Restaurant Desserts
Desserts as a topic? Come on, desserts aren’t essential, just skip them and you’re better off, right? While technically that may be true, eating as a whole should be a pleasurable experience and desserts can add to that pleasure. And like many foods, the key is getting away from the idea of good and bad foods and focus on frequency and quantity. While a pint of ice cream every night won’t exactly fit into a healthy eating plan, a small, sweet treat once in a while can.
The issues when it comes to restaurant desserts versus something you might make at home are a combination of portion size and decadence. One serving can easily be two to three times the size of what you might serve yourself at home. Add to that the decadence of all of the butter, cream, sugar, and more and you end up with a dessert containing a meal’s worth of calories, nearly three days’ worth of saturated fat, and close to 40 teaspoons of sugar. While this is more than any single person needs at the end of a meal, there are strategies you can use to still enjoy a sweet ending to your meal without breaking your nutritional bank.
Helpful Hints.
Keep these ideas in mind next time you’re perusing the dessert menu.
- Share. Splitting a restaurant dessert between two or more people will allow everyone to end their meal on a sweet note without going overboard.
- Go down a size. Many restaurants have begun offering mini versions of their classics. This is an ideal way to get a taste of what you desire, but less of it.
- Go Simple. Fruit or a small serving of ice cream ends a meal nicely without too many calories, fat, and sugar.
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