Eating Out - BEWARE OF BREAKFAST!
restaurants, breakfast, calories, fat
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I'm getting ready to take a much-needed and very rare vacation, so of course because we're likely to eat a lot of our meals on the road I wanted to do my homework in advance. Here is the shocking news I uncovered about some popular breakfast fare. Hope it helps you be a bit more savvy about ordering. I was STUNNED by the veggie omelette!
Attack of the 1,210-Calorie Veggie Omelette!
At IHOP, you might think ordering the spinach and mushroom omelette is a good idea -- but this egg disaster has a shocking 1,210 calories (eeeks!).
79-Grams-of-Fat French Toast!
Even if you're DYING for French toast, avoid Denny's Fabulous French Toast Platter at all costs. This freaky breakfast plate will cost you 1,261 calories and 79g fat! If you crave the sausage links and bacon slices this platter comes with, go for Morningstar Farms' Sausage Links (2 links = 80 calories and 3g fat) and Jennie-O's Extra Lean Turkey Bacon (2 slices = 40 calories and 1g fat). Then finish it off with sugar-free pancake syrup!
Morning Muffin Mayhem!
McDonald's regular Egg McMuffin has 300 calories and 12g fat. For a tiny little muffin? And if you slip up and order the one with sausage, you'll be gobbling up 450 calories and 27g fat. YIKES!
600-Calorie B-Fast Sandwich Alert! This one really shocked me.
Subway may be known for its low-fat sub menu, but think twice before grabbing the sandwich chain's 6-inch Chipotle Steak and Cheese Breakfast Omelet Sandwich. That meaty monstrosity has 600 calories and 32 grams of fat!
Slam Don't! (Denny's 1,040-Calorie Dud!)
So you're starving ... and you order up Denny's Lumberjack Slam with hash browns. (The thing already includes pancakes, ham, bacon, sausage, AND eggs!) How can I say this politely -- BAD IDEA!!! This massive morning mistake is loaded with 1,040 calories and 53g fat!
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on 7/3/2008
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Jitters Upon Coffee Jitters
coffee, saturated fat, calories, trans fat, nutrition facts
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Coffee Creamers: New report finds hidden calories and fat
Ok, I'll admit it - I'm hopelessly addicted to caffeine. But not just any caffeine; I NEED MY COFFEE! Besides my morning workout, the day just hasn't started for me until I've had a steamy cup of brewed perfection. Yeah, it's a vice, but it isn't too bad for me - or is it?!
It seems innocent enough - just adding a little cream to your coffee can’t hurt, right? After all, some nutrition labels list a measly 10 calories and half a gram of saturated fat per serving. But both your serving size and the labels might deceive you, according to a new report on coffee creamers from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
CSPI finds Nestle rounds down the calories in its Original Coffee-mate powder - from 14.83 calories to 10 - and the 0.99 grams of saturated fat is rounded down to 0.5 grams per one teaspoon serving. But the truth is most people actually use about a tablespoon.
Anyone glancing at the Nutrition Facts label for most of these coffee creamers would have a false sense of security. If you use one tablespoon of the Original Coffee-mate, it adds up to 45 calories and three grams of saturated fat - more than the 40 calories and 2.1 grams of saturated fat in two tablespoons of half & half. Three or four servings of coffee creamer a day and before you know it you’ve had half a day’s allotment of saturated fat.
The CSPI report finds some Coffee-mate products and other brands are lower in saturated and trans fat. But after reviewing several popular liquid and powder coffee creamers, the only “Best Bite” ratings (this means no partially hydrogenated oil, i.e. trans fat, and no more than 0.6 grams of saturated fat per serving) go to International Delight Fat Free and Silk liquid creamers… as well as plain old fat-free, 1%, 2%, or even whole milk, and fat-free half & half from Land O’Lakes and some store brands. Something to keep in ... read entire entry
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on 4/9/2008
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