Raising The Salad Bar
I don’t know about you, but I love the all-you-can-eat restaurants. Maybe its the food or maybe its the value, but there is something special about going to a place where you can eat as much as you want and the only thing that can stop you is your belt buckle. In college, I had a fraternity brother who worked at a bbq joint where they had all-you-can eat beef ribs on Monday nights for like $15. Yes, $15 was A LOT of money in college, but considering we didn’t eat the rest of the day, I suppose it all balanced out. So every Monday night we piled into the 1982 Olds Omega and headed over for a good time and a great meal. Before the night was over, we had destroyed more ribs than Muhammed Ali. But little did we know the damage that we were doing to ourselves. According to livestrong.com, there are 370 calories and 24 grams of fat in 1/4 rack of sauced up beef ribs. Plus 26% of your sodium for the day and 17% of your cholesterol. So let’s do the math... if we each devoured t...