Attack of the 1,000+ calorie foods.

[smatyas 0]

Think salads are safe? That grilled always equals guilt-free? Even healthy-sounding Entrees can be cleverly disguised diet disasters! Here are some of the worst offenders.

salad INSANITY

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Bob Evans Cranberry Pecan chicken Salad

(1,108 calories, 63g fat, 2,741mg sodium, 63g carbs, 7g Fiber, 43g sugars, 40g protein)

Fruit, nuts, and sliced chicken...on lettuce? This salad sounds wholesome enough. But don't be fooled! Bacon, bleu cheese, and gobs of Italian dressing all play a part in this salad's pitiful nutritionals. Over 1,100 calories for a salad?! We're on to you, Bob.

Hardee's Southwest chicken Salad

(1,100 calories, 83g fat, 1,910mg sodium, 59g carbs, 4g Fiber, 6g sugars, 29g protein)

Yes, Southwest chicken salads are delicious, but one with 83 fat grams is embarrassing. You may as well have a fat hamburger and a g. Sheesh!

Bob Evans Chili & cheese Taco Salad

(1,381 calories, 72g fat, 3,263mg sodium, 182g carbs, 23g fiber, 30g sugars, 42g protein)

Aha! Another salad sure to screw up your day, courtesy of Bob Evans. This one's slightly more suspicious sounding, with a double whammy of and cheese right there in the title. Mounds of cheddar and sausage chili smothered in avocado ranch dressing make this plate of fatty goo one you don't wanna mess with!

Chili's Mesquite Chicken Salad with Dressing

(1,050 calories, 69g fat, 3,110 sodium, 56g carbs, 11g fiber, 58g protein)

You might have guessed that their famous are bad for those battling the bulge (and you'd have guessed right), but a mesquite chicken salad, too?!? Yep. Layers of bacon and cheese, complete with a thick blob of fat-packed ranch dressing, all adds up to over 1,000 calories of horribleness.

CRIMES AGAINST CHICKEN

McDonald's Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips (10 piece)

(1,270 calories, 66g fat, 3,100mg sodium, 92g carbs, 0g fiber, 77g protein)

Premium Breast Strips? That's just a fancy way of saying fried chicken fingers! Call 'em what you want, Ronald, but your Chicken Selects are a clucking MESS! And you KNOW people dip those things in your sugary BBQ Sauce or creamy honey mustard, too. And those just take this already offensive meal FAR over the edge.

P.F. Chang's Orange Peel Chicken

(1,151 calories, 47g fat, 127g carbs, 61g protein)

Here's another seemingly healthful offering. Chicken "tossed with chili peppers and fresh orange peel" -- how bad could that be? Upon closer inspection, we uncovered that this particular chicken dish contains both Kung Pao and Sichuan sauces, two notoriously high-cal Condiments. By the time this bird hits your plate, it's dragging more than eleven hundred calories with it. Yeech!

macaroni Grill Honey Balsamic Chicken

(1,220 calories, 67g fat, 2,750mg sodium, 94g carbs, 10g fiber, 57g protein)

Think choosing poultry over Pasta at macaroni Grill will keep you fitting into your skinny jeans? Not if this dish is any indication. Here's a little tip: Instead order something called Pollo Magra (Skinny Chicken), and save yourself more than 900 calories and over 60 grams of fat!

Chili's Monterey Chicken

(1,170 calories, 71g fat, 3,530mg sodium, 70g carbs, 8g fiber, 72g protein)

Yet another of Chili's calorically challenged chicken dishes. Their Monterey Chicken, a cheese, bacon, and BBQ sauce smothered entree, packs in an alarming 1,170 calories and more than 70 grams of fat. Gross!

BROCCOLI BEHAVING BADLY

P.F. Chang's Beef with Broccoli (dinner portion)

(1,120 calories, 65g fat, 38g carbs, 93g protein)

Come on, Chang! Beef with Broccoli is one of those Asian entrees even WE were sure we could safely chew! But it just isn't so. P.F.'s meat 'n mini trees are suffocated with sugar, sauce, cornstarch, and oil. That's just wrong.

Ruby Tuesday Fresh Chicken & Broccoli Pasta

(2,061 calories, 128g fat, 109g net carbs, 13g fiber)

Yikes! It's official; we have a winner (well, actually a loser). This dish has broken the calorie barrier, racking up more than any other on the list. Chicken and broccoli were clearly assaulted over at Ruby T, and emerged as a freakishly fattening entree with more than 2,000 calories and nearly 130 fat grams! How on Earth can Ruby T's get away with this?!

