Eating healthy at Chinese or Mexican restaurants requires understanding nutritional values and sodium content. Compare the best and worst chain restaurant meals to find vegetarian options or low-calorie swaps that fit your diet.
Chipotle is a fast-food restaurant serving Mexican foods. The company makes salads to order so you pick the specific ingredients that go in it. This significantly impacts the nutritional content of their salads.
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Subway's numerous options for diet-friendly sandwiches, complete with fresh vegetables. But when building your low-cal meal, calculate how many calories and how much fat the cheese and dressing add to your cold cut sub.
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A Whopper with cheese is one of the least healthy items on Burger King’s menu. However, with a few changes, you can occasionally include a Whopper with cheese into your diet without much consequence.
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Creamy Tomato Soup with Croutons is one of the daily soup offerings at Panera Bread. The soup features pear tomatoes blended with cream that provides the creamy texture. It is sold in a 12-oz. bowl.
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Unless you are a devoted athlete like pizzeria owner and cycling enthusiast Matt McClellan, originator of the Pizza Diet, you probably shouldn’t make pizza your only food. The occasional treat is tasty, but you will pay the price in fat and calories.
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Served with every meal, the Cheddar Bay Biscuits are one of the signature menu items at Red Lobster. Before grabbing a warm biscuit, take a look at how its calorie content and other nutritional values affects your daily diet.
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The number of calories you should eat when you work out depends on different factors. What your workout is, how much you exercise and your goals for working out all play a factor.
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With its toy tucked inside, McDonald's Happy Meals are a hit with kids, and are available with hamburgers, cheeseburgers or chicken McNuggets. The total calorie count in the hamburger Happy Meal depends on the side and beverage you choose to have with the burger.
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Domino's Pizza offers a number of menu items, including pasta, oven-baked sandwiches, chicken wings and breadsticks. Although these options are tempting, sometimes a classic cheese pizza just hits the spot. Before you indulge in a cheesy pizza, you should consider the caloric impact.
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McDonald's is generally known for its burgers, fries and sodas. Recently, however, the restaurant has added smoothies, blended coffee drinks and other drinks to the menu. The drinks imitate coffee shop blended drinks, offering similar drinks for a lower price.
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Red Lobster is a seafood restaurant chain with locations across North America. They serve a variety of shrimp, lobster, crab and fresh fish dishes. Many of their menu choices are healthy, although the calories can add up quickly.
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McDonald's is a global chain that opened in 1955, and has since been in the forefront of the fast food industry. Besides burgers and fries, a variety of other options are available at McDonald's. The frappes are one of the newer products on the McDonalds menu.
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McDonald's offers two types of coffee drinks: hot or frozen. The number of calories in the coffee drinks depends on how much cream, sugar and other additives you put in them, according to McDonalds.com.
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Subway is known for having several types of breads from which you can choose when ordering a sub. All the breads typically contain some form of wheat flour. The type of bread you select impacts the overall calorie content of the sub.
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The veggie patty sub sandwich, at Subway, is a suitable options for ovo-lacto vegetarians as the product contains both egg and milk products. The typical serving of a veggie patty sub is 6 inches, served on 9 grain wheat bread, and includes lettuce, tomatoes, onions, green peppers and cucumbers.
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Starbucks' signature Frappuccino blended beverages are available in numerous inventive flavor combinations. For example, the Tazo Green Tea Crème Frappuccino mixes powdered matcha green tea with milk and ice, and customers can also request whipped cream atop the finished concoction.
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The Quarter Pounder with Cheese from McDonald's has a 4-oz. beef patty with two slices of cheese on a sesame-seed bun. If that's your sandwich of choice from the fast-food eatery, you should understand how it impacts your daily diet.
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Pizza Hut serves two sizes of personal pan pizzas: the 6-inch traditional size and the 9-inch PANormous pizza. They offer numerous variations of these personal pizzas for both veggie and meat lovers alike.
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If you enjoy the hamburgers at Wendy's, you don't necessarily have to order fries to eat with your burger. If you favor a side dish that's lower in calories and higher in protein, consider a cup of chili.
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Taco Bell offers a variety of sauces and condiments. It offers three complimentary border sauces. The “hot” sauce provides a little more kick than the “mild,” but isn't nearly as spicy as their “fire” sauce. All three sauces are appropriate if you are watching your weight.
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