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Hungry Girl Today: 5.01.09
Need a little help surviving Italian restaurants? You're in luck. HG is here with
all you need to know...
DOs and DON'Ts!
DO start your meal off with a house salad (light dressing on the side) or
some minestrone soup. (Broth-based soup before a meal often means lower
calorie-intake overall!) Be careful with salad entrées though! Some are
worse than most regular meals, so watch out for red flags like oily croutons,
creamy dressing, fatty meats, and lots of cheese.
DON'T be afraid to make special requests, just make sure you're super-nice
when you do it. Swap fatty sides for veggies. Ask for whole-wheat pasta in
place of regular -- many places (including Olive Garden) offer up the fiber-
rich stuff as an alternative to plain white pasta, and it's better for you and
more filling.
DO save some to take home. Most Italian eateries serve up crazy-huge
portions -- so before you even start eating, get it into your head that youre
not going to consume that whole ginormous serving. Then eat slowly and
savor your meal!
DON'T eat bread AND pasta at the same meal. In Italy, that's a no-no.
(Clearly, they understand the dangers of carb overload.) If you choose
bread, skip the butter. If you go for pasta, choose tomato-based (not creamy
or cheesy) sauce, and keep the portion reasonable. And if you feel like being
really good, avoid the bread and pasta altogether.
DO have a glass of wine, if you like (and if you're legal!), but control
yourself. A 4-oz. serving has about 100 calories and a POINTS® value of 2*,
but you should know that a glass often contains a few ounces more than that.
So if an Italian dinner without vino seems wrong to you, go for that glass,
just make it last. And be careful with sangria. A glass at Olive Garden has
220 - 250 calories (POINTS® value 4 - 5*). And we all know how one glass
can lead to another... and another...
Italian Chain Shockers!!!
Olive Garden, Chicken & Shrimp Carbonara
PER SERVING (1 dinner portion): 1,440 calories, 88g fat, 3,000mg sodium,
80g carbs, 9g fiber -- POINTS® value 35*
Clearly, anything in a carbonara sauce is NOT going to be light. But say you
really want it. How bad could it be? Well, in addition to the crazy amount of
calories coming from the pasta, there's the insane fat content of a sauce
made with eggs, cheese, cream, and bacon. It would take too much time on
the treadmill to justify this one. NEXT!
Romano's Macaroni Grill, Pinot Grigio Chicken
PER SERVING (1 serving): 1,630 calories, 82g fat, 3,910mg sodium, 131g
carbs, 10g fiber, 88g protein -- POINTS® value 39*
Macaroni Grill is notorious for having insanely high-cal meals. That place also
serves up some stuff that sounds light and innocent yet is actually REALLY
bad! Like this entrée. Chicken in a white wine sauce? Seems safe.
Unfortunately, it's crusted with Parmesan, topped with mozzarella, and
served up with a ginormous pile of pasta. Eeeks!
Bite It!
Appetizers: Steamed mussels, steamed clams
Entrées: Grilled, steamed or broiled chicken or seafood (in tomato sauce or
with a squirt of lemon)
Sides: Steamed or grilled veggies, whole-wheat pasta (small serving)
Desserts: Sorbet, fresh berries, biscotti, coffee or espresso with no-calorie
sweetener and skim milk
Fight It!
Appetizers: Fried calamari, fried mozzarella, fried ANYTHING
Entrées: Breaded Parmesan-style dishes, Alfredo pastas
Sides: Mounds of white pasta, buttery garlic bread
Desserts: Tiramisu and other rich desserts, full-fat cappuccinos and lattes
HG Recipes Italiano!
Faux-Fried & Fabulous Calamari - You won't even look at the real fried stuff
after this.
Fiber-ific Fried Cheese Sticks - The best guilt-free fried mozzarella fix
around... and probably the ONLY one!
Fettuccine Hungry Girlfredo - In four awesome varieties! Click and CHEW...
Veggie-rific Noodle-Free Lasagna - Who needs noodles? Not this lasagna.
Fiber-ific Chicken Parm - Our no-harm Chicken Parmesan swap will knock
your socks off!
Cannoli Cones - Every good dinner should end with a dessert that's this
delicious. Click & scroll.
For links please go to:
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HEY!! - Need more survival tips? HG will whisper (well, speak) them in your
ear. Check out Hungry Girl: The Official Survival Guides, our super-cool
audio book! Buy the adorably packaged CDs or download the guides online.
CHEW ON THIS:
Friday, May 1st, isn't just the start of a new month. It's also National
Chocolate Parfait Day! Whip up a Yum-tastic Double Chocolate Peanut Butter
Parfait (click & scroll) to celebrate.
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*The Points® values for these products and/or recipes were calculated by
Hungry Girl and are not an endorsement or approval of the product, recipe
or its manufacturer or developer by Weight Watchers International, Inc., the
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