Real Life Nutrition
Your Restaurant Cheat Sheet
How to make healthier choices at all of your favorite restaurants
The year was 2001. I was a Culinary and Nutrition Student at Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island. At the time I was slumming it like every other college kid. You know: living in less-than-stellar neighborhoods (I actually heard gun shots one night), wearing oversized flannel pajama bottoms and a hoodie like only college kids can and subsisting on toast and peanut butter for dinner. So on the rare occasion that my then-boyfriend and I could actually afford to go out to eat, it was a BIG deal. Back then, I would starve myself all day long in hopes of conserving calories so I could eat to my heart’s desire at the restaurant. I would arrive famished (remove the bread basket from my table and I will hurt you) and would inevitably eat so …
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