LittleGirlHeart
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Take a look at these, this kind of stuff is what passes as salad in most sit down places, add any crutons , or candied walnuts or almonds(basically sugar coated)and claiming it's healthy is a joke. Their sodium counts equal about 3 or four day counts, at over a thousand, some are over 3 thousand their caloie counts are in the 3,or 4 digit range, their carbs are through the roof, and usually so is the sugar.
But goodness, I still love an eat them. I just won't claim they're healthy.
13 Almond Chicken Salad
$10.99
Grilled chicken breast tossed with bleu cheese crumbles, sweet apples, green onions, dried cranberries, avocado and crispy greens with Italian vinaigrette, and topped with toasted almonds.
Caribbean Salad
Fresh, hand-cut pineapple, mandarin oranges, dried cranberries, diced red bell peppers, chopped green onions, cilantro & sesame seeds with a honey-lime dressing.
Options:
Grilled Chicken
Seared Shrimp
18 Road House Salad
$10.49
Angus sirloin tip, bleu cheese, diced bacon, red onion, and tomato top crispy romaine lettuce tossed with creamy garlic dressing.
#15 Crispy Santa Fe Salad
Choose crispy fried or grilled chicken or BBQ pulled pork on mixed greens, tossed with chipotle ranch dressing, and topped with corn-tomato-bell pepper salsa, avocado, cheddar cheese and crispy tortilla strips.
#70 BBQ Chicken Salad
Grilled chicken breast, housemade BBQ sauce, on a bed of spring greens tossed with ranch dressing, and topped with cheddar cheese, tomatoes, avocado, and crispy onion straws.
One salad on chillies is 3770 in sodium
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ORIGINAL: Greta75
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Sit down restaurant are not fast, but the salads are not healthy for you. Just look at the nutrition stats, they're usually high sodium, high calorie high fat.
Over here we have take away salad bars, where the people make the salad infront of you, so you get choice of salad leaves, and then you choose what you want in them, (all types of meat, cheeses and extra vegetables available) and what dressing you want. It's actually very very healthy. But just not cheap for me. I usually just pick feta cheese, spinach leaves and raisins, and salt and pepper, without any dressing, and I'm happy with that. I actually assume US must have the same, I mean, these salad bars are especially popular in our central business district, for busy professionals who wants a quick healthy meal. The other thing would be salad wraps which is my favourite! Just grill chicken and salad leaves in a wrap, and just salt and pepper, usually I'd choose no dressing, as the yummy dressing for wraps tend to be the mayonnaise based ones, like ranch sauce. And these salad bars, some of them go even more extreme, like whatever meat you choose, like for example, you will literally see them pick out raw chicken from the fridge and grill them infront of you, before putting it in your salad, so you know you are getting 100% fresh stuffs and no preservative. The chicken will not be marinated either, as there is a choice for that too, marinated chicken or just plain. So I wish it was more affordable, as with such places, you have full control what goes into your food. And it's take-away and someone else is cooking it! Hehe!
< Message edited by LittleGirlHeart -- 12/3/2014 10:53:10 AM >
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