David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men's Health, wrote the best-selling Eat This, Not That! to help adults make the best food choices when dining out. Now, as obesity rates for children continue to climb, he's got a version that covers kids menus. "What I want to do is get all the information together so in any situation -- whether you're at home, school, the supermarket or at a favorite restaurant -- you have the information to make the right choices," he says. "If you want healthy eaters for life, this is the way to start."

Check out the gallery to the right to see how you can cut hundreds of calories from your child's menu choices the next time you eat out for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

More of David's Tips

• Dress your sandwich with mustard. Oil and vinegar sounds like a good dressing choice, but you're not controlling how much goes on your sandwich. So for every three inches of dressing, you're getting 100 empty calories. Choose mustard instead, which tastes great and has very few calories.

• Choose a sandwich instead of a wrap. They may seem like a skinny choice, but wraps are full of fat. A tortilla (often 400 calories) is refined carbohydrates and fat. Plus, they're stuffed with so much more than they would a normal sandwich, so you can get an extra 300 calories or more right there. Go with a regular sandwich every time.

• Go easy on tuna salad. This is the fried chicken of the sea -- it's as much mayo as it is tuna, so you're talking 300 calories a scoop. You're much better going with lean deli meats like roast beef, ham or turkey. If you really want tuna, go light on the mayo.

• Keep it cool. The calories in a sandwich rise in direct proportion to the heat of the sandwich. So instead of having a meatball sandwich or a cheese steak, go with a cold one like turkey or ham. (You can always heat it up!)