Posted on 09/15/2011 9:48:53 AM PDT by maggief
HYATTSVILLE, Md. — Michelle Obama says a pledge by the Olive Garden, Red Lobster and four other restaurant chains to serve healthier meals is a "breakthrough moment" for the industry.
The Darden restaurant company pledged Thursday to reduce calories and sodium by 20 percent over 10 years. It will also make a fruit or vegetable side dish and low-fat milk standard with kids' meals. If a child wants French fries, an adult will have to ask for them.
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French fries should be registered to keep them out of the hands of children. They’re deadly....deadly....
I don’t care if they do it, I just won’t be eating there anymore. I like the FF at Red Lobster.
Next thing you know, they’ll be expecting you to sign a permission slip before you can order.
She is SUCH a biAtch!
enjoyed that!
Pick me Monte!!
It’s nothing like real Italian food in Boston we had this summer, but OG is pretty good. We love their salad and the now-starting Neverending Pasta Bowl.
PG-13 french fries???
LOL
They are fine for me, but not for thee.
Parents! step aside or you will be prosecuted. Only the fascist village government has enough collective wisdom to raise our children.
All that for a french fry? *rolls eyes*
Applies to Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52.
My Sicilian family says gravy. My Italian family says sauce.
Yes, there is conflict but the food is gooooood!
Re: the Obama picture...I finally tried Five Guys this summer in Austin. It was a decent burger, but frankly, I didn’t get the hype.
Tried In-N-Out as well and was similarly underwhelmed. Was shocked by how unimpressive that burger was.
NOTHING compares to Freddy’s Frozen Custard’s steakburgers (except maybe the butterburgers at the Culver’s chain in the upper midwest.....awesome). Freddy’s is expanding to Texas so I occasionally get them, but not near enough. They are thin but taste amazing with the crust around the edges....yum. No other chain does it like it that I have found.
God help us.
OG has the best Fettucini Alfredo bar none. It’s fat, loaded with calories so you watch the amount you eat.
If they water this down with skim milk or a low fat cheese etc it would be a travesty.
Secondly, I’m hearing her say we need to stop adding salt to our food. Obviously this idiot for brains doesn’t realize that salt is taste inhancement when used in cooking. Adding salt at the table is unnecessary, esp before tasting the food, (a date breaker in my opinion), but try eating an oatmeal, raisin, pecan cookie without salt in it.
they don’t but the other Darden’s do.
To many, including me, dining out is a splurge.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/09/michelle_obama_touting_food_ch.html
Mrs. Obama lauded the chain for serving “healthier side dishes” as the standard on kids meals. So if “you don’t choose anything, you get the broccoli,” she said. She said that “often parents assume” that a kids menu is healthy and “too often that is simply not the case.”
Mrs. Obama—apparently trying to avoid any labeling of this latest “Let’s Move” program as part of a food police agenda— said she was not “telling parents what to do” but was asking them to take “responsibility.”
“Nothing wrong with occasionally splurging on sweets and deserts....I splurge!,” she said. Mrs. Obama has never cast herself as a purist when it comes to eating, instead urging moderation and balance when it comes to treats.
Freddy’s is here in DFW (one in Highland Village) but haven’t made it past ice cream - thanks for the tip!
This is called healthy choices. If they reduce the taste of their food, I’ll stop going.
If you eat 300 cal biscuit then you get the grilled shrimp not the fried? Get it? Why do you or anybody feel you have to dictate what a restaurant should or should not put on the menu?
I remember the experiment with the bunless burger, or the soy burgers etc.
Bottom line, if you have no will power don’t eat the buscuits, but don’t dictate to me what I should do.
Please see: http://www.redlobster.com/health/healthy_living/health_info.asp
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