Xtreme Eating Awards go to restaurants' diet saboteurs

[Mind_your_head]

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Some oversized appetizers, entrees and desserts at chain restaurants are nutritional train wrecks, says the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

On Tuesday, the Washington, D.C.-based consumer group announced its 2009 Xtreme Eating Awards. These are some of the dishes, with nutritional data attached, that the group identified as packed with calories and artery-clogging saturated fat:....

....•The Cheesecake Factory's Chicken and Biscuits, a chicken breast served over mashed potatoes with shortcake biscuits, mushrooms, peas and carrots and covered with country gravy. Total: 2,500 calories. It's almost equal to eating a KFC 8-piece Original Recipe bucket plus five biscuits, which has 2,380 calories and 56 grams of fat.

•The Cheesecake Factory Fried Macaroni and Cheese, crispy crumb-coated macaroni and cheese balls with a creamy marinara sauce. It equals 1,570 calories, 69 grams of saturated fat and 1,860 milligrams of sodium. You might be better off eating an entire stick of butter with 57 grams of saturated fat and 800 calories, the group says.
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More:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-06-02-extremeeating_N.htm

[Quantess]

1. Everything at the Cheesecake Factory is oversized.

I looked around at the other tables and saw busboys taking away half-eaten plates of food. They were grossly oversized. So my boyfriend and I split a dish and we got full anyway.

[MADem]

3. It does sound like a place to go to split food. I went to one eons ago,

but haven't been to one recently enough to even remember what kind of food they served.

[Solly Mack]

2. Yikes! That's a shit-load of fat and calories.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. "Waitress, I'll have the Heart Attack Special please . . . . "

Bad enough that the servings are at least twice the amount of the appropriate portion. The ingredients for the dishes themselves will clog your arteries.

[Stevenmarc]

7. And she'll bring you this

http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/

[Blue_Tires]

5. wow...i used to go to cheesecake factory back in the 90s when i was in college

and if anything, the portions were way too small...things have changed

[meegbear]

6. EXTREEEEEEEEEME EATING! WOOOOOOOOO!

:woohoo:

[DJ13]

8. Then dont eat the entire portion

Problem solved.

[Auggie]

9. Photo (graphic warning):

The Cheesecake Factory's Fried Macaroni and Cheese. With 1,570 calories and 69 grams of saturated fat, you'd be better off eating an entire stick of butter.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. ewww. I'd rather have regular Mac n. cheese. Who icreated this recipe - fried mac balls

[james at 49]

11. LOL--um...doesn't the very name Cheesecake Factory tip one off

that it's not gonna be low-calorie fare? And the other examples of fried chicken smothering in gravy, mac with a breading...OY VEY!

If you are struggling with your weight, eating in restaurants should be curtailed immediately because you don't know how much oil they are using (which really increases the caloric content) or the quality of the ingredients themselves.

[SidDithers]

13. Exactly. I was shocked, shocked I tell you...

that a place called The Cheesecake Factory would be serving a 2500 calorie meal :)

Sid

[NeedleCast]

12. Center for Science in the Public Interest

Because we know what's better for you than you do.