Tips For Eating Out Healthy

Many people frequent restaurants a little too often than is good for their health.  Even the healthier restaurants often serve sodium-laden, high caloric meals.  Atlanta Personal Chef Service advises people that eating out should be enjoyed sparingly, and not on a daily basis. The first option should always be home cooked meals, but we know that often there are many factors which make that quite difficult.  By either cooking yourself at home or having one of our talented chefs doing the cooking, you will know where your food is coming from and what is added into it.  Of course, there are those days, especially the weekends, when you're more likely to indulge in restaurant food. What do you do then? Well, Atlanta Personal Chef Service has a few tips to give.

1. Order from a lower calorie menu, if the restaurant has one. A lot of restaurants these days have a lower calorie menu. If they don’t, then eat half of the dish and save the other half for the next day. With plates these days having a minimum of 1500 calories, it’s advisable that you don’t eat all of those calories at once.

2. If you are at a pizza place, ask for a thin crust pizza. Instead of pepperoni, top with chicken, seafood, or veggies.

3. Don’t ever get combos with chips. At Mexican restaurants, don’t ask for extra chips or limit your intake if they are brought to your table. Choose water over soda drinks and always choose grilled over fried.

4. Skip the bun and the fries. There are 250 empty calories in the white flour bun that you don’t need. Instead, ask for whole grain if they have it, or no bun if they don’t.

Eating healthy these days is no easy task. Even when the calories of the dish may be at healthy levels, the usual amount of sodium is very high. Atlanta Personal Chef Service is here to make everyday life simple. Enjoy home cooked, delicious, healthy meals every day, by letting our chefs cook for you. We also do dinner parties and other special occasion festivities. Contact us or follow us at our Facebook page. We serve Buckhead, Atlanta, Marietta, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Vinings, Midtown and other Atlanta neighborhood cities.