Kids' cuisine: "what would you like with your fries?".The adults' menu may feature grilled shrimp, charbroiled chicken, sauteed vegetables, and salads galore. But the kids' menu rarely ventures beyond cheeseburgers, pizza, fried chicken Fried chicken is chicken which is dipped in a breading mixture and then deep fried, pan fried or pressure fried. The breading seals in the juices but also absorbs the fat of the fryer, which is sometimes seen as unhealthy. fingers, and french fries French fry n. A thin strip of potato fried in deep fat. Often used in the plural. . Most restaurants assume that kids don't eat anything else. And--after a steady diet of fast food (even in school cafeterias)--many kids won't. Do any restaurants offer decent kids' foods? Obesity rates in children have since 1980. While no one cause, the restaurant industry's view that kids' food means fast food hasn't helped. Granted, some children are picky pick·y adj. pick·i·er, pick·i·est Informal Excessively meticulous; fussy. picky Adjective [pickier, pickiest] Brit, Austral & NZ eaters. But the more-adventurous youngsters would move beyond fried potatoes and chicken fingers, greasy greas·y adj. greas·i·er, greas·i·est 1. Coated or soiled with grease. 2. Containing grease, especially too much grease: a greasy hamburger. 3. cheeseburgers, and fatty pizza if they were exposed to healthier foods at an early age. Worldwide, children dig into Verb 1. dig into - examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill" poke into, probe penetrate, perforate - pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" bowls of beans (Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ), chickpeas (the Middle East), and vegetables (Asia). U.S. restaurants serve fingers, burgers, and fries because they're the lowest common denominator low·est common denominator n. 1. See least common denominator. 2. a. The most basic, least sophisticated level of taste, sensibility, or opinion among a group of people. b. , they're familiar, and they're cheap. Cheap for the restaurant, that is. The cost to children who face a greater risk of obesity, diabetes, and (eventually) heart disease and cancer doesn't show up on the menu (nor do calories, sodium, or damaging fat). Maybe restaurateurs don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. that arteries start to show early signs of heart disease in the second decade of life. Maybe they don't know that children aged two and older need to cut back on saturated and trans fat trans fat n. 1. A trans fatty acid. 2. Trans fatty acids considered as a group. trans fat A fat containing trans fatty acids. . Maybe they figure that kids can eat unlimited quantities of fatty, salty salt·y adj. salt·i·er, salt·i·est 1. Of, containing, or seasoned with salt. 2. Suggestive of the sea or sailing life. 3. Witty; pungent; earthy: salty humor. , sugary sug·ar·y adj. sug·ar·i·er, sug·ar·i·est 1. Characterized by or containing sugar: sugary foods. 2. Tasting or looking like sugar. 3. , high-calorie foods and "burn it off." Maybe it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a they realized that as long as they're feeding children a steady diet of fattening fat·ten v. fat·tened, fat·ten·ing, fat·tens v.tr. 1. To make plump or fat. 2. To fertilize (land). 3. feed, their family-friendly reputations aren't worth the crayons and color-your-own placemats they hand out at the door. Fries & Free Refills What are the top 20 table-service restaurants feeding our children? Late last year, we found fried chicken (fingers or nuggets Nuggets can refer to several branches of interest:
pl.n. Chopped cooked potatoes, fried until brown. Also called hash brown potatoes. ). In fact, at almost half the chains, fries were the only side g dish on the kids' menu. Most chains allow you to substitute a (hopefully better) side dish side dish n. A dish served as an accompaniment to the main course. Noun 1. side dish - a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course entremets, side order for the fries if you ask--but only nine of the 20 menus offered. (For a list of the chains we surveyed, see "The Chain Gang," p. 15.) Extras make it worse. Kids' meals A Kids' meal is a meal specified to children, usually to preteens, sometimes younger. One example is the McDonald's Happy meal. often come with free (fatty) biscuits or corn bread corn bread or corn·bread n. Bread made from cornmeal. and a complimentary dessert or beverage. (Why drink water when you can have a free Coke or Pepsi?) At most chains, younger patrons can choose from soda, juice, or milk (typically 2% fat, but it varies from restaurant to restaurant). Half the chains