For my grandparent's 71st birthday we went out to an Irish pub last night for dinner. I ended up getting an Irish Cobb salad which originally would have been very high fat but I skipped the corned beef (extra turkey instead) and got the ranch on the side and it was very healthy and super tasty! I find that salads with higher fat ingredients (like bacon, blue cheese or avocado) are so incredibly flavorful I barely use 1/2 TBS of dressing if that.
My number 1 eating out tip...ask for what you want! restaurants can and will make almost any substitutions if you ask and are very specific about your requests.
Oh Man I love Irish Cobb Salad!! The Corned Beef does kill the points though so good for you for resisting! I used to hate eating out before as well, until I realized that most places will make things to your request if you simply ask nicely. I even know a couple restaurants here that will make me things not even on the menu if they have the ingredients for it... I so couldn't have left that pub without a beer though!! And they are not so point friendly anymore :(
ReplyDeleteI know! I'm a huge cobb salad fan. My mom had this amazing looking Sheppards pie and my grandma had a rich stew with bread but I honestly loved my food.
ReplyDeleteThere were so many hard things to resist!