Next time you go to Outback, IHOP, Applebees, Chilis and all the other popular resaurants...think about this.



The 20 Worst Restaurant Foods in America

Worst Breakfast: Cheescake Factory French Toast with Bacon with 1849 calories and 65 grams of saturated fat.

Worst Appetizer: Applebee’s Appetizer Sampler with 2,500 caloriesand 49 g saturated fat.

Worst Thai Salad: California Pizza Kitchen Thai Crunch Salad with Fresh Avocado with 2,238 calories.

Worst Pizza Slice: Sbarro Stuffed Pepperoni (1 piece) with 960 calories and 42 g fat.

Worst Wrap: T.G.I. Friday's BBQ Chicken Wrap with 1,720 calories.

Worst Club Sandwich: Cheesecake Factory Grilled Chicken and Avocado Club with 1,752 calories and 28 g saturated fat.

Worst Tacos: On the Border Dos XX Fish Tacos with Creamy Red Chile Sauce with 2,350 calories and 152 g fat.

Worst Sit-Down Burger: Applebee’s Quesadilla Burger with 1,820 calories and 46 g saturated fat.

Worst Sit-Down Kids Meal: Cheesecake Factory Kids' Pasta with Alfredo Sauce with 1,803 calories and 86 g saturated fat.

Worst Chicken Sandwich: Chili's Buffalo Chicken Crisper Bites with 1,620 calories 100 g fat.

Worst Food Invention: Domino's Chicken Carbonara Breadbowl Pasta with 1,480 calories 56 g fat.

Worst Chinese Food Meal: P.F. Chang's Crispy Honey Shrimp with 2,110 calories and 70 g fat.

Worst Fast Food Seafood Meal: Culver's North Atlantic Cod Filet Meal (3 pieces) with 2,121 calories 135 g fat.

Worst Sit-Down Ribs: Outback Steakhouse Baby Back Ribs (full rack) with 3,021 calories and 242 g fat.

Worst Pasta Dish: Cheesecake Factory Bistro Shrimp Pasta with 2,819 calories and 77 g saturated fat.

Worst Steak Dinner: IHOP Top Sirloin Steak with 2,380 calories and 42 g saturated fat.

Worst Fries: Five Guys Fries (large) with 1,464 calories and 71 g fat.

Worst Side Dish: Jack in the Box Bacon Cheddar Wedges with 760 calories and 53 g fat.

Worst Sweet Drink: Cold Stone PB&C Shake (Gotta Have It size) with 2,010 calories and 131 g fat.

Worst Sit-Down Dessert: Outback Steakhouse Chocolate Thunder from Down Under with 1,911 calories and 88 g saturated fat.

Remember, a "recommended" daily allowance for fat grams is about 65 and calories is about 2,000. This is for an average person who is classified as "fit". Obviously it varies for hard corps athletes, people with health conditions, etc.

I have personally had the Applebee’s Quesadilla Burger and Chili's Buffalo Chicken Crisper Bites and I'm thinking about going on another run today out of guilt. Of course this was the type of meal I eat few and far between, like once a month. But yeah, makes me sick thinking about it now.

Looks like they have it in for The Cheesecake Factory. They're on that list, a lot...

Cheesecake factory is known for way oversized portions. I can't even finish most of their meals.

It's no secret that there is generally-speaking, absolutely nothing redeemable about the healthiness of chain restaurant food. If you want to eat remotely healthy, you need to find a restaurant that uses mostly fresh (aka: not frozen, preserved, processed, pasteurized, or chemically-messed-with) ingredients.

Guess that means I'm going to In-N-Out Burger more often!
All their ingrediants are fresh. The only thing they keep in the freezer is the ice cream for the shakes.

If you want to eat remotely healthy, stay the hell out of restaurants. There isn't a restaurant I can think of that serves correct portions of vegetables, meat and starch. The overdo the meat and WAAAY overdo the starch (it's cheap) and skimp on the veg.

I love vegies. If I go to, let's Outback, I get the smallest Filet, I think 6 oz and for my 2 sides, I get drouble broccoli.

This seems like a good place to bring this up again: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

By "food" he means meals derived from whole food ingredients, as opposed to foodlike substances that line our supermarket shelves. Read The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food for more details.

I have nothing wrong with eating in restaurants. Restaurant food, especially at large chain restaurants, is going to be shockingly unhealthy. I know that. So I adjust the frequency of my visits accordingly, and don't worry about it while I'm there.

If I ate McDonald's, Chili's, Olive Garden, etc. five times a week, it would be an issue. My 3-4 meals per year at McDonald's aren't really a big deal.

That's just impressive! How on Earth do they manage to put 90% of the average male's daily calorie intake in a salad?!?!

Blame the two different dressings, the shower of fried wonton strips, and the sewer cap–size plate. The avocado contributes a fair bit of the calories, with about 15% of a portion being fat.

I've seen that monster. It will feed 2 or 3 quite nicely.