Restaurant Report Card

I know it's been a while, there was so much going on with work, side projects, a birthday, thanksgiving, black friday... so many excuses.

BUT, I found this interesting link for Restaurant Report Cards.

There are plenty of restaurants that have shockingly high amounts of fat, carbs and calories per dish (hello, outback steakhouse... Over 2,000 calories for one of the appetizers!), and it's not only irresponsible, but to top it off they hide access to that kind of information (believe me, you have to work for it!).

We know Americans are eating more calories than ever. So is it really that reasonable to assume the restaurant is doing the hard part for us?

Why do so few American's know anything about nutrition? Why is it so easy to believe that whatever trend is out there is what we should try. Apparently, our low-carb fascination has now led to a huge increase in our carb intake. More than we were consuming before the craze.

We need to support the restaurants that will disclose their nutrition information and let the other companies know we don't want to be in the dark anymore. We need to know how many calories we're consuming if we ever want our country not to be the fat girl in the corner. I know I'm tired of being that fat girl hiding in the corner.