Thursday, April 23, 2009

Healthy Tips for Eating Thai Food....

Hey Guys, I just wanted to post up some healthy tips/reminders for the next time you get Thai food:
  1. Stay away from Coconut Milk laden dishes. One cup of Coconut Milk alone has over 400 calories and 50 grams of fat, 45 of them are saturated!!!
  2. Stay away from fried rice -try to get brown if you can
  3. Pad Thai -I'm sure you love it, but one dish can have over 1100 calories and over 40 grams of fat, you need alot of activity points to get over that one!
  4. Watch out for portion distortion, after ordering your food, immediately ask the waiter to put half of it in a doggie bag for you.
  5. Whatever you order, ask if you can have the sauce on the side, this way you can control how much of the sauce you want.
  6. Fill up on the CLEAR BROTH soups before your meal
  7. Go for anything that is roasted, steamed or grilled
  8. Thai salads are usually a great choice, filling and loaded with flavor -seriously when they ask you how spicy you would like your salad, it's gotta be loaded with flavor!
  9. If you are going to get an appetizer, aim for the spring rolls, these are loaded with fresh ingredients and not high in calories.

I hope some of these tips have been helpful!

2 comments:

  1. Kan, do you think you can figure out a way to do guiltless pad thai? :)

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  2. Hey Alka,

    Someone else asked me this as well. I'm working on a recipe, and should have it posted by next week. I just want to make sure it's palatable :-)

    One suggestion that I have, when you order Pad Thai, immediately asked for half of it to be packed away. You'll save yourself over 600 calories and you'll know you will not over eat!

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