Who doesn’t love Chinese food? It is definitely a Sunday staple in our house, and has been since I was little. However, some of us are under the wrong impression that most of the food served in Chinese restaurants are healthy, since there are generous amounts of veggies used to make them.
Save your waistline with these FittChick tips…
1. Start your meal with a soup. Chinese soups made with clear broths such as wonton soup and hot and sour soup are generally low in calories, yet very filling.
2. pick a meal off the menu that says “steamed” rather than “fried.” A Chinese restaurant is the one place you can count on to steam your food, without added oil and fat.
3. Use chopsticks! They will force you to eat slow and get full faster.
4. If rice is something you can’t live without, make sure its brown. Brown rice is full of fiber, while white rice is just empty calories.
5. Make up your own meal. Ask the cook to prepare exactly what YOU want! You could order using light oil, less salt, no MSG, and/or light sauce.
When TheFittChick goes for Chinese food, I order steamed chicken (or shrimp) and vegetables. Then I add a little salt and soy sauce to make it taste great. I sometimes bring my own sugar-free sweet n’ sour sauce to make it taste amazing! For under 300 calories and around 40 grams of protein, it’s a dinner I could eat every night!