GRILLS GONE WILD

Macaroni Grill Grilled Salmon (Teriyaki)

(1,290 calories, 81g fat, 6,600mg sodium, 79g carbs, 5g fiber, 57g protein)

Record highs were reached on the sodium scale the day this dish was born. There's nearly three times the daily recommended allowance of the stuff swimming around with this salmon. And even if we could get past the icky amounts of salt, we're deeply offended by the crazy calorie and fat counts attached to this simple grilled fish dish. Yikes!

Macaroni Grill Grilled Pork Chops

(1,800 calories, 107g fat, 4,950mg sodium, 92g carbs, 8g fiber, 115g protein)

Yep, a third entree on our thou-cal-plus list from those maniacs at Macaroni Grill. This one contains more than 100 grams of fat and a horrifying 1,800 calories. Uhh, pork, the other white meat? ! Not in this case...

AFTERNOON OFFENDERS

P.F. Chang's Lo Mein Combo (lunch portion)

(1,740 calories, 122g fat, 98g carbs, 55g protein)

If you think ordering up the lunch portion keeps you safe out there, you are sadly mistaken. Chang's downsized order of Lo Mein includes beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, and enough fat and calories to feed an entire family. Can you even IMAGINE how many calories and fat grams the dinner size packs in?!

Burger King TRIPLE WHOPPER Sandwich

(1,130 calories, 74g fat, 1,160mg sodium, 51g carbs, 3g fiber, 11g sugars, 67g protein)

And rounding out our list is a true triple threat. This BK burger's a royal mess of a meal. But then again, would you expect anything less from a TRIPLE WHOPPER?!

[smatyas 0]

I found this article somewhere.. I am suprised at how much crap is passed off as healthy options by certain restaurants.

[Jachut 487]

Oh yes, I love a good caesar salad, yummy. But I'm quite aware I'm taking in huge fats and calories when I order one in a restaurant.

Like anything else, in moderation, only once in a while it's OK but if you eat them daily thinking you're eating healthy, low fat foods, you're not going to see quite what you expect on the scales!

[Jachut 487]

Oh yes, I love a good caesar salad, yummy. But I'm quite aware I'm taking in huge fats and calories when I order one in a restaurant.

Like anything else, in moderation, only once in a while it's OK but if you eat them daily thinking you're eating healthy, low fat foods, you're not going to see quite what you expect on the scales!

[stacy16 0]

I love salads with lots of ranch dressing. I'm so horrible. But after March 16th no more!:hungry:

Stacy

[Linny 0]

What offends me the most is that most of the foods listed in the article sound healthy. It's like a cruel trick the restaurants are pulling on us.

[Tired_Old_Man 1]

What offends me the most is that most of the foods listed in the article sound healthy. It's like a cruel trick the restaurants are pulling on us.

The bottom line is more important than your waist-line.

[Jachut 487]

I will never get over watching Supersize Me - we own it on DVD but it was on here on television last night. Its the segment about school lunches.

Every single person involved in those companies that provide those school lunches should be in prison. That is criminal, feeding that poison to young people. They dont have the option to go elsewhere, and that stupid woman arguing that they bought bagged lunches and werent just eating crap. All they care about is making money out of people.

I think goodness we dont have school lunch schemes in Australia and that our kids bring lunches from home. Of course some bring crap, but at least I get to ensure that my kids eat fresh healthy sandwiches and fruit. Soft drinks are banned in school canteens and soon lollies and candy will be to.

Adults can make their own choices but the thought that we're feeding kids this sort of poison and making them helplessly addicted and obese by the time they get to adulthood, we need to take a long hard look at ourselves I think.

[StephC 0]

I found this interesting since I was just at Bob Evens on Saturday. I had a salad - I think it was a bbq chicken salad, with Beans and corn, I ordered the lunch size - it wasn't listed up there. My dh had the chili taco salad and he had the dinner size. It was twice the size of my salad, I ate about 1/2 of mine and while his had the dressing mixed in the salad mine was on the side. I didn't even use 1/4 of the dressing they gave me. I think with anything common sense is the key to ordering and eating the food. I NEVER get my dressing on the salad, always on the side and seldom use even 1/2 of what they give me. Also something I learned in the Weighdown diet book was skinny people only eat the very best of the meal, pick out what you really like instead of eating all of it because its on your plate. That chili taco salad my dh had... it had chunks of cornbread in it - good grief, that and the burger, the dressing... and the SIZE no wonder it was over 1000 calories. He said it wasn't that good either. Mine was wonderful! I'd get it again and eat it just like I did that one...

[Tired_Old_Man 1]

My wife and I often go to Bob Evans (and similar) restaurants and we order one meal for both of us. And we sometimes take the banana bread (optional for toast or regular bread) home in a doggie bag.