Friday tips

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Just a few tips for your Friday -

  • When you eat out, you can request oil and vinegar for your salad at most places.  Italian and Balsamic dressings are still pretty high, even though they shouldn't be.
  • Stay away from anything that is creamy or sauce covered.
  • Stay away from anything with "Salt" in the name.  Salted caramel, for example.
  • Some restaurants will actually charge you extra for some changes.  We went to a Mexican restaurant that did this.  I wouldn't have minded it, except they didn't tell me!  It was just on the bill.
  • Avoid McDonald's and most fast food places.  There are some items at these places, but many are higher in sodium than you would expect.  We do eat at Wendy's, but we'll talk about that another time.
  • If you are looking for something more than hamburger or chicken, you can eat most seafood, season it with (you guessed it!) Mrs. Dash and no salt butter and saute it in a pan.
  • Check your labels before buying any food.
  • Check nutritional values for restaurants on their site and have a plan in mind.
  • When buying chicken, CHECK YOUR LABELS!  Many chicken companies actually inject their chicken with salt water to make the pieces look larger than they are!  For example, check out Perdue HarvestLand Chicken Breasts (75mg) and Tyson Chicken Breasts (180mg).  And really, the Tyson example isn't TOO bad, we've seen some chicken breasts that were upwards of 480mg!

More tips as we spend more time together.

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