Thread: Outback Suggestions.

Salmon is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or prime rib!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Salmon Does not sound bad. Since I am eating The appetizer and the Dessert I want to angle something decent and healthy.

That is quite a cheat starting with your appetizer...

FYI- one Bloomin Onion with the Dipping Sauce contains 2130 calories and 163 grams of fat! Leave out the sauce and you still consume 1690 calories and 119 grams of fat, 57 of them saturated.

Whoa!!!!I am not going to eat the whole thing. Where did you find this info?

yeah the bloomin' onion is one of the worst foods out there.

don't even wory about low fat anything for the main if you eat that onion - it's a nuclear fat bomb. Might as well just call it a cheat meal and be honest about it.

Damn....I always wanted to try it.

Well of course it is a cheat meal.

Do a search for bloomin onion nutritional information.

Here is a site that has it...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...restaurant.htm

Should I go for it?

The outback has some good food and some not so good food. But you got to know what you are ordering.

I use to eat Prime Rib with steamed veggies and dry potato (with pepper, olive oil and vinegar on it – NO butter/cream). Also ditch the yeast roll or whatever bread they have. I have seen fat and calorie number for prime rib vary greatly depending on type of cow and how prepared, trimmed and of course size. (e.g. 570 Calories; 48g Fat (77% calories from fat); 32g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 133mg Cholesterol; 101mg Sodiu; calories 444, fat 22.2g, 50% calories from fat, cholesterol 141mg, protein 44.9g, carbohydrates 4.0g, fiber 0.2g, sodium 397mg.; and calories 395, fat 15.9g, 38% calories from fat, cholesterol 182mg, protein 58.1g, carbohydrates 1.4g, fiber 0.1g, sodium 140mg. )

In my case I ditched the Prime rib and went with Sirloin when I found out the following:

A 16-ounce prime rib has four times the fat of one sirloin steak!
A typical serving of sirloin steak with all visible fat cut off has 15 grams of fat. ( not great but MUCH better than Prime Rib.
Here is a typical run down on meats:
The average filet mignon, 18 grams of fat ( you pay more in general for less fat)
rib eye, 30 grams!
New York strip, 34 grams!
T-bone, 44 grams!
Prime rib, 62 grams!
porterhouse, 64 grams!

Shyt! lol.

Originally posted by OceanDude

In my case I ditched the Prime rib and went with Sirloin when I found out the following:

Yeah, I enjoy the sirloin tips from 99.

Is there a difference in fat content between the tips and the steak itself?

I figure if I diet well and train hard all week, a hefty serving of sirloin tips certainly won't hurt me....hell, it could even prove to be very beneficial.

You have a good point – IMHO it’s good to eat some good ol beef now and then especially if it’s the natural grass fed kind with lots of CLA in it and not the domesticated BS with hormones and antibiotics and tenderizer enzymes injected into it. But definitely go with the less fatty cuts unless you are a hard gainer. There is some evidence that we actually need some of the longer chain saturated fats. I suspect the tips are even a bit lower in fat than the other cuts but I don’t know for sure.

Another food that people mistakenly think is fatty (due to the media hype about how people normally eat it with gobs of melted butter or rich sauces) but is actually almost pure protein is crab and shrimp. Just don’t dip it in butter. Use a low sugar cocktail sauce with lots of horseradish and lemon – great protein source.

That isn't much fat...............besides he probably needs it!

is there a site that shows restaurants nutri info?

Well. I did it. I had the blooming onion. Not the whole thing of course I shared it. That is the last time I have it. It was not worth it. I also had the choclate thunder from from down under. Now that...was good! Any ways I am eating my Ben and Jerry Ice Cream now. After Today no cheating for three weeks. That's real! Gotta cut up as much as possilbe before my abdominalplasti operation. Also I think I may need help on my diet. I believe I plateaued. I was doing 1700 to 1900 cals a day. I don't think I am loosing crap. Anyways just thought I would share this info.

I knew you would not be very satisfied with the blooming onion but some things you got to experience for yourself. Like all immersed deep fried foods the oil saturates the food and it just tastes "greasy" and it's too intense. In a different galaxy far far away and long long ago I use to work in restaurant kitchens. I can assure you that you never want to eat fried foods for one simple fact - most restaurant do not clean or cycle their deep fryer oil for amazingly long times (some don't at all and just add in oil to top them off). Every time you get a deep fried food you are getting the full gambit of "gourmet" tastes from everything that was in that fryer before your food was. Expect "complex yet subtly sophisticated flavours¨ in every thing you order ; like the wonderful taste and textures of frozen fish sticks, shrimp, hushpuppies, chili-poppers, fried cheese, French fries, "I said take this prime rib back to the 'chef' and make it well done damn it¨, breaded chicken, onion rings and other things you don't care to know about (just a few though: hair, bugs, dropped utensils, jewelry, cleaning chemicals and overspray etc.). When you consider this and the fact that the oils are all broken down into very nasty trans-fats due to the high heat and combine with all the other burnt food particles it makes me want to vomit to even think about eating any deep fried food at all.

I got you man. That blooming onion was horrible. I sometimes can not handle food that greasy. That is why I hardly ever it it. The grease just make my stomach boil I have not eaten food like that on a regular basis in five years. But the The Lean Steak was great witht the sweet potato. Although It was a great meal I think I see the effects it had on my body.

Yeah - it almost gave me a post-puberty giant pimple on my face even thinking about biting into one of those grease pills.

No more onions. Yuck!!!

I'm having a cheat meal soon, been eating clean for over 5 months and didn't cheat at all... I'm not sure what to have in my cheat meal

Originally posted by sara
I'm having a cheat meal soon, been eating clean for over 5 months and didn't cheat at all... I'm not sure what to have in my cheat meal

Hell five months... Have a cheat orgy. Eat everything.

but I'm not doing any activities now... can't workout because I have 4 broken toes

oooohhh! that is bad. Better make it a cheat meal then. Save the buffett for another day. I feel bad aftermine yesterday. I am also and endo. so that crap is showing on me. Oh well gotta geet back on track for the month.

I know cheat meal. you guys have any suggestions?

What do you like?

I started liking "boring food" oats, brownrice, basically what I'm eating now oh, and I loveeeee nuts especially peanuts, and almonds