zebrasinamerica
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If you must eat out, at like an actual restaruant not a subway, what type of restaraunt do you feel is the healthiest? i.e. mexican, american, chinese, etc...
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you can find healthy options at any restaurant and you can find unhealthy stuff in the same places... if you can check nutrition info on the restaurants website before you go - that's a good thing.
Otherwise in mexican places - avoid anything that sounds deep fried or smothered in cheese.
CHinese - Again avoid the deep fried stuff
Read menus and ask questions - and don't be afraid to ask for something prepared how you want it.. like dressiing on the side, or hold the cheese - lie and say you have an allergy..
Otherwise in mexican places - avoid anything that sounds deep fried or smothered in cheese.
CHinese - Again avoid the deep fried stuff
Read menus and ask questions - and don't be afraid to ask for something prepared how you want it.. like dressiing on the side, or hold the cheese - lie and say you have an allergy..
I agree that you can find highly unhealthy choices in nearly every type of restaurant, but given the general regular categories, I'd say that American restaurants probably have the widest array of healthier choices available. Also typically the more expensive the restaurant, the healthier it would probably be, in general. It's just too hard to generalize based off of type. True chinese food is incredibly healthy, yet most chinese restaurants are 95% full of highly unheathy stuff, unless you go to someplace nice and pay $30 a plate, so it's almost impossible to categorize like this.
If I had to pick a general category, I would say that moderately nice family owned restaurants would typically be the best choice, but I know one of those that is a catfish/rib buffet, so, go figure, you just can't really do this. I'd say that any place where you're paying for the quality of the food rather than the quantity is going to be healthiest, but they're often more expensive, but even then, there's nothing keeping you from eating too much or making poor choices.
If I had to pick a general category, I would say that moderately nice family owned restaurants would typically be the best choice, but I know one of those that is a catfish/rib buffet, so, go figure, you just can't really do this. I'd say that any place where you're paying for the quality of the food rather than the quantity is going to be healthiest, but they're often more expensive, but even then, there's nothing keeping you from eating too much or making poor choices.
CaseyAtMartin
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I like Italian restaurants, especially those with whole wheat linguini. I like to order some wheat pasta with marinara sauce and a salad. I have a very difficult time with Chinese because most of the restaurants around here are buffets.
h2o_fanatic
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Where ever I go I look for steamed, baked or grilled. If I cant find anything you cant go wrong with a huge salad 
zebrasinamerica
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How healthy is beef at like chinese restaraunts? I normally get chicken (I have recently stopped eating anything that has bredding on it) but every once in a while I will get Mongolian Beef and even less often I will get Mongolian Pork.