Avoid The Worst Foods On Your Takeaway Menu
Obviously choosing something like a vegetable curry will be more healthy than something greasy and wrapped in batter. It’s all about knowing what’s the best and what’s the worst, while still enjoying your treat.
Hopefully here are a few tips for choosing the best and the worst items on the menu, all for a range of takeaways:
Fish and Chips: The worst things on the menu tend to be chips, which you can’t really avoid, sausage, cheese and onion pie, steak and kidney pie. On the other hand, fish tends to be the healthiest items, cod, haddock and plaice and the least fatty of all the fish available.
Pizza: Your worst choice would be a deep pan base as this contains the most fat. As for toppings, cheese and pepperoni are your worst choices, obviously cheese is standard but try to avoid have extra cheeses. If you’re after a healthier pizza, choose either vegetable or fish toppings on a thin crust base.
Chinese: With this, try and avoid crispy and greasy items because it generally means they have been deep fried. The worst items you could get would be sweet and sour battered balls, specially fried rice and spring rolls. As for the most healthiest items, try and stick to steamed food. Items such as crab and corn soup, chicken, beef, boiled rice, or steamed vegetables are the healthiest options.
For Indian food, just like Chinese food, it is best to avoid the deep fried dishes and those with cream, as they will carry the most fat. For a healthier meal, your best items would be vegetable curry, chicken tikka, madras or bhuna. The healthiest item to have with these would be boiled rice.
Hopefully you will reconsider your order next time you go to order your sweet and sour battered pork balls with chicken fried rice and spring rolls. As I was writing that, it made me realise that I order all of the bad items, but it’s the same with all foods you eat. The food that are the worst tasting are generally the healthier for us.
A good takeaway can be ordered online quite easily and could for example be found using the following search ‘takeaway Liverpool‘, ‘Chinese Takeaway Birmingham‘ or Indian Takeaway Liverpool if that is your preference.