'Would a 1,600 calorie salad put you off?' blog discussion

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I have to say that if restaurants served a few meal they could call Weight Watchers or something I think it would be very good for business though..

Thinking of all these girly nights out, especially before holidays, perfect market for it.

delain

I think Martin needs to tell us what was in his salad :rotfl:

I mean maybe it had meat in it or pasta, or 5 litres of dressing, who knows?

there are lots of types of salad, Not just the healthy sort.

Ellasmummy

As the parent of a type 1 diabetic child this will revolutionise our eating out possibilities, and take the guess work out of carb counting in a restaurant.

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delain wrote: »

I think Martin needs to tell us what was in his salad :rotfl:

I mean maybe it had meat in it or pasta, or 5 litres of dressing, who knows?

there are lots of types of salad, Not just the healthy sort.

I know!!
I wonder whether it can actually be called salad with 1600 calories!!

Surely there must have been something obvious that would have given the salad that amount of calories....

Percy1983

Maybe they could hide the info behind flaps like the spot the dog books I 'read' as a child.

I never look at the contents of anything I eat, if I start getting fatter I eat less.

laura16_2

I went to New York and I liked the fact that I could see what I was eating. For those that don't care about the calories then they can carry on but calorie counting people can then see what they want and it would be easier for dieters to keep track

thrifty_student

Good article Martin - someone finally voicing what I've been thinking for a long time.

It's a valid argument that some people simply don't want to see how many calories are in their meal when they go out to dinner, but this shouldn't mean the information isn't available for those that do want it.

It is very difficult to make informed choices about food consumption if the information simply isn't available, and no matter how many people say 'just use your brain', it isn't that simple. There is no reason why a salad should contain 1,600 calories (at a maximum of 9calories/g, that's a lot of fat), and by making the information available, it then makes restaurants accountable for the nutritional content of their food.

I would be in favour of introducing a compulsory nutritional information pack that ensures restaurants give vital statistics about their food within a certain error range (if requested).

At a time when obesity is becoming an increasingly pervasive (and expensive!) problem, there are no sound reasons for not improving the awareness and amount of information available to those consumers that want that information.

DarkConvict

If the information is provided on the back of the menu not next to the food i would have no objection against it, its upto you if you want to know how bad it is.

Subway do it in there little take away menus, so you can see how bad the Italian BLT really is...

Over dinner people often say how bad that must be for you, you know its bad but you still eat it anyway.
Mind you after reading boost bars contained 66% of your saturated fat intake i stopped eating them, when i said this is my last one someone replied it might well be with how bad they are for you.

snugglepet20

A New York salad is nothing like a british salad! They are massive, about enough to feed 4 and contain mega amounts of meat, cheese and creamy dressing. Any normal person would struggle to make a dent in them.
I would love to see calories on restaurant menus, I think there is so much resistance because chefs are using poorer quality ingredients than we would expect and piling in the butter, fat and sugar to up the taste. Did anyone else see that GMTV thing where they said there is a glass of lard in every chinese takeaway meal? It's put me off anyway!

savingholmes

We were on a restricted diet recently and asked pizza hut what the rough calorie content was for the meals we were interested in and they told us - I think they should be able to tell you