Healthy food

[elevatorman37]

Does anyone know a restaurant in or near the villages that has good healthy food. Rich

[OpusX1]

Sweet Tomatoes. Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes : Family Friendly Salad Bar & Buffet (http://www.sweettomatoes.com/)
Bonefish Grill depending on what you order.
Carraba's depending on what you order.
A lot depends on what you order.

[coralway]

Does anyone know a restaurant in or near the villages that has good healthy food. Rich





Been my experience that healthy food is seldom good .......

[graciegirl]

Send a PM to Villages Pl. He will know.

[jblum315]

Does anyone know a restaurant in or near the villages that has good healthy food. Rich

I think "healthy good" is an oxymoron

[Barefoot]

Does anyone know a restaurant in or near the villages that has good healthy food. Rich

Almost all restaurants in TV offer a selection of salads, fish and some "heart healthy" or "low calorie" selections.

It depends on what you regard as healthy food.

[mulligan]

Johnny has the healthiest cheesesteak on the square. Fat & juicy

[graciegirl]

Sweetie and I just started a weight loss, healthy food diet.

It is easy to tell what is healthy and good for this diet.

If it tastes good, spit it out.

[Golfer in Sanibel]

Sweetie and I just started a weight loss, healthy food diet.

It is easy to tell what is healthy and good for this diet.

If it tastes good, spit it out.

:mademyday:

[JoeC1947]

Sweetie and I just started a weight loss, healthy food diet.

It is easy to tell what is healthy and good for this diet.

If it tastes good, spit it out.

:agree:

Why does everything that tastes so good have to be so bad for you.:cry:

[texasfal]

Try First Watch on Buenos Aires. No fired foods and everything is freshly made and delish.

[cappyjon431]

Crispers
First Watch
Sweet Tomatoes

[renielarson]

I check the restaurant's nutrional values before going out to eat. "Healthy" is subjective. I focus on calories and consider lower calories healthy because that means less or no oil is used and it's lower in carbs.

You have to be very careful at Sweet Tomatoes even though it's primarily salad. Add-ons, breads, and some soups can trip you up.

Olive Garden has a Garden Fare Menu they don't offer you unless you ask. It has healthier foods than the regular menu.

Applebee's has an under 550 calorie menu.

Chili's has a Lighter Choice menu.

Sonny's salad bar with Brunswick stew is one of our favorites.

However, Thai Ruby is a blue ribbon winner for us! Food appears to be fresh, low calorie, and absolutely delicious....but I can't guarantee healthiness since they don't have a nutrional guide. Oh, please....don't anyone tell me I've been eating high calorie, unhealthy food all this time! :pray:

[Barefoot]

Most chain restaurants have an on-line Menu and nutritional guide. If you really want to eat healthy, you can make your choice at home and not be tempted by the Menu when you get to the restaurant. Not that I'm always that self disciplined!

[uujudy]

. . .
However, Thai Ruby is a blue ribbon winner for us! Food appears to be fresh, low calorie, and absolutely delicious....but I can't guarantee healthiness since they don't have a nutrional guide. Oh, please....don't anyone tell me I've been eating high calorie, unhealthy food all this time! :pray:

flipflopz, I totally agree with you about Thai Ruby. Their menu has a delicious variety of vegetarian dishes. :mmmm:

[Villages PL]

Send a PM to Villages Pl. He will know.

Thanks, I saw the question when it was first posted but I didn't know what to say. I wondered if the person knew the difference between healthful and unhealthful foods. Perhaps the person knows very little or knows more than I do. If you recommend a place to eat, it doesn't mean that everything they serve is healthy. So you'd have to start giving instructions on what not to eat. :)

I went into Crispers one time thinking that it would be a healthy experience. I ordered a large salad. How could I go wrong with that? Well, I don't eat out often enough to know what to watch out for. Between the cheese and the dressing it turned out to be much too salty and I was sorry I ever went in there.

When I make a salad at home, I use extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice as a dressing. And I don't use any salt. Is there any restaurant in the villages that will serve a salad like that, to my healthy specifications? The best I can think of is to go to Golden Corral and make up your own salad. Then get a bunch of lemon wedges and squeeze lemon juice on top of it. If I can find a small bottle, I'll bring my own olive oil. :) The problem with the Golden Corral is that they don't have salad bowls for salads. They only have flat dinner plates. Maybe I should bring my own salad bowl too. :-) The salad bowl I use at home probably holds at least 8 servings. No Mickey Mouse salads for me!

[Villages PL]

Does anyone know a restaurant in or near the villages that has good healthy food. Rich

Restaurants are in business to make money. And, to make money, the food has to taste good to the average person who eats the Standard American Diet (SAD). If they eat the standard American diet at home, their taste buds are spoiled (as in spoiled child). :) That means it's very likely (more often than not) restaurant food will be starchy and gunked up with high sodium, sugar or fat.

So, find a buffet like the Golden Corral and learn to pick and choose healthy foods.

[lightworker888]

Just had lunch at First Watch for the first time and it was excellent!!! The Pecan Dijon salad was so tasty and I had the Turkey sandwich with it. It has definitely become a favourite place for lunch for us. The freshness of the food is the clincher. Looking forward to trying the other salads and sandwiches. Can't beat the $6.89 for the 1/2 and 1/2. Thanks for mentioning it as we don't get up to Spanish Plaines often and would have missed it.


LW888

[GolfandSun]

Hi all! I found the best healthy, gourmet, quaint, restaurant/coffee cafe ever. It is located in the heart of Belleview right between the Kangaroo & KFC. It is called B.D.Beans. They have special Homeade Quiche gourmet salads and homeade soups and desserts to die for (of course u dont have to indulge in the desserts). Such an intimate cafe for just hanging with a small group of friends. Mix and match arm chairs and quaint fun experience for lunch. And an outdoor patio garden with a water feature. Just serene and fun. I would recommend this place to everyone. Artsy decor and the price is extremely inexpensive. Just a nice place to meet for a great experience.

[hulahips]

i would love a "healthy restaurant" in the villages!! They are few and far in between but healthy to me is always good!!

[OscarOlden]

i would love a "healthy restaurant" in the villages!! They are few and far in between but healthy to me is always good!!

I agree.

[wendyquat]

Our biggest challenge is sodium! We also have to watch sugar but that is ever so much easier than sodium. We are finding that most restaurants pile on the salt to achieve that SAD taste I would think. Just a little cheese adds loads of sodium! Forget gravy and almost any kind of soup! Bread is one of the biggest sources of sodium so you can almost forget a sandwich of any kind. Not that you'd be able to find a sandwich meat to put in it anyway! For now I'm mostly cooking at home but I don't like it one bit. After all, I'm retired! Hmmm - I'm wondering if one could start a HEALTHY restaurant chain that could be profitable? Probably not as we'd all be on here reviewing that everything tasted like cardboard! Oh well! :shrug:

[jblum315]

:agree:

Why does everything that tastes so good have to be so bad for you.:cry:

Blame it on our caveman ancestors who had to eat lots of carbs and fat to survive. And sugar when they could get it.

[hulahips]

I blame it on the Food Industry who is looking to make Money. It's about high profit margins, long shelf life, and getting us addicted to their products.

The ONLY thing we can control is what we put in our mouths!! I'd love to see more organics here.

[jimbo2012]

Hmmm - I'm wondering if one could start a HEALTHY restaurant chain that could be profitable? Probably not as we'd all be on here reviewing that everything tasted like cardboard! Oh well! :shrug:

I was in Tampa, found a small chain called "Happy Hut" you can get a franchise and open one here, it would make $$

You would not believe how good well made totally healthy food can taste at reasonable prices.