20 Worst Foods in America

Thought I might share this link to everyone. Sorry if someone posted this before me:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21838237/?pg=1#TD Y_20WorstFoods

Bon apetit! =P

Wow ... Chipotle's Mexican Grilled Chicken Burrito has 1179 calories, 125 carbs, but only 7g of fat .... showing that "low fat" doesn't automatically mean "healthy!"

Better LINK for the story.

(It's 1:20am, so I didn't check to see if this has already been posted in another thread ... but I think it may have been... oh well!)

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Wow, that's ridiculous. That's why I'm afraid to go out to eat if I can't find nutritional information from that restaurant. You never know what they're putting in there.

this is why i never eat out

Mens Fitness or Health just posted the top 50 worst foods it was a fantastic article.

They don't have Chipotle in south Florida (yet) but from what I've heard that place should have a public health warning hung on the door! I'm finding it very hard to picture a thousand-calorie-plus burrito...

what the hell is in them that makes them so calorie dense?

i can believe all the deep fried stuff, but JEEZ! all those "on the border" meals were outrageous. and the fat content in that chow mein noodle dish! what gives!

That was a typo on the second website because chipotles burrito has 47 grams of fat not 7

the fast food industry might as well be making the hospital gowns

well that sucks! i went to chipolte a few days ago cuz its around the corner from me and i wanted to try it out. not that i thought i was going in to eat a healthy meal because mexican food just mainly equals disaster anyways but with all the signs that were up saying they used fresh ingredients, use godd animals, etc...i wasnt feeling toooo bad about what i was eating. of course though... i had a pork burrito with cheese, rice, beans, guacomole, etc etc lol. i will def ask for everything in a bowl minus the rice and cheese.

Its size - Chipolte's burritos are ridiculously large.

The flour tortilla alone is 340 calories. 

LINK:  "The burrito, Chipotle's signature creation, is a huge, aluminum-foil-wrapped bundle that is 7 inches long, has a 9 1/2-inch circumference and weighs 1 pound 3 ounces. Or more."

Thats 3" across diameter stuffed with filling for 7 inches. weighing over a pound!  

Eeps! I couldn't eat a half of it if I tried!

oh, i ate the whole thing. we wanted dinner and went there....thinking it was a real restaurant but then we were like oh... its fast food kinda. i saw the burrito and thought id still be hungry after but man, i was stuffed.  i remember working at a mex restaurant...and i could eat 2 of those plus a quesidilla....plussssssssssssss fried icecream.

Whoa thats just crazy!!!! Look at the fat content in their food!!!!!

They actually just opened a Chipotle here in Miami and I was going to try it out.  Guess I'll have to rethink that!

Did anyone else notice that almost every dish was from that one company that owns Chili's, On the Border and Macaroni Grill?  I wonder if the research was a little one sided.   Especially since Cheesecake wasn't even mentioned and they have the highest calorie dishes anywhere.  I just read in another discussion that one dish there has over 3500 calories. 

I REALLY love Chipotle.  It's true that their food is high in calories, but it doesn't have to be.

I use to get the Burrito with just rice, chicken, and Guac. This was just over 900 calories, if I budgeted it right, I'd still have a small but effective deficit that day as it would keep me full until a later dinner time, nixing my night time snacking need.

Now I can't eat it all, so it get the burrito bowl, with rice, half the chicken, and guac.  That shaved 340 mentioned calories from the meal by just abandoning the tortilla.  So now it's closer to 700, making it even easier to keep a deficit on the days I eat it, still just as stuffed.

If you get a burrito, with cheese, guac, sour cream, beef... rice... beans.. of course it's going to be 1200 calories, it is one of the largest burritos I've ever seen.  My B/F gets one with like everything on it, but he needs 3000 calories a day to maintain on non-exercise days.

Skip the burrito, I was reading in a health magazine (sorry can't recall which one) that most mexican food places cook the wrap in lard. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. Way to make a healthy food into crap.

Stick with the salad, if you need to have something more substantial probably go with the "bowls", but stay away from the wrap.

i always pre plan out my meals accordingly - especailly if i know that i will be dinning some where not so good!!

I also keep a list of ok foods and not ok foods with me. Being on the go non stop I have to make sure that I do my best to pick what is not going to effect me later - or do my best to exercise those extra calories off.

i lived in south florida for three years... boca raton, and there is a chipotle on glades rd. i never ate there, but i remember passing it nearly everyday....

Well, Well, Well, good thing I do not EAT ANY OF THAT!!! :)

blech.  none of that sounded even remotely appealing.  good for me, i guess.