Breakfast they say is the most important meal of the day, and as men, we certainly can not afford to miss the mark on this one! Here are some of the worst dishes that a guy can eat in the A.M.
12. Terrible Pankcakes
IHOP’s Harvest Grain ‘n Nut Pancakes might sound like a reasonably healthy breakfast, but beware: This one dish packs nearly 1,100 calories—about half the number an average person needs in a day. But guess what? This isn’t even the most outrageous item you’ll find on our new list of 12 Terrible Breakfasts. Read the story, and don’t fall prey to these waist-expanding menu items.
11. Terrible Breakfast Bagel
Dunkin' Donuts Sesame Bagel with reduced fat strawberry cream cheese
510 calories
16 g fat (6.5 g saturated)
860 mg sodium
Remember, bagels are shaped like zeros for a reason. You'd be better off with two glazed doughnuts. Or, simply move outside the menu's concentration of doughnuts and pastries and Dunkin' Donuts proves itself to be one of the better on-the-go breakfast joints in the country. Pair a couple of the Wake-Up Wraps with a zero-calorie cup of coffee to switch your metabolism from sleep mode to high gear.
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Egg & Cheese Wake-Up Wraps (2)
360 calories
20 g fat (8 g saturated)
1,020 mg sodium
10. Terrible Breakfast Panini
Panera Bread Grilled Bacon, Egg, & Cheese Sandwich
510 calories
24 g fat (10 g saturated, 0.5 g trans)
1,060 mg sodium
There are two differences between these two sandwiches. First, the Grilled Bacon, Egg & Cheese is built on ciabatta, which provides 50 more calories and half as much fiber. And second, it replaces the ham with bacon, which means an extra 100 calories of mostly fat.
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Breakfast Power Sandwich
360 calories
14 g fat (6 g saturated)
860 mg sodium
9. Terrible "Healthy" Breakfast
Jamba Juice Ideal Meal Chunky Strawberry (16 oz)
590 calories
18 g fat (3 g saturated)
55 g sugars
Similar approaches to breakfast with very different results. Replacing an oatmeal base with sugars and granola is never a good swap.
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Fresh Banana Oatmeal (oatmeal, bananas, brown sugar crumble)
370 calories
5 g fat (1 g saturated)
41 g sugars
8. Terrible Breakfast Croissant
Jack in the Box Sausage Croissant
580 calories
39 g fat (13 g saturated, 4 g trans)
770 mg sodium
Two simple but immutable rules are at play here: 1. Bacon always beats sausage, and 2. buns always beat croissants. The Breakfast Jacks are a bright spot on the menu, made even brighter by the fact that they're available all day. Take advantage.
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Bacon Breakfast Jack
300 calories
14 g fat (5 g saturated)
730 mg sodium
7. Terrible Breakfast Burrito
McDonald's McSkillet Burrito with Sausage
610 calories
36 g fat (14 g saturated)
1,390 mg sodium
For all intents and purposes, this breakfast burrito isn't actually a terrible morning choice--as long as you take it with water, and very strictly watch what you eat for the rest of the day. But why choose the 610-calorie version when you can eat an equally tasty breakfast burrito for half the calories, and 20 fewer grams of fat? This leaves you room for other nutritious foods--fruits, vegetables, whole grains--to eat without worrying throughout the day.
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Sausage Burrito
300 calories
16 g fat (7 g saturated)
830 mg sodium
6. Terrible Breakfast Combo Plate
Bob Evans Pot Roast Hash
749 calories
49 g fat (16 g saturated)
1,307 mg sodium
There's a lot of good in this dish--eggs and roast are both packed with protein, which, as we've hammered home in this slideshow, is a nutrient you should consume every breakfast. But here's what else the Pot Roast Hash comes with: Home Fries. As in fried potatoes. As in fried lumps of carbohydrates. A better option: Stick with the good, cut out the bad.
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Border Scramble Omelette with Egg Lites
416 calories
24 g fat (12 g saturated)
1,162 mg sodium
5. Terrible Biscuit
Hardee's Monster Biscuit
770 calories
55 g fat (18 g saturated)
2,310 mg sodium
The pieces of this biscuit individually aren't what make it so dangerous. It's the fact that they're all added together in one big jumbo slop heap that causes trouble. Here we're looking at bacon, sausage patty, several slices of ham, "folded egg," and two slices of American cheese. A more reasonable biscuit is what you'll find below: Simply bacon, egg, and cheese. No need to get fancy with extra toppings.
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Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit
530 calories
36 g fat (11 g saturated)
1,390 mg sodium
4. Terrible Omelet
IHOP Spinach and Mushroom Omelette (no pancakes on the side)
910 calories
71 g fat (26 g saturated, 1 g trans)
1,580 mg sodium
You can make this same omelet at home for roughly 300 calories. What sets IHOP's apart? The absurd amount of cheap fats being tossed around the kitchen. This thing has more saturated fat than a half stick of butter, and if you opt for the pancakes on the side, you can tack another 450 calories onto your nutritional debt.
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Two x Two x Two (with bacon)
560 calories
31 g fat (11 g saturated)
1,280 mg sodium
3. Terrible French Toast
IHOP Stuffed French Toast with Strawberry Topping
1,030 calories
39 g fat (17 g saturated, 1 g trans)
755 mg sodium
61 g sugars
IHOP's menu is full of gut-busting sweets--Stuffed French Toast, Belgian Waffles, Strawberry banana Danish Fruit Crepes... you name it. The problem with each and every one of these super-sweetened, carbo-loaded meals isn't just that they're all packing at least half a day's worth of calories; it's that they're setting you up for a massive sugar crash about halfway between breakfast and lunch. If you're set on the sweet stuff, stick with the Simple & Fit menu at IHOP. The Seasonal Fresh Fruit Crepes are great because they offer a thin layer of pancake, and a lot of fresh fruit. (So at least you're getting something out of it, nutritionally).
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SIMPLE & FIT Seasonal Fresh Fruit Crepes
590 calories
24 g fat (4.5 g saturated)
430 mg sodium
43 g sugars
2. Terrible Pancakes
IHOP Harvest Grain 'N Nut Pancakes (4) with Cinnamon Apple Compote and Whipped Topping
1,060 calories
51.5 g fat (13 g saturated)
1,945 mg sodium
50 g sugars
Whatever you do at IHOP, don't add a fruity compote to your waffle or pancake platter. That'll guarantee that you double your plate's sugar count and add at least 150 calories to the final tally (which, if you order more than 3 pancakes, is already going to be mighty high). The reason that fruity compote is so bad for you is because it's not fresh fruit we're dealing with--it's more like a sugary goo that has fruit chunks drowning in it.
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Original Buttermilk Pancakes, Short Stack (3)
490 calories
18 g fat (8 g saturated, 1 g trans)
1,610 mg sodium
13 g sugars
1. Terrible Slamwich
Denny's Grand Slamwich
1,320 calories
90 g fat (42 g saturated, 1 g trans)
3,070 mg sodium
Bacon, sausage, ham, eggs, cheese, and mayo conspire to create the worst breakfast sandwich in America. Start your day with this and you'll need to wait 48 hours before consuming another gram of saturated fat. And that's before you get to the hash browns that come on the side.
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2 Fried Eggs with Honey Ham and Hash Browns
560 calories
41 g fat (11.5 g saturated)
1,150 mg sodium
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