Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Food For Thought: The Top 10 Worst Restaurant Salads


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?

9 comments:

  1. ACK!!!!!!!! and I LOVE #'s 5 and 7...ohwell..I really wonder about another love of mine now..the Zaxby salad. Thanks for the info!

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  2. Wow!
    "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 "

    I did not know it had that many grams of fat and that many calories. You hear the term salad and you automatically thin health food!I don't think I will be eating this salad anymore! Thanks for the information!

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  3. i have had Chili's Boneless Buffalo Chicken Salad, but it was good. i only get it once in a while

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  4. -Sob- but I LOVE buffalo chicken ANYTHING and apparently can no longer labor under the delusion that salad+ 'lean' chicken= good for me...dang.

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  5. I never order salads when I go out to eat. When I get the chance to get out of the house I want to have something a little more substantial.

    Some of those salads sound really calorie high, but maybe they taste good? Most of those places are near where I live though.

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  6. I meant to say most of those places are NOT where I live (sorry about that)!

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  7. It's so depressing. You think you're being "good" and in reality you would have been better off eating the big mac and french fries! Some of these I didn't realize were so terrible thanks for bringing together this list. Definitely "food for thought!" Thanks!

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  8. Thanks for the heads up! I'm always amazed at how something that can be good for you in theory can be so high in fat and calories. I never would have thought these would be so crazy!

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  9. Oh man! #6, #3 and #2 all are on my list of favorite restaurant foods. I guess if you think of it as a splurge even though its a salad its ok, as long as you don't think these salads are healthy options.

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