WW and restaurants

[kamgen]

My family loves to go out to dinner and it is so hard doing so on WW.....and many restaurants are now catering to Atkins more, which doesn't help us WW folks....I check things on Dottie's site and others, but sometimes it doesn't help.

Anyone have any insight on restaurants that are more WW friendly?? I remember talk that Applebee's was supposed to go more WW with their menu, has that happened yet???

Thanks for any tips!!

 

[sharoncity]

While WW doesn't have their pts necessarily attached to the menu/items, you can certainly make enlightened choices. I recently went to Bertucci's. I had the shrimp and scallops over linguine with a light cream sauce. I made sure to eat a cup or less of the pasta (4 pts), shrimp 1 pt, scallops 1 pt, add another 2 or 3 pts for the sauce. I had salad with dressing on the side, skipped the bread basket. Drank water and then a cup of black coffee. I figured 11 pts for the meal, as I would rather over estimate than under estimate.

Any chain that has a web site, you can look up the menu online and figure out the pts ahead of time. McDs, Wendy's, KFC.....all have nutritional info on their sites. I use that info to estimate for other places sometimes too.

And all the WISHers here have given me great advice to prepare before I go out, so I go with a plan so that I feel more in control.