we looked at offer free refills, but only for soda. A handful of restaurants are starting to change. Like fast-food chains, they may be worried about lawsuits. (McDonald's and Wendy's are test-marketing kids' meals with milk or juice and fruit instead of a soda and fries.) Or maybe the table-service chains sense a new market. "Young people today have increasingly sophisticated palates," Red Lobster executive chef Keith Keogh told the trade publication Restaurant Business in December, when the chain unveiled its new kids' menu. Young Red Lobster patrons now get a free appetizer of applesauce or fresh carrot carrot, common name for some members of the Umbelliferae, a family (also called the parsley family) of chiefly biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions. sticks and cucumbers with a ranch dipping sauce. And the new entrees--which include Snow Crab Legs, Grilled Mahi-Mahi, and Grilled Chicken--come with steamed vegetables. Gone are the fried shrimp, hamburgers, and cheesesticks, though popcorn shrimp and fried chicken fingers--which both come with french fries--are still on the menu. To find out what's on What's On (Traditional Chinese: 熒幕八爪娛) is a weekly half-hour TV series that airs on Fairchild Television. Format Originally started in 1996, the show is currently the longest-running program in Fairchild Television history. kids' menus, we sent dishes from seven of the 20 table-service chains we surveyed to an independent laboratory. We chose one or two chains to represent each dish. They're listed in italics following its name. (Unfortunately, the new Red Lobster dishes weren't yet available.) To estimate how much of a day's worth of calories (or other nutrients) kids' meals supply, we assumed that children should be eating 1,500 calories a day. That's the U.S. Department of Agriculture's suggested calorie calorie, abbr. cal, unit of heat energy in the metric system. The measurement of heat is called calorimetry. The calorie, or gram calorie, is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of pure water 1°C;. intake for "low-active" children aged four to eight. A 1,500-calorie diet has room for only 17 grams a day of harmful (saturated-plus-trans) fat. Both numbers are higher for older or active kids and lower for sedentary sedentary /sed·en·tary/ (sed´en-tar?e) 1. sitting habitually; of inactive habits. 2. pertaining to a sitting posture. sedentary of inactive habits; pertaining to a fat, castrated or confined animal. kids. Here, from least to most saturated-plus-trans fat, are the foods we sent to the lab. (Not that bad fats are the sole criteria for judging a healthy meal. A low-fat dinner of white bread and non-whole-grain pasta isn't exactly ideal.) One look at the numbers and it's easy to see why most kids swallow nearly twice as many calories at a restaurant as they do when they eat at home. Grilled Chicken Tenderloins (Cracker Barrel This article is about the restaurant-and-store chain. For the unrelated company marketing cheeses bearing the "Cracker Barrel" trademark, see Kraft Foods. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. ) Cracker Barrel, with more than 400 units around the country (though mostly in the South), features homestyle cooking. It's one of the few restaurants that offer a decent selection of vegetable side dishes. And, like Macaroni Grill Macaroni Grill (also known as Romano's Macaroni Grill) is a chain of Italian food casual dining restaurants in the US and Canada. The chain and brand name is owned by Brinker International. and Red Lobster, it's one of the few that give kids a choice of fried or grilled chicken. Cracker Barrel's three-ounce portion of grilled chicken tenderloins has only 110 calories and one gram of bad (saturated-plus-trans) fat. While the tenderloins look small, it's the serving that nutritionists say children (or adults, for that matter) should be eating. Whether kids end up with a healthy meal depends on which of the chain's 15 side dishes they add and how much of the free corn bread or biscuits they scarf down. The vegetables--like baby carrots In North America the term baby carrot is commonly applied to either miniature carrots harvested before their roots develop or adult carrots chopped into smaller pieces. Taking fully grown carrots and chopping them into smaller pieces was the idea of California farmer Mike Yurosek. , corn, and green beans--add fewer calories, less harmful fat, and more nutrients than the steak fries, hashbrown casserole, or "dumplins," to name a few. Get the chicken with carrots and a (free) glass of OJ instead of a Coke and your kid ends up with a healthy 320-calorie meal. Grilled