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I think that it would be cool to keep a thread going of band-friendly restaurants. Places that have delicious and healthy foods or that allow adult customers to order off of the kids menu.

I can kick it off..

Cheddars- they're cool about letting me order from the kids menu

Pita pit- DELICIOUS and nutritious with lots of options.

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I order from the children's menu a lot without any problems. I live in the Boston area. One of my favorites is Not Your Average Joe's. They have a wonderful salmon with green Beans and mashed potatoes. I couldn't finish the kid's size yesterday. Also, Smokey Bones had wonderful 1/4 chicken on the kid's. I love eating out. After 42 years of being married, time to stop cooking so much.

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Pretty much any restaurant is band friendly you just have to be careful what you order and how much you eat. Kids menus or appetizers are often good ideas and I always try to make sure they have a Soup option.

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It may be shocking, but Chick-A-Filet has a GREAT bandster sized healthy meal. Their kids' chicken nugget meal. It's 4 unbreaded baked chicken nuggets. You can get applesauce for a side as part of the meal, too.

When I was traveling down south last summer, this meal was my savior in a sea of horrible fast food. The chicken is seasoned and tastes really good, too.

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me and hub rarely eat out (i have once in 8 months), but if we ever did it would be applebee's as they have a superb Tomato basil Soup

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Panera has a new "hidden menu" that includes several high Protein, low calorie options.

http://mypanera.panerabread.com/articlestips/article/access-into-paneras-hidden-menu/

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Applebees chicken fiesta salad is a go to for me. Also their sirlion steaks are on ww calories. Theres more than enough for at least two meals and that includes the half size lunch portion of the salad. I love that salad.

Mis I have also done the chick filet kids nuggets but mine was fried. That's the only ff restaurant I've been to since banded and only done it twice. For me I try to stay away from them due to my old naughty habits. But I do enjoy going out to non ff restaurants on occasion.

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chicfilet is also good for chicken tortilla soup.. it's so good and only 260 calories.. good amt of Protein also. applebees has a good selection also. I do not eat out often either but like to have options when I do. I'm getting better at making good choices ....I ate some chicken nuggets from Wendy's the other night, got caught while traveling. They weren't bad I only ate 3 of them...

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The manager at Chili's told me they would do what they could for banded people. Even cut orders in half. Not that they have a lot of healthy food, but you could order and have them box your food and bring you out a fourth of it. Times are hard and they don't want to lose any customers.

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