Add a green starter

Begin with a salad or any vegetablebased starter, raw or cooked. Jessie suggests: two cups of spinach, five jarred artichoke hearts, vinegar and olive oil. Or sliced carrot with hummus, sliced cucumber with guacamole, sliced tomato with one or two slices of mozzarella.

“In a restaurant, if my party is ordering starters, I order a salad. If we aren’t ordering starters, I ask for a vegetable-based side with my main (such as a simple green salad with olive oil and vinegar, steamed green beans or sautéd spinach), and I eat it before the rest of my dish. I wait until after eating my veggies to eat my main or touch the bread.”