Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Food For Thought: The Top 10 Worst Restaurant Salads

This is an original content post from my main blog, Multiple Blessings. I thought I'd share it here as well.






Everyone loves a top 10 list and many of them provide a good chuckle or two. Here is a more serious top 10 list that instead of a chuckle, may make your gasp. Why? Here are 10 seemingly innocent salads that contain more than 1,000 calories each!


Number 10


Romano's Macaroni Grill Chicken Florentine Salad – 1,020 calories/17 grams/2,830 mg sodium


Number 9 


Quiznos Chicken Caesar Flatbread Salad – 1,020 calories/69 grams fat/2,120 mg sodium


Number 8 


Quiznos Roasted Chicken Flatbread  Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing – 1,070 calories/71 grams fat/1,770 mg sodium


Number 7 


Chili's Boneless Buffalo Chicken Salad – 1,070 calories/77 grams fat/4,380 mg sodium


Number 6 


Chili's Southwestern Cobb Salad – 1,080 calories/71 grams/2,650 mg sodium


Number 5 


Ruby Tuesday's Carolina Chicken Salad – 1,129 calories/71 grams fat


Number 4 


Baja Fresh Charbroiled Steak Tostada Salad – 1,230 calories/63 grams fat/2,380 mg sodium


Number 3 


Chili's Quesadilla Explosion Salad – 1,390 calories/89 grams fat/2,710 mg sodium


Number 2 


Chevy's Fresh Mex Grilled Fajita Salad made with Chicken, Carnitas, Shrimp or Steak - 1,450-1,620 calories/27-37 grams fat/1,570-2,530 mg sodium

And the Number 1 worst restaurant salad you may be eating is…. 

Chevy's Fresh Mex Tostada  Salad with Chicken, Carnitas or Steak - 1,550-1,720 calories/37-47 grams fat/2,480-3,310 mg sodium

Sometimes you eat at restaurants that do not provide nutrition information for their recipes. You can evaluate how healthy a salad is based on the ingredients it includes to help you make a wise choice.

Be honest – which one of these salads have you had? Are there any on the list that surprised you? Are there others over 1,000 calories that were missed?

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