Meals to GO.Homestyle meals-to-go: the convenience of fast food, but are they healthier? Looks can be deceiving. Dad works. Mom works. They're often too drained by a long day on the job to cook. But parents still want their kids to have a nutritious nutritious /nu·tri·tious/ (noo-trish´us) affording nourishment. nu·tri·tious adj. Providing nourishment; nourishing. nutritious affording nourishment. meal, and they still want the family to gather around the dinner table. For many, fast food doesn't cut it. June Cleaver wouldn't serve her family pizza or french fries French fry n. A thin strip of potato fried in deep fat. Often used in the plural. . It's got to be an old friend like meatloaf and mashed potatoes n. pl. 1. Potatoes which have been boiled and mashed to a pulpy consistency, usu. with sparing addition of milk, salt, butter, or other flavoring. It is a popular accompaniment to a meat course [U.S., 1900's], providing bulk and calories to a meal. , or turkey and stuffing, or roast chicken and corn on the cob. And restaurants like Boston Market Boston Market (known before 1995 as Boston Chicken), headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast-food restaurants. Founded in December 1985 in Newton, Massachusetts, the chain grew rapidly in the early and mid-1990s, filed bankruptcy in the late 1990s, and , Kenny Rogers Roasters Kenny Rogers Roasters is a chicken restaurant that was started in 1991 in the United States by country music musician Kenny Rogers and former Kentucky Fried Chicken owner and original developer John Y. Brown, Jr. The menu was originally centered on wood-fired rotisserie chicken. , Koo Koo Roo, Safeway, and others are happy to take Mom's place in the kitchen. The trend--called "home-meal replacement"--is the fastest growing segment of the restaurant industry. In 1996, for the first time ever, more Americans opted to carry out than to eat in restaurants (that includes fast food), according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. NPD Group The NPD Group, Inc. is a leading global market research company[1] founded in 1967 and provides consumer and retail information to manufacturers and retailers. Using actual sales data from retailers and distributors as well as consumer-reported purchasing behavior, NPD , a New York-based research firm. Colonel Sanders Harland David Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). His image is omnipresent in the chain's advertising and packaging. may have started it all years ago when he promoted Kentucky 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. as "Sunday dinner seven days a week." But, like other fast food chains, KFC's menu doesn't have as much variety as most homestyle meals-to-go operations. For about $6 per person, those places offer the convenience of fast food. But are they healthier? Looks can be deceiving. Try this quiz, which is taken from items on the menu at heavyweight Boston Market: 1. Which has more fat? a) Caesar side salad b) Mashed potatoes & gravy c) Corn bread corn bread or corn·bread n. Bread made from cornmeal. 2. Which has the most calories? a) Chocolate chip Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape (similar to a Hershey's Kiss). They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter. cookie cookie File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to b) Cranberry cranberry, low creeping evergreen bog plant of the genus Oxycoccus of the family Ericaceae (heath family). Cranberries are considered by some botanists to belong to the blueberry genus Vaccinium. walnut relish 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 c) Savory savory, name for any plant of the genus Satureja, aromatic herbs and subshrubs of the family Labiatae (mint family). Commonly cultivated as border ornamentals or potherbs are two species of the Mediterranean region and surrounding areas: summer savory (S. stuffing 3. Which has the most artery-clogging 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 ? a) Macaroni macaroni: see pasta. & cheese side dish b) Parmesan creamed spinach spinach, annual plant (Spinacia oleracea) of the family Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot family), probably of Persian origin and known to have been introduced into Europe in the 15th cent. c) Meatloaf & brown gravy Answers: 1. a. Thanks to the dressing and the cheese, Boston Market's Caesar side salad is nearly twice as fatty as its mashed potatoes & gravy, and almost three times as fatty as its corn bread. 2. b. The relish tips the scales at 370 calories. The chocolate chip cookie (340 calories) and the stuffing (310 calories) aren't far behind. The relish also packs a hefty 18 teaspoons of sugar. 