Get With The Program! Guide to Fast Food and Family Restaurants

Excerpt

Introduction

I've always loved eating in restaurants: I take great pleasure in the artful cooking (and sometimes even the not-so-artful cooking) of others. But to be honest, in recent years I've eaten out more than I'd really like to. Because I travel so much, dining out is often more a matter of necessity than of choice, making me feel somewhat like a prisoner of someone else's menu. There's no doubt that it's harder to eat healthfully at restaurants than at home; you have less control over the choices available and how food is prepared, and it's harder to tell if what you think you're eating is what you're really eating - and harder to put the brakes on temptation.

But, if you approach dining out with the same amount of knowledge and commitment you bring to eating at home, there's no reason you can't eat out and stay on the program, whether you go to restaurants once, twice, thrice, or many more times a week.

This is even more true today than it was just a short while ago. All the traveling I've done over the past few years has given me the opportunity to sample restaurants in almo ... read full excerpt from: The Get With The Program! Guide to Fast Food and Family Restaurants ebook