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All the rules of healthy eating often disappear when we find ourselves in a paradise of temptations, exotic products and gourmet cuisine. Beautiful interior, friendly service, delicious flavors and beautiful presentation – it’s so easy to indulge yourself in excess and promise yourself to start all over again tomorrow. Here are a few secrets that can help you reduce the calorie content of a restaurant dinner without disrupting your healthy diet.
Order vegetables
Restaurant chefs can create a culinary masterpiece from ordinary carrots, offering visitors modern technological treatments. Be sure to check before ordering which oil is used for cooking vegetables and whether it can be grilled. And professionals will turn fresh ingredients into a real extravaganza of taste. And your figure will not be affected.
Don’t eat bread
You have come to get gastronomic pleasure and spend time in pleasant company, and you certainly cannot fill your stomach with hearty and expensive bread. Don’t order meals that include croutons, often fried in butter.
Choose the right sauces
If pasta without sauce is a bit dry for you, choose olive oil or tomato salsa over creamy mayonnaise. Also prefer grilled meat and fish – then the calorie content of your order will decrease by several hundred calories. In this case, the taste of the dish is unlikely to suffer.
Eat salads without dressing
As with gravy, salad dressings can vary in calories. If the restaurant does not offer low-calorie dressings, just ask to bring the sauce separately, and then decide for yourself whether to use the dressing or take just a little to satisfy your taste buds.
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If the reason for visiting a restaurant is a corporate party, where the budget for each visitor is not limited, then remember exactly what you will pay for this lack of will: your well-being and self-esteem.
Serving Size Matters
If you are relaxing with your family or friends, feel free to order a portion for two, because restaurants have long since departed from the fashion of serving miniature dishes. Both your wallet and your figure will thank you.
And for dessert
If you absolutely cannot do without dessert, try to arrange your order in such a way that there is “room” for it. Maybe donate the main course and get by with the salad? If not, that fruit salad, meringue or cottage cheese sweetness will help reduce the stress on your stomach.