How do restaurants manage to pack in so many calories and so much sodium????

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  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Actually, iHop's secret to their scrambled eggs is that they add pancake batter to the mix!

    I tried that once and ended up with this weird batter thing...maybe I added too much pancake mix.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    Pancakes should be pancakes and eggs should be eggs! Yes, you need eggs in pancake batter. But some pancake recipes call for additional egg whites beaten to a froth to fold into the batter, which makes it way to eggy for me. Yes, they look better, but taste awful!
  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    This is why certain things I wont eat out. I can make a ridiculously large breakfast/brunch for 1000 calories. That same meal would be triple at many restaurants and not taste any better, imo.
  • tmorm
    tmorm Posts: 32 Member
    edited March 2015
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    The same way I could manage to. Trust me, if I didn't have to think about calories/weight my meal would have had a lot more butter and salt in it tonight.

    OhmygoshYes. When I'm cooking for company, there is butter and salt and cheese EVERYWHERE.

    Yep, I'm the same. All of the butter, salt and cheese!
  • JoRumbles
    JoRumbles Posts: 262 Member
    Butter improves the taste of everything, but somehow I don't notice it missing when I cook at home. I have always cut down on the amount of oil/fat a recipe calls for when cooking- for example often when making a curry the recipe will say to brown the meat in maybe 3tbspns of oil, I've never found that necessary for a nice taste (I got fat by eating loads of naan and wine with it , in case anyone is wondering!)
  • topazora
    topazora Posts: 82 Member
    I make it a point to not eat salads while eating out; I would get the get the asian chicken salad (or whatever it's called) from Jack in the Box and they were mostly ice burg or brown. I won't eat at most fast food places, but I'm still going to eat at IHOP and Chilis- maybe its the atmosphere. I don't eat out enough to make a difference in my weight loss anyway. Plus we don't have heart disease in my family, and my blood pressure and blood sugar were excellent when I was 70lbs heavier. So I'm going to to enjoy my salt and fatty butter, and the occasional trip to IHOP.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    Good for you! Bad for me, :neutral_face:

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