avoid Italian restaurants completely. Pasta marinara has a lot of salt and processed carbs, and those calories are mostly empty with very little nutrition to show for the caloric price. Basically, pasta marinara is just a meatless, cheese-less pizza. I think the Italian food found in America is a very good reason why American stereotypes portray Italians as being very fat. In general, I tend to just avoid places where menus are based on putting sauces on carbs. This includes Italian, Indian, Thai, Chinese, etc. Of course, it helps that they just don't taste that good to me.

I like American seafood restaurants, but I avoid Asian seafood restaurants because they insist on covering all the seafood in strange goo concoctions. I also like sushi restaurants, especially ones that have sashimi salad on the menu (an assortment of lettuce and other veggies topped with raw fish -- just have them put any sauces/dressings on the side, partly to prevent them from covering up the taste of yummy fish).

My favorite type of restaurant is Mongolian BBQ. If people are eating out at the same place repeated, I think Mongolian BBQs are probably the best restaurants for it. You pick from a wide range of raw meats and veggies, and they cook it for you. Just use the steamed brown rice instead of processed carbs such as noodles and breads, and skip the ice cream and overly salty or oily sauces. Lots of people seem to spend most of their time in the sauce section, but I just go straight to the ginger water and/or garlic water. (Yum!)