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.