Buffet restaurants can be a blessing or a curse. They’re a blessing because you can pick and choose among a variety of foods and dish out smaller servings than the usual oversized platefuls most restaurants offer. They’re a curse because, if your willpower is low, you’re free to load your plate with more than you need as many times as you want.

To keep your meal on the light and healthy side at Old Country Buffet:

• Load up on fresh greens, fresh fruit, and veggies at the salad bar. Spring greens, fresh fruit, sliced carrots, red onions, mushrooms, broccoli florets, cucumbers, and tomatoes are fat-free and very low in calories. Be sure to choose a low-fat dressing and avoid high-calorie mayonnaise-based pasta and seafood salads.
• Try a broth-based soup such as chicken tortilla, chicken rice, navy bean, or vegetable beef.
• Choose one serving of roast beef, ham, baked chicken without skin, roast turkey, or baked fish.
• Add a low-fat cooked vegetable. Steamed corn and carrots, green beans, turnip or collard greens, baked potato, or pinto and red beans are healthy choices.
• Enjoy a nonfat dessert such fresh fruit, fruit gelatin, or nonfat frozen yogurt.

Best Bets Green salads Fresh fruit Broth-based soups Roast ham, chicken, turkey, or beef Steamed vegetables Nonfat desserts

Worst Bets Shrimp Scampi Corn Bread Dressing BBQ Beef Ribs Carved Rope Sausage Hand-breaded Fried Chicken

vitality suggests

Healthy	Green salad with low-fat dressing Rotisserie chicken Steamed corn
Healthier	Green salad with low-fat dressing Baked ham Baked potato
Healthiest	Chicken tortilla soup Rotisserie turkey Green beans

Menu information from www.oldcountrybuffet.com.

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