Healthy(ish) Restaurants

[fairlycrazy23]

I'm looking for a good list or at least some good suggestions of restaurants that have some healthier items on the menu.

That is pretty much it, no particular type or cuisine and not just vegetarian or vegan.

Thanks..

[heironymouspasparagus]

Amazingly enough - Egg McMuffin at MickeyD's.  It is a little nutritional jewel amongst the McDonald wasteland.

Some of Wendy's salads aren't bad....if you go easy on the dressing.  Asian Cashew Chicken is kind of edible - half size!  Wow!  I just looked and the full size is only 380 calories!

Albert G's - Pork fat rules!!  And is always healthy!!  At least, crispy bacon is considered a low-fat food....  (Only partially facetious...)

Some of the sub shops claim it, but I got a feeling that if you really want healthy you are mostly gonna have to make it at home.  I have thought for a long time that if you want to eat and be healthy, all ya gotta do is eat the diet humans ate 10,000 years ago....the hunter/gatherer menu.  Rather than an agricultural menu.  I think it would be painfully boring - I doubt I have the willpower.




If you are ever in the OKC area, there is a little diner/drive in thing that has good stuff, but definitely NOT health food!!  Del Rancho - chicken fried steak sandwich!!!  Yum!

[fairlycrazy23]

Thanks.
I know eating at home is the best way to eat healthy, that is why I said healthyish :-)
I'm looking for some nice restaurants to eat out at that won't break the belly.
Maybe just resaurants that have good lighter dishes.

[Conan71]

"Healthy eating" can have a lot of different criteria.  Do you want to avoid preservatives and other artificial additives or are you looking for lower fat options?  Most Mexican will be heavy on fat, so not really healthyish unless you are looking for all fresh ingredients, then there is no shortage of Mexican-owned joints around town where you can find that.  Personally, I don't worry about unadulterated animal fats, it's the crap that's been modified or synthesized I avoid.  I also don't consider any fast food places as healthyish if you look at the contents of salad dressings or using anti-foaming agents in the process of cooking their burgers.  The salad bar at Mazzio's has many good offerings, but again, I'd be willing to bet their salad dressings are a chemical cocktail of preservatives and flavor enhancers. 

There are probably some healthy offerings at most Chinese buffets but I'm willing to bet a good deal of what hits the buffet comes from a can or package other than meats or veggies prepared on site. 

Big Al's at the NE corner of 15th & Harvard is a sandwich shop which has claimed to be a health food restaurant for 30+ years.

Others which come to mind:

Zoe's Kitchen 37th & Peoria
Laffa in the Brady District (pretty much anything Mediterranean is healthy if made from scratch)
Whole Foods Deli (plenty of good choices ready to eat)
My Thai Kitchen 31st & Harvard (As well as that family's former restaurant Thai Siam at 31st & Sheridan)
Bangkok 33rd & Harvard (Buffet, but they claim no MSG or artificial ingredients and all made fresh)

Those are a few which come to mind readily, there are plenty more out there.

[Breadburner]

I will 2nd Zoe's...

[RecycleMichael]

Health food makes me sick.

[Conan71]

Anyone know if Cafe Semana is still open?  I'd forgotten that one in the Weber's Center on Brookside.