How to Eat Healthy at Red Robin

Video Transcript

"My name is Christine Marquette and I am a registered dietitian with the Austin Regional Clinic and I'm going to talk to you about how to eat healthy at Red Robin. The first thing you want to do to eat healthy at Red Robin is avoid the sharable starters. The appetizers are all loaded with a lot of saturated fat, a lot of extra calories so it is best to avoid those right off the bat. As far as choosing your entree they do have some healthier options from the burger menu. The natural burger would be a good choice. It is just natural beef. It doesn't have bacon or cheese or any other source of saturated fat to it so this would be a good choice for a burger. They can also choose the grilled turkey burger or the garden burger, any of those options are going to have a lot less saturated fat and some of the other gourmet type burgers that have a lot of extra bacon or lots of different types of cheeses or lots of other creamy dressing type items added to them so they do have some good healthy options for the burgers. The other way to compliment your healthy choice of burgers is to have something like a melon salad or a side salad. They do have these as options so you can choose those in place of their bottomless steak fries. The bottomless steak fries are generally best to avoid because they do have a lot of extra fat and calories so again choose that side salad or choose the melon instead. Then for your drink you want to choose something that doesn't have added sugar to it so an unsweetened tea, a diet soft drink, water, or if you want to add sweetener, use a sugar substitute and then otherwise you do want to avoid the desert menu unless you choose something that you can share with other people. If you are just splitting it and only enjoying a few bites then that is perfectly fine. You just don't want to get your own individual desert because that will add a lot of extra fat and calories to your meal. So those are just a few basic tips for how to eat healthy at Red Robin."