By Hope S. Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM

Paperback, 730 pages
Copyright©, 2005

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Guide to Healthier Restaurant Eating, now in it’s bigger and better 3rd edition, is just the resource you need in hand if you have pre-diabetes or diabetes and frequently eat restaurant meals in chain restaurants. If you eat out frequently you're aware of the hazards of restaurant foods: too much fat and sodium count and LARGE portions.

Winner of a National Health Information Silver Award for content, creativity and overall excellence.

Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating briefs you on the guidelines for eating with diabetes, the pitfalls of today’s restaurants and serves up strategies to meet these challenges head-on. You'll gather skills and strategies and tips and tactics to eat healthier whether you eat in, drive-thru or take out restaurant foods.

You’ll also have at your fingertips the nutrition facts more than 5,000 menu items for the top 60 chain restaurants across America including calories, carbohydrate, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium and more as well as the diabetes servings or exchanges. Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating includes: McDonalds, Boston Market, Denny’s, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks, Panera Bread, Schlotzsky’s Deli, Papa Murphy’s and more.

If you don't have diabetes, but want similar guidance for healthy restaurant eating, check out my book What to Eat When You're Eating Out designed for the general public.


Table of Contents

  1. Today’s Diabetes Eating Goals
  2. Restaurant Pitfalls and Strategies for Self-Defense
  3. Restaurant Dilemmas and Diabetes
  4. Restaurants Help or Hinder Your Healthy Eating Efforts
  5. Put Your Best Guess Forward
  6. How This Book Works for You

Restaurant Categories

  1. Breakfast Eats, Drinks, Snacks and More
  2. Burgers, Fries, and More
  3. Chicken—Fried, Roasted, or Grilled
  4. Seafood Catches
  5. Sit-Down Family Fare
  6. Soups, Sandwiches, Salads, and Subs
  7. Chinese Fare
  8. Pizza, Pasta, and All Else Italian
  9. Tacos, Burritos, and All Else Mexican
  10. Sweets, Desserts, and Frozen Treats