Low fat Take out Options

[Knut]

Originally Posted by troutman

San Fran has an awesome take-out chain called Pluto's. I wish we had something like that here. There is something opening soon in Kensington on 10th St with a "fresh food" concept, so I hope it is like Pluto's.

http://www.plutosfreshfood.com/

Our produce is purchased daily and each salad is tossed to your liking by our salad chef. Each salad comes with your choice of freshly baked Sourdough or Foccacia bread. Have our fabulous Caesar Salad, Farmer Greens or Baby Spinach.

Sunterra has nice delis.

http://www.sunterramarket.com/st/index.asp

Salsita:

http://www.salsita.ca/

Welcome to SALSITA, a fresh food market which specializes in Mexican culinary flavours.

Salsita looks great... but closes by 6 everyday so that does not help us out much.

[Pinner]

Originally Posted by Azure

No link between dietary cholesterol and your LDL levels.

Why do they recommend no more than 2-300mg per day?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Hesla

Salsita looks great... but closes by 6 everyday so that does not help us out much.

Some of the food there is frozen, for you to take home and eat later. Open on Saturdays.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by Pinner

Why do they recommend no more than 2-300mg per day?

The studies that have shown there is no link between dietary cholesterol and LDL levels are recent, so give it another 20 years and the official recommendation will change.

[Rerun]

Originally Posted by Azure

Not a myth that long periods of time between meals can slow your metabolism down and cause blood sugar fluctuation issues.

FACT.

I'm a diabetic so eating properly is a big deal to me.

[Russic]

I do what GreenLantern does and it works beautifully. I spend my Sunday afternoon usually cooking 3-4 big meals which end up in the freezer. I've calorie counted everything out (to the best of my ability) and worked very hard at portion control.

I like it obviously because I can have dinner in 4 minutes, but also because if there's nothing left over I can't go back for the second helping I don't need. Sure it isn't gourmet quality, but for my particular situation I was willing to sacrifice a little bit of taste for convenience.

[Sliver]

I like the salads at Wendy's.

[Red Ice Player]

Originally Posted by Azure

The studies that have shown there is no link between dietary cholesterol and LDL levels are recent, so give it another 20 years and the official recommendation will change.

I could never understand wasting the most beneficial, nutrient dense part of an egg, the yolk, due to a discredited paranoia about a small serving of cholesterol and saturated fat. A good quick low calorie meal for me is two eggs scrambled (with a bit of cheese and green onion) salsa, avacado slices and toast, buttered of course. Takes 5 minutes and its good any time of day.

[Azure]

Same here.

To me its exactly the same as throwing away the most nutritious part of the grain in making flour.

[Claeren]

Joey's Only Seafood is another option.

People always think of the deep fried fish, but you can get anything they make poached as well.

So you can grab Halibut or Haddock, virtually pure protein with 0g fat or carbs, and then add whatever side you want - rice, boiled potato, baked potato, etc.

The premium fish is not cheap, but it is tasty and fast.


Taking that a step further, it is an even better do-it-yourself meal. You can poach a frozen fillet of premium fish (halibut or haddock are my preferences) in a few short minutes, and add some boiled veggies and you have an amazing meal with very little work. In fact, because it is done with just boiled water, clean-up is also as easy as rinsing off 2 pots and 2 plates.



Claeren.

[bomber317]

What I've been doing is cooking 2 different meals in large quantities for the week on Sunday. Cooking 2 meals to alternate and not get sick of your own food.

The most useful is a vegetable tomato sauce. You get to control the sodium content going into your sauce if you make it from scratch. (tomato sauce is really easy to make, since you can "correct" the sauce at any time) If you have a food processor, it will only take about 10 mins to prep the sauce so you can cook it.

Once you get your BBQ, you could grill some meat and eat it with your pasta. Or you could cook the meat first on Sunday and just heat it up during the week. I usually just cook it the day of, since the grill will only take about 15 mins depending on the meat.

This is assuming you like pasta though and you have time to cook on Sundays.

A basic sauce could contain tomatoes/celery/carrots/onions/garlic and olive oil. Most of which you can just throw into the food processor.

Oh, and sometimes I do takeout at Guiseppes on First and 12th Ave. It's pricey but you can get dishes with decent veggies in them or italian sandwiches (which are probably fatty though because of the pork meat and cheeses)

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

So I usually make my meat first and then freeze it, like fried up ground buffalo, or grilled chicken breasts/salmon. The night before, take it out, put it in the fridge. By the time you get home from work you have it un thawed and cooked, boil some veggies for 10 minutes and voila supper is ready.

So, by the time you get home the meat is frozen again?

[CaramonLS]

Safeway has some pretty decent salads and "heat and serve" stuff in the Deli. Fairly good selection - 5 minutes in the microwave and you're done for the most part.

Also the hot roast chicken or hot roast turkey breast is quite healthy / great for a quick meal.

[doozwimp]

Vietnamese?

[Hack&Lube]

Eat European style. Have a big but healthy breakfast. A decent but healthy lunch.

Then for supper, eat very little. A bit of cold cuts, raw veggies (carrots, broccoli).

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by doozwimp

Vietnamese?

Pho is pretty low fat if you don't drink the soup. Lots of nutricious fresh bean sprouts, lean cuts of beef.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by doozwimp

Vietnamese?

we eat vietnamese twice a week.


I know that the answer is to change habits. But that is really hard with life right now. Winter will calm down a bit and we are going to take cooking classes.

Thanks for the responses guys. Lookig forquick healthy stuff right now.

[Sly]

Try Opa chicken wrap with Wheat bread.... I think the tzatziki sauce is made with fat free yogurt, not sure on that though.

[Lanny's Stache]

We have recently started using a Crock Pot at least once a week. It's great. You set it up the night before, turn it on in the morning, and come home to dinner cooked. There are lots of easy/healthy recipes online.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Hesla

I know that the answer is to change habits.

Look at it this way. If the convenience food isn't on your usual routes, and you have to go out of the way to get them, then perhaps spending the same amount of time in the kitchen rather than in traffic is the better option.

I know I'd rather spend 20 minutes or so in the kitchen with the wife.