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New Tips for Eating out at a restaurant.

Use Open Table to book a reservation. You can type your concerns into your reservation and list allergies. This helps take the talking out of it.

Make a reservation and tell them you need an experienced waiter. (More likely to know the menu better)/, handle recipe questions.)

Don’t let the waiter leave until you know everything that will arrive on the plate. Everything.

Ask if the restaurant has an allergy protocol. (Big chains are more likely to have one.)

Allergy protocols can save horrible mistakes from happening to you.

Use simplified list to remove the worst FODMAP:
Grains:Wheat and rye-based products
Vegetables:Onion, garlic, leek, cauliflower and mushrooms
Fruit:Apple, pear, dried fruit, stone fruit, watermelon
Dairy:Milk and yoghurt
Meat/alternatives:Legumes

We have taken our previous post and created a permanent page in our resource section for a more complete guidance of how to navigate a restaurant with low FODMAP complete advice.

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Buy Big, and Butcher it yourself

There is nothing better than Cutting up your own steaks. You hands down get the right thickness, and the right size. You can make them super thick or thin, whatever floats your boat. You also just can’t beat the price. Buying large chunks of beef is much cheaper than buying steaks pre-cut in the store. I just get angry when I go to buy steak and end up paying $15 a steak for a steak I don’t even enjoy eating. These steaks shown above a delish tenderloin steaks. When the steaks are broken down this way you get the steak meat at about $1 an ounce. You can’t beat that price. Any meat that doesn’t look like I can cut into a steak I chop up and use for Beef and Broccoli or Kabob meat. Now of course you are going to have to freeze the meat to make sure it keeps. Here’s a cool trick to help keep your meat as fresh as possible. I use plastic bags to freeze meat, but it can be hard to squeeze out all the air, and air is your enemy in the freezer. To get the air out, partially sub-merge your meat in a bag in a sink full of water. The water static pressure will help to squeeze all the air out for you:

Final product with air squeezed out:

I was actually really impressed with how well this worked.

For more tips on Saving money check out my Costco shopping post, that I wrote previously.