Inevitably, you will be sabotaged by life. Once in a while you will be forced to choose from a seemingly impossible list of choices on the menu. No matter what you choose, you know it's going to be all wrong. The following offers tractics to help make a bad situation better.

• Leave as much of the sauce in the dish and on your plate as possible


• Remove high fat batter from fried fish, sausages, mushrooms etc


• Leave pie crusts and pastry toppings


• Cut the visible fat from meat eg bacon, beef, pork, lamb


• Remove as much of the butter knobs as you can from your food before it melts, eg into jacket potatoes or vegetables


• Order extra bread/rice/unbuttered potatoes to eat in preference to the high fat sauces which automatically come with your choice of main dish


• Spoon the mayonnaise off or drain the dressing from salads


• Eat high carbohydrate snacks from your snack pack later on to increase your overall CHO intake.

REMEMBER

ONE BAD MEAL IS NOT A DISASTER!

COMPENSATE BY MAKING MORE SENSIBLE CHOICES LATER

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO EAT EVERYTHING ON THE PLATE

Dan Bennett