Check out chain restaurant salads that have more calories than a burger.
Salads are supposed to be a healthy, low-calorie option at any restaurant (and for the most part they are), but some are calorie bombs with more calories than traditionally “unhealthy” items like cheeseburgers. These salads aren’t necessarily made with unhealthy ingredients, but once there are dressings and sauces in the mix, the calorie counts can skyrocket. Here are five restaurant salads with more calories than an average cheeseburger.
Santa Fe Salad from The Cheesecake Factory
The Santa Fe salad The cheesecake factory is 1,670 calories, or barely fewer calories than three McDonald’s Big Macs. This salad features marinated chicken, fresh corn, black beans, cheese, tortilla strips, tomatoes, and romaine with a spicy peanut-cilantro dressing. It’s not even the highest-calorie salad on the menu: Sheila’s chicken and avocado salad has 1,820 calories.
Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad
Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad clocks in at 1,550 calories, but that doesn’t stop fans from raving about this favorite menu item. Featuring crispy breaded chicken fillets on a bed of fresh Asian greens, crunchy noodles and almonds drizzled with oriental vinaigrette, this salad is served with a signature golden-brown breadstick brushed with buttered garlic and parsley.
Chili’s Quesadilla Explosion Crispers® Salad
Chilies Quesadilla Explosion Crispers® Salad is 1,420 calories, for a salad made with hand-battered chicken chips, cheese, tomatoes, corn salsa, tortilla strips and cilantro with citrus balsamic. This salad is topped with cheese quesadillas for a hearty, cheesy meal. The Citrus Balsamic Vinaigrette is a fan-favorite menu item.
Buffalo Wild Wings Honey Barbecue Chicken Salad
Honey barbecue chicken salad at Wild buffalo wings is 1060 calories. This salad is made with grilled chicken, honey barbecue sauce, romaine, cabbage, shredded carrots, ranch dressing, cheddar-jack cheese, tomatoes, bacon crumble, croutons, green onions and lime.
The new charcuterie salad from California Pizza Kitchen
California Pizza Cuisine‘s new deli salad has 2,540 calories for the full salad. This mixed greens and fresh basil salad is drizzled with a mustard-herb vinaigrette and topped with applewood-smoked ham, salami, slices of creamy brie, cubed parmesan, sliced green apples and candied walnuts. The salad also comes with homemade toasted sesame crackers.
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