chicken is on virtually every adult menu. Why do so few restaurants bother to offer it to children? Spaghetti spaghetti: see pasta. & Tomato Sauce (Olive Garden  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . ) Spaghetti showed up oil roughly half of the kids' menus we surveyed. The 310-calorie entree is low in saturated-plus-trans fat, and the tomato sauce counts as a vegetable. At least at Olive Garden, young spaghetti eaters get to share some of the grown-ups' garden salad A garden salad is a salad consisting of lettuce and simple vegetables found in a small vegetable garden such as tomatoes, carrots, onions, and dressing. . Oust don't let them share too many 140-calorie garlic bread sticks.) At many chains--Applebee's, Outback, Ruby Tuesday, and T.G.I. Friday's T.G.I. Friday's (often referred to as just "Fridays") is a popular American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining, with over 500 restaurants across the United States, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Australia and the UK, as well as many other countries around the world. , for example--the only side dish on the kids' menu is fries. Popcorn Shrimp (Red Lobster) Red Lobster deserves a pat on the tail for overhauling its children's menu. But what happens to kids who stick with that old favorite, Popcorn Shrimp? A third of a day's bad fat and 620 milligrams of sodium, that's what. Shrimp starts out low in fat, but popcorn shrimp is more breading than seafood seafood Edible aquatic animals excluding mammals, but including both freshwater and ocean creatures. Seafood includes bony and cartilaginous fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, edible jellyfish, sea turtles, frogs, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. . The batter sops up more than two grams of saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be and three grams of trans fat in the deep-fat fryer. And that doesn't include the french fries that come along for the ride. Red Lobster's fries are among the worst we found. Each one-cup serving adds nine grams of artery-clogging fat--about as much as a medium fries at Burger King. Total damage for the Popcorn Shrimp plus fries (but not the free appetizer or Cheddar Bay Biscuits): 430 calories, 1,310 mg of sodium, and 14 grams of bad fat (three grams shy of a day's worth). Macaroni macaroni: see pasta. & Cheese (Chili's) Chili's No Baloney Macaroni 'n Cheese looks exactly like Kraft's. It delivers six grams of saturated-plus-trans fat, the same as five Burger King Chicken Tenders. But the Mac 'n Cheese has about twice the calories (420) and sodium (910 mg). The only good news: at most chains, the dish comes without fries. But who needs 400 calories' worth of white flour, margarine margarine, manufactured substitute for butter. It consists of a blend of vegetable oils or meat fats (or a combination of both) mixed with milk and salt. It was developed in the late 1860s by the French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouries in a contest sponsored by , cheese, and salt? Ribs (Chili's) Ribs aren't as bad as they sound, because the typical half-rack on the kids' menu has only about 3 1/2 ounces of meat on the bone. But that doesn't make them a bargain. While they've got nowhere near the 21 grams of saturated-plus-trans fat of an adult portion, their seven grams are 40 percent of a day's limit for children. Worse yet, the ribs come surrounded by fries. At Chili's, that doubles the bad fat (to 13 grams) and the calories (to 630). That's like getting a McDonald's Happy Meal with a Quarter Pounder The Quarter Pounder is a sandwich sold by international fast food chain McDonald's. Along with the Big Mac, it is one of McDonald's two signature products. Product description instead of a Hamburger. Grilled Cheese (Denny's) Grilled cheese appeared on 90 percent of the kids' menus we surveyed. Denny's The Big Cheese seems to be made with just one slice of cheese. But that still adds up to 310 calories, 790 mg of sodium, and more than a third of a day's bad fat. Factor in the fries that just about every chain serves and the total comes to 720 calories and 15 grams of saturated-plus-trans fat. That's like a McDonald's Happy Meal with a Big Mac instead of a Hamburger. To its credit, Denny's offers a vegetable of the day or apple sauce instead of fries with every kid's meal (if you notice the asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. on the menu). Hamburger (Denny's) Kids' burgers range from normal to huge. Denny's hamburger (it's actually a Cheeseburgerlicious without the cheese) weighs the same as a McDonald's Hamburger, which puts it at the