Help me navigate a charity curry night!

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Annabel89
Annabel89 Posts: 63 Member
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Hey MFPers,

So this saturday I am going to a charity curry night where there will be a raffle, drinks etc.

I'm really looking forward to it, but trying to work out calories. These are the menu options:

Starter: Mixed Starter Sizzler (Assorted mix of chicken and lamb tikka, onion bhaji and samosa)

Mains: Chicken Tikka Massala, Garlic Chicken Tikka Sizzler (Head chef signature dish), Lamb Madras (Hot), Vegetable Sizzler (In season mixed vegetables in a medium sauce)

Sides: Bombay Potato & Tarka Dahl

Rice & Naan: Pilau Rice and Plain Naan

I'm going to drive and will probably be drinking the night before at a wedding (this weekend is not going to be easy!), so I can skip the booze calories that way and just have diet coke.

What should I eat? What should I massively avoid? I was thinking even about eating like some stir fry veg before I leave so I'll already be full?!

I want to have a good time and socialise, so help!

Thanks x

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  • hellnokitty
    hellnokitty Posts: 19 Member
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    Eat nothing and spend the whole party jogging laps around the room. It's really the only safe option.
  • Lesa_Sass
    Lesa_Sass Posts: 2,213 Member
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    Holy COW, reading this made me so hungry. Naan is pretty high in calories so your best bet is just to have a few bites of everything and not eat the rice or naan.

    I am jealous, I would totally eat all of it and just work it off the next week.

    Also, a samosa is around 300 calories, so you may want to nix that (omg one of my favs) and I think the lamb madras is going to be healthier than the chicken tikki. Bombay potatoes is one of my favs so I could not pass that up.
  • jcpmoore
    jcpmoore Posts: 796 Member
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    Hm. For mains you'll have to investigate the actual calories for those. I have no idea. I would go with chicken tikka masala and work around it 'cause I like it.

    Skip the starter if you can, otherwise, just go light. Skip the fried stuff and go healthy.

    For sides, take the dahl. That's pretty good for you. How are the potatoes made? Roasted are pretty good. Rice is okay, skip the naan.

    Or, just go individually look up the calorie cost for each item you really like and work your day around it.
  • Annabel89
    Annabel89 Posts: 63 Member
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    So I've been on the restaurant's website- the Garlic chicken is dry, so I think I'm going to get that, and eat the Tarka Dahl. Will try and give the starter away and not eat the rice or naan. If there's poppadums around I'll have a few of those instead. And I reckon a run, soup and a smoothie the rest of the day!!

    Now just to get through the wedding on Saturday and being in France all next week for work...I love a bit of brie :(
  • MiCool90
    MiCool90 Posts: 460 Member
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    It's one night... one night does not make someone overweight.

    Enjoy it...
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,565 Member
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    Eat whatever you want end enjoy it.
    Your body will benefit from the uptake and the little leptin boost will help.
    You may have water weight so just drink water.
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,565 Member
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    Second post but I dont know if you realize this but STRESS is what makes people fat.
    It creates higher cortisol levels impairing sleep.
    Drops testosterone and leptin.
    turns into a cycle.


    Relax.
    Take your time with this weight loss thing.
    If you are set up right on MFP and have been following the rules for a while then 1 night wont make you a whale.
    Go have fun and de stress!
  • EmmaM2211
    EmmaM2211 Posts: 536 Member
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    It's one night... one night does not make someone overweight.

    Enjoy it...

    I would agree. One night isnt going to unravel all your hard work up until now just be mindful not to go WAAAAY OTT :bigsmile:

    If you do want to stay on the healthy side avoid anything creamy (tikka massala for example) something very spicy will help you feel satisfied for not a lot of actual food. I would have only a spoonful of rice and no naan. Be wary of poppadums they're way more calories than I expected!! Load up on veggies, dhaal and chicken tikka and ENJOY IT!! xxx
  • hellnokitty
    hellnokitty Posts: 19 Member
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    STRESS is what makes people fat.

    Um, no, pretty sure it's calories, or else we're all wasting our time here. Lol.
  • topgals
    topgals Posts: 40 Member
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    I eat out curry quite often, avoid the naan, there more cal's in that than the whole meal. Ask if you can have boiled rice instead of pilau. Anything that's served dry with the sauce separate is a good choice, then you can just have bit of sauce.
    Enjoy nom, nom, nom :-)

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