My friend sent me this link about the 20 worst foods in 2009. I’ve always been amazed at these column’s in Men’s Health magazine and it’s certainly kept me away from a few restaurants.
It’s hard to believe that a sandwich or an individual pizza can contain more than your recommended daily intake of calories. I’m sure that seeing the calorie count on some of those foods has given people pause before ordering.
Most of this information is fairly obvious. The bad options are always fast food (no secrets there) or one notch above, places like Chili’s, Macaroni Grill and TGI Fridays. These restaurants use the cheapest food available, so they have to drown it in lard, salt and sugar to disguise its quality (Macaroni Grill’s fried ravioli dessert at 1630 calories and 74 grams of fat being a great example of pulling out all the stops) yikes. Even if your only clue was the size of the plates they use, you could assume these meals = gut bomb.
Great examples of why American’s are some of the fattest people in the world:
One order of Tam’s Noodles at PF Chang’s has as much fat as 42 Krispy Kreme donuts.
TGI Friday’s pecan chicken salad at 1390 calories! This is supposed to be the healthy choice.
Worst burger award goes to Chili’s Smokehouse bacon cheese burger, with a mere 2,040 calories and 150 grams of fat.
Ahhh, what will be on next years list? No doubt it will be a shuffle of the same restaurant chains, all competing for worst place prize.
Have you also noticed that the ‘Eat That’ instead recommendations are usually just smaller versions of the same crappy, processed food? Maybe some year they’ll come out with a list of truly good recommendations. How about something fresh? organic maybe? Home cooked meal? Just sayin’
You can go with this…………………………………….. or you can go with that.
June 27, 2009 at 10:24 am
Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again, Thanks.