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by Flora Quinn
When you are doing a low carb eating plan, it is important to cook for yourself to be sure you know exactly what is in what you are eating. However, there are times when this is just not possible, and you may have a hard time deciding what you can eat when you are away from home. Though finding low carb fast food might not be the optimal choice, it is better than eating something full of carbs just because you can’t find anything else. You can find something at almost any fast food establishment that will help you stay on your eating plan, even it if is not your first choice.
When you look for low carb fast food, you have to think about taking the carbs off of things. Some places cater to those who are on this type of eating plan, but sometimes you are on your own. One of the best things you can do is get a burger and take off the bun. Have cheese on it if your plan allows, and remember to add lettuce and tomato. You should avoid ketchup as it always has sugar, but mustard is okay for low carb fast food if you like it.
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Most places have a great salad you can have for low carb fast food. Just be sure you don’t have the carrots if you are not that far along on the plan, and also make sure you watch the carbs in the salad dressing they try to give you. Most of the salad dressing you find in a fast food place has more sugar than the kind you are probably using at home. It is hard to carry around your own salad dressing, but there may be times when you need to do this. The ranch you use at home might have 2 carbs per serving, but the stuff you get at a fast food place might have nine or ten.
If you want to get a grilled chicken type of salad for low carb fast food, you have to ask them if they have marinated the chicken in anything that might have contained sugar, or if the sauce they may have added contains sugar. This is very common. You may not be able to have the chicken if that is the case. Though low carb fast food might not be your first choice, it can be a life saver when you have no other choice. Traveling and doing a low carb plan is not always easy, but you can do better if you know what to look out for and what to avoid completely.
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