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restaurant and fast-food salads with more calories than a big mac and large fries.

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  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    edited November 2014
    numinousnymph wrote: »
    Just gonna leave this here. Figured it's worth sharing, even though I'm sure we all know restaurant salads are wolves in sheeps' clothing... some of the numbers on these are just staggering.

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/unhealthy-salads
    They are. And I wouldn't call anything with fried chicken on it a salad. :p

    It's a good reminder: don't let anyone make your food decisions for you.

    I, personally, look forward to the day when all the restaurant menus catch up to the new law and have to post their calorie counts. That day is fast approaching.
    Not long ago I found myself at a very popular local fast food chain that now has their counts on the menu board. Their combo meal has 1300 calories. Needless to say, I didn't get it. I got a cheese burger, no bun, and used my own tortilla.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,013 Member
    missiontofitness wrote: »
    sheldonklein wrote: »
    missiontofitness wrote: »
    I tend to just eat 1/3 or 1/2 of the salad I choose at a restaurant. Tonight I'm getting one from the Texas Roadhouse that's nearly 800 calories and has a ton of fat, but eating half of it brings me down to a reasonable amount of fat and cals so I can fit it into the rest of my day.

    I don't like to shy away from items based on their nutritional info. I just try to be smart, and eat a reasonable portion of what comes to the table. Not to mention, restaurant portions tend to have 2-3 servings on a plate. No need to clear your plate!

    Salads are different. I can cut a piece of meat in half for the doggy bag, but not a salad. I had a calorie buster salad last night-greens, chicken, cheese, black beans, guacamole and then some. My best estimate was about 750 calories. I was overstuffed, but it never occurred to me to not finish the salad.

    What I generally do is either get an extra plate, or just divide up the salad as best as I can, depending on how hungry I am. You really have to eyeball it, but it's become muscle memory for me to divide up and eat half of the salad, or portion it out so I know what I want to eat in the restaurant, and what I want to bring home.

    I think for me the key point is that - if the salad is what you want, have it and make it fit or only eat half, or whatever. But so many people are choosing the salad because they think it is the 'healthy' choice and then eat it all not even thinking they could be taking in a calorie bomb!

    The chicken caesar at my old work was one of the highest calorie items on the menu, yet I'd see women order it and specifically comment that they were 'being good' or 'watching what they ate'. If they knew, they would have ordered something different (sometimes, depending on the rapport and how open they were being about trying to make a good choice, I'd tell them).

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