Restaurant Ideas
xosummerrainxo
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What are your favorite places to go when eating at restaurants? Looking for some new ideas. Besides the normal steak and veggies or meat and salad. Sometimes I even find a buffet a good choice because you can pick what you want and can go with people that aren't following your lifestyle. Also breakfast is normally an easy choice for me. Any restaurant ideas that you enjoy going to or specific meals that you enjoy eating?
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We usually go cheap - In n Out (California) does a great lettuce wrapped burger.
Mainly I use what it sounds like you use: an omelet, a cobb salad with no croutons or meat veggies.1 -
I've found I can make nearly any place work for me. However I prefer a great burger place (think 5 Guys) if I'm opting out of steak for the evening. I try to avoid fast food places just because my kids would live and die in them if I let them. Where I live we have about 4 places to eat for every 100 people because of the First Monday thing and many of them are privately owned local places which I like a lot. They will often cater more to what I need. For example leave the bread and potato off and give me salad instead for no price change.
ETA: I don't like seafood so I avoid those places generally and it bugs the heck out of me that many of our local chicken places don't have an option for no breading on any of their options. That shocks me, but tis true. I tend to head to Buffalo Wild Wings or Pizza Hut when I want chicken...or make it myself!1 -
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I don't eat out much, so don't tend to fret the carbs when I am eating out, for me staying gluten-free is the difficult part...I love Cracker Barrel where I can get a plate full of whatever hot yummy veggies I'm in the mood for...or anything seafood as long as it's not breaded...1
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We don't do restaurants or take out too often. However, I find most burger places gladly offer lettuce wrapped burgers or burger in a bowl. Non breaded wings are available at many pizza places. For dining in, buffets with carving stations and salad bars make it easy.1
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My favorite place to eat is Buffalo Wild Wings. I get the wings with the dry rubs usually. So delicious. I swear I might be addicted to wings. My husband offered to take me to a really nice expensive, local steakhouse for our anniversary and I was like I gotta have wings. lol
I also often go to Chili's and get the chicken and steak fajitas without the onion, pico, or tortillas. I top the meat and peppers with cheese, sour cream, guacamole, and avocado ranch. It's so good.
Fast food I like the burgers at 5 guys. Qdoba (or Chipotle) I get burrito bowls without rice or beans. Cookout I get the chicken club w/o bun. McDonald's I get the double cheeseburger no bun/no ketchup/no onion and top it with a bacon egg and cheese biscuit minus the biscuit.
Steakhouses I get a ribeye and steamed veggies. Side salads w/o crouton or onion.
The onion thing reduces carbs a little but I do it because I don't like onions.
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My favorite place to eat is Buffalo Wild Wings. I get the wings with the dry rubs usually. So delicious. I swear I might be addicted to wings. My husband offered to take me to a really nice expensive, local steakhouse for our anniversary and I was like I gotta have wings. lol
I also often go to Chili's and get the chicken and steak fajitas without the onion, pico, or tortillas. I top the meat and peppers with cheese, sour cream, guacamole, and avocado ranch. It's so good.
Fast food I like the burgers at 5 guys. Qdoba (or Chipotle) I get burrito bowls without rice or beans. Cookout I get the chicken club w/o bun. McDonald's I get the double cheeseburger no bun/no ketchup/no onion and top it with a bacon egg and cheese biscuit minus the biscuit.
Steakhouses I get a ribeye and steamed veggies. Side salads w/o crouton or onion.
The onion thing reduces carbs a little but I do it because I don't like onions.
ME TOO!!!! lol
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I can do onions ONLY if they are the base of a sauce and pureed or chopped crazy fine. But raw onions, NEVER. Ugh. Except maybe well chopped salsa...2
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Buffalo Wild Wings -- I love their original wings or naked tenders (with a side salad, no croutons, regular ranch). Depends on what I'm in the mood for.
Applebee's -- Steak and two sides of broccoli (loaded with cheddar cheese, bacon, and sour cream)
Any sort of fast food if we're in a time crunch -- I don't enjoy eating at McDonald's, but they have been super accommodating in my town and don't even bat an eye when I order 2 round eggs and 2 sausage patties...or a burger without a bun.
Mexican is good -- I do fajitas without tortillas and such. Get a guacamole salad. Ours is pretty accommodating at answering questions about what they cook things in...so I'm pretty safe there. However, I know some aren't quite as accommodating.1 -
Mexican fajitas w/o tortillas, extra guac, cheese, sour cream. Indian food - Saag with full fat paneer, butter chicken or beef korma, if you are allowed a slightly higher carb level Baingan Bharta (pureed roasted and spiced eggplant - 14g net per cup). Chinese food - sauteed shrimp, beef, chicken and veggies (ask for no carrots/baby corn or pick them out - I add my own GF soy sauce, also salt & pepper dry ribs (only if they don't use sugar in their spice mix). Broiled salmon, garlic shrimp w/ veggies sides. Wendy's Double Baconator with no bun or ketchup but added lettuce, slice of tomato, and pickles.1
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Many bbq places will let you just order the meat by the pound and many will have it by the 1/4 lb. I don't even mess with the sides. The one I go to most has a condiment bar that includes pickled jalapenos and shredded cheese, of which I apply both generously to my meat. You do have to be careful of the sauce. If it is a good bbq place, the meat shouldn't need sauce. Ribs, however frequently seem to come with the sauce already applied so the sugar content is ridiculous.1
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