normal end. But it still delivers seven grams of saturated-plus-trans fat. Of course, once you add the fries, your child is facing a plate of 720 calories and almost a whole day's worth of artery sludge sludge (sluj) a suspension of solid or semisolid particles in a fluid which itself may or may not be a truly viscous fluid. sludge a suspension of solid or semisolid particles in a fluid. (15 grams). Lobby for the vegetable of the day instead Chicken Fingers (Chili's) Chili's Little Chicken Crispers Crispers are a Christie brand snack food sold in Canada. Currently available in 8 flavours, Crispers have been successful based on their marketing as "baked not fried" and their uniqueness, as in "they're not chips, they're not crackers, they're Crispers". aren't so little. The three pieces add up to 360 calories, 980 milligrams of sodium, four grams of sat fat, plus another four grams of trans fat. That's anything but kid-sized. All that trans--courtesy of the partially hydrogenated frying oil--makes chicken as bad for your arteries as a Quarter Pounder. At Chili's, the kids' fries essentially double the calories (to 710) and the artery-clogging fat (to 15 grams). That's par for the course for kids' meals. Cheeseburger (Denny's) Denny's Cheeseburgerlicious is about the same (modest) size as a McDonald's Cheeseburger. So most parents would never guess that it's got close to half a day's saturated-plus-tram fat (eight grams). With fries, the meal hits 760 calories and 16 grams of heart-damaging fat--about what an adult would get from a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Italian Sausage  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. Pizza.Cheese Pizza (Olive Garden) Pizza's a regular on kids' menus. Olive Garden's is smaller (about seven ounces) than a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Cheese Pizza (nine ounces). But your youngster still walks away with 420 calories, close to half a day's saturated-plus-trans fat (thanks largely to the cheese), and 1,130 mg of sodium. At least pizza doesn't come with fries. And at Olive Garden, kids can share the generous bowl of salad that comes to the table. No such luck at most other chains. Grilled Cheese (Applebee's) More cheese and grilling grease grease, mixture of lubricant and thickener. It is used to reduce friction between surfaces from which oils would leak away or cause damage by dripping, or where lubrication must be assured for extended periods. Many greases are mixtures of mineral oil and soap. help explain why Applebee's Grilled Cheese sandwich A grilled cheese sandwich, (also known as cheese toasty or toasted cheese sandwich) is a form of toasted sandwich that consists of two slices of bread and at least one slice of cheese melted in between. has twice the harmful fat of Denny's The Big Cheese. It also explains why children consume 520 calories and 14 grams of saturated-plus-trans fat in their innocent-looking grilled cheese sandwich. If it comes with fries, your kid will waddle out of the restaurant with 900 calories plus 2,050 milligrams of sodium and more than a day's worth of bad fat (21 grams). That's like eating three pork chops Pork Chop An arrangement on the floor of the NYSE whereby clerks cover the booth of a floor broker and accept orders, phone calls, and associated tasks. Notes: The clerks in charge of maintaining the booths are directly compensated by the floor brokers who own them. . And those numbers don't include the complimentary beverage (soda or milk) ... or the expensive weight-loss camp that Applebee's young patrons may soon be seeking. Macaroni & Cheese (Cracker Barrel) Some chains--like Bennigan's, Big Boy, and Coco's--serve Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Others, like Cracker Barrel, pride themselves on home cooking. They use Velveeta. That ups the saturated-plus-trans fat to 16 grams--about a day's worth. As if that weren't bad enough, the sodium hits 1,100 mg (close to half a day's limit). Kids may start out with normal blood pressure, but odds are it will creep up Verb 1. creep up - advance stealthily or unnoticed; "Age creeps up on you" sneak up advance, march on, move on, progress, pass on, go on - move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on" as they get older. By the time they bit 60, half of those adorable a·dor·a·ble adj. 1. Delightful, lovable, and charming: an adorable set of twins. 