Smart Woman - When Salads Go Bad
By: Jacob Martin
Updated: February 26, 2013
When
your meal involves a drive thru or dinner out, which is a better
choice, a cheeseburger or a salad? Consider this: a McDonalds'
big mac weighs in at 550 calories, 29 grams of fat, and 1,000
milligrams of sodium, but this pales in comparison to these
gut-busting greens!
Applebee's
Oriental Chicken salad
sounds healthy, but the numbers don't add up. almost 14-hundred
calories and 98
grams of fat. And California
Pizza Kitchen's Moroccan-Spiced Chicken salad has 1,600
calories, which is more than
two Big Macs. When salads looks more like tacos things get ugly! The
Baja Fresh Shrimp Tostada salad
loaded with everything, including fat and sodium.
A
better choice, but not a great
one: Taco Bell Fiesta Taco
salad with beef. At Outback, you can order an entire steak dinner
for fewer calories and less fat than you'll find in the Outback
Steakhouse salad. There's
proof that a good salad can go back, even before its expiration
date.
