{"id":127,"date":"2016-01-05T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattledietitian.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2016-10-12T23:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:42:40","slug":"easy-tip-for-healthy-takeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/easy-tip-for-healthy-takeout\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Tip for Healthy Takeout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family and friends love to order takeout, and while it is tasty, one dish from a Chinese or Indian restaurant can easily be a day’s worth of calories, fat, salt and added sugar. There must be a way to enjoy the taste and convenience of Ethnic takeout and delivery meals without throwing healthy eating out the window.<\/p>\n

There is a way, and luckily it is easy, cheap and simple! Order a side of steamed or grilled vegetables to eat with a light topping of the decadent dish of your choice! These curries and saucy stir fries are full of flavor (and sugar, fat and salt) so a little bit will go a long way. No need for rice (or use rice as part of your 1\/2 cup “tasty treat topping”) – use the steamed or grilled veggies in place of the rice – that is how you balance out the indulgence of the “tasty treat” portion of the meal. Remember that eating well is all about balance, not about absolutes or rigid rules.<\/p>\n

Here are some of my favorite pairings:<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup Thai curry or Chinese stir fry on a side of steamed broccoli. Eat the whole steamed veggies side dish and you will not be hungry for seconds and will get a very nutritious and tasty meal. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n


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1\/2 cup Indian curry, dal or saag dish on a side of grilled zucchini. <\/span>  \"\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

1\/2 cup Mexican takeout on a side of grilled summer squash, onions and mushrooms.<\/span> \"\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

As a dietitian, it is easy for me to choose any menu item and make it 10 times healthier through a few modifications: “no bacon”, “sauce on the side”, “half the cheese” etc, but those complicated orders quickly get annoying to my dining companions. Enjoying vibrant health and high energy are certainly worth a few sidelong glances, but sometimes I just want to make things easier for others and not the one who makes ordering difficult!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family and friends love to order takeout, and while it is tasty, one dish from a Chinese or Indian restaurant can easily be a day’s worth of calories, fat, salt and added sugar. There must be a way to enjoy the taste and convenience of Ethnic takeout and delivery meals without throwing healthy eating out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23,46,52,59],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-nutrition","tag-heathy","tag-restaurant","tag-seattle","tag-take-out"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}