Showing posts with label fast food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fast food. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Melt The Pounds with Smart Choices at Quiznos


          
       You don’t have to give up your favorite foods or the great deals you can get with Quiznos coupons to eat healthy and lose weight – you just need to make smart choices when you’re eating out, as online health guide “Eat This, Not That!” has shown. Don’t believe me? Check out the toasty sub selection guide below to find a whole menu of flavorful, low-cal subs that will delight your taste buds, satiate your hunger, and keep your wallet full – all without wrecking your diet. All calorie listings are for small (6” subs).
            Try The:                                                    Instead of::
Black Angus Steak Sub                             Prime Rib Cheesesteak Sub
350 Calories                                                    400 calories

Roadhouse Steak Sammie                        Sonoma Turkey Flatbread Sammie w/ Cheese
180 calories (WOW)                                    280 calories

Honey Bourbon Chicken                        Honey Mustard Chicken w/ Bacon & Cheese
320 calories                                                530 Calories

Cantina Chicken Sammie                        Alpine Chicken Sammie w/ Cheese
410 Calories                                                 590 Calories


   Of course, choosing a lower-calories sandwich doesn’t give you license to neglect the rest of your dietary concerns. If you pair a healthful entrée with fried potato chips, a big sugary cookie, or a calorie-laden soft drink, you’re doing yourself no favors. Pair these sandwiches with water or a diet soft drink and a healthful side like a broth-y soup or fresh fruits and veggies.
   I’ve seen news items about people who have lost weight eating nothing but Taco Bell ad McDonald’s, and these side-by-side calorie comparisons prove that whether you pack the pounds on or melt them off is dependant upon the choices you make. Quiznos coupons can be part of your weight-loss routine, just eat smart. With great choices like these, you won’t have to sacrifice flavor for fitness!

Of course, choosing a lower-calories sandwich doesn’t give you license to neglect the rest of your dietary concerns. If you pair a healthful entrée with fried potato chips, a big sugary cookie, or a calorie-laden soft drink, you’re doing yourself no favors. Pair these sandwiches with water or a diet soft drink and a healthful side like a broth-y soup or fresh fruits and veggies. 
I’ve seen news items about people who have lost weight eating nothing but Taco Bell ad McDonald’s, and these side-by-side calorie comparisons prove that whether you pack the pounds on or melt them off is dependant upon the choices you make. Quiznos coupons can be part of your weight-loss routine, just eat smart. With great choices like these, you won’t have to sacrifice flavor for fitness! 


Toasty Turkey & Cheese w/ Cup of Chili      Chili Bread Bowl
320 Calories                  760 calories (ouch!)

   Of course, choosing a lower-calories sandwich doesn’t give you license to neglect the rest of your dietary concerns. If you pair a healthful entrée with fried potato chips, a big sugary cookie, or a calorie-laden soft drink, you’re doing yourself no favors. Pair these sandwiches with water or a diet soft drink and a healthful side like a broth-y soup or fresh fruits and veggies.
   I’ve seen news items about people who have lost weight eating nothing but Taco Bell ad McDonald’s, and these side-by-side calorie comparisons prove that whether you pack the pounds on or melt them off is dependant upon the choices you make. Quiznos coupons can be part of your weight-loss routine, just eat smart. With great choices like these, you won’t have to sacrifice flavor for fitness!

What Do Japanese Women Want? Spam, Apparently



           Spam may be an object of ridicule here in the US – we’ve even appropriated its name as a label for junk e-mails – but in Japan, the canned meat has so many fans that the execs of Burger King Japan are betting people will line up to swap their Burger King coupons for sliders made from the packaged precooked meat product.
         For whatever reason, the small sandwiches are being marketed primarily to women, with the slogan “What women want, women get.” I find it hard to imagine that women are demanding Spam in Japan or anywhere else, but Spam is evidently extremely popular in Japan and the sliders are expected to sell well.

