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eVitality June 2010
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Old Country Buffet

Photo of chicken, rice and vegetablesBuffet 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
HealthyGreen salad with low-fat dressing
Rotisserie chicken
Steamed corn
HealthierGreen salad with low-fat dressing
Baked ham
Baked potato
HealthiestChicken tortilla soup
Rotisserie turkey
Green beans

Menu information from www.oldcountrybuffet.com.

© StayWell Custom Communications. Information is the opinion of the sourced authors and organizations. Personal decisions regarding health, diet, and exercise should be made only after consultation with the reader's own medical advisers. This material may not be reproduced for redistribution without written permission from StayWell Custom Communications.


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