Maybe it’s not a good idea to make that your new diet rule, but in an attempt to create “healthy” menus, restaurants have created a plethora of new salads, some of which are worse for you than a Whopper.
It may seem surprising, but if you were to place a Whopper (670 calories 40 grams of fat) and, let’s say, P.F. Chang’s Chicken Chopped Salad with Ginger Dressing (730 calories, 48 grams of fat) next to each other, it would be easy to see. Sure, the salad has a lot of lettuce, but it’s also topped with a thick layer of chicken, dressing, and pound of other non-lettuce stuff that packs in the calories.
Here are a few of the other big salad offenders:
Einstein Bros’ Bistro Salad with Chicken (940 calories, 71 grams of fat)
California Pizza Kitchen’s Waldorf Chicken Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing (1,570 calories, 30 grams of saturated fat)
Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad (1,310 calories, 15 grams of fat, 88 grams of carbs)
Yikes!
In order to avoid these and other caloric monsters, make sure to read exactly what├óΓé¼Γäós on the salad you’re ordering and always take the dressing on the side.
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