Karen:

Chinese food is a great concept when you consider deep fried meats and stirfrys. So if you make it yourself you can be confident about the ingredients and leave out the illegal stuff.

Unfortunately, restaurants use lots of ingredients that are no-nos during induction - namely sugar and flour. Once past induction you can make educated choices, or find a favourite restaurant and *train them*.

I have a regular Asian place that I frequent where they make everything in front of you and from scratch, and they see me coming. I always order the Asian soup, and ask for the noodles separate. I take the noodles home for the dogs, and enjoy the soup with chicken, squid, shrimp and veggies.

If I am *stuck* at a strange Chinese restaurant (bear in mind I used to LOVE to eat Chinese), I make educated choices of the lesser of evils --- I might choose beef and brocoli stir frys and such, but even those have sugar in them.