Check out this article:
http://health.msn.com/nutrition/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100182334
The 20 worst foods in the USA.
Over 2400 calories and 128 grams of fat in pasta with meat sauce and meatballs? This is insane! Some of these foods I could have guessed, but others, wow, what kind of meat do they use and what do they cook it in?
Nothing in that article surprised me since all the foods come from chain restaurants. If you're constantly eating out at places like Ruby Tuesday's and Chili's you're going to be a fat ass... that seems obvious to me. I can understand indulging on this crap once in a great while, but if you cook for yourself every day you run less risk of consuming 2000 calories in one meal.
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open market wrote:
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Munson, R.E. wrote:
Nothing in that article surprised me since all the foods come from chain restaurants. If you're constantly eating out at places like Ruby Tuesday's and Chili's you're going to be a fat ass... that seems obvious to me. I can understand indulging on this crap once in a great while, but if you cook for yourself every day you run less risk of consuming 2000 calories in one meal.
Not surprised? Even with the pasta?
Let's look at it like this:
3oz of 75% lean ground beef (probably the fattiest you can find):
211 calories
14 grams of fat
3.5 oz of pasta:
141 calories
1 gram of fat
4.4 oz of marinara sauce:
70 calories
3 grams of fat
1 Tablespoon of olive oil:
119 calories
13.5 grams of fat
Now these are the worst I could find (you can find pasta without fat and a lower fat marinara sauce)...
So one serving of each gives you 541 calories and 31.5 grams of fat. Not bad. So you would need over 4.4 servings of this pasta to match the one at macaroni grill in calories or 4.1 servings to match it in grams of fat. And that is using one TABLEspoon of olive oil not teaspoon.
So you are basically getting about 13.2 oz of ground beef and 15.4 oz of pasta going by this recipe. How in the world do they do it? Lots of butter maybe?
wow... wrote:
How in the world do they do it? Lots of butter maybe?
Or butter flavored oil substitute. I've worked in enough restaurants to see the crap they put in food. You better off cooking for yourself.
Never had a single dish on that list. That being said, I eat a lot of crap. Taco Bell 2-3 times a week at least...that can't be good, ehh??
if it's not on the list, it must be good. i'm going to taco bell.
Dirt wrote:
Never had a single dish on that list. That being said, I eat a lot of crap. Taco Bell 2-3 times a week at least...that can't be good, ehh??
Of course Taco Hell is good. I eat there 2-3 X a week too and I feel great! Tastes good, cheap, and RELATIVELY healthy. I keep hearing about this Chipotle place, which we don't have where I live. How's it compare to the Bell?
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