Eating away from home – Some helpful tips

We’ve got some tips for you keep having health food while away from home!

When travelling:

• Consider taking some healthy food and water with you.
• Avoid pies, pastries and other discretionary food.
• Stop at a bakery or café for lunch and ask for a salad, wholegrain roll or wrap.

At restaurants:

• Consider asking for an entrée sized or a smaller serve.
• Think about asking for extra vegetables or salad with your meal.
• Ask for dressings and sauces to come separately so you can add a smaller amount yourself and save on fat and kilojoules.
• Skip the chips and go easy on the bread.
• Avoid fried, battered and crumbed choices; instead choose steamed, pan fried, braised, poached, baked, roasted or grilled.

With friends:

• Offer to take a salad or fruit platter to dinner or lunch with friends.
• If you know you will be able to fill half your plate with salad, you can choose less of the other dishes are limit the kilojoules of the meal.
• Try to serve yourself, so that you can control your portion size.

Find out more on https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/eating-well/tips-eating-well/choosing-nutritious-foods