Posts in Dining Out
Cinco de Mayo Recipes
Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for May 5th. These Cinco de Mayo recipes are easy to make and lower in calories and sodium than restaurant equivalents. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated primarily in the United States by Mexican Americans commemorating Mexico’s victory or the French at the Battle of Puebla. Some Americans mistake ... more
Read moreCost of Dining Out
For decades, Americans were told dining out is more cost effective than cooking at home. Than can the Great Recession of 2008. Americans hit hard by the recession realized it was cheaper cooking at home. So many stopped eating out that many restaurants went out of business or bankrupt. Even ... more
Read more15 Dieting Tips When Dining Out
Whether you dine out for pleasure, a special occasion, travel, or due to necessity you can eat healthy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners and prevent weight gain. Many restaurants do not make it easy. Large portion sizes, like the meal pictured, are the norm making it easy to eat more calories than your ... more
Read moreDid You Save Room For Dessert?
Americans are asked this question every time they dine at a casual or formal restaurant. It doesn’t matter if the diner has eaten over a days worth of calories. Americans love concluding a meal with calorie ladden sweet dessert’s, and each dessert sale is revenue for the restaurant and additional ... more
Read moreWhat’s Up With Sodium?
Here we go again! For years we’ve been warned to limit sodium intake to 2,300 mg per day; about 1 teaspoon of table salt (2 teaspoons of kosher salt). Americans average around 4,000 mg per day. Now, three newly published reports state a high sodium diet is good and low sodium diets ... more
Read moreBig Bad For You Bacon Burger
We Serve What People Want Even with the growing diabetes and obesity epidemic in American, fast food, drive-ins, diners, and casual restaurants continue offering foods high in calories, saturated fat, and sodium. Their menus are loaded with foods people want instead of what they need. If a majority of their customers demanded ... more
Read moreWorld’s Dumbest Pizza
American pizza restaurants have developed some unique ideas for pizzas that turn the humble Italian pie into a creation that would makes Italian’s roll their eyes and wonder if Americans had lost their marble in addition to their senses. Pizza is one of the most ethnic popular foods in the ... more
Read moreNew Video Series Premiering December 2104
Fast Food Operating Room (OR), is a new series of videos premiering in December. This series of videos reveals what really makes up popular fast foods and processed foods manufactured and sold in the United States and around the world. Learn why many of these foods are truly junk foods ... more
Read moreWhy I Won’t Patronize Einstein Bros
Einstein Bros Bagels is a popular breakfast and lunch quick serve restaurant owned by Einstein and Noah Corp. Their speciality is bagels and coffee. It began in 1995 by chain restaurant corporation Boston Chicken now called Boston Market to break into the breakfast food market. I’ve never been a big ... more
Read more700 Calorie Breakfast
The Less Than 700 Calorie Breakfast Wouldn’t dieting be fun and enjoyable if you could eat more food with less calories than fats foods and processed foods? A filling breakfast with 700 calories or less? The truth is you can. Most people were not overweight or obese before fast, convenient ... more
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