This week we take on the All American Hot Dog (and a few that we aren’t sure America would want to claim). Mind you, I don’t eat hot dogs very often because of the amount of fat and saturated fat in them, but if [...]
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This week we’ve been featuring pizzas you can make at home from scratch. Making your pizza from scratch is not just better for you, it’s fun. But sometimes you can’t make your pizza from scratch (like when you’re [...] Once again I will admit that I don’t much like having to go out and review chain restaurants. it’s a challenge because the food is generally so processed that it bothers me to even sample the dishes. The food is barely one step away from the quality [...] If you’ve been reading our weekly food reviews, you probably already know that reviewed the best tasting, healthiest options at some chain restaurants, including P.F Chang’s China Bistro, Chevy’s Fresh Mex, and Applebee’s. See all the chain restaurants we’ve reviewed.
In looking for more gluten free breakfast bars (the first round was somewhat disappointing) we turned to the energy bar aisle at the grocery. It’s amazing how many products there are on the market, and having previously looked for bars only in the gluten free section, I was surprised at how many energy bars just [...] In our ongoing pursuit of decent meals at chain restaurants we turned to one that is a bit more upscale. The Daily Grill is not as large a chain as some we have reviewed, but there were high hopes that since the food is [...] In our reviews of chain restaurants I have been looking forward to Souplantation (the chain also runs sister restaurants under the name Sweet Tomatoes). The concept is fabulous and there are similar restaurant chains including Lettuce Souprise You. They all have [...] “New Recipe!” they both say on the box. These are full meals from Healthy Choice – entree, veg, starch and dessert. This week I chose their Beef Tips Portobello and their Classic Meat Loaf, which have 270 and 360 calories respectively. The amount of sodium in each meal is fairly reasonable – for processed foods: [...] I will admit that I don’t like reviewing chain restaurants. I don’t eat in these places because I find the food to be pretty awful, and my dread begins with the research before I even leave the house. Reviewing the nutrition information is, quite simply, terrifying and [...] I’ve given Amy’s a pretty hard time about the amount of sodium in their foods, especially when their “Light in Sodium” products are so good. It just doesn’t seem necessary for frozen foods to have that much salt when the company has amply demonstrated that their foods [...] |
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