Carb watch out

Nutrition Action Healthletter, Sept, 2004

"Delicious items for the carbohydrate conscious"--that's how Denny's describes its new Carb-Watch menu. Make that for the "calorie-unconscious.

"The chain's three CarbWatch breakfast items start your day with 610 to 660 calories and roughly three-quarters of a day's worth of saturated fat (15 to 17 grams). You can choose from the Carb-Watch Two-Egg & Three-Meat Breakfast, the Ultimate Carb-Watch Omelette, or the Carb-Watch Ham & Cheddar Omelette (with "even more shredded cheddar cheese on top").

If that's not enough to make your blood slow to a rush-hour crawl, you can come back for the Carb-Watch Burger lunch (630 calories and 19 grams of sat fat) or the Carb-Watch T-Bone Steak dinner (790 calories and 26 grams of sat fat).

Luckily, the four other Carb-Watch items keep the calories below 400 and the sat fat under seven grams. In fact, the Grilled Chicken Breast Salad and Grilled Chicken or Sirloin Steak dinner could even qualify for Denny's Fit Fare menu (15 grams of fat or less).

How nice of Denny's to help customers make up for its 1,000-calorie Meat Lover's Breakfast or its 1,400-calorie Fabulous French Toast Platter or Farmer's Slam or its ....

Denny's: (800) 733-6697.