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

Paperback, 720 pages
Copyright©, 2006

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What to Eat When You're Eating Out is just the resource you need in hand to eat healthfully when you eat out in chain restuarants. If you eat out frequently you're aware of the hazards of restaurant foods: too much fat and sodium count and LARGE portions.

What to Eat When You're Eating Out provides a brief run down of the guidelines for healthy eating, notes 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. What to Eat When You're Eating Out 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 have pre-diabetes or diabetes and want similar guidance for healthy restaurant eating, check out my book Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating.

 

Whether you are trying to lose weight, maintain weight loss, managing heart disease or high blood pressure or just trying to make changes in your food choices, this book will become your dining mater in restaurants or when you drive thru.

Along with nutrition information, the book provides the skills and strategies you need to create healthy meals in America’s most popular restaurants. Get the nutrition facts for bagels and spreads, coffee drinks, burgers and fries, pizza and pasta, as well as your favorite American, Chinese, Mexican and Italian dishes.

This book contains:

  • The nutrition lowdown for more than 5,000 menu items from more than 60 national restaurant chains
  • Nutrition facts including: calories, carbohydrate, fiber, fat, saturated fat and more.
  • Common pitfalls of restaurant eating and tips for how to avoid them.
  • Strategies for selecting and eating healthier meals.
  • Tons of tips and tactics to get restaurant foods the way you want and need them.
  • Sample meals and healthiest bets for each restaurant.

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