If you want to get to and maintain a healthy weight, you need to monitor and control your calorie intake. This is especially important when eating out where portion sizes are large making it easy for you to eat too many calories. The Olive Garden provides nutrition information to help you make healthy choices and balance your nutrition intake.
Soup and Salad
If you are watching your calorie intake, you may want to start your meal at Olive Garden with a low-calorie soup or salad. A serving of the Garden-Fresh salad without dressing contains 120 calories, with dressing 350 calories. To add flavor to your salad without the calories, use balsamic vinegar. A serving of Minestrone Soup also makes a low-calorie choice with only 100 calories, although one serving meets nearly half your daily sodium needs with 1,020 mg of sodium. A serving of Pasta e Fagioli contains 130 calories.
Garden Fare
The Olive Garden offers a menu that includes both low-fat and low carbohydrate options. These menu options also tend to be lower in calories. A lunch portion of the Venetian Apricot Chicken contains 280 calories, while the dinner portion contains 380 calories. The Linguini Alla Marinara also makes a lower calorie option with 310 calories in the lunch serving and 430 calories in the dinner serving. The Seafood Brodetto at lunch contains 480 calories.
Pasta
Some lower-calorie dinner pasta options at the Olive Garden include Cheese Ravioli with Marinara sauce for 660 calories and the Ravioli di Portobello with 670 calories. The Tour of Italy is your highest calorie pasta option with 1,450 calories per serving. The Tour of Italy also contains 33 g of saturated fat. A high intake of saturated fat can increase your blood cholesterol level. On a 2,000-calorie diet, you should limit your daily saturated fat intake to less than 22 g a day.
Meat Entrees
Olive Garden meat entrees include chicken, seafood, beef and pork. Calories for your meat entrees range from 380 to 1,510 calories. In addition to the Venetian Chicken, the Herb-Grilled Salmon also makes a lower-calorie option with 510 calories in the dinner portion. A dinner portion of the Steak Toscano contains 590 calories and the Chicken Marsala 770 calories. The Pork Milanese is your highest calorie meat entree with 1,510 calories in the dinner portion.
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