One of life’s pleasures for us is dining out once a week and enjoying food that we typically cannot or do not make at home. However, if people dine out frequently and are not conscious of ingredients, calories or fat, their waist lines can expand more rapidly than they would like.

That is why I enjoyed the following article on Yahoo! entitled, “Restaurant Slim Down Best Bets for Italian, Mexican and Steakhouses”. Check it out. There are some good tips.

Melissa Batai

Melissa Batai

Melissa, a mom to three little ones (ages 7, 3 and 1), blogs at both Mom’s Plans where she writes about living a fulfilling life on less and paying down debt, and Fiscal Phoenix where she writes about rising from the ashes of your financial mistakes.