McDonalds Fast Food

McDonalds have made many changes to their menu and offer a Penne Pasta Salad with Italian style chicken at a mere 266 calories. It has less than 5% fat and that includes the dressing. This looks gorgeous and has big chunks of chicken so, unlike some chicken salads, you won’t have to play that exciting game of spot the chicken!

If chicken doesn’t flap your wings, why not go for the Feta Cheese and Pasta Salad for 239 calories (dressing not included).

They also offer a fruit bag at 42 calories, that you can swap for chips to make a more nutritious Happy Meal.
For a great snack try their new strawberry yoghurt burst at 35p for just 21 calories (I haven’t made a typing error, it is a silly but fabulous 21 calories!)

Watch out for the additional dressings, they bump those extra hidden calories up. Ranch dressing is a whopping 251 calories, Caesar dressing an extra 143 calories and Balsamic dressing is 105 calories.

McDonald’s                           Calories               Fat                     Protein             Carb

Good Choices

English Muffin                          140                      2                            4                  25

Chicken McGrill w/o Mayo      340                      7                           26                45

Hamburger                               280                     10                         12                 35

Here’s a fast-food giant that’s really been trying to reinvent itself and deflect criticism about the nutritional quality of its food. All the items on the Salads Plus menu are a better choice than a Big Mac — they have less than two teaspoons of fat per serve, but all but one missed our best list because of the salt content. But watch out for some of the new healthy-sounding Deli Choices. Most have salad ingredients, but they’re not necessarily lower in fat or salt — a few made it into our worst list. McDonald’s new warm salad range — Crispy Cut and Herb Fusion salads — aren’t part of the Salads Plus range. Herb Fusion is low in fat — less than one teaspoon — but it’s still high in salt. And Crispy Cut made it into our worst list when teamed with the higher-fat Spicy Avocado Dressing.

Besides all this the official McDonald’s website has a really useful tool with counting how many calories you consume in one meal. What you do is pick out what you normally eat and stick it in a bag and it counts up how much calories combined are in your bag.

McDonald’s is also expanding their menu to include healthier choices of food for people that want to eat healthy.