Restaurant Shame List

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  • superpapa16
    superpapa16 Posts: 244 Member
    Don't get me wrong guys, I agree, no one forces me to eat at any of those places. My point was more how some of these places take something that on the surface you'd think was a fairly healthy dinner and turn it into something that is out of control and really screws up your day. For example a grilled chicken breast that somehow is 560 calories (by itself before you add the side dishes) and has 22 grams of fat (12 saturated). I mean seriously, you have to try to make a chicken breast that screwed up.

    So I'm not saying a shame list in terms of boycotting or whatever (I pretty much avoid those restaurants except when I know I'm prepared calorie wise or want to splurge) but rather just point out how careful you need to be when you do decide to eat at them. Like someone else mentioned, download the nutritional information before you go in and know what you're going to get.

    Maybe not so much a shame list as a warning list? Just to let people know which restaurant you went to and what the misrepresented "light item" is. I know I don't always get the chance to check out the nutrition info at someplaces, when it's a last minute thing at work and the place is chosen as we walk out the door, but if it's someplace that I have a memory of a post that said "hey if you go to place X don't be fooled by salad Y, it's high in these..." then I can make a different choice... Just a thought

    I didn't know where we were going yesterday evening, in-laws are in town, until we were pretty much on our way. I googled "Eat This, Not That" and found the restaurant (Chili's) and some suggestions. Already added a bookmark for ETNT on my phone so I always have it handy...
  • DelilahCat0212
    DelilahCat0212 Posts: 282 Member
    No shame!!! I go to Qdoba and get the craft 2 - my BF gets the nachos or the gumbo and I get the naked bowl. My naked mini bowl was 555 calories yesterday and it had cheese, sour cream AND guac!!!

    When we go to Friendly's, we split the Reuben supermelt and fries. I think it came out to a little over 600 calories. I eat a couple bites of the sundae and BF or my kid gets the rest. Or I order a kid's sundae. I can live with that. NO SHAME!
  • sgmomma
    sgmomma Posts: 299 Member
    My thing is I hate chain restaurants that refuse to share nutritional values. Also hate things that are misleadingly healthy...
  • AlabasterVerve
    AlabasterVerve Posts: 3,171 Member
    My meals at home are about 500 - 700 calories now. A delicious restaurant meal at about 800 - 1200 calories is well worth it on occasion and fairly easy to fit into a 1500 calorie day if you don't snack or eat all day long.

    Definitely, provide more low calorie options for those who want them or eat out daily but there's nothing shameful or innately unhealthy about a high calorie meal made from fresh, high quality ingredients.
  • MyM0wM0w
    MyM0wM0w Posts: 2,008 Member
    I think that part (PART) of the problem is that restaurants historically were for celebration. It was a big deal to eat a meal out and 'treat' yourself so it wasn't such a big deal. You only did it very occasionally and the rest of your meals were taken at home/brown bagged at work.

    Now, Americans are eating out more often than they eat in and they 'treat' themselves very often. YEs, I agree that quality and nutrition has gone down in restaurants over the years but also in our behavior in eating out.
  • daffodilsoup
    daffodilsoup Posts: 1,972 Member
    Cheesecake Factory is the WORST! Portion sizes are out of control!

    At one time 35 dishes over 1000 cals

    Come on people, it's called "The Cheesecake Factory".
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,261 Member
    CPK & Cheesecake Factory have under 550 cal meals on their menu... their getting better. I think they realize if they kill us all off there will be no one to dine at their resturants

    More cheesecake for MEEE!!!!
  • makenziewhicker
    makenziewhicker Posts: 29 Member
    TEXAS ROADHOUSE! They dip their rolls in butter like 6 times throughout the day before they serve them!
  • dueover
    dueover Posts: 18
    O'Charley's
  • DeadMarsha
    DeadMarsha Posts: 203
    I think that part (PART) of the problem is that restaurants historically were for celebration. It was a big deal to eat a meal out and 'treat' yourself so it wasn't such a big deal. You only did it very occasionally and the rest of your meals were taken at home/brown bagged at work.

    Now, Americans are eating out more often than they eat in and they 'treat' themselves very often. YEs, I agree that quality and nutrition has gone down in restaurants over the years but also in our behavior in eating out.

    THIS.
  • GnochhiGnomes
    GnochhiGnomes Posts: 348 Member
    So glad I don't have all these chains to tempt me. Fk me uniformed Americans have it hard.
  • jaymek92
    jaymek92 Posts: 309 Member
    I heard that omelets from IHOP actually have pancake batter in the eggs "to make them fluffier" and it makes the calorie count insane.
    This is true! I know a girl with Celiac disease who went to IHOP and got the omelet and got sick because they had gluten from the batter in them. But it makes them so good!
  • kristin1493
    kristin1493 Posts: 41 Member
    No one forces anyone to buy or eat any of the entrees, so who really cares if a menu is chock full of high cal choices

    This!

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