THEMATIC Thursdays: Strategies for Eating at Casual Dining Chains

Copyright Free The Noun Project CC 3.0

What to do about eating at casual dining chains for breakfast--Denny's, Coco's, Bakers Square and the like--when it's a refined-carbs festival of flour and sugar?

You can ask for any entree without the potatoes, toast, hash-browns, pancakes and muffins. Coco's has a "turkey sausage and eggs" entree, which you can order with fresh fruit--in this case, it was a melon selection, in a Nevada location. Boston Market offers three-side dishes as an entree-order--all of which can be vegetables.

If you don't ask, you don't get--the more people that ask, the more likely these choices are going to made available with greater selection on casual dining menus.