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Healthy Choices

  • Bouillabaisse (shellfish soup)
  • Brochette de boeuf (glazed & skewered tenderloin)
  • Les huitres (oysters on the half shell)
  • Coq au Vin (chicken stew with wine)
  • Petite steak au poivre (pepper steak)
  • Cotes d’agneau grilles (broiled lamb chop)
  • Grilled or poached fish
  • Nicoise salad (order dressing on the side)
  • New potatoes
  • Saffron rice
  • French bread
  • Low-fat cue words: chicken consommé, bordelaise, nouvelle sauces, en papillote

Tips

  • Many lean cuts of meat come with high-fat sauces.  Ask that your sauce come on the side or not at all.  For example, order the tenderloin, but without the béarnaise.
  • Ask that no butter is added to your veggies.
  • Higher-fat cue words: béarnaise, Wellington, béchamel, hollandaise, mornay, foie gras, au gratin, creme fraiche, cordon bleu.