2. Worthy of adoration. tykes may need drugs to lower their blood pressure. Cheeseburger (Outback Steakhouse Outback Steakhouse is a casual dining American restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida with over 900 locations in 23 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. ) No Happy-Meal-sized cheeseburger at a steakhouse like Outback. Its quarter-pound Boomerang Cheese Burger delivers 470 calories, 940 milligrams of sodium, and a day's worth of saturated-plus-tram fat (18 grams). Think of it as the 12-ounce sirloin steak the grown-ups are eating ... with three pats of butter melted on top. Outback's fries are special, too. The company fries in a beef tallow Noun 1. beef tallow - tallow obtained from a bovine animal tallow - obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants blend, which gives each order 13 grams of saturated-plus-trans fat. To your heart, that's worse than having a filet mignon fi·let mi·gnon n. pl. fi·lets mi·gnons A small, round, very choice cut of beef from the loin. [French : filet, fillet + mignon, dainty.] Noun 1. with your butter-topped sirloin. Total damage for the Boomerang plus Fries: 840 calories, 1,450 mg of sodium, and close to two days' worth of artery-busting fat. And that's without dessert or the (free) beverage and bread and butter. Ice Cream Sundae (Outback Steakhouse) Nearly every kids' menu features an ice cream sundae. At Friendly's and Macaroni Grill, it comes with every meal. The restaurants are only trying to let kids have some fun. Outback's Spotted Dog Sundae delivers 27 grams of saturated fat and 730 calories' worth of fun. It's a typical sundae--ice cream, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream. A sundae is one heckuva heck·uv·a adj. Slang Used as an intensive: You've done a heckuva good job. [Alteration of heck of a.] splurge. No other single item on most kids' menus has 1 1/2 days' worth of artery-clogging fat. At Outback, ordering a sundae is little different than ordering a Boomerang Cheese Burger and Fries. And kids who eat a cheeseburger, fries, Coke, and sundae will be sitting down to a stunning 1,700 calories and 58 grams of saturated-plus-trans fat. That's 3 1/2 days' worth of artery gunk--even more than an order of fettuccine Alfredo fettuccine Al·fre·do n. A dish consisting of fettuccine in a rich cream sauce with Parmesan cheese. [After Alfredo all'Augusteo, a restaurant in Rome.] Noun 1. . Shouldn't parents know that their kids are eating a "heart attack on a plate"? Small Fries Best Bites have no more than two grams of saturated-plus-trans fat. The chart shows each entree with the side dishes offered on the kids' menu (except for Cracker Barrel, where we picked baby carrots to go with the grilled chicken). The chart also shows a few meals with complimentary beverages. Items are ranked from least to most saturated-plus-trans fat in the main dish. Numbers for the dishes in bold come from independent laboratory analyses. The information for this article was compiled by Tamar Genger, Heather Jones Heather Jones (born October 8, 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a former field hockey player from Canada, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she ended up in seventh place with the Canadian National Women's Team. , and Sarah Wade, with help from Nicole Ferring.
Total Fat
Kids' Meals Calories (grams)
[check][check] Cracker Barrel Grilled
Chicken Tenderloins (3 oz.) 110 2
[check][check] with Carrots (2/3 cup) 160 4
[check][check] with Carrots and Orange
Juice (12 fl. oz.) 320 5
[check][check] Olive Garden Spaghetti &
Tomato Sauce (1 1/4 cups) 310 3
[check][check] with Garden Salad (1 cup)
and Italian Dressing
(2 Tbs.) 420 11
Red Lobster Popcorn Shrimp
(2 1/2 oz.) 160 9
with Fries (1 cup) 430 23
with Fries and Applesauce
(3/4 cup) 590 23
Chili's No Baloney Macaroni
'n Cheese (1 1/4 cups) 420 12
Chili's Ribs (5 ribs--1/2
rack) 280 17
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 630 33
Denny's The Big Cheese
(grilled cheese) (3 oz.) 310 16
with Vegetable of the Day
(1/2 cup) 330 17
with Applesauce (2/3 cup) 440 16
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 720 37
Denny's Cheeseburgerlicious
without cheese (3 1/2 oz.) 310 15
with Vegetable of the Day
(1/2 cup) 340 16
with Applesauce (2/3 cup) 440 15
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 720 36
Chili's Little Chicken
Crispers (3 fingers--5 1/2
oz.) 360 20
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 710 36
Denny's Cheeseburgerlicious
(4 oz.) 350 17
with Vegetable of the Day
(1/2 cup) 380 19
with Applesauce (2/3 cup) 480 18
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 760 39
Olive Garden Cheese Pizza (1
pizza--7 oz.) 420 18
with Garden Salad (1 cup)
and Italian Dressing (2
Tbs.) 540 26
Applebee's Grilled Cheese
(5 1/2 oz.) 520 26
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 900 44
with Fries and Coke (12 fl.
