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Eating out can work for your lifestyle
Text by: Liz Slater
Photography by: Dero Sanford
M
uch of our culture revolves around food,
whether we are celebrating, consoling, or
simply visiting with good friends. Those
who choose a healthier lifestyle once had to
subsist on limp lettuce leaves and dry carrots
while their companions dined on rich, delicious selections
from a full menu. Fortunately, those days are gone.
Dietary options abound, whether you're counting calories,
cutting carbs, or going meatless.
More and more restaurants are paying attention to
healthy eaters and have a wide range of offerings. At PJ's
Coffee, skip the pastries for oatmeal or a yogurt parfait.
The Juice Bar at HealthWorks Fitness Center, open for
breakfast and lunch, provides several healthy options
in the form of wraps, muns, or soups. House of Wylie
offers a veggie wrap, a grilled chicken wrap, or numerous
salad options. Three Birds Brewing Company, now serving
lunch, has a Chicken Cobb Salad that is delightfully fresh
and filling. They also offer several vegetarian options,
including the mpossible Burger. The Olde Towne Store
carries several healthy choices, including their Strawberry
Fields salad, a garden burger, or their signature avocado
and cheese sandwich. Most days you will also find a ketofriendly
special on the menu. Other keto-friendly options
include the Grilled Chicken Fajita Bowl at ER, the eggie
Supreme pizza on a cauliower crust at Mystic Grill, or a
pizza from arry's Pizza on a cauliower crust. MuleKick
@ MAD provides two keto-friendly options a cauliower
crust or a broccoli-cheese crust.
Most Mexican restaurants have a vegetarian menu
and those who don't will usually work with you to find
an option to satisfy. As a former vegetarian,  still
order meatless meals from time to time, with a couple
of my favorites being the fajitas from a illa, and the
uesadillas from Antigua's. E  R boasts a salad bar with a
garden's worth of veggies and the Pro Salad at Main Street
Pizza is more than enough for one person! aredo Grill
also serves a great salad as well as a baked potato with
grilled onions.
Giving up carbs Ask Mystic Grill to hold the baked
potato with your ribeye and sample the collard greens
instead, or order a cheese  sausage plate -minus the
crackers -at Off the Rail Café. With a little imagination, the
choices are endless.
The Strawberry Fields Salad at Olde
Towne Store is one of many healthy
options found locally.
Eating healthy does not have to limit your social life.
Regardless of your dietary needs, El Dorado restaurants
are prepared to serve you as fully as those who have no
restrictions. p
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