Want Healthy Restaurant Recipes Right From Home?

It happens all the time: you go out to eat and order, only to realize the food you’re about to eat is the most unhealthy dish you could actually eat. Many who face this fact will simply go ahead and eat the scrumptious, grease-coated burger or Alfredo sauce brimming with fat. Now you can make these dishes into healthy restaurant recipes.

You can always simply ask your waitress if the chef can make some adjustments to make your recipes more healthy at the restaurant. Sometimes you’ll be granted your request, other times you may be getting a special “present” from the chef. A better way to go about it is to find your desired dish online and simply make it healthy yourself, shaving off the unhealthy elements.

First off, you can use broiled fish or meat rather than the typical fare. This is a much healthier way to cook, even better than using a grill which will often leave your meat bloody and greasy. Besides broiling the meat, you can also avoid using all the excess butter. A bit of butter never really hurts, but going over the top with it can really hurt you.

As for a side dish, if you want mashed or baked potatoes, here’s another tip to turn it into a healthy alternative. Rather than smothering your baked potato in butter and loads of sour cream, topping that with cheese, you should limit yourself to just enough low-cal sour cream and a teaspoon of margarine. You don’t need to make your healthy restaurant recipes to be tasteless, but you will need to change a few ingredients.

Surely you love the sauces at your favorite places to eat, or the gravies that you’ve come to love, but these are known for their unhealthy qualities. You don’t need to dump the sauces or gravies altogether, but you’ll need to limit the amount you eat. Rather than cover your plate in these sauces, you ought to use a reduced amount and place that in its own container, off to the side. Use it to dip rather than coat your food.

Don’t use the normal, fatty dressings for your salad when you’re re-creating healthy restaurant recipes. Salads can both be the best and worst part of a meal simply due to the dressing. If you are re-creating the recipe at home, make sure you opt for the healthier varieties of low-fat dressings, or use vinegar, a bit of olive oil, and some lemon.

The last tip you should keep in mind is not to bread anything, and definitely don’t fry any food. You can go ahead and enjoy a fried meal or appetizer twice a month as a “reward” for doing great. These foods really need to be limited in your diet, however, as they’re so fatty.
Making your favorite dishes into healthy restaurant recipes is a breeze if you do it right. You have the helm in your kitchen – you control what sauces, cooking methods and such that goes into your food. So give it a shot and try these meals at home the right way.


Jacob Michaels has written a number of different articles on Getting Healthy Recipes From Restaurants and they can be found at Start Eating Healthy. If you want to learn more about Living and Eating a Healthy Way of Life, visit Recipes For Health and claim your Free Special Report.