3. b. The Parmesan creamed spinach is one of the worst vegetable side dishes we've ever seen. It's got two-thirds of a day's sat fat. You'd have to eat an order of meatloaf & gravy plus an order of ham and cinnamon cinnamon, name for trees and shrubs of the genus Cinnamomum of the family Lauraceae (laurel family). Cinnamon spice comes chiefly from the Sri Lankan cinnamon (C. zeylanicum), now cultivated in several tropical regions. apples to do as much damage to your heart. The take-home message: Don't think that everything on a homestyle menu is good for you just because it wasn't cooked in a deep-fat fryer. But--if you're careful--you can put together a decent dinner. The exception is Koo Koo Roo. With the small California-based chain, you could throw darts at the menu and come up with a good meal. As restaurants scramble to get a piece of the homestyle meals-to-go pie, they'd be wise to copy Koo Koo Roo instead of Boston Market. Koo's dishes have less fat and salt--and more pizzazz and flavor--than the others'. What a treat to find takeout Takeout A financing to refinance or take out another loan. that tempts you to eat vegetables. Here's the skinny on what's cooking at some of the largest homestyle meals-to-go restaurant chains The following is a list of restaurant chains. See also: Fast-food restaurant, Casual dining, List of reference tables. International
adj. Intended to be consumed away from the place of sale; takeout: a shop offering carryout sandwiches. n. An item of food or a meal that is to be consumed away from the place of sale. dinners. We only looked at takeout, not sandwiches. And the information comes from lab analyses provided by the companies, so we can't vouch for vouch for verb 1. guarantee, back, certify, answer for, swear to, stick up for (informal) stand witness, give assurance of, asseverate, go bail for verb 2. it. Smaller chains like San Antonio-based Harvest Rotisserie Restaurant, Miami-based Pollo Tropical Pollo Tropical (lit. Tropical Chicken in Spanish) is a Miami-based fast food restaurant chain specializing in Caribbean food. Pollo Tropical is owned and operated by Carrols Corporation. The first Pollo Tropical opened in November 1988, in Miami. , and Washington, D.C.-based Chicken Out serve similar food. Some provide nutritional information at the counter, so be sure to ask. Boston Market The leader of the meals-to-go pack has more than 1,000 stores nationwide. It sold $1.2 billion worth of food in 1996. The Colorado-based chain (go figure) serves up six entrees and some 20 side dishes. Picks: The 1/4 white chicken (breast and wing) is Boston's nutritional star ... as long as you remove the skin, which removes two-thirds of the fat (see "Good Boston Market Meal," p. 15). The rotisserie turkey breast has less fat, but almost twice as much sodium. What's more, Boston Market--and most other meals-to-go operations--lets you skip the "entree" altogether and assemble your own vegetable plate with three side dishes. The two best sides: dill dill, Old World annual or biennial plant (Anethum graveolens) of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family), cultivated since at least since 400 B.C. The pungent, aromatic leaves and seeds are used for pickling and for flavoring sauces, salads, and soups. new potatoes and herbed herbed adj. Flavored with herbs: herbed vinaigrette. sweet corn. The potatoes have less than half the fat and sodium that you'd get in a side of mashed potatoes. Ditto for the corn, which has just enough 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 to give it a rich flavor. Fruit salad's a go, too, but you can only get it in the summer. Other notable sides: The BBQ BBQ barbecue baked beans baked beans Noun, pl haricot beans, baked and tinned in tomato sauce baked beans npl → judías fpl en salsa de tomate baked beans bake npl will give you a third of a day's fiber, but, like most canned bean dishes, they come at a price (630 mg of sodium). The corn bread that's dished dished adj. 1. Concave. 2. Slanting toward one another at the bottom. Used of a pair of wheels. Adj. 1. dished - shaped like a dish or pan dish-shaped, patelliform concave - curving inward out with every meal gets a Best Bite, but it's nutritionally equal to a salted dinner roll with a pat of margarine. Pans: Skip the chicken salad, which packs as much total fat as a super-size order of McDonald's French Fries. No wonder. Boston Market makes it by drowning drowning /drown·ing/ (droun´ing) suffocation and death resulting from filling of the lungs with water or other substance. drowning, n asphyxiation because of submersion in a liquid. cubed chicken in mayonnaise. The chicken pot pie A pot pie is a type of baked savory pie with a bottom and top completely surrounded in flakey crusts and baked in its own pie tin. This is in contrast to the Australian meat pie and many British regional variants on pie recipes, which may have a top of flakey pastry, but whose might as well be fried. We estimate that the bans fat (from the hydrogenated shortening in the crust) and the saturated fat in the crust and cream sauce cream sauce n. A white sauce made by cooking together a mixture of flour and butter with milk or cream. Noun 1. cream sauce - white sauce made with cream use up three-quarters of a day's allowance of artery-clogging fat. An order of meatloaf & gravy isn't much better. And if you add macaroni & cheese, creamed spinach, and corn bread, you turn it into the equivalent of three McDonald's Quarter Pounders 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 (see "Bad Boston Market Meal," p. 15). Some of Boston Market's vegetables need work. When we ordered