Any popular restaurant foods that serve healthy, partially healthy or low carb food options?

[523206720]

I am on a low carb diet and am looking for good restaurants to eat in that are either healthy or serve low carb dishes. For example - the earls by my house only has about 4 grams of carbohydrates in their chicken wings EVEN when you add the seasoning - I am allowed 25 - 35 grams a day so I could eat their chicken wings.

Moxes has steak and salad which is only about 12 - 16 grams so I can eat moxies steak and salad.

Jack astors serves FAKE steak - their steaks aren't made out of real beef but they charge you the same for their steaks that other restaurants do - the restaurants that serve REAL BEEF in their steaks.

I am seeking if I can eat chicken wings at other places as well. Sometimes I will go to the buffet on the weekends or in the evenings and eat their all meat options.

[DodgersGM]

Well, don't get too hung up on limiting your carbs all together. Focus on complex carbohydrates and eat foods in their whole, unprocessed forms.

If you're adamant about going low carb, make sure that you get plenty of healthy fats--again, stick to whole food sources, such as avocados and nuts/seeds.

As for popular restaurants, you could basically modify your food anywhere you go to make it however you like.

Chipotle is a great example. You can get a salad with romaine, chicken, guacamole, fajita veggies, and tomato salsa for only 19g carbohydrates. It also has 37g protein, and 29.5g fat (the vast majority of which comes from healthy avocados).

That's a healthy, tasty meal with a wide array of nutrients, and the calories aren't high at 460.

[DodgersGM]

Thanks. Good luck!

[Prof_Don]

Overall, it's more about knowing what to order and what substitutions to make at a restaurant, vs which restaurant is "low carb friendly".

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If a meal comes with a side, go with salad or steamed vegetables.

Most sandwich places will offer to do your "sub" in salad form; pretty much substituting the bread, for a bowl of greens (with all the same stuff).

With take out food, order burgers and other sandwiches, lettuce wrapped (the burger is done up in a tray, on a bed of lettuce).

Buffets are absolutely easy. Just avoid obvious starches and sugars, as well as anything breaded.

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As long as you are conscious about what you're eating, this won't be too hard. :-D

[Anonymous]

If you're on some kind of special/strict/precise diet, you're not going to get by very long eating out. If you're dieting, the best way is to cook for yourself so you know what is going into your meals which makes tracking your macros much easier.

If this is a one time thing, treat it as a cheat meal. But if you make it a regular habit to eat out, choose either the diet or eating out. You can't have both and still expect to efficiently hit whatever goal you're shooting for.

[BertMacklinFBI]

try vegan food I guess.

[Klaatu51]

by real you mean organic?