         This isn’t the first time BK has spammed it up. In 2007, the restaurant added the Spam Platter-- two slices of the stuff between rice and scrambled eggs – to its breakfast menu in Hawaii.
         Spam is as big in Hawaii as it is in Japan, and Hawaiian residents consume more than 5 million pounds of Spam every year. There are more varieties of Spam sold in Hawaii than anyplace else in the world, but there are no plans to debut the BK Spam Sliders in Hawaii as of yet.
         BK Japan seems particularly invested in bringing its consumers distinctive reasons to use Burger King coupons, as they also recently introduced the “Meat Monster” sandwich, which is like a Whopper with two beef patties, bacon, and grilled chicken. 

Sunday, June 26, 2011

YUM! Copycat Arby's Sauce Recipe


                   
       I’ve heard that Arby’s has had trouble keeping up with other fast food chains in the competitive arena of the economic marketplace, but I think they could help keep themselves in the black if they bottled their sauces. As a kid I’d always choose Arby’s when my mom let me have fast food, and I thought I really loved their chicken fingers – but as it turns out, I really liked the Arby’s sauce (and the curly fries, if I’m being totally honest). That stuff is good on sandwiches and chicken and fries and eggs and you name it – I know this because every time I go in and use Arbys coupons I grab about a million packets of Arbys sauce, so I have enough to bring home for later.

Until they decide to sell Arby’s sauce by the bottle, I’ve decided it’s better for me to make my own Arby’s sauce than get banned from my local restaurant for being a sauce thief. This recipe is pretty darn close to the real thing, and it keeps for a couple of weeks.


INGREDIENTS:
            1 cup ketchup
            ½ teaspoons Tabasco
            2 teaspoons water
            ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
            ¼ teaspoon onion powder
            ¼ teaspoon salt
            ¼ teaspoon pepper
To make the sauce, just mix all the ingredients in a saucepan and cook over medium heat for 5-10 minutes, stirring constantly until the sauce comes to a boil. Remove from heat and let cool before enjoying – I bet you won’t be able to tell the difference between this and the stuff you get with Arbys coupons!

Friday, April 22, 2011

Britons Mob KFC


     In America, flocks of teenage girls mobbed a group of bowl-cut sporting musicians who called themselves “The Beatles” during the British Invasion of the 1960s, when British pop culture took America by storm. There’s something of a reversal of that pattern happening in Great Britain this week, but it’s American culinary culture that’s taken a small British town by storm, and this time the fans aren’t screaming girls but KFC coupon-weilding diners.
The Town of Chesterfield
      A new KFC restaurant has opened up in Chesterfield, and it’s the first KFC restaurant ever to open in that town. Excited fans have flocked to the restaurant in droves, and the roads around the small restaurant have been clogged with KFC-bound traffic for the better part of a week since the restaurant opened its doors. The drive-through queue winds around the block, which means that those hoping to pick up a bucket of Original recipe chicken face wait times of more than an hour.
         But those who hope for a bite of finger-lickin good chicken aren’t the only ones who have to be patient – dozens of shoppers were stranded in the parking lot of grocery chain Sainsbury’s this weekend when dinner-rush traffic from the KFC clogged the roundabout in front of the Sainsbury’s exit.

       The KFC confusion was the topic of a town hall meeting earlier this week, but it seems that the town officials are hoping the problem will eventually take care of itself.
       "The parish council is aware of traffic problems occurring currently in the vicinity of the new KFC restaurant and drive-through,” said Chairman Chancellor Bob Brown."It is early days, people are obviously keen to visit this new food outlet and the novelty value is likely to diminish over time, but we are monitoring the situation."
         KFC was contacted by the Whitstable Times to comment on Chesterfield’s chicken mania, but has not responded to press inquiries as of yet. I imagine they’re thrilled to be so popular. I’m certainly glad I don’t have to wait on line for hours to use my KFC coupons when I pick up dinner on the way home from work –I like KFC, but evidently not as much as the residents of Chesterfield!