I've been trying to improve my diet but still eat out a lot, primarily lunch while working. I mostly avoid fast food now but have found a few dishes that I think are RA friendly. Perhaps others can add to my list. Here's my top 3 choices:
Happi House (Japanese fast food): #7 (grilled salmon, rice, chicken salad)
Baja Fresh (Mexican fast food): taco combo (mahi mahi grilled fish tacos, rice and beans)
Boston Market: half roast turkey sandwich combo with extra side of vegies
Alan
If you picked your ingredients wisely, couldn't most of subway's foods be added to the list? I LOVE subway....Alan
Careful with those so-called veggies at Boston Market. They use a lot of "stuff" to season them.Eeewwww lol our Quiznos are known to be dirty. So are our Wendy's and Burger Kings. But up in TN, where Justin used to live it's the opposite. It's different everywhere!!!
What about Schlotskeys? I spelled that wrong, I KNOW it.....
Quizno's here is pretty yucky, too, and only tastes good if you eat it right after they take it out of the oven. After that, the grease becomes apparent, which why I prefer Subway.If you're good...like me
Alan
Hmmm...been a while since I've been to Quiznos...guess I'll keep it that way. I'll stick by my top 3.
Oh does anyone have a Great Steak and Potato? It's not the healthies food, but it's not killer like McDonalds. And they do some AWESOME baked potatos. MMM MMM Good!Hi Alan, My husband and I have become soy protein advocates. We've never eaten them before, but I know there are 'veggie burgers' offered almost everywhere now. I like the Morning Star, and Bacca brand in Albertson's the spicy chicken flavor, but everything I've tried has been great. 'STEAK" strips, (yes!), BBQ beef flavored, mushroom-onion beef. The consistancy is amazingly good! I wouldn't have believed it. I like not killing animals to eat. LyndaWe have Quiznos' here, but it's much more expensive than Subway and I don't think it's that good.
I know it's not healthy, but when I go to Boston Market, I have to get the sweet potato casserole and the apples - YUM!
Do they really have steamed veggies? Plain, just cooked in steam? That must be new menu item since I've been in. The green beans, etc., I remember may have looked steamed, but put those leftovers in the fridge and see what congeals.A word about meat: I don't eat a lot but RAers are prone to anemia so I think it can be a healthy choice. I have decided, whenever possible, not to eat "industrial" meat, from animals raised in feed lots with antibiotics and growth hormones mixed in corn feed. At home, I cook buffalo burgers when I have a craving for hamburgers...they are always grass fed and much leaner. When I eat out I go to a restaurant here called Country Gourmet which uses Niman Ranch beef and pork, a consortium of small ranchers that don't use feed lots, antibiotics, or growth hormones.
For dinner, I'm trying flax seed waffles with organic almond butter and fresh marionberry preserves from our farmer's market...OK, now I'm hungry...and a bit off topic!
Alan
Subway is almost the only fast food I eat. Sometimes I get chilli from Wendy's. That gets a thumbs up from heath and fitness mags.
Alan, I didn't know that about buffalo meat. I just saw some at the store that was on sale. I guess I will go back tomorrow and pick some up and try it. I don't eat much meat, but do eat cream of wheat for my anemia.Oh I LOVE cream of wheat and oatmeal! Heart healthy foods, right?
Has anyone hear about a diabetic diet being good for RA? Or a sodium free diet being good?
I've always heard that the "mediterranean" diet is good for RA. Low in omega-6, high in omega-3, lots of fish, not a lot of red meat, lots of fruit and vegetables.OH KELLY THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT!!!
I've been DYING TO TELL YOU about the new milk we drink! It's lactose free and has added Omega-something and Fish Oil!!!!!! It's by Smart Balance I think? Something like that. I'll check the carton tonight when I get home and let you know. It tastes fine too. It's SKIM milk too! Which is awesome, because most lactose free milks are only 2%. I thought of you when I bought it though!! Now if they could only take the milk out of the milk
Yeah Omega 3! That's it! I just couldn't help but think of you when I read that it had that and Fish Oil in it! And you said the fish oil would possibly help Justin, right? Cause he uses the milk just as much as I do!!
Now my question on that is.....if I cook with the milk, what kind of effect on the omega 3's and fish oil do you think it will have?
Heat is bad for omega-3's. It tends to degrade them.Another good source of Omega 3's is flax seed. You can buy flax seed cereal and some organic eggs are high in Omega 3's because they include a lot of flax seed in the chicken feed. Omega 3 found in fish is supposed to be better than the vegetarian kind though. I don't know the effect of cooking, though it's recommended that you eat wild salmon a bit rare in the center to preserve the nutrients.
Alan
Speaking of great meat, someone in the family always shoots a deer each year and we have a neighbor that raises their own meat, i.e. beef, pork and chickens and of course eggs and once in a while they give us milk and boy is it good! All of their animals are tested frequently for disease and if there is a problem, they are destroyed and not fed antibiotics, etc. I wish that all farmers could do that. Along with our own organic garden, we do pretty well and the price is right. However, I am still chubby! Only fast food is Subway which is excellent. But I do realize that most of you work outside the home with not much time for preparing food and it looks like you are eating very healthy. Thanks for all the info guys! I tried to find you a link to the milk I'm drinking, but apparently they are in legal battle with another company over the name of the milk. So even if you go to smartbalance.com it's not listed. GO FIGURE!Don't eat much fast food but when I do it's usually Subway. Pretty much stick to the Mediterranean diet. Lots of fish, veggies, fruits, very little processed and no sugar. It's been great for inflammation. I've been off the diet twice recently and have noticed an increase in inflammation, especially hands, ankles. With the move, packing, going to storage and cleaning we've been eating out and I notice my hands are swollen and are hurting. Could be I'm using them more, but I think it's diet.
When we eat out we're usually pretty good about ordering healthy. Sometimes, fats and sugars slip through but that's life. Back to the diet next day. Have been using hormone free meats when we can get them. Yuma isn't exactly the "eat healthy" center of the southwest but we do buy and do what we can. Once we start traveling again (another month) we'll be able to do much better. We'll have Trader J's, Whole Foods, and other markets available to us. Right now it's a couple of hours drive to one of those and we have to depend on the organic section of the larger grocery stores.
The plus side of this diet is we're very slowly losing weight. Lindy
We have subway here now............yummy!!!! We dont eat a lot of fast food, maybe a fish, chip and mushy peas supper but we have added subway to our list as am addicted to their choc chip giant cookies. I do like their chicken teryaki sub on italian cheese and herb as well. My son is well known in their as him and all his friends get Sub of the day when they go to the sports centre, they even get free cookies and drinks when ever the man in there sees them.Actually, flax seed has omega 3 but very little of it ends up in yur system because your body has to convert it and it's very ineffiecient. It ends up being something like 10% or less of what you consumed. The best product for Omega 3s is fish oil (but that doesn't help if you're vegetarian).