Eating out should be fun.

It's often where we catch up with friends and enjoy not having to cook or wash up!

But when you're being mindful about what you eat, it can be fraught with obstacles.

I mean, you want to eat something yummy, but you don't want it to set you back a week.

Many restaurants tend to aim for taste rather than health, so it's likely there'll be more sugar in the food than you'd expect.

Almost certainly more than if you were making a similar dish at home.

The menu isn't always that helpful, but often the bigger chains have nutritional information on their websites, and that can help you to decide what will suit you best.

Take Nandos, for example.

If it was just about the chicken, you'd know where you are - chicken's mostly high protein, low carb, low fat, low GI. 

But there's so much more on the menu!

• Sides, starters, sugary or not?

• Plus the vegetarian options - which are best to choose to keep things gentle on your body?

To make it easy for you, I've picked out 5 things that are "good" choices, and 5 that you might want to think twice about.

This list isn't perfect.

After all, we all react differently to foods, and without testing YOUR reactions, you can't be certain what will suit you.

But if you just want a cheeky Nandos without having to agonise over your options, here goes:

5 "good" options:

• Peri Peri nuts
• Macho Peas 
• Rainbow Coleslaw
• Spiced grains and butternut squash
• Beanie Pitta

5 to think twice about:

• Halloumi sticks and dip (the coating and the dip add up to a lot of sugar)
• Corn on the cob (12.5g sugar even in the smaller portion size)
• Coleslaw (the standard sort - it's got LOADS of sugar in it!)
• Sweet potato wedges and garlic perinaise (a whopping 23g sugar per portion)
• Spiced Chickpea Pitta (this has 5 times the amount of sugar that the beanie version has)

Enjoy!

Suzanne