10 Hidden Restaurant Calorie Traps

by Slashfood Editor, Posted Apr 11th 2011 @ 2:00PM

club sandwich with fries Photo: Steve Snodgrass, Flickr

You already know to order the salad dressing on the side if you want to cut calories, but fat-laden sauces aren't the only calorie bombs lurking in restaurant dishes. The Daily Meal's got a list of 10 restaurant saboteurs to avoid if you're trying to squeeze into a pair of skinny jeans. Heavy cream hides in sauces you wouldn't expect (bolognese, for example) and certain sandwich spreads can contain almost as many calories as the rest of the sandwich. And -- yuck -- did you know some eateries slip poultry skin into turkey burgers to keep them moist?

Read the full list of restaurant saboteurs at The Daily Meal.

Filed Under: Restaurants, Online
Tags: restaurant calories

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-11-2011 @2:15PM ESC said... I'm sorry, but there are no "secrets" here. "Choose grilled, steamed, poached, or broiled" - really? instead of fried? MY MIND IS BLOWN! "Substitute veggies for French fries. Even finished with butter, vegetables are still way healthier." NO KIDDING???

Unless restaurants are secretly injecting pork fat into their fresh tomatoes, there is nothing NEW about any of these "secrets."

And if there ARE restaurants injecting pork fat into tomatoes, please post their names here so I can go eat there IMMEDIATELY!

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4-11-2011 @4:43PM Gary said... Cream in Bolognese? How is that a secret? Anyone that knows anything about Italian cooking (especially those who read food blogs) know that there is cream in a properly made Bolognese.
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4-12-2011 @2:09PM Pilar said... I was about to post something similar to what Gary and ESC said, but then I realized how little most people really DO know about food, what's in it or how its made. We are slaves to marketing.
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4-13-2011 @9:46AM vinnymac said... There is NO cream in a properly made bolognese.; http://youtu.be/HqBqiGM1O54
I was about to blast the author like ESC over here, but she is a children's and teen nutritionist.
This article is for the complete food ignoramus, or a child. NOT for the slash/food reader.
I think everyone reading this blog is a fair chunk more educated about food than this elementary article suggests, so we should be blasting it's vapid poster for remarking that foul skin is
*ahem*- 'yuck', and making the absurd notion that anybody buying skinny jeans knows no better than to constantly eat 1500 calorie meals at garbage restaurants, or to hold the mayo. (Now why anyone would want to do that is beyond me).
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