Worst "healthy" restaurant food

More than 1/2 of the items on the subway menu are worse than a burger. Many people consider that a "Healthy option"

6 inches with as many vegetables as you want,without cheese and dressing
Is way healthier than a burger.
They're only bad if you get fittings with cheese or saturate it in mayo.
Come on now!

You cmon now. I eat subway, and I agree they offer choices that are way healther than a burger.

I also see way to many overweight people order a 6" Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt (570 Calories with tons of saturated fats and carbs) A bag of chips, and a diet coke. Then they think they legitimately made a healthy choice by eating subway

There's actually a term for that. It's called the "health halo". Brian Wansink (my heroooooo) did a good amount of research on it.

See link here if you're actually curious: http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/outreach/health-halos.html

There's a fairly healthy option at almost every restaurant. The problem is that advertising- anyone see the disgusting amount of propping up Subway that Biggest Loser does? It's gross!- gives the impression that these places serve healthy food and that by eating there you'll lose weight. And people lack the education to see through the bull.

The biggest loser stuff all has the sandwiches that are healthy an the boards and also tell you about which dressing/auce to have

Now I want nachos.

I always want nachos.

With guacamole.

And sour cream.

I believe outback's aussie fries or whatever they're called made #1 on a list for worst restaurant food you could order.

then I pretended I never read that and continue to order them...

Red Robin's veggie burger.

"Yeah, I think I'll get a salad, I had a pretty heavy lunch so better go lighter...... (waiter approaches) Ah, yes may I please have the Crispy Chicken salad, dinner size, with extra ranch dressing, and an extra breadstick with that please."

Yep, lol.... but dang it's yummy.

My husband and I will make some nice home made salads at home with some artificial crab, craisins, almonds, and other goodies, they're referred to as "bomb *kitten* salads" in our house... lol, but we know EXACTLY what's going in, and how much... and it's not drowned in dressing.

tropical smoothie cafe is ridiculous!!! mainly in sodium but they cals are sky high!!! it seemed like a healthy coice and i looked the the nutrtional value and about fell over!!!

I know that Cheesecake Factory is notorious for their calorie bombs.

Yes! Before I knew anything about calorie counting and was terrible at estimating, I figured "Oh, one slice is probably 200 calories...split that with my date, and that's only 100 a piece. Not bad at all." Uhhh...yeah, wrong!

i'm glad panera puts calories on their pastry now. so easy to say no. works better than the flies buzzing around behind the counter.

but notice how they give you free pastries or try to up-sell your order by offering you a 99 center pastry? *kitten* <shakes fist> all i want is a coffee! stop badgering me!!!

Cobb salad.

Pei Wei used to make me think I was making good choices. I looked up the nutritional info before I went and ordered something that had around 500 calories. A large lunch, but not bad at all for a splurge. As I ate, I kept thinking "there's NO WAY this is 500 calories." I went back and checked it again when I got home. It was 500 calories PER SERVING. My lunch had 2 servings. Some of the other dishes had THREE SERVINGS. Who splits one lunch THREE WAYS?!? And can you imagine the look you would get if you walked in to Pei Wei and ordered 1 dish for you and two friends to share? Yikes.

Oh no.....Thats what I get when I go there (which is rare but still)! I will have to research their menu next time.

Red Robin's veggie burger.

It goes the other way too. MacDonalds (UK) grilled chicken salad is 140 calories. That's not a healthy meal size for the vast majority of adults. With bacon, it's 190 calories which is better but still not great. I think it's fine to have it on the menu for those who want it, but it's not really a healthy main meal.

On the other hand, I don't think burgers are particularly unhealthy. They are basically just minced beef and bread. If they're bigger, they'll be higher calorie and also if you add high calorie/fat things (bacon, mayonnaise, cheese, etc.) they'll be higher calorie/fat. But I think they're unfairly maligned. It's not much different from eating a meat sandwich. And how often do most people have a burger anyway?

caesar salad! always ask for the dressing on the side or without bacon

I don't know about unhealthy, per say, but Panera's food is ungodly high in calories. Even the veggie sandwich tops out around 800 calories. Macro-wise it's probably loads better, but I was so deluded all these years thinking I was eating healthy there!

I was in the same exact frame of thought! I was aghast when I actually saw their menu with all the calories listed. Apparently, they are also some of the worst offenders for sodium, esp in their bread.

That too bad for your friend, but yeah, I wouldn't have thought chips and guacamole was going to be low cal. I think all of us need to be educated about food. It's the only way.
Avocados are healthy. Guacamole not so much (because of the chips, the sour cream etc...)
And, as someone else mentioned, it was probably meant to be shared.

oh, and as others have said: subway! Not health food!