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15 Dieting Tips When Dining Out

By: Daniel | Comments Off on 15 Dieting Tips When Dining Out | | Category: Breakfast, Dining Out, Dinner, General Information, Lunch | Tags : , ,

Whether you dine out for pleasure, a special occasion, travel, or due to necessity you can eat healthy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners and prevent weight gain. Many restaurants do not make it easy. Large portion sizes, like the meal pictured, are the norm making it easy to eat more calories than your ... more

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Why I Won’t Patronize Einstein Bros

By: Daniel | Comments Off on Why I Won’t Patronize Einstein Bros | | Category: Breakfast, Dining Out, General Information, Lunch | Tags : , ,

Einstein Bros Bagels is a popular breakfast and lunch quick serve restaurant owned by Einstein and Noah Corp. Their speciality is bagels and coffee. It began in 1995 by chain restaurant corporation Boston Chicken now called Boston Market to break into the breakfast food market. I’ve never been a big ... more

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Diners, Drive-Ins and Death

By: Daniel | Comments Off on Diners, Drive-Ins and Death | | Category: Diet, Dieting, Dining Out, Dinner, Entree, General Information, Lunch, Mediterranean Diet | Tags : , , , , ,

Cheese Burger

Some people wonder why so many Americans are overweight or obese. The answer is very simple. An abundance of low cost, high calorie foods. A popular program on the U.S. Food Network cable channel is Diners, Drive-ins and Dives hosted by chef and restaurant owner Guy Fieri. Yes, he is Italian. The ... more

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How to Perfectly Poach Shrimp

By: Daniel | Comments Off on How to Perfectly Poach Shrimp | | Category: Cook's Tips, Dinner, Entree, General Information, Lunch | Tags : , , ,

Homemade Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail

Many recipes like Shrimp Cocktail cook raw shrimp in boiling water. But shrimp, like most seafood cooks in just minutes making it easy to overcook producing a tough, rubbery, chewy consistency. Precooked, frozen shrimp is usually grossly overcooked. The secret to perfectly cooked succulent shrimp is poaching. Poaching is the ... more

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Obscene Breakfasts and Sandwiches

By: Daniel | Comments Off on Obscene Breakfasts and Sandwiches | | Category: Breakfast, Dinner, General Information, Lunch, Sodium | Tags : , , ,

American Style Breakfast

On way restaurants attract patrons is by offering huge and in some cases gigantic portions to provide the biggest value to the customers money. They also can provide a days worth of calories and several days worth of saturated fat and sodium all in one meal. Large portions are common ... more

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2,000 Calorie Lunch

By: Daniel | Comments Off on 2,000 Calorie Lunch | | Category: General Information, Health Benefits, Lunch | Tags : , , ,

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Skip the Ramon Noodle Soups

By: Daniel | Comments Off on Skip the Ramon Noodle Soups | | Category: General Information, Health Benefits, Lunch, Sodium, Soup | Tags : , , , , , , ,

Bowl of Ramon Noodle Soup

They are quick, inexpensive and packed with sodium. One brand boasts in large type on the front of the package that their soups have zero grams of trans fat. On the back of the package in small type it states you can reduce the amount of sodium by simple using ... more

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