My co-workers and I are picking up Moe’s for lunch today so I decided to check out their salad options. Below are the 2 options I found on their site:
There is the Personal Trainer which weighs in at a whopping 880 calories and 62g of Fat along with the Close Talker which somehow found a way pack in more calories and fat. It has 1030 calories and 68g of fat. If I chose to eat either of these I would have already met / exceeded my Fat for the day and had 70 – 90% of my sodium for the day along with approx 50% of my calories for the day.
I instead opted for a soft taco called “The Funk Meister” which has chicken, black beans, cheese, lettuce and pico de gallo for 280 calories and 10g of fat. I’ll most likely have something else along with this however I try to keep each meal I eat to between 300 – 600 calories.
I’m not sure how popular these salads are at Moes but would bet that if the calorie / fat information were posted along side the price on the menu, these items would not be ordered nearly as much.
Friday, 21. August 2009
Hi, Kevin. I ran across your blog while googling a post from my blog and thought it was quite a coincidence that my first two posts coincided with two of yours regarding eating out on a diet (must be diet season!). Anyway, just wanted to comment on your Moe’s post — partially because I’m excited that you actually know what Moe’s is, and also to let you know that the fat content of the salads that you posted about is slightly misleading. The majority of the fat in the salad is due to the fried tortilla bowl that it comes in. If you order it “streaker style,” there is very little fat in this salad. I think you pulled your graphic from the Moe’s site, so you know there’s nutritional info available there — try clicking on the “streaker” option and see what happens.
Here is a link to my blog post for reference:
http://restaurantdieter.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/moes-southwest-grill/
Good luck with your biggest loser competition!
-bastaff