Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Italian Cuisine - Enjoying Healthy Food While Dinning Out

We all understand that eating healthy is very important, be it at home or while partying outside. Therefore, choosing the right food is a must for you and your family. While you are looking for a nice place to dine with friends and family, you could consider choosing Italian restaurant. Any high-end west London restaurant will be able to service you authentic Italian cuisine.

Let us see what you can order for ensuring you eat healthy food.

Choose the right appetizer

Appetizers are high in calories. They are prepared using cheese, meat, vegetables, etc. While ordering them, you could ask the waiter to replace ordinary cheese with feta cheese. You could order for a vegetable soup as your appetizer. Vegetables are high in fibers and the healthiest diet one could ever take.

Avoid having fried items as appetizers. Although fried cheese cubes and mozzarella cheese appear quite tempting, they contain hundreds of calories and fat. A plate of calamari rings has as much as 800 calories.

Healthy Italian salad

At a reputed west London restaurant you will get nth number of options for salads. While ordering, check with the waiter what ingredients they use for dressing the salad. If possible, you could order a salad without any dressings because almost all are rich in fat.

You could order a delicious cold vegetable salad that includes olive oil, potato, beans etc. Pasta salad is another good option. Caesar salad is liked by many, but for it to be fat free, you could ask the waiter to exclude the exclude grated cheese toppings.


All these simple tips will help you enjoy your meal and not add calories.