Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Salad: Friend or Foe?


Somewhere along the way, we started equating salads with diet food.  If you go on a diet, you eat salads all the time.  I'm not sure how this happened.  I love salads, but most salads aren't that great for you.  Lettuce, which makes up most salads, has almost no nutritional value, and salad dressing is extremely unhealthy.  Even the low fat/low calorie salad dressings can be a bit dicey. 

Here is the nutrition information for some popular salads that are out there:

Shorty's crispy chicken salad:  1850 calories
Applebees Low fat asian chicken salad:  900 calories
Houlihans Chinese Chicken Salad - 950 calories
Quizno's Classic Cobb - 1050 calories (71 grams of fat!!!!)
Ruby Tuesday's Carolina Chicken salad - 1400 calories
Chili's Boneless Buffalo salad - 1070 calories
Chili's Quesadilla Explosion salad - 1380 calories
Chevy's Fresh Mex Tostada Salad with Chicken, Carnitas or Steak - 1720 calories

For perspective, a Whopper with cheese and mayo is 760 calories, and a Big Mac is only 560!

There are certainly healthy salads out there, but just be careful.  Salads can be sheep in wolves clothing!  :)

6 comments:

Alison... said...

There certainly is a misconception by a lot of people about salads... a lot of people start eating them as soon as they start a diet and salad can be fattening.

But the list you have is reedonk... wow.

Anonymous said...

Thankfully, I don't like salad dressing, or even salads all that much. Maybe a habdful of peanut M&M's is teh way to go

Dana said...

I've ordered the Quesadilla Explosion Salad at Chilis. I knew when I got it, that I was going to have to eat only part of it, leaving most of the quesadillas and other unhealthy foods behind. Best bet for a salad.... go to the salad bar at Whole Foods.

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