How Healthy is Your Salad?

 You might just want to put down that fork or lettuce and reach for a hamburger when eating out on a diet. Salads can be a low calorie, nutrient rich meal but chefs these days have loaded them with hundreds of calories and fat, making them one of the worst foods on a menu.
Here is a list of the worst salads in America from “Eat This, Not That” by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding

1. Chili’s Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken and Caesar Dressing: 930 calories, 71 g fat (13 g saturated),1,840 mg sodium

2. Chili’s Boneless Buffalo Chicken Salad: 1,070 calories, 78 g fat (15 g saturated), 4,440 mg sodium?

3. Quiznos Chicken with Honey Mustard Flatbread Salad 1,110 calories, 74 g fat, (14.5 g saturated) 2030 mg sodium?

4. Macaroni Grill Seared Sea Scallops Salad: 1,320 calories, 91 g fat (25 g saturated), 2,860 mg sodium?

5. T.G.I. Friday’s Pecan Crusted Chicken Salad: 1,360 calories, Fat: Unknown (The company won’t disclose this number.)?

6. Chevy’s Fresh Mex Tostada Salad with Chicken: 1,551 calories, 94 g fat (37 g saturated) 2,840 mg sodium?

Before you never eat a salad again, there are some ways to turn this sabotaging diet meal into a healthier one. Here are some tips to cutting calories in salads:

- Ask for dressing on the side and dip your fork into the dressing before the salad
You would be surprised at how salad dressing can make a salad’s calorie content sky rocket

- Choose salad dressing without oil or a vinegar-based dressing, such as Balsamic.

- Substitute salad dressing for salsa, citrus juices, or other organic vegetables

- Skip out on added calories such as croutons, nuts, or chip strips

- Go light on the cheese

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Tagged as: Calories, Fast Food / Restaurants, Nutrition, Salads, Weight loss