Dinner out tonight; need to pre-plan

  • I am going out with my friend for her birthday, and she chose Texas Roadhouse. Their website doesn't give nutritional information - do I recall that there is a website out there that gives nutritional information for some restaurants?

    I see they do have some chicken selections that might work for me, and I can get a baked sweet potato and green beans.
  • I just googled it and I couldn't find anything for Texas Roadhouse, but some tips might be to order a grilled chicken breast (like I think you were talking about) along with a sweet potato with no butter or sugar on it and green beans cooked with no oil or butter. Also, sweet potatoes at a lot of restaurants are absolutely huge and probably have several servings in them (the ones I cook at my house usually come out to around 400g), so keep that in mind when you're trying to estimate calories.

    I hope you have fun tonight!
  • Just to let you know the one's I have been to cook their green beans in bacon or ham. I looove their grilled chicken salads. I get them without bacon. They do have eggs and cheese on them so I usually get rid of half the cheese they put on, then take the yolks out of the eggs{for less calories and I don't like the yolks}. You could do oil and vinegar but I usually bring my own dressing or just use a wee bit of their dressing. I can't do low fat reduced calorie dressings either, blah! And beware of the bread and peanuts, I find I have a hard time keeping my hands out of the peanut bucket!
  • Just to let you know the one's I have been to cook their green beans in bacon or ham.

    Oh, who would treat a poor innocent green bean like that???? I will have to be sure to ask how the veggies are prepared, and if they are in oil or have bacon, I will have to order a side salad instead.
  • Before changing my eating habits I would have loved a green bean like that. My husband still does. He gets them every time we go. They have onions in them as well, yummy.
  • You may want to try www.dwlz.com and click on restaurants. They have a lot listed on there. And before anybody chimes in, there have been some errors now and again, but it's a good resource.
  • You were right about those green beans! Fortunately, they had steamed vegetables, and I asked the waitress to have them leave off the butter. I had my sweet potato plain, and it was absolutely delicious. I also splurged and had a 6 oz. fillet mignon. I hadn't eaten beef in a long time - my husband is a vegetarian - and it was absolutely delicious. I normally eat, chicken, fish, or beans, and on my chicken and fish nights, I feed my husband a veg alternative.