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The right business lunch. When dining at a restaurant next to the office or ordering food by phone, choose only healthy dishes, referring to the culinary navigator.
V Italian restaurant (or in a pizza delivery service) it is better to stay on a simple version (which means less fatty and high-calorie) - "margarita", "Neapolitan", "four seasons". Discard the base of puff pastry, smoked sausage with pepper (chorizo), hot sausages (merguez), lard and pasta as a filling, hot vegetable oil seasoning with ground pepper.
If your pizza doesn't have a lot of vegetables, order fried eggplants, rape salad, or tomatoes (without mozzarella) with vinaigrella sauce. Pasta carbonara (pasta with meat) and lasagna with sour cream sauce are too heavy for the stomach.
Ask for "bolognese" or spaghetti with vegetables, spiced with Parmesan. For dessert - fruit salad or ice cream. Disregard the signature Italian pastries - a fluffy bun filled with cottage cheese, chocolate or vanilla cream at the client's request - too high in calories!
In french restaurant traditionally they offer a lot of vegetables and stews. Since it “boils down” during stewing, and is used as a full-fledged side dish, it takes a huge amount of spinach, parsley, celery to cook it … Although some of the vitamins are destroyed, their loss will be abundantly replenished by the abundance of green mass on the plate.
V Japanese restaurant they serve a lot of protein food (pieces of meat or fish, sushi), but almost no vegetables. Soup or seaweed salad is the maximum that vegetarians can count on. When choosing sushi, keep in mind that this dish is brought with rice - you do not need to order a side dish separately. It's easy to avoid temptations over dessert: all that is on offer here is fresh fruit and popsicles.
Kalya is a thick spicy fish soup made from noble varieties of fish in a cucumber brine. Solyanka is prepared from several types of fish and a large number of vegetables and spices. Both dishes are literally a concentrate of health.
4 white collar rules
Avoid alcoholic aperitifs. While waiting for your order, ask to bring still mineral water, tomato juice or lemonade.
Order only one dish from each section of the menu (salad, main course, dessert). Only eat until you are really hungry. When you are full, leave everything unnecessary on your plate without regret.
Prefer foods rich in proteins (meat, fish, eggs) to fatty and sweet foods. Instead of sausage, order a slice of smoked salmon (preferably without sour cream sauce) or oyster. A seafood salad and small foie gras tartlets are much better choices than a couple of sandwiches.
Lean on vegetables - they are nutritious. You can pair them with starchy foods, but keep in mind: boiled potatoes are preferable to fried ones, and basil is preferable to sour cream sauce for pasta seasoning.
Don't get carried away with cheese: a few slices with green salad are enough. For dessert, order one thing - fruit salad, cottage cheese with raspberries, strawberry pie, or give up sweets altogether, confining yourself to a small chocolate that you will be served with coffee.
