Pizza Express
We all love a great pizza and with restaurants up and down the country Pizza Express is certainly a popluar choice.
However Pizza Express do not publish their nutritional information or calorie information on their website, menus or instore so making a choice can be very difficult.
With that in mind I would actually suggest taking your business elsewhere (Pizza Hut publish all the nutritional information instore and online) - afterall if a company can't tell us what's in the food we are eating, why should we eat there?
If you really must here is what we would suggest:
Opt for toppings such as peppers, chicken, mushrooms, rocket and spinach and avoid higher calorie, higher fat toppings such as pepperoni, nuts, tuna, anchovies and spiced beef.
You can also ask for half the amount of cheese and to drop the oil.
Overall this should reduce the calorie count from around 1500 calories to about 900 per pizza. Not too bad if you're sharing.
Ask for salads either without dressing, with a smaller amount of dressing or with dressing on the side to give you full control over the amount of dressing you choose to add. Instead of a dressing, you can always ask for a squeeze of lemon juice to be added to the salad which can add flavour but without the calories and fat
Ask for salads without croutons
Finish the meal with tea, filter coffee or an expresso rather than a higher calorie cappuccino, latte or liqueur coffee
To reduce salt ask for dishes to come without olives or capers as these pickled vegetables are all quite high in salt.
Ask for pasta and pizza dishes to be topped with freshly-ground pepper rather than Grana Padano cheese which is high in salt
Ask chefs to add extra garlic or black pepper to dishes as opposed to extra salt.
To boost fibre order a side salad to go with the main meal and choose starters, pastas or pizzas that contain plenty of vegetables.
Many dishes include good amounts of peppers, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach and rocket. The more colour that's on the plate, the more nutrients that meal is likely to contain.
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