In better restaurants, explain that you're on a strict diet and ask the waiter what the chef is able to prepare for you. You may end up with the steamed vegetable plate. French, German and other European restaurants are the worst for not offering alternatives. If you can steer the group away from those, you should have more to choose from. Barbeque restaurants are miserable unless you really like cole slaw.
Ethnic restaurants are the easiest.
Mexican restaurants are usually a good choice, but once in a while, you still find yourself in one that flavors their pinto beans with lard, as well as their tortilla chips. If you're health impaired and have to be very serious about your new detox diet, you shouldn't be eating anything that has been deep fried in vegetable oil either, but from personal experience, it's one of the things that I bend on so as not to feel deprived. This site welcomes your personal tips for traveling and staying on a healthy diet. C. Periodic maintenance Maintaining your body is kind of like maintaining your car. You know you need to have the oil and the filter changed every so often, more often if you want the car to last longer.