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Online nutrition guides for your fast food restaurant favorites
If fat grams and caloric content influence your supermarket purchases, chances are good that your fast food choices will improve with more nutritional information.
You might be surprised to learn how much fat and how many calories are in your favorite fast food burger or meal, but there are alternatives and easy changes you can make. Ordering a burger without the cheese and mayo could save you 8 grams of fat and 100 calories, and you might choose grilled chicken over breaded chicken when you find out what a big caloric difference it makes.
Look for a restaurant's light or low-fat offerings, and consider changing some old habits. If you plan ahead and browse nutritional information, you'll probably find that changing is easier than you thought!
Fast Food Nutrition Calculator
This is a neat tool that might help you choose a healthier fast food meal for you or your children. You'll get the nutritional and caloric counts based on the restaurant and food items you enter.
Chik-Fil-A
Some good low-fat choices, including a grilled chicken sandwich, salads, and wrap sandwiches. A hearty chicken soup, under Specialties, has only 1.5 grams of fat.
Church's Chicken
If you want to cut the calories, enjoy low or no-fat veggies with your chicken.
Dairy Queen
Menus and nutritonal information for menu items, along with dietary needs information and a place where you can suggest a menu item.
Denny's
Choose documents on carbs, nutritional information, fit fare, information for seniors, and allergen information.
Dunkin' Donuts
Nutritional information on all varieties of doughnuts, sandwiches, muffins, and more.
Hardee's
Choose your meal or menu item and click to get the nutritional information.
Krispy Kreme
You might be surprised to find that a chocolate iced cake doughnut has a little less fat than a chocolate iced yeast doughnut. Click on "Nutritional Info" for nutritional values and charts.
Little Caesars
Information for their pizza, bread, salads, and chicken wings.
McDonald's
They offer several salad and dressing choices. Chicken McGrill without mayonnaise and the Grilled Chicken Flat Bread with no cheese and no sauce are both good choices.
Sonic
Nutritional guide is in .pdf format, with all of their food items. Several chicken items, salads, slushes, wraps, and more.
Subway
Subway offers several subs with under 6 grams of fat, and all can be made into salads. The veggie sub with fat-free or low-fat dressing makes a great lunch. They also have baked and fat-free potato chips.
Taco Bell
Choose "The Menu" for nutritional information on their burritos, tacos, sides, chalupas, and more.
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