the steamed vegetables--carrots, broccoli broccoli (brŏk`əlē) [Ital.,=sprouts], variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature flower panicles. It is the same variety (Brassica oleracea botrytis) as the cauliflower and is similarly cultivated. , and cauliflower--they were bland and overcooked. The butternut butternut: see walnut. butternut Deciduous nut-producing tree (Juglans cinerea) of the walnut family, native to eastern North America. A mature tree has gray, deeply furrowed bark. squash may be loaded with vitamins A and C, but it has a tad too much butter for a Best Bite. And the full-fat mayo makes the cole slaw slaw n. Chiefly Southern U.S. Coleslaw. Noun 1. slaw - basically shredded cabbage coleslaw salad - food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of fatty. And if you think you can splurge after ordering the (skinned) chicken, steamed veggies Veggies of Nottingham, also known as Veggies Catering Campaign, is a campaigning group based in Nottingham, England, promoting ethicalbum alternatives to mainstream fast food. , and fruit salad ... hold on to your sweet tooth. The oatmeal raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. and chocolate chip cookies are two to six times the size of most supermarket cookies. That gives them two to six times the calories, fat, and sugar. Eat a chocolate chip cookie at the Market and you've just had 340 calories--more than in a quarter chicken with skin--and the fat of six strips of bacon for dessert. Boston's chocolate chip brownie brownie, in Celtic folklore, household spirit associated with farmsteads. Brownies help with chores, but, if criticized, they will make mischief, such as spoiling crops. If payment other than food is offered a brownie, he vanishes from a farm forever. is also a disaster. It's far worse than brownies from Betty Crocker Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. , Duncan Hines Duncan Hines (March 26, 1880–March 15, 1959) was a U.S. pioneer of restaurant ratings for travelers. Born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Hines was a traveling salesman for a Chicago printer. , or Little Debbie. It's like topping off your meal with two slices of Domino's Hand Tossed Pepperoni Pizza. The best dessert: a side order of the (delicious) hot cinnamon apples. Kenny Rogers Roasters The Florida-based chain is a lot like Boston Market in menu and price. Picks: The best entrees are the 1/4 white chicken (sans skin) and the sliced turkey breast. As for the sides: The green light goes to the corn on the cob, the zucchini zucchini Subspecies of Cucurbita pepo, dark green elongate summer squash in the gourd family, of great abundance in U.S. home gardens and supermarkets. The creeping vine has five-lobed leaves, tendrils, and large yellow flowers. & squash Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. , and the baked sweet potato--a nutritional powerhouse loaded with carotenoids Carotenoids Carotenoids are yellow to deep-red pigments. Mentioned in: Vitamin A Deficiency carotenoids (k , vitamin C vitamin C or ascorbic acid Water-soluble organic compound important in animal metabolism. Most animals produce it in their bodies, but humans, other primates, and guinea pigs need it in the diet to prevent scurvy. , and fiber. Second best is the (less nutritious) rice pilaf. Unfortunately, Kenny's steamed veggies need more flavor. The side salad, though uninspired, is okay if you get it with fat-free Italian dressing Noun 1. Italian dressing - a vinaigrette with garlic and herbs: oregano and basil and dill dressing, salad dressing - savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type (use half a packet to keep the sodium down). Pans: The chicken pot pie is just as bad as Boston Market's. And stay away from the potato salad, sour cream & dill pasta salad, and cornbread stuffing. Koo Koo Roo The Los Angeles-based chain has 32 outlets, mainly in California, but with a few in Florida, Maryland, Nevada, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C. area. Its slogan is "Koo Koo Roo Good for Yoo." Hokey hok·ey adj. hok·i·er, hok·i·est Slang 1. Mawkishly sentimental; corny. 2. Noticeably contrived; artificial. hok ... but accurate. If you want fresh, fast, delicious food that tastes homemade home·made adj. 1. Made or prepared in the home: homemade pie. 2. Made by oneself. 3. Crudely or simply made. Adj. 1. , this is the place. Koo Koo Roo's menu features chicken, turkey, and more than 20 enticing side dishes. Picks: The skinless rotisserie chicken is fabulous. And the turkey tastes like you just sat down to Thanksgiving dinner The centerpiece of contemporary Thanksgiving in the United States is a large meal, starring a large roasted turkey. All of the dishes in the traditional American version of Thanksgiving Dinner are made from foods native to North America, according to tradition the Pilgrims received these . Koo Koo Roo is the only place we found that serves honest-to-goodness slow roasted fresh turkey, not turkey that's been injected with a salt water brine brine a salt solution used in the curing of meat. Standard ingredients are sodium chloride (15 to 30%) and sodium nitrate (0.15 to 1.50%) but many other ingredients may be added for special effects. brine shrimp see artemia. . The big surprise: Almost all the sides were good enough to earn a Best Bite. The vegetables, including green beans green beans Noun, pl long narrow green beans that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable , 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. , butternut squash, and baked yams, taste like they were just plucked pluck v. plucked, pluck·ing, plucks v.tr. 1. To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick: pluck a flower; pluck feathers from a chicken. from a garden out back. The roasted garlic potatoes are to die for. The zingy zing·y adj. zing·i·er, zing·i·est Informal 1. Pleasantly stimulating: "The times are good. The living is easy. The vibes are zingy" Saturday Review. slaw is made using an apple cider
Apple cider is the name used especially in the United States and parts of Canada for a non-alcoholic beverage produced from apples by a process of pressing. marinade. The cucumber cucumber, fruit of Cucumis sativus, a species of gourd whose many varieties are descended from a plant native to Asia and Africa. Cucumber is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Violales, family Curcurbitaceae. salad and tangy tang 1 n. 1. A distinctively sharp taste, flavor, or odor, as that of orange juice. See Synonyms at taste. 2. A distinctive quality that adds piquancy. 3. A trace, hint, or smattering. 4. tomato salad are coated with fresh herbs. And the black beans black bean see castanospermum australe, erythrophleumchlorostachys. , which aren't overcooked and mushy mush·y adj. mush·i·er, mush·i·est 1. Resembling mush in consistency; soft. 2. Informal a. Excessively sentimental. See Synonyms at sentimental. b. , have a nice hint of cumin cumin or cummin (both: kŭm`ĭn), low annual herb (Cuminum cyminum) of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family), long cultivated in the Old World for the aromatic seedlike fruits. . We didn't try the confetti rice, lentil lentil, leguminous Old World annual plant (Lens culinaris) with whitish or pale blue flowers. Its pods contain two greenish-brown or dark-colored seeds, also called lentils, which when fully ripe are ground into meal or used in soups and stews. salad, or Santa Fe pasta, but don't let that stop you. Even the mashed potatoes, which had a little too much butter for a thumbs up, had less fat and salt here than anywhere else. And you don't have to be a vegetarian to combine any three sides for dinner. The hardest part is deciding which three. Pans: The only nutritional dud entree is the enormous turkey pot pie. Eat the whole 1 1/3 pounds and you'll have gobbled up 900 calories and more than half a day's fat, sat fat, and sodium. And skip the macaroni & cheese, creamed spinach, and stuffing (no surprises there). Safeway Safeway recently introduced Great Meal Combos at its supermarkets that have delis. They go for about $3 per person. Picks: Try the roasted chicken (skinned, of course). Second best is the roast turkey, which is low in fat but--like all Safeway's main dishes except the chicken--high in salt. Pans: Forget about the meat loaf and chicken pot pie, unless you're willing to use up half a day's fat on either. The same goes for the side dishes, which are heavy on the butter, heavy cream, cheese, and whole milk. A one-cup serving of the macaroni & cheese, butternut squash, cheese & bacon mashed potatoes, or creamed spinach uses up at least half a day's sat fat. Worse yet is the chocolate pudding or gravy. (Safeway counts each as a side dish. Is that smart marketing, or what?) Buy both and you've missed two chances to come closer to the eight to ten servings of vegetables and fruit you should eat every day. Even the BBQ beans, which have an admirable eight grams of fiber, pack almost half a day's sodium. Our advice: Bag the sides and hit the salad bar. Or cruise the produce aisle for a salad-in-a-bag and a couple of potatoes or a bunch of broccoli to toss in the microwave (see "Tip of the Month," back cover). One more warning: The numbers on Safeway's labels look great, but that's just because the serving sizes are tiny. For example, Safeway ads say that the chicken dinner feeds four, but the "Nutrition Facts" on the label give calories, fat, and other numbers for an eighth of a bird. RELATED ARTICLE: On the Go "Best Bites" get less than 10 percent of their calories from saturated fat and no more than 30 percent of their calories from total fat, except for a few low-car vegetable side dishes that have so little fat that we gave them Best Bites anyway. Chicken numbers vary little from chain to chain, so we've only listed them for Boston Market. For the numbers on a half-chicken entree, add the quarter white meat plus the quarter dark meat. Because companies can't say exactly how many people a family meal serves, we used their serving sizes for individual entrees and side dishes. For Safeway, we used the larger servings promised in the ads, not the smaller servings listed on the labels. Within each chain, we've ranked the foods from lowest to highest percent of calories from saturated fat.
