Dining Out?

[LAinSEA]

(Inspired by actually being taken out to lunch my boss today)

I have noticed that it is much easier to stay on my diet plan (Atkins) at sit-down restaurants than it is at fast-food joints.

My boss took a group of us to Applebee's for lunch today...my selection the Steakhouse Salad - half size - hold the bread/croutons. It had about cup-cup 1/2 of romaine, 4 slices of tomato, 4 red onion "rings", bleu cheese crumbles, about 4-5 oz of grilled steak with vinegaret (sp?) dressing. (I skipped eating the onions and all but one tomato slice.)

The only "fast-food' item I've found Atkins "safe" is at Taco Time - it's a regular size chicken taco salad: large cup of shredded iceberg lettuce, 3-4 oz of cooked chicken (no breading), 1 oz shredded cheddar cheese with sour cream for dressing (hold the tortila chips that come with it). All the others seem to involve "holding the bun" or stripping the breading off of the food - not exactly the way to eat and stay cleaned up.

I was wondering what are everyone's favorite restaurants/selections when eating out?

-Laurie

 

[ibouncetoo]

FISH!

I never cook it at home. So if I'm at a nice restaurant I'll go for some grilled Orange Roughy. Also love shrimp. And the salmon in a bag at Bahama Breeze is really good.

Another stand-by for me at some restaurants, is Buffalo Wings served naked. You always have to ask if they bread them, which they SHOULDN'T to be real Baffalo wings. I just ask for naked fried wings and use a little ranch dressing for dipping. I've done this at Chilis, Claim Jumper (yummmm) and The Five and Diner.

And I love Outback's pork chops! (can you tell I do low-carb?).

There's a good chicken/cheese/bacon dish at Claim Jumper also. They are SO accomodating about making substitutions (I get brocolli and aspargas!). If you have a Claim Jumper in your part of the country, check it out....and if you do WW, take someone with you to share...portions are very large!