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Tag: alfredo

  • What Not to Eat

What Not to Eat: Are These Foods Worse than You Thought?

  • Posted on December 17, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

Deep Dish Pizza Don’t get us wrong. Pizza with a hand-tossed or thin crust is no diet food. At BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, California Pizza Kitchen, or Uno Pizzeria &…

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  • Calories in Food

Watching Calories in Food? Use Pesto Sparingly.

  • Posted on September 12, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

You needn’t worry about calories in a tomato sauce or even most alfredos (unless they’re cream laden). But a traditional pesto—made with olive oil, fresh basil, pine nuts, parmesan cheese,…

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  • Fat in Food

Fat in Food: Beware of Alfredo Sauce

  • Posted on September 4, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

Artery-clogging saturated fat isn’t a problem with most tomato sauces. Few—even Barilla Bacon & Cheese and Prego Bacon and Provolone—top 1 gram of saturated fat per half cup. Not so…

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  • Calories in Food

Calories in Food: Calories Disappear! Voilà!

  • Posted on August 26, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

Birds Eye Voilà! frozen Alfredo Chicken is a mix of chicken, pasta, and veggies. It could be dinner. [CA] So why does Birds Eye pretend that a serving is just…

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  • Fat in Food

Fat in Food: This Cheesecake Factory Dish has a Three-Day Load of Saturated Fat

  • Posted on August 14, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

“Bow-Tie Pasta, Chicken, Mushrooms, Tomato, Pancetta, Peas and Caramelized Onions in a Roasted Garlic-Parmesan Cream Sauce” doesn’t sound excessive. Sure, the Farfalle with Chicken and Roasted Garlic has a cream…

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  • What Not to Eat

These Entrées are Good Examples of What Not to Eat at an Italian Restaurant

  • Posted on July 17, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

Navigating restaurant menus to find healthy options can be quite difficult, especially at large Italian chain restaurants with their overly-indulgent pasta and meat dishes. Here’s a sampling of entrées to…

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  • What Not to Eat

These Appetizers are Good Examples of What Not to Eat

  • Posted on July 3, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

Americans love what we call Italian food, but the excessive white-flour pasta and meat- and cheese-filled entrées could have a devastating impact on our waistlines and arteries. And it all…

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  • How to Diet

How to Eat Healthy at an Italian Restaurant

  • Posted on April 29, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

1. Bread. Leave it in the basket. You’ll save 150 to 300 calories’ worth of white flour. 2. Soup. Skip it to dodge 1,000 to 2,000 mg of sodium. Get…

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  • Calories in Food

Try One of These Italian Restaurant Meals

  • Posted on April 25, 2014
  • by Jayne Hurley

From breadsticks to tiramisu—with plenty of cheese, meat, and white-flour pasta in between—Italian has never been confused with spa cuisine. But in recent years, restaurants have fattened the pot, deep-frying…

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