Good for you if you quit statins. Niacin can help a lot and lots on the internet about niacin and your heart. I used to really like eating at Chinese restaurants. Now I see it as one big greasy mess.
Most recent place i ate out was Sweet Tomatoes salad bar
I had to laugh when I read that, as salad bars are pretty much the only thing I can eat out without problems. Or just a steak & potato. It really sucks. To give you an example, I was just at United Grocers yesterday picking up some stuff & was browsing all the 'fake/processed' foodstuffs they have there. Why? Because that's the place many of the restaurants get their ingredients. Readymade fillings, fake butters, Pomace of Olive Oil, on & on...
Hardly any restaurants use real ingredients anymore and those that may either don't exist or are impossible to find. Sometimes I just WANT someone else to make me a meal, you know? But what REALLY sucks is the County/State regulations that prevent me from being able to smell my food cooking. As my own cook, I get nose-deaf; I don't KNOW how good my Italian cooking smells anymore. I'm on the hunt for a restaurant that will cook a steak at my table & or wheel 'taste carts' through the restaurant for sampling dishes, getting the opportunity to smell them. It's a sense I miss & really long for...the smells are one reason I love Saturday Markets & the like (the food booths/carts), but then back to picking what I can & can't eat, sadly.