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Healthy Eating Tip - Dining Out and Healthy Eating
by: Cori Sachais Swidorsky

Many of us feel that when we are trying to lose weight or just trying to keep up a healthy eating style, that we need to cut dining out of our lives. Not true! We can enjoy dining out just as much as we did before as long as we know how to do it.

When going to a restaurant, either call ahead to ask some of these questions or ask your server if they

Serve margarine instead of butter
Provide fat free (skim) milk instead of whole milk or creamer
Serve salad dressing on the side
Cut off any visible fat from meat or poultry
Grant special requests

Make your meal selection based on how the food is prepared. Here are some healthy choices:

Steamed
Broiled
Baked
Poached
Roasted
Garden Fresh

Try to avoid ordering any appetizers and try not to grab for bread. You can even ask your server to not bother bringing bread to the table. Going out to dinner is usually a treat to ourselves, so if you want to splurge a little, have a half a piece of bread or order half of an appetizer to split with the others you are dining with. Same with desserts, share a dessert and only have one or two tastes.

Don’t skip those going out to dinner plans, just make healthier choices.

For more articles on healthy eating to go : http://www.informingwomen.com/Healthy_Eating.html

About The Author

Cori Sachais Swidorsky
Reside in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Work at home mom/stay at home mom. Owner of the Informing Women Newsletter and website http://www.informingwomen.com Write an advice column for a community newsletter, have an inspirational piece being published in Chicken Soup For The Recovering Soul, and have articles published on many work at home, home based business, tips and hints, and parenting websites.
cori_informingwomen@msn.com

This article was posted on September 18, 2005