| Some more suggestions for places where you can eat out in Reading and not
put on too much weight...
Pizza Express (St Mary's Butts) - Try their Salad Nicoise without dressing
(just lots of black pepper), or what I
have also done before is ask for a double
portion of side salad, or fruit salad
(yes, dessert as a main course) - without
dressing/cream of course! (It helps that
I don't like pizza, mind you... but they
do a couple of pizzas without cheese,
which have considerably fewer calories
than those with!)
They are also good value for mineral
water - a big bottle of Italian water
rather than a small designer bottle.
Muswells (also St Mary's Butts) - Greek Salad - delicious and enormous, and
good value at #2-95. They do other
salads too (don't know what they're like,
I like the Greek Salad too much!), and
I'm sure would oblige with a double
portion of side salad as a main meal.
They do various fish and chicken dishes
which have been marinaded or blackened
rather than covered in sauce or fried.
They are also very flexible - there
is no division between starters and main
courses on the menu, so you can have a
small meal very easily.
Pizza Hut (Broad Street) - Order a salad as a main course, and choose
your own at the salad bar. The dressings
are on the side, so you can miss them out
all together, or just have a little.
The George Hotel (Broad Street) - They serve steak and chicken basically,
and have a serve-yourself salad bar.
I stayed here when I relocated, and lost
weight by ordering plain chicken, plain
baked potato and undressed salad, followed
by fruit salad almost every night.
The Hexagon (Behind the Broad Street Mall) - The food bar here is open at
lunchtimes, and you can pick up a
selection of salad very cheaply. Best
bet is their side salads, because they
put absolutely no dressing on these.
I hope these are useful.
Ali
PS: If you find yourself over here on business, and unable to turn down
an invitation to Sweeneys (the amazing pie shop), don't listen to the
list of pies - you can always have a baked potato with ratatouille,
salad, or the vegetable of the day. Don't even contemplate the
puddings!
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| This is a quick guide to yoghurt in the UK (in reply to Holly's note -
461.9, I think).
If you found the yoghurt in the Indian restaurant a bit sour, the
same will probably apply to regular plain yoghurt too. However fruit
yoghurts have a smoother flavour, and these days they all have the
calorie count on the side of the carton.
You may like "set" yoghurt better than the runny stuff, because it tends
to taste smoother. And if you are coming to DECpark, you can buy
both kinds in the canteen and in the shop, which opened here a couple
of months ago! (They sell fruit in the shop too).
A word of warning: If you are at all concerned about taste, avoid "diet"
yoghurts; the small saving in calories really isn't worth the
sacrifice, and they are loaded with artificial sweeteners.
You would also be wise to make sure when you buy yoghurt that it is
low fat. Luxury "thick and creamy" yoghurts have become more popular
recently, and they are pretty high in fat! Another kind of yoghurt
that is delicious, but rarely low in fat is Greek yoghurt.
If you like yoghurt, but would like a change, you might like to try
fromage frais. This has a lovely light taste (a bit like petit suisse
cheeses, but with nothing like the fat), and is available in supermarkets
alongside the yoghurts. Again, as with yoghurts, look for the ones
that specify low fat, and enjoy!
Happy eating.
Ali
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| Probably.
I can always bring one in from home (I live about 6 minutes away)
if you can't find one there. Also, health services would have one.
Let me know if you need anything while you're here - I'm down on
ZK1-1, and my trip over to the UK got postponed until September.
Take care!
Holly
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