How to Eat Healthy While Dining Out and Healthy Restaurant Tips ... Find Organic and Vegetarian Restaurants with Easy Online Locators
For those of us doing our best to live healthy, eating organic balanced nutritious meals and finding healthy and organic restaurants can be a challenge. Knowing how to find local healthy dining options for restaurants and making healthy and sustainable menu choices within your budget can be especially difficult when you are traveling or "on-the-go."
This edition of the Mambo Health E-News helps you find healthy dining and organic restaurants, local healthy dining, menu planning tips, and vegetarian restaurants. Discover new tips, links, and online resources for healthy ordering and eating on the go.
Choices for healthier dining and restaurants abound in and outside major cities, with more restaurants offering organic, seasonal, healthy cooking and vegetarian choices. Hectic schedules and traveling to new surroundings doesn't mean settling for unhealthy fast food. You can choose to eat healthy and organic away from home with a little creativity and planning! Easy online access to find organic hot spots offering healthy, organic and vegetarian dining and health food stores in all the major cities and beyond is just a click away.
Mambo's favorite tips and resources for healthy and organic dining and savings:
Visit Restaurant.comfor printable restaurant savings. Good for at home or while traveling, search for healthy dining options such as vegetarian, seafood, ethnic, broiled or healthy grilled fare by checking out the online menus at Restaurant.com. Simply enter your town or zip code to locate restaurants.
Visit Restaurant Noras, America's first certified organic restaurant! Organic Restaurant for a restaurant offering organic food! Noras Restaurant opened in Washington DC in 1999 and 95% or more of menu items are certified organic and sustainable. Nora always offers seasonal, fresh organic food, prepared in a healthy, balanced way and is a big hit among the eco-minded in the DC area!
Dine at O'Naturals Restaurant, a healthy, organic restaurant chain, offering tasty, natural and organic fast foods and eco-friendly sustainable dining. Started by the founder of Stonyfield Farms, O'Naturals has locations in Acton, MA, Portland and Falmouth, ME and Wichita, KS, and continues to franchise!
When traveling, bring along a copy of Healthy Highways: The Traveler's Guide to Healthy Eating, a must-have for health- conscious travelers looking for healthy, organic and vegetarian food on the road.
Check out the handy download from Healthy Monday and Mambo Sprouts on healthy dining and ordering tips. Use this guide to create your own personal favorite healthy, organic or vegetarian restaurant list to use and share with others. Dont forget to share your favorites on our blog!
Healthy and Organic Dining On the Go, Eating and
Restaurant Tips
Use these tips for healthy, organic and green restaurants and menu planning when dining out.
Make healthy menu choices for better nutrition and healthy weight control.
Start the meal with a salad (ask for dressing on the side).
Order baked, broiled or lightly grilled (without butter or oil) seafood or vegetarian items.
Ordering healthy appetizers and sides of organic vegetables is a healthy meal alternative.
Ask for tomato-based sauces (vs. creamy) and skip the gravies!
Skip the mayonnaise and ask for olive oil instead.
Try a seasonal dessert with local organic fruit such as berries.
Read the nutrition information to make healthy food choices. Many restaurants post or feature healthy, organic and low fat menu items.
Eating out can be green! Choose restaurants that use biodegradable cups and containers such as Greenware which is compostable.
Watch out for portion size. Share a meal for weight control and take healthy leftovers home in earth-friendly 'to go' containers made from renewable resources.
Order healthy take-out from the prepared food sections of natural food chains or local health food stores - a good option close to home or on the road.
Dine at healthy restaurants featuring local, organic and healthy fare using the Mambo healthy online dining locators.
SAVE on restaurant dining certificates for healthy dining options such as vegetarian, ethnic, etc and check out dining menus online menus.
Join the Eat Well Tour of America!
This month, check out the Eat Well Guided Tour of America from Sustainable Table, a green road trip celebrating local and sustainable food, making stops in at more than 25 towns across America. Join the Eat Well tour on the road! Check the tour schedule and follow daily updates online including healthy dining stops, blogs, photos, recipes and more as they travel to the Farm Aid concert in New York City on September 9th. www.sustainabletable.org/roadtrip
Check out the handy download from Healthy Monday and Mambo Sprouts on healthy dining and ordering tips. Use this guide to create your own personal favorite healthy, organic or vegetarian restaurant list to use and share with others. Dont forget to share your favorites on our blog!