Boston Market
Entrees Calories Total Fat
(g)
[check] Skinless Rotisserie Turkey
Breast (5 oz.) 170 1
[check] 1/4 White Chicken, breast & wing,
no skin (4.5 oz.) 210(*) 6(*)
1/4 Dark Chicken, leg & thigh, no skin
(3.5 oz.) 210 10
Chunky Chicken Salad (3/4 cup) 370 27
Original Chicken Pot Pie (15 oz.) 750 34
Ham with Cinnamon Apples (8 oz.) 350 13
1/4 White Chicken breast & wing,
with skin (5.5 oz.) 330 17
1/4 Dark Chicken, leg & thigh, with
skin (4.5 oz.) 330 22
Meat Loaf & Brown Gravy (7 oz.) Meat 390 22
Loaf & Tomato Sauce (8 oz.) 370 18
Side Dishes & Desserts
[check] Steamed Vegetables (2/3 cup) 40 0
[check] Dill New Potatoes (3/4 cup) 130 3
[check] Cranberry Walnut Relish (3/4 cup) 370 5
[check] Hot Cinnamon Apples (3/4 cup) 250 5
[check] Herbed Sweet Corn (3/4 cup) 180 4
[check] Rice Pilaf (2/3 cup) 180 5
[check] Zucchini Marinara (3/4 cup) 80 4
Savory Stuffing (3/4 cup) 310 12
[check] Corn Bread (1) 200 6
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie (1) 320 13
[check] BBQ Baked Beans (3/4 cup) 330 9
Cole Slaw (3/4 cup) 280 16
Chocolate Chip Brownie (1) 490 25
Chocolate Chip Cookie (1) 340 17
Caesar Side Salad (1 1/2 cups) 210 17
Macaroni & Cheese (3/4 cup) 280 10
Butternut Squash (3/4 cup) 160 6
Mashed Potatoes (2/3 cup) 180 8
Parmesan Creamed Spinach (3/4 cup) 280 21
Good Boston Market Meal
[check] 1/4 White
Chicken (no skin), New
Potatoes, Sweet Corn, & Corn Bread 720 18
Bad Boston Market meal
Meat Loaf & Gravy, Macaroni & Cheese,
Creamed Spinach, & Corn Bread 1,150 59
Entrees Saturated Cals. from
Fat Sat Fat (%)
(g) #
[check] Skinless Rotisserie Turkey
Breast (5 oz.) 1 3
[check] 1/4 White Chicken, breast & wing,
no skin (4.5 oz.) 2(*) 7(*)
1/4 Dark Chicken, leg & thigh, no skin
(3.5 oz.) 3 11
Chunky Chicken Salad (3/4 cup) 5 11
Original Chicken Pot Pie (15 oz.) 9 11
Ham with Cinnamon Apples (8 oz.) 5 12
1/4 White Chicken breast & wing,
with skin (5.5 oz.) 5 12
1/4 Dark Chicken, leg & thigh, with
skin (4.5 oz.) 6 16
Meat Loaf & Brown Gravy (7 oz.) Meat 8 18
Loaf & Tomato Sauce (8 oz.) 8 19
Side Dishes & Desserts
[check] Steamed Vegetables (2/3 cup) 0 0
[check] Dill New Potatoes (3/4 cup) 0 0
[check] Cranberry Walnut Relish
(3/4 cup) 1 1
[check] Hot Cinnamon Apples (3/4 cup) 1 2
[check] Herbed Sweet Corn (3/4 cup) 1 3
[check] Rice Pilaf (2/3 cup) 1 5
[check] Zucchini Marinara (3/4 cup) 1 6
Savory Stuffing (3/4 cup) 2 6
[check] Corn Bread (1) 2 7
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie (1) 3 7
[check] BBQ Baked Beans (3/4 cup) 3 8
Cole Slaw (3/4 cup) 3 8
Chocolate Chip Brownie (1) 6 11
Chocolate Chip Cookie (1) 6 16
Caesar Side Salad (1 1/2 cups) 5 19
Macaroni & Cheese (3/4 cup) 6 19
Butternut Squash (3/4 cup) 4 23
Mashed Potatoes (2/3 cup) 5 25
Parmesan Creamed Spinach (3/4 cup) 13 42
Good Boston Market Meal
[check] 1/4 White
Chicken (no skin), New
Potatoes, Sweet Corn, & Corn Bread 4 4
Bad Boston Market meal
Meat Loaf & Gravy, Macaroni & Cheese, 29 22
Creamed Spinach, & Corn Bread
Entrees Sodium (mg)
[check] Skinless Rotisserie Turkey
Breast (5 oz.) 850
[check] 1/4 White Chicken, breast & wing,
no skin (4.5 oz.) 430(*)
1/4 Dark Chicken, leg & thigh, no skin
