Trying to eat healthy on the road? Bored of grilled chicken and salad? Good news! You can make any meal healthier with just a few “no big deal” changes.

Get It Your Way

• Request them not to brush your fajitas, steak, chicken, or fish with butter
• Ask for your pizza to be prepared “light on the cheese”
• Request half the meat and double the vegetables in your stir fry
• Ask for the dressing, sauces, and butters “on the side” so you can “dip and stab”
• Order bean soup rather than refried beans

Make Miss Manners Mad

• Trim the visible fat off the meat
• Pull the skin off roasted chicken
• Scrape off the breading and drain off the excess sauce
• Pat the pizza with a paper napkin

Control Your Portions

• Order ala carte to get just what you want
• Ask for luncheon or appetizer portions - even if it’s not on the menu
• Take one slice of bread and give the basket back to the server
• Get the doggie bag with dinner and immediately put away half your meal
• Use chopsticks – you’ll eat less
• To eliminate the temptation to keep nibbling when you’ve had enough, salt it heavily or pour on the hot sauce

• A large cinnamon roll has over 800 calories and more than a half a stick of butter?
• Your morning mocha or large fountain drink contains more than 300 calories?

Each of these has
100 calories:

• mayonnaise on your burger
• cheese slice
• 2 strips bacon
• sautéed mushrooms
• sliced avocado
• 1 large onion ring
• 7 potato puffs
• 10 regular fries
• 20 skinny french fries

Take your pick – not them all! If you eat just 10 calories more than your body needs, you’ll put on a pound of fat each year

Make Leaner Substitutions

• Order fresh fruit instead of soda
• Ask for egg substitutes in your omelet
• Order Canadian bacon or ham instead of bacon or sausage
• Instead of prime rib, order the sirloin
• Request pasta with tomato sauce instead of cream - or ask for half the cream sauce
• Instead of a full meal, order salad and a shrimp cocktail

Best wishes and bon apetit!