The biggest drawback of dining out is the lack of nutritional balance. It's easy to consume a lot of grain-based foods like rice, noodles, and bread. Although you want to actively consume high-quality protein and vegetables, financial limitations can be a constraint. While you can supplement the inadequate nutrition at home, eating meat and vegetables for every meal can put a strain on your stomach. Therefore, while choosing recipes that are as nutritionally balanced as possible, it's also important to limit dining out to once a day. Even so, it shouldn't be a daily occurrence. Compared to single dishes, set meals are better
From a nutritional balance perspective, a set meal with three dishes and a soup is better than single dishes like rice bowls, noodles, or sandwiches. Most single dishes lack vegetables, whereas even if the portions in a set meal are small, there are usually some vegetables like salad, blanched greens, or boiled vegetables.
Be aware that a small amount of lettuce drenched in a lot of salad dressing or a strongly seasoned boiled dish is not rich in vitamins but is high in fat and salt, which in turn is bad for the stomach. Therefore, it's necessary to be cautious: when ordering a salad, ask for the dressing on the side, and when eating Japanese food, opt for a dish with blanched greens instead of a stewed one. Choose restaurants that make food to order
Avoid oily and heavily spiced dishes. Although it's known that Chinese and ethnic dishes that are fried or spicy are not suitable, some restaurants also use spices to mask the frozen taste of very ordinary meat and fish dishes to enhance the flavor.
In this sense, a restaurant that sells dishes made with fresh ingredients of the day is more reassuring. It doesn't have to be a high-end establishment; any restaurant that prides itself on "made-to-order" and is skilled in cooking is worth a try. Eat slowly
At noon, the commercial streets are crowded everywhere. Dining out by entering a restaurant and eating immediately, then leaving as soon as possible, this kind of eating habit will inevitably worsen your condition. You should try to avoid the lunch peak hours, or choose a less crowded restaurant, and spend at least 30 minutes on a meal. If that's not possible, you should still take a slow rest after the meal in a park, café, or similar place. If you immediately return to a smoky environment and start working again, it's very bad for your stomach. Let's seek a bit of natural environment, recharge in the greenery, and prepare for the afternoon. Supplement for lack of nutrition with drinks
When dining out, if you feel the nutrition is insufficient, you can supplement it with snacks, but for business people, this can be quite difficult. Therefore, as a simple supplement, I recommend health drinks.
Milk, yogurt, vegetable juice, fruit juice, etc., are all fine, but drinking them all at once while standing at a counter is not the way to go. You should sit on a park bench or in the office and drink it slowly.