(3.5 oz.) 320
Chunky Chicken Salad (3/4 cup) 800
Original Chicken Pot Pie (15 oz.) 2,380
Ham with Cinnamon Apples (8 oz.) 1,750
1/4 White Chicken breast & wing,
with skin (5.5 oz.) 530
1/4 Dark Chicken, leg & thigh,
with skin (4.5 oz.) 460
Meat Loaf & Brown Gravy (7 oz.) Meat 1,040
Loaf & Tomato Sauce (8 oz.) 1,170
Side Dishes & Desserts
[check] Steamed Vegetables (2/3 cup) 40
[check] Dill New Potatoes (3/4 cup) 150
[check] Cranberry Walnut Relish (3/4 cup) 5
[check] Hot Cinnamon Apples (3/4 cup) 50
[check] Herbed Sweet Corn (3/4 cup) 170
[check] Rice Pilaf (2/3 cup) 600
[check] Zucchini Marinara (3/4 cup) 470
Savory Stuffing (3/4 cup) 1,140
[check] Corn Bread (1) 390
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie (1) 260
[check] BBQ Baked Beans (3/4 cup) 630
Cole Slaw (3/4 cup) 520
Chocolate Chip Brownie (1) 70
Chocolate Chip Cookie (1) 240
Caesar Side Salad (1 1/2 cups) 560
Macaroni & Cheese (3/4 cup) 760
Butternut Squash (3/4 cup) 580
Mashed Potatoes (2/3 cup) 390
Parmesan Creamed Spinach (3/4 cup) 820
Good Boston Market Meal
1/4 White Chicken (no skin), New
Potatoes, Sweet Corn, & Corn Bread 1,060
Bad Boston Market meal
Meat Loaf & Gravy, Macaroni & Cheese,
Creamed Spinach, & Corn Bread 3,010
Kenny Rogers Roasters
Entrees Calories Total fat (g)
[check] Sliced Turkey Breast
(4.5 oz.) 160 2
Chicken Pot Pie (13 oz.) 820 35
Side Dishes
[check] Corn on the Cob (1/2 ear) 70 0
[check] Baked Sweet Potato (1) 260 0
[check] Steamed Vegetables (3/4 cup) 50 0
[check] Side Salad (3 1/2 cups) with
1 packet fat free Italian dressing
(4 Tbs.) 60 0
[check] Honey Baked Beans (1/2 cup) 150 1
[check] Rice Pilaf (2/3 cup) 170 5
[check] Zucchini & Squash Santa Fe
(1/2 cup) 70 5
Potato Salad (3/4 cup) 390 27
Corn Muffin (1) 180 8
Real Mashed Potatoes (1 cup) 300 14
Cole Slaw (1/2 cup) 230 16
Cornbread Stuffing (1 cup) 330 19
[check] Tomato Cucumber
Salad (1 1/2 cups) 120 2
Cinnamon Apples (1/2 cup) 200 5
Macaroni & Cheese (2/3 cup) 200 6
Sour Cream & Dill Pasta Salad
(3/4 cup) 230 16
Entrees Saturated Cals. from
fat (g) Sat Fat (%)
[check] Sliced Turkey Breast
(4.5 oz.) 1 6
Chicken Pot Pie (13 oz.) 12 13
Side Dishes
[check] Corn on the Cob (1/2 ear) 0 0
[check] Baked Sweet Potato (1) 0 0
[check] Steamed Vegetables (3/4 cup) 0 0
[check] Side Salad (3 1/2 cups) with
1 packet fat free Italian dressing
(4 Tbs.) 0 0
[check] Honey Baked Beans (1/2 cup) 1 3
[check] Rice Pilaf (2/3 cup) 1 5
[check] Zucchini & Squash Santa Fe
(1/2 cup) 1 6
Potato Salad (3/4 cup) 3 7
Corn Muffin (1) 2 8
Real Mashed Potatoes (1 cup) 3 9
Cole Slaw (1/2 cup) 3 10
Cornbread Stuffing (1 cup) 4 10
[check] Tomato Cucumber
Salad (1 1/2 cups) 2 11
Cinnamon Apples (1/2 cup) 3 14
Macaroni & Cheese (2/3 cup) 3 14
Sour Cream & Dill Pasta Salad
(3/4 cup) 4 14
Entrees Sodium (mg)
[check] Sliced Turkey Breast
(4.5 oz.) 590
Chicken Pot Pie (13 oz.) 760
Side Dishes
[check] Corn on the Cob (1/2 ear) 10
[check] Baked Sweet Potato (1) 30
[check] Steamed Vegetables (3/4 cup) 60
[check] Side Salad (3 1/2 cups) with
1 packet fat free Italian dressing
(4 Tbs.) 860
[check] Honey Baked Beans (1/2 cup) 790
[check] Rice Pilaf (2/3 cup) 150
