KTK-Nutrition

Eating out, what fun!    Last week we talked about how you can enjoy eating out with family and friends but making healthier choices when you do eat out.   As discussed, Consumer Reports has two excellent articles on how one can eat out and make choices that provide less total fat, fewer calories and less sodium.   You can read more about healthier menu options at Dining Out:   Where America Eats and How to Eat Healthier at Restaurant Chains .     This week we will look at menu options that are over the top in calories and fat and healthier choices at two popular restaurants.    A relative was recently eating out at Olive Garden with some friends.   Her friend ordered, The Tour of Italy, a dinner classic recipe.   This relative calls the Tour of Italy, “heart attack on a plate”.   Why?   Maybe because it has 1520 calories just for this entre and 860 of those are calories from fat.   So even before one orders and...

Who doesn’t like to go out to eat?   Fun, good food and so many places to choose from.   But, eating out can lead to lots of calories, sodium and too much fat in our diets.   How can one enjoy eating out without loading on the calories and fat?   Are there healthier menu options to choose from?   In their November 2016 issue, Consumer Reports has a great articles on Dining Out:   Where America Eats and How to Eat Healthier at Restaurant Chains .   They note how much money we spend on eating out, a lot.   On fast food, Americans spend $262 billion a year and on sit down table service restaurants, $206 billion.   The article focused on rating the restaurants but also contained great advice on healthier menu options at America’s most popular table-service restaurants.   What should consumers do BEFORE they go out to eat?   Most restaurants have their menus published online and most provide detailed nutrition information.   T...