My Favorite Fast Food Salads

My favorite fast food salads are from McDonald's. Have you ever tried them? They are delicious! And better yet, they are low calorie.

My two favorites are:
Caesar Salad w/ grilled chicken - Calories: 220, Fat: 6g
Bacon Ranch Salad w/ grilled chicken - Calories: 260, Fat: 9g

I like the Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing - only 40 calories. That makes for a 260-300 calorie lunch if you add a glass of water to it. It's very filling too.

You need to be careful when eating out and thinking you are ordering healthy when you order a salad. Here are some places not to order a salad:

California Pizza Kitchen:
Thai Crunch Salad - Calories: 2,115
Cobb Salad - Calories: 1,138, Price: $13.25

Chevy's Fresh Mex:
Tostada Salad with Chicken - Calories: 1,551, Fat: 94g

Artic Circle:
Taco Salad - calories: 880, Fat: 62g

Chick-fil-A:
Chick-n-Strips Salad - Calories: 600, Fat: 38g, Sodium: 1,470mg

One of My Favorite Things

I love this stuff! A nutritionist introduced it to me four years ago and I've loved it since. It has zero everything! 0 calories, 0 fat, 0 sat fat, 0 trans fat, 0 carbs, 0 cholesterol - 0 everything! (15 mg of sodium if you use it as a topping)

You can use it as cooking spray and save hundreds of calories! (Then, if your not trying to loose weight, you can have that scrumptious dessert at the end of the night and not even feel guilty about it!)

You can also use it as a topping for your veggies. Granted - it's not as fantastic as butter, but really to be able to eat that brownie - it's worth it. I dare you to buy and try it!

Too Much Sugar?

If you're like me, I worry about how much sugar my kids consume-especially living at Grandma's house. Here are two of my favorite finds.

Katie loves chocolate milk and will drink it all day long. Thanks to my sister-in-law Mandy, she introduced me to Hershey's Sugar Free Chocolate Syrup. Katie loves it! And what's even better is for 2 tbsp of regular chocolate syrup there are 100 cal and only 15 cal in the sugar free kind. Love it! I don't really care for the sugar free maple syrup, but my girls eat it. For 1/4 cup regular syrup, there are 210 calories and the sugar free one - only 35!