When you prepare and eat your meals at home it’s relatively easy to keep to your eating plan. However dining away from home, whether it’s a quick takeaway, or dining at the finest 5 star restaurant offers some unique challenges. Some sensible planning and choosing when you are eating away from home will help you keep within the Celebrity Slim guidelines.

Here are a few options to consider:

1. Many Asian dishes, such as meat and vegetable stir fry, are allowable as long as you don’t eat the rice or noodles. Ask for more vegetables instead.
2. Try to choose MSG free (Mono Sodium Glutamate) foods as there is some evidence that suggests that MSG can interfere with fat burning metabolism causing fat to be retained.
3. Beware of sweet sauces as they will be high in sugar, for example: lemon chicken, sweet and sour, etc.
4. Spare ribs are delicious and very low in carbohydrates.
5. Chicken and beef satay sticks with satay sauce are delicious and contain very little carbohydrates.
6. Takeaway salads with chicken or beef – ask for dressing on the side and use sparingly, may be loaded with fats and carbs.
7. BBQ chicken and salad – remove the skin as this can be very fatty. Don’t ask for chips, more salad is a better option and don’t eat the stuffing!
8. Grilled fish and salad – make sure the fish is not coated in batter.

Avoid:

• Pizza – the base is almost pure carbohydrates.
• Fish and chips – chips are pure carbohydrates
• Hamburgers – the buns are not only carbohydrates but many have added sugar to make them taste better.
• Pies and pasties – the pastry and much of the filling (not much meat protein unfortunately) is mostly carbohydrates.
• Cakes, ice creams and donuts – mostly carbohydrates.