Newb dining out first experience humor

I'm new at Atkins Last night I was with relatives and they wanted to go to
an italian place. I looked at the menue and they had nothing that was low
carb for induction. I had a craving for spaghetti, so I looked for chicken
catchatori and it wasn't on the menue. I explained that I was on a low carb
lifestyle change, so I asked our server if they could make some chicken
catchatori for me and she said no. I responded by saying can you fry up
some chicken breast, slice it up and poor some marinara sauce over it? She
said then said yes. Where do they come up with these people who can't
think? Then she offered the typical hi carb sides and I repeated, I only
want chicken breast and marinara sauce. It is almost if they don't listen.
Especially since she asked if I wanted desert after the meal.

I do know that after two days of being on low carb I noticed that I feel
better.

Gunn

I gave up going out to eat during induction, it was just too complicated,
and have stayed away from italian restaurants even after.

you cannot fault food service though for not listening. Several friends in
the food industry have told me that customers proclaiming to be on special
diets routinely ask for things their diets ban. As one said, give them
everything, and if they are really dieting, they won't eat it.

"Gunnloth" wrote in message
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I'm new at Atkins Last night I was with relatives and they wanted to go to
an italian place. I looked at the menue and they had nothing that was low
carb for induction. I had a craving for spaghetti, so I looked for
chicken
catchatori and it wasn't on the menue. I explained that I was on a low
carb
lifestyle change, so I asked our server if they could make some chicken
catchatori for me and she said no. I responded by saying can you fry up
some chicken breast, slice it up and poor some marinara sauce over it?
She
said then said yes. Where do they come up with these people who can't
think? Then she offered the typical hi carb sides and I repeated, I only
want chicken breast and marinara sauce. It is almost if they don't
listen.
Especially since she asked if I wanted desert after the meal.

I do know that after two days of being on low carb I noticed that I feel
better.

Gunn

Dining out is easier if you start thinking outside the menu.

I went out for Italian this week too.

They didn't have much, but the special was seafood over linguine.
Clams, mussels, shrimp, scallops in a red sauce. They also offered
sauteed spinach as a side dish.

I asked if I could have the seafood over sauteed spinach instead of
linguine. Sure.

Now, they did charge me for the whole seafood/liguine and separately for
the side of spinach, but I got a good meal, and two other people in the
restaurant ordered it after they saw mine.

Jennifer


Gunnloth wrote:

I'm new at Atkins Last night I was with relatives and they wanted to go to
an italian place. I looked at the menue and they had nothing that was low
carb for induction. I had a craving for spaghetti, so I looked for chicken
catchatori and it wasn't on the menue. I explained that I was on a low carb
lifestyle change, so I asked our server if they could make some chicken
catchatori for me and she said no. I responded by saying can you fry up
some chicken breast, slice it up and poor some marinara sauce over it? She
said then said yes. Where do they come up with these people who can't
think? Then she offered the typical hi carb sides and I repeated, I only
want chicken breast and marinara sauce. It is almost if they don't listen.
Especially since she asked if I wanted desert after the meal.

I do know that after two days of being on low carb I noticed that I feel
better.

Gunn

Most Italian restaurants serve eggplant parmesan, which is ok if you
are not on induction. I often order sausage with sauce with no pasta
and a salad. Went to Macaroni Grill the other night and they a low
carb section on there menu. It included broccoli, asparagus and two
other vegetables as a substitute for pasta.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:47:57 GMT, "Gunnloth"
wrote:

I'm new at Atkins Last night I was with relatives and they wanted to go to
an italian place. I looked at the menue and they had nothing that was low
carb for induction. I had a craving for spaghetti, so I looked for chicken
catchatori and it wasn't on the menue. I explained that I was on a low carb
lifestyle change, so I asked our server if they could make some chicken
catchatori for me and she said no. I responded by saying can you fry up
some chicken breast, slice it up and poor some marinara sauce over it? She
said then said yes. Where do they come up with these people who can't
think? Then she offered the typical hi carb sides and I repeated, I only
want chicken breast and marinara sauce. It is almost if they don't listen.
Especially since she asked if I wanted desert after the meal.

I do know that after two days of being on low carb I noticed that I feel
better.

Gunn