posted July 07, 2000 12:21 PM            

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I am going to rant here a bit - hope you don't mind but I need to get this off my chest! Twice in the last week I have unavoidably found myself in a restaurant needing food. Now I expected the menu choices to be pretty damn limited but at restaurant 1 they had a chicken breast smothered in mushrooms and cheese, with green beans and baby red potatos, its noon and this is the meal where I need a starchy carb and damn it not only do I need it but I WANT it. I tell the waitress I want the chicken breast grilled and she can keep the mushrooms and the cheese - am feeling pretty satisfied with myself at this point. Then the meal comes and those baby red potatos are FRIED!?! We go thru a whole big thing but the bottom line is that is they way they are. Restaurant 2, Mom is taking me out to lunch at a mexican place, no big deal - order the chicken fajitas. Now I don't know what they did to that chicken and vegetables but I strongly suspect that they marinaded it in LARD, I'll spare you the gory details but suffice it to say that I spent the whole night in the bathroom. Going out to eat is no longer a part of my life, from now on it is just me and my cooler. The up side of the whole shopping trip with mom is that I came home with a new home gym and 300# of new weights!
Temple

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posted July 07, 2000 12:30 PM         

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Temple,

I feel ya girlfriend, I went to freaking Burger King over the weekend (now I never eat fast food, this was the bf's choice)
but anyhow I asked the guy to give me a GRILLED chicken sandwich,well he have me a crispy chicken so i took it back up to the counter and said again, I wanted a GRILLED chicken sandwich, so he gives me this other sub looking thing that still had breading on it! By this piont i was pissed,so I went back up once more and yelled "DO YOU KNOW WHAT A GRILLED CHICKEN SANDWICH IS" IT HAS NO SKIN AND IS JUST GRILLED! NO BREADING, NOT FRIED!"
By then he had seen my point and said, "oh, you want a BK broiler" what the hell kind of name is that for a chicken sandwich!
well, after I finally got the damn thing, i was so angry that i didnt even eat it, I gave it to the stray cat that was outside in the pkng. lot.

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posted July 07, 2000 12:47 PM         

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Just a thought - if im going out to a nice restaurant for an occasion that I have to be at I always call ahead and see if or how they can accomodate me. Usually they are pretty good about it and tell you what they can or cant do. Avoid fast food pretty much......Chick-fil-a not too bad for griled chicken.

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posted July 07, 2000 12:51 PM            

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My major problem eating out is not enough veggies (or they are coated in grease), too little protein and major awful carbs.

There should be a chain of restuarants geared toward bb/fitness people.

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posted July 07, 2000 01:22 PM         

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About the only real way to eat out anymore is to go a high end resturant, order a premium steak (medium rare, no salt) and a plain bake potato. More than likely they will screw up the potato with butter and sour cream (gag), but it is easy enough to fix that.
Personally, if I am going to eat at a normal resturant...it is a cheat day and I an not really caring what I eat as long as it tastes good! I may feel like sh!t afterwards...but hey...there are always prices to pay.

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posted July 07, 2000 01:43 PM            

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Can somebody say Steak House??

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posted July 07, 2000 02:47 PM            

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Actually I have been pretty lucky in this respect. I give VERY SPECIFIC (I know, Dlady - grilled chicken sounds pretty fucking specific to me too, but we're talking 16 yr old minimum-wage-earning kids) instructions and usually the restaurant is very accomodating. Believe it or not I had the most difficulty at a seafood place - down the Jersey shore noless? And yes, I have been to restaurants and functions were I brought my cooler and tupperware, if people looked at me funny, I just ignored them - they wouldn't get it even if I did try to explain.

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posted July 07, 2000 02:48 PM            

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i was thinking the same thing. Steakhouse...maybe Outback Steakhouse. they have a meal called chicken on the barbie that is sooo good, but so healthy at the same time. 8oz grilled chicken brest with a side of steamed veggies (broc, cauil, snow peas, carrots, and squash.) i stick with all carrots though and no butter on the veggies. 8.99$$ you can also add another 5oz brest for 1.99$$. skip the salad, since all the dressing are high fat and skip dessert. cheap and healthy. if you like steak try a filet or sirloin. can anyone tell where i work???
later- dr

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posted July 07, 2000 03:12 PM            

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hehe...makes me remember the time that I was dieting for Ms. Fitness a few years ago...we went to Black Eyed Pea, since I knew I could get grilled tuna steak there and fresh green beans. Anyhow, I'm placing my order, and after saying that I want 2 servings of the green beans, the waiter tells me that the "green beans aren't in season"! I nearly bit the poor guy's head off! I was with my brother at the time, and he had to calm me down and convince me it was ok, and I could just get a side salad instead. Sheesh! I was a dieting bitch from hell!

I don't go out to eat much, because I don't trust the cooks...I mean, who knows what they really put into the food that the menu claims is "healthy"? I don't trust 'em!

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posted July 07, 2000 03:14 PM            

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Actually, the burgerking near me gives my fiance and I a great deal....We get 7 bk broilers without a bun for the cost of one sandwich and .99 cents each for the other 6. They have salads for .99 cents too. We eat there a lot

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posted July 07, 2000 06:58 PM            

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Chick filet is my favorite healthy fast food. Good clean food cheap. Tracy

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posted July 08, 2000 12:28 AM            

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heard a gross story about chick-fil-a! someone went to take a bite into their chicken sand and instead of it being chicken, or even a little fat, it was straight puss!!!! yuck, yuck, yuck. i'll never eat one again. their chicken ceaser sal is good with a different dressing though. huh- i'm going to go foreman some chicken now. dirtyratt

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posted July 08, 2000 10:21 AM         

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The idea of a body builder restaurant is really tres chic. I think it would only work in cities that have a high population of gym goers. Daytona Beach has a cool one next to East Coast Gym--Luigis Cafe. They have an Arnold plate--2 Chicken Breasts, Low fat pasta salad with veggies and a small whole wheat roll. Yummy too.

Fast food restaurants just plain piss me off. I can't go there without getting into a fight. I avoid them like the plague. What part of no mayo don't they get?

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posted July 08, 2000 10:40 AM            

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The steakhouse option is a good one except that I live in the heart of cattle country and any steakhouse in our area is proud to serve only Prime beef - even the round steak is heavily marbled - now that I think about it so are most of the people here.

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posted July 08, 2000 10:43 AM            

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That BK Broiler taste like Hippopotamus Shit(I think)!

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