Tapas Restaurant ?

ltlemermaid

This weekend I am going to a Tapas restaurant with a few friends to celebrate one of their birthdays. For those that don't know Tapas is spanish food served in appetizer portions ment to be shared with a group...

I've eaten at this location before and LOVE the food--I checked for nutrition information and none is available. How do I know what to eat/not eat and track my calorie intake at a minimum?

I've been doing really well in the last week and a half on calorie intake etc...and afraid to fall off the wagon by eating too much!

Thanks for all your suggestions and help in advance

mamaturner

Luckily in tapas not too many items are deep fried. there are many pan fried tho. I think your main issue will be sodium content. Being that I love food (chef by trade) especially tapas and wine! Have a small amount of anything you want. It is smaller portions to begin with and your sharing, I think you'd be totally fine.

Tortillas are full of normally healthy foods, I most often see them more vegetarian than not. Olives, good fat (high sodium tho). Just enjoy and don't over indulge!

Peridotite

Hi,

I don't know if this will help you because as one of the pages below says different restaurants use different ingredients. My advice would be to use these as a guideline and just go out and enjoy yourself. You can't cut everything good out of your life. You can always make up for it by doing a little more exercise each day this week. If it make you feel better I'm going out on Thursday for my boyfriends birthday and I will likely be writing off the whole day, the place we are going has awesome fries and I don't plan on denying my self .

http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories/calorie_content/spanish_food.htm

http://www.sparkpeople.com/calories-in.asp?food=tapas

http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/nutrition-calories/food/generic/tapas/

ltlemermaid

Thanks for the advice and for the links as well

Rhian_81

Great info. Thanks.