[check] Zucchini & Squash Santa Fe
(1/2 cup) 210
Potato Salad (3/4 cup) 630
Corn Muffin (1) 210
Real Mashed Potatoes (1 cup) 480
Cole Slaw (1/2 cup) 290
Cornbread Stuffing (1 cup) 760
[check] Tomato Cucumber
Salad (1 1/2 cups) 790
Cinnamon Apples (1/2 cup) 0
Macaroni & Cheese (2/3 cup) 660
Sour Cream & Dill Pasta Salad
(3/4 cup) 430
Koo Koo Roo
Entrees Calories Total Fat (g)
[check] 1/4 lb. Fresh Roasted Sliced
Turkey, white meat (4 oz.) 150 1
Turkey Pot Pie (21.5 oz.) 910 45
1/4 lb. Fresh Roasted Sliced Turkey,
dark meat (4 oz.) 210 8
Side Dishes
[check] Butternut Squash (2/3 cup) 90 0
[check] Fresh Cut Fruit (3/4 cup) 60 0
[check] Baked Yam (1) 360 0
Steamed Vegetables (2/3 cup) 40 0
[check] Cucumber (1 cup) 30 0
[check] Baby Carrots (1 cup) 80 0
[check] Confetti Rice (1 cup) 130 0
[check] Kernel Corn (1 cup) 100 0
[check] Koo Koo Roo Slaw (3/4 cup) 60 0
[check] Corn on the Cob (1/2 ear) 100 1
[check] Lavash bread (1) 110 1
[check] Black Beans (1/2 cup) 140 2
[check] Lentil Salad (3/4 cup) 180 5
[check] Tomato basil Pasta (1 cup) 110 3
[check] Pesto Pasta (1 cup) 170 5
[check] Santa Fe Pasta (1 cup) 210 6
[check] Roasted Garlic Potatoes
(3/4 cup) 120 3
[check] Tangy Tomato Salad (1 cup) 60 3
Hand-Mashed Potatoes (2/3 cup) 190 5
Macaroni & Cheese (2/3 cup) 270 11
Homemade Stuffing (1/2 cup) 190 9
[check] Italian Vegetables (3/4 cup) 40 2
[check] Green Beans (1 cup) 50 3
Creamed Spinach (1/2 cup) 140 12
Good Koo Koo Roo Meal
[check] Rotisserie Chicken
(breast & wing),
no skin, Roasted Potatoes,
Butternut Squash, & Lavash 520(*) 9(*)
Entrees Saturated Cals. from
fat (g) Sat Fat (%)
[check] 1/4 lb. Fresh Roasted Sliced
Turkey, white meat (4 oz.) 0 0
Turkey Pot Pie (21.5 oz.) 12 11
1/4 lb. Fresh Roasted Sliced Turkey,
dark meat (4 oz.) 3 13
Side Dishes
[check] Butternut Squash (2/3 cup) 0 0
[check] Fresh Cut Fruit (3/4 cup) 0 0
[check] Baked Yam (1) 0 0
Steamed Vegetables (2/3 cup) 0 0
[check] Cucumber (1 cup) 0 0
[check] Baby Carrots (1 cup) 0 0
[check] Confetti Rice (1 cup) 0 0
[check] Kernel Corn (1 cup) 0 0
[check] Koo Koo Roo Slaw (3/4 cup) 0 0
[check] Corn on the Cob (1/2 ear) 0 0
[check] Lavash bread (1) 0 0
[check] Black Beans (1/2 cup) 1 3
[check] Lentil Salad (3/4 cup) 2 3
[check] Tomato basil Pasta (1 cup) 1 4
[check] Pesto Pasta (1 cup) 1 5
[check] Santa Fe Pasta (1 cup) 2 6
[check] Roasted Garlic Potatoes
(3/4 cup) 1 8
[check] Tangy Tomato Salad (1 cup) 1 8
Hand-Mashed Potatoes (2/3 cup) 3 14
Macaroni & Cheese (2/3 cup) 6 20
Homemade Stuffing (1/2 cup) 5 24
[check] Italian Vegetables (3/4 cup) 1 25
[check] Green Beans (1 cup) 2 27
Creamed Spinach (1/2 cup) 7 42
Good Koo Koo Roo Meal
[check] Rotisserie Chicken
(breast & wing),
no skin, Roasted Potatoes,
Butternut Squash, & Lavash 3(*) 4(*)
Entrees Sodium (mg)
[check] 1/4 lb. Fresh Roasted Sliced
Turkey, white meat (4 oz.) 60
Turkey Pot Pie (21.5 oz.) 1,380
1/4 lb. Fresh Roasted Sliced Turkey,
dark meat (4 oz.) 90
Side Dishes
[check] Butternut Squash (2/3 cup) 10
[check] Fresh Cut Fruit (3/4 cup) 20
[check] Baked Yam (1) 30
Steamed Vegetables (2/3 cup) 40
[check] Cucumber (1 cup) 110
[check] Baby Carrots (1 cup) 170
[check] Confetti Rice (1 cup) 170
