It is 6pm you arrive at the restaurant. Your belly is crying from hunger and you literally devour the menu from your eyes. You finally choose your main plate, but the restaurant is crowded and you realize quickly that you'll have to wait more than 30 minutes before receiving your plate. So you decide to look for an entry to appease your hunger quickly. The fateful question, how to choose a healthy and nutritious input that does not affect your dinner too much and your waistline? To help you choose your next entry at restaurant, here are some examples of entries to limit and focus.
Restricting
In focus
Fried squid
octopus, shrimp or grilled snails
Nachos
Tomato Caprese
Fillets breaded chicken
caesar or green salad (dressing on the side)
Donut crab
vegetable soup or gazpacho
Dip Spinach / Artichoke
Bruschetta
cheese sticks
Oysters
chicken wings
Gravlax fish
Charcuterie plate
tartare meat or fish
Mini-burgers
Carpaccio of meat or fish
Terrine of foie gras
salad beet or chicory
To view this table, you realize very quickly that the entries "limit" contain a lot of frying and therefore a significant amount of fat. Here is a detailed view of what is in some of the choices "limit":
1 - Nachos: A dozen nachos accompanied by salsa, no problem. Where input nachos becomes problematic is when topped with cheese and the famous guacamole. A plate of nachos contains on average 1364 calories, 68 g fat of which 37 of them are saturated fat and trans fat 2g. If you accompany your nachos with sour cream, add 49 calories and 4 grams of fat.
2 - breaded chicken fillets: Often accompanied by fries, input 3 chicken tenders contains 1,280 calories and 1,160 mg of sodium, or 77% of the recommended daily intake of sodium. Add a little sauce, innocent appearance and your input just climbed to 1,468 calories!
3 - Spinach Dip: The dip served with pita chips or corn tortillas may seem "healthy" at first sight, but it can contain up to 800 calories, 47 g fat, 22 g saturated fat.
4 - Cheese Sticks: 4 breaded cheese sticks contain 630 calories and 1560 mg of sodium, or 104% of the recommended daily intake of sodium. A sauce? We are at 686 calories and 2,110 mg of sodium.
5 - Chicken Wings: Nutritional values ??vary somewhat depending on the sauce and filling, but what is chicken wings "Ancho chipotle" style, 8 wings contain 733 calories, 56 g fat, including 11 grams of saturated fat .
In summary to do the best the choice of healthy starters at restaurant avoid breading and frying containing plates and dishes accompanied by chips and tortillas as dips and nachos. Chicken wings, terrine of foie gras, mini-burgers and plates of charcuterie are also inputs to limit, except in the option where you share more you saw their salt and fat. To avoid being hungry before a meal at the restaurant and order an express entrance, take the time to make a healthy snack containing protein and fiber, which will allow you to choose that just for a main course.
