Low cal eating out

ackeebee

Pizza Hut do a low cal range of pizzas called Pizzetta... only in the restaurants though...

Shrimply Delicious = 470 cals
Chicken Delight = 460 cals
Virtuous Veg = 440 cals

Thin crust (which I love...!) & heavenly

i will have to check these out.

Oishii

Pizza Hut do a low cal range of pizzas called Pizzetta... only in the restaurants though...

Shrimply Delicious = 470 cals
Chicken Delight = 460 cals
Virtuous Veg = 440 cals

Thin crust (which I love...!) & heavenly

i will have to check these out.

I've not seen these yet... I could save up some calories and have dessert too ... So maybe I should just stick to 3/4 of a normal one plus salad.

kyle4jem

Just a thought on low cal eating out...a couple of months ago the government came up with an intiative with several eateries to put calorie infomation on the menus. What do you think of this being made compulsary across all eateries in the uk?

Not sure I'd want to see it on the menu, but I do think that eateries should have basic nutritional info if asked.

Usually when I go out to eat I make a choice based on desire vs. sensibility. In other words, if I fancy it, I'll have it no matter what it is, but sometimes I have to work away from home which necessitates a 2-3 night stopover at a hotel. Now Premier Inn do have a pdf on their website with some nutritional info, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. Having that sort of info does help me stay within my guidelines, but if I went out to my favourite restaurant and the menu had calorie values next to all the choices, that'd just spoil the fun.

Anyway, good food is about taste and flavour and enjoyment... not how many calories it contains

morenita71

Itsu is great for sushi and miso soup etc.. really good quality stuff - not cheap but definitely worth it. All over London not sure about elsewhere.

Also for Mexican check out Chipotle - their website has cals - you just have to make sure you remember what to choose when ordering your burrito.

Frannybobs

I think it's a good idea to have calories printed on menus. It would make you think twice if for example a cheeseburger and chips were 1500 cals, and there was something else on the menu like lasagne which was 700 cals but you still like, takes the guesswork out of it.

But I also agree that sometimes if you eat out, if it's a rare treat, then I don't think about it. In fairness, if I'm out with the family for a meal we like our wine so I probably should watch that more!!

That said - I'm out tonight for dinner with the family at a local bistro and I don't intend to pick healthy options (it's a meal to belatedly celebrate my birthday) and will more than likely have a dessert.

if you're going out with your mates just as a meal before cinema or something then I would be careful about what I chose (and have been on the website for the chain (pizza express, pizza hut, zizzi, etc) and researched what the GDA is and chosen a healthier option that I actually like (so don't feel cheated), but not on special occasions.

Oishii

I liked the way Prezzo showed the calories in a very light font (is that how you say it?) so that you could see it if you wanted to but ignore it if you preferred.


A lot of menus showed calories in Japan but I pretty much ignored them too!

LilMissFoodie

I do think I am much more accurate in my own kitchen - I weigh absolutely everything - total freak like that. But weighing aside, I use much lower calorie ingredients so the margin for error isn't as high which was my point all along for places that use ingredients such as cream or butter.

That aside, I don't actually disagree with you, well at least not on an individual level. For me or for you guys on MFP I think we would be better off having the information even if it is kind of vague (because we know the limitations) and I certainly like having it available because even though I suspect it isn't the most accurate it does make me feel better and therefore stops me from binges caused by the 'cheating' feeling.

From a public health perspective though, I just don't think the vast majority of people have bothered learning enough to actually use it for good rather than bad if that makes sense, people still don't get nutrition labels and it's been years! I think we need good, solid educational programs regarding what we have before we start adding more things into the mix. It seems the more confused people get about all the old messages out there (and to be fair, most messages haven't really changed a lot in years) and everything they don't understand, the worse their eating habits become. So yeah, I'm not really against it per se, I just think it should be far, far down the priority list in terms of tackling the obesity problem.

LilMissFoodie

Anyway, good food is about taste and flavour and enjoyment... not how many calories it contains

Definitely agree with this too Kyle! I would be very sad if regulating nutrition information meant that some of the dishes esp specials of the day and such might disappear because it was too much work.