[check] Kernel Corn (1 cup) 200
[check] Koo Koo Roo Slaw (3/4 cup) 230
[check] Corn on the Cob (1/2 ear) 20
[check] Lavash bread (1) 180
[check] Black Beans (1/2 cup) 570
[check] Lentil Salad (3/4 cup) 270
[check] Tomato basil Pasta (1 cup) 220
[check] Pesto Pasta (1 cup) 250
[check] Santa Fe Pasta (1 cup) 330
[check] Roasted Garlic Potatoes
(3/4 cup) 160
[check] Tangy Tomato Salad (1 cup) 430
Hand-Mashed Potatoes (2/3 cup) 360
Macaroni & Cheese (2/3 cup) 240
Homemade Stuffing (1/2 cup) 610
[check] Italian Vegetables (3/4 cup) 120
[check] Green Beans (1 cup) 130
Creamed Spinach (1/2 cup) 400
Good Koo Koo Roo Meal
[check] Rotisserie Chicken
(breast & wing),
no skin, Roasted Potatoes,
Butternut Squash, & Lavash 810(*)
Safeway
Entrees Calories Total Fat (g)
[check] Roast Turkey (6 oz.) 240 6
Roasted Pork Loin (6 z.) 200 7
Roast Beef London Broil (6 oz.) 180 6
Chicken Pot Pie (1/4 pie--7 oz.) 520 30
Meat Loaf (6 oz.) 440 34
Side Dishes (1/2 container, unless otherwise noted)
[check] BBQ Beans 380 3
Cinnamon Apples 340 10
Old fashioned Stuffing 200 9
Chocolate Pudding 350 14
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes 180 8
Cheese & Bacon Mashed Potatoes 310 18
Macaroni & Cheese 360 18
Old Fashioned Gravy (1/4 cup) 30 2
Butternut Squash 250 15
Creamed Spinach 270 21
Entrees Saturated Cals. from
Fat (g) Sat. Fat (g)
[check] Roast Turkey (6 oz.) 2 8
Roasted Pork Loin (6 z.) 2 9
Roast Beef London Broil (6 oz.) 2 10
Chicken Pot Pie (1/4 pie--7 oz.) 7 12
Meat Loaf (6 oz.) 14 29
Side Dishes (1/2 container, unless otherwise noted)
[check] BBQ Beans 1 2
Cinnamon Apples 6 17
Old fashioned Stuffing 5 20
Chocolate Pudding 9 23
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes 5 25
Cheese & Bacon Mashed Potatoes 10 28
Macaroni & Cheese 11 28
Old Fashioned Gravy (1/4 cup) 1 30
Butternut Squash 9 35
Creamed Spinach 12 42
Entrees Sodium (mg)
[check] Roast Turkey (6 oz.) 1,100
Roasted Pork Loin (6 z.) 1,160
Roast Beef London Broil (6 oz.) 1,220
Chicken Pot Pie (1/4 pie--7 oz.) 550
Meat Loaf (6 oz.) 860
Side Dishes (1/2 container, unless otherwise noted)
[check] BBQ Beans 910
Cinnamon Apples 120
Old fashioned Stuffing 1,060
Chocolate Pudding 310
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes 580
Cheese & Bacon Mashed Potatoes 810
Macaroni & Cheese 830
Old Fashioned Gravy (1/4 cup) 370
Butternut Squash 190
Creamed Spinach 990
[check] Best Bite. # does not include artery-clogging 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. . (*) CSPI CSPI Center for Science in the Public Interest CSPI Corporate Service Price Index CSPI Cumulative Schedule Performance Index estimate. Sources: Restaurant chains and USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. Nutrient nutrient /nu·tri·ent/ (noo´tre-int) 1. nourishing; providing nutrition. 2. a food or other substance that provides energy or building material for the survival and growth of a living organism. Database for Standard Reference (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 information for this article was compiled by Trish Treanor and Wendy Meltzer. |
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