Ideally, you would be able to prepare all of your meals for keto at home in order to completely control your diet. However, if you are anything like me, doing this day in and day out is pretty much impossible. Eating out on a keto diet can be VERY difficult and until you develop a really good understanding of the macronutrient ratios of foods, making good choices can be challenging.
Therefore, I’d like to provide some of my personal favorite suggestions for eating out on a keto diet. This list is by no means comprehensive, but these options are all widely available and I find them to be the most convenient choices.
In general, I find Chipotle to be by far the best all-around restaurant for any diet. It is highly customizable, fast, relatively inexpensive and can easily be split into two meals. For a ketogenic diet, just make sure you avoid the tortilla, rice, and beans.
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Many sandwich places will offer to replace bread with a lettuce wrap, but Jimmy John’s is my personal favorite because it is so quick. Order any of their sandwiches as an unwich for a super easy low-carb lunch. The gargantuan is huge and can easily make two meals if you will be away from home
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In general, fast-food burger joints like this aren’t going to provide a ton of options for a keto dieter. In a pinch, you can make them work by ordering a couple of dollar menu burgers and eating them without the buns, but I don’t recommend making that part of your daily routine. However, Wendy’s stands apart in that it offers really excellent salads, one of which is perfect for a keto diet.
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Honestly, whenever I’m doing keto, I try to avoid most of these restaurants unless I’m on my weekend carb-up. However, if it’s unavoidable, my top choice is to go to a steakhouse. Any steak is fine, but make sure you watch out for the sides. Ask to swap any potatoes or chips for a Caesar salad without croutons or steamed vegetables.
If you find yourself somewhere where you really have no clue what to order, just pick a Cobb Salad. It’s almost impossible to go wrong with that choice and it will be available at a large majority of restaurants.
