Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is hard, especially when your job requires more meetings and eating out. Besides, you cannot keep ignoring your friends’ invitation to eat out and enjoy a social life. In such situations, the only way to survive your healthy lifestyle is to leave home full stomach or prepare your food set beforehand. For those in a low fat or keto diet, some ideas from the article Quick Recipes You Can Make When On Ketogenic Diet are great for your eating out food. This way, you can maximize your time outside and still eat properly.
Although it seems a great idea, sadly, many restaurants do not allow food outside theirs. In this matter, you should plan ahead about the restaurant menu to order the safest option. Fortunately, many fast-food restaurants must publish their nutritional content, including the carb count and the net per grams, which is surely helpful to schedule your keto plan menu.
However, please remember the basic principle of keto diet choices in the fast-food menu. It includes skipping the wrap, bun, bread, pasta, potato, and rice. Choose only sauteed or grilled chicken and low sugar salad dressing options such as caesar, blue cheese, ranch, chipotle. Also, it is useful to bring a handy fork and a knife yourself to be comfortable in sorting out your food. To help you find a quick and fun choice, below are several restaurants and fast-food menu suitable for keto diet plan in case you need them for sudden events.
McDonald’s and Wings
While eating out at McDonald’s, choose a burger (0 gram without the bun) or a grilled chicken burger topped with cheese, mayo, mustard, and onion (2 grams). Other menus would be a side salad (3 grams), or either the caesar salad or bacon ranch salad with grilled chicken (9 grams). Meanwhile, choose the standard buffalo sauce or garlic parmesan when it comes to Wings everywhere.
Burger King
Order as same as McDonald’s type burger is good, but not the veggie one (19 grams). Other menus would be the tender grill chicken sandwich (3 grams without the bun), chicken garden salad (8 grams without dressing or croutons), or a side salad (3 grams). Try to order their apple fries dessert (5 grams without caramel sauce) if you want something more.
Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s
This fast-food chain has a low carb eating with its lettuce wraps burger. There are some bunless burger options, such as the six dollars (7 grams), half thick-burger (5 grams), charbroiled chicken club sandwich (7grams at Carl’s Jr. or 10 grams at Hardee’s). Other menus include grilled chicken salad (10 grams without croutons) and side salad (3 grams).
Pizza Hut
Getting used to eating pizza without the crust would save you while eating out at pizza huts or other similar pizza restaurants. Take the cheese out of the topping and eat the big messy pile of cheese and toppings. Also, a side salad is an excellent choice.
Mongolian Barbecue
Take shrimp, chicken, onion slices, mushrooms, and the black bean sauce in your bowl. Add a little garlic, and then wait for the grill job. Skip the appetizers, tortillas, and rice and ask the waitresses not to bring them to the table.
Mexican Restaurants
It would be the most difficult since any option with a minimum of carbohydrates is not there. In case of emergency, order a large burrito with no beans. Skip the tortilla and eat only the inner filled.