The little ones could eat two slices of Original Mushroom Pepperoni Sausage pizza from a six-slice adult pie and save more than 210 calories.Ģ40 calories, 6 g fat (1.5 g saturated fat), 210 mg sodium, 9 g carbs, 3 g sugar, 5 g fiber, 39 g protein Thank the thick dough and heavy-handed cheese application. Even the cheese pizza has 560 calories, and the other options go up from there. The sad truth is that we could have picked any of the kids’ pizzas for this list. We love green tea so much, we made it part of our brand new weight-loss plan, The 7-Day Flat-Belly Tea Diet and Cleanse! Test panelists lost up to 10 pounds in just one week!Ĭalifornia Pizza Kitchen Kids Mushroom Pepperoni SausageĦ10 calories,19 g fat, (7 g saturated fat), 1,430 mg sodium, 82 g carbs, 4 g sugar, 3 g fiber, 25 g protein There you find a dish whose potential (chicken and rice, what could possibly go wrong?) is outweighed only by the surplus of salt saturating every last greasy grain of rice.Ħ0 calories, 0 g fat (0 g saturated fat), 50 g sodium, 22 g carbs, 4 g protein.Īnd for moms looking to lose weight, order an iced green tea. ![]() The restaurant continues its usual sodium assault on its kids’ menu. Potbelly T-K-Y Sandwich Skinny “Thin Cut”Ģ95 calories, 6 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 1,053 mg sodium, 40 g carbsĦ10 calories, 15 fat (3 g saturated fat), 1,590 mg sodium, 45 g carbs, 17 g proteinĬhang’s tries to shroud its nutrition numbers by breaking meals into multiple servings. Ask for “thin-cut” for a thinner sub, with ⅓ of the bread removed from the regular size-perfect for kids. Instead, trade the P-B-J for a T-K-Y, a lighter take on turkey and cheese. With only three ingredients-bread, peanut butter and jelly-this lunchbox favorite has the least amount of ingredients, but the highest calorie count on Potbelly’s menu, not to mention a sugar level that rivals a pot of candy (it’s for the sugar equivalent of 11 Krispy Kreme doughnuts!) Since this is nominally for adults, a half-portion for Junior would run you 670 calories-still too many for a sandwich. Read on below, and before you order your small ones an unhealthy small Coke, read these 7 Amazing Things That Happen To Your Body When You Give Up Soda!ġ,340 calories, 51 g fat (10 g saturated fat), 1,390 mg sodium, 199 g carbs The editors of Eat This, Not That! magazine took a deep dive into the ball pits at some of our most popular chains, and uncovered the Best and Worst Kids Meals in America. ![]() The city’s proposed bill would cut calories by 9 percent and fat by 10 percent - enough to make a healthy difference.īut it’s not just the local fast food joint that’s serving up an unwelcome dose of fat and calories. The average fast-food kids’ meal now has 600 calories and gets 36 percent of its calories from fat, according to a study at New York University. “The major strength of this bill is that it would try to encourage a shift toward choosing healthier kids’ meals,” Bragg added. So it’s critical to encourage healthy eating patterns early in life to help avoid life-threatening diseases later on.” “We wanted to conduct the study because research shows children who are obese at a young age have a very high risk of becoming obese adults. ![]() ![]() “The Healthy Happy Meal Bill is poised to nudge kids and parents toward healthier kids’ meals because the bill would require kids meals to meet healthier nutrition criteria if a toy is included,” says study coauthor Marie Bragg, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center. To fight back, New York City has just proposed a new Healthy Happy Meals Bill, one that would force McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast-food purveyors to lower the fat, sodium and calorie counts in meals that use toys to lure kids - and their eager-to-please parents - into the drive-thru. And so you buy one, knowing it’s nutritionally a bad move. But inevitably, there’s one more toy that she simply MUST have: and it comes inside a Happy Meal. Your house soon becomes a shrine to these creatures, filled with plastic idols. She wants to own everything ever created with Elsa, or the Minions, or the Inside Out characters on it. It’s a concerned parent’s nutritional nightmare: You take your youngster to see the latest animated film, and she loves it. Watch the video to get up to speed on The Healthy Happy Meal Bill.
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