oz.) 1,020 44
Cracker Barrel Macaroni n'
Cheese (1 1/2 cups) 430 29
with whole milk (12 fl.
oz.) 650 41
Outback Steakhouse Boomerang
Cheese Burger (7 oz.) 470 32
with Fries (1 2/3 cups) 840 56
with Fries and Coke (14 fl.
oz.) 970 56
Outback Steakhouse Spotted
Dog Sundae with Chocolate
Sauce (10 oz.) 730 42
Saturated+ Sodium
Trans Fat (milli-
Kids' Meals (grams) grams)
[check][check] Cracker Barrel Grilled
Chicken Tenderloins (3 oz.) 1 290
[check][check] with Carrots (2/3 cup) 1 400
[check][check] with Carrots and Orange
Juice (12 fl. oz.) 1 400
[check][check] Olive Garden Spaghetti &
Tomato Sauce (1 1/4 cups) 1 570
[check][check] with Garden Salad (1 cup)
and Italian Dressing
(2 Tbs.) 2 1,130
Red Lobster Popcorn Shrimp
(2 1/2 oz.) 6 620
with Fries (1 cup) 14 1,310
with Fries and Applesauce
(3/4 cup) 14 1,360
Chili's No Baloney Macaroni
'n Cheese (1 1/4 cups) 6 910
Chili's Ribs (5 ribs--1/2
rack) 7 370
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 13 590
Denny's The Big Cheese
(grilled cheese) (3 oz.) 7 790
with Vegetable of the Day
(1/2 cup) 7 860
with Applesauce (2/3 cup) 7 840
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 15 910
Denny's Cheeseburgerlicious
without cheese (3 1/2 oz.) 7 280
with Vegetable of the Day
(1/2 cup) 7 350
with Applesauce (2/3 cup) 7 330
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 15 400
Chili's Little Chicken
Crispers (3 fingers--5 1/2
oz.) 8 980
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 15 1,200
Denny's Cheeseburgerlicious
(4 oz.) 8 490
with Vegetable of the Day
(1/2 cup) 9 560
with Applesauce (2/3 cup) 9 540
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 16 610
Olive Garden Cheese Pizza (1
pizza--7 oz.) 8 1,130
with Garden Salad (1 cup)
and Italian Dressing (2
Tbs.) 9 1,700
Applebee's Grilled Cheese
(5 1/2 oz.) 14 1,350
with Fries (1 1/3 cups) 21 2,050
with Fries and Coke (12 fl.
oz.) 21 2,060
Cracker Barrel Macaroni n'
Cheese (1 1/2 cups) 16 1,100
with whole milk (12 fl.
oz.) 23 1,260
Outback Steakhouse Boomerang
Cheese Burger (7 oz.) 18 940
with Fries (1 2/3 cups) 31 1,450
with Fries and Coke (14 fl.
oz.) 31 1,460
Outback Steakhouse Spotted
Dog Sundae with Chocolate
Sauce (10 oz.) 27 180
[check][check] Best Bite.
Daily limits for low-active children ages 4-8: Calories: 1,500. Total
Fat: 50 grams. Saturated+Trans Fat: 17 grams. Sodium: 2,400 milligrams.
Sources: CSPI, independent laboratory analyses, company information,
and U.S. Department of Agriculture (www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp).
The use of information from this article for commercial purposes is
strictly prohibited without written permission from CSPI.
The Chain Gang: The 20 chains we surveyed for this article: Applebee's,
Bennigan's, Big Boy, Bob Evans, Chili's, Coco's, Cracker Barrel,
Denny's, Friendly's, IHOP, Macaroni Grill, Olive Garden, Outback
Steakhouse, Perkins, Red Lobster, Ruby Tuesday, Shoney's, Steak'n
Shake, T.G.I. Friday's, and Waffle House.
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