Some foods go together like peanut butter and jelly. Like cheese and wine. Like eggs and…a glazed donut?! Select Massachusetts Dunkin’ Donut stores now carry a Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich, an insane concoction made of bacon and a pepper-fried egg between two halves of a glazed yeast donut.
The sandwich weighs in at 360 calories, 20 grams of fat and 13 grams of sugar—though Dunkin’ Donuts may be low-balling it with these stats. The company lists its glazed donut alone as having 260 calories and 12 grams of sugar, and it seems unlikely that everything else on the sandwich combined comes in at 100 calories and 1 gram of sugar.
As outrageous as the Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich may be, the scary thing is that it actually seems like a virtuous choice compared to some of the other offerings out there in the restaurant biz. Behold, some of the biggest diet disasters you can have for your morning meal—along with alternatives for when you want to eat breakfast out without doing so much damage.
THE DIET DISASTER:
Dunkin’ Donuts’ Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich
Calories: 360
Fat: 20 grams
Saturated fat: 8 grams
Sodium: 720 milligrams
Sugar: 13 grams
That’s 90 gourmet jelly beans’ worth of calories!
THE BETTER CHOICE:
Dunkin’ Donuts’ Bacon, Egg, and Cheese on an English Muffin Sandwich
Calories: 290
Fat: 10 grams
Saturated fat: 4.5 grams
Sodium: 700 milligrams
Sugar: 2 grams
THE DIET DISASTER:
Denny’s Grand Slamwich with Hash Browns
Calories: 1,530
Fat: 102 grams
Saturated fat: 45 grams
Sodium: 3,690 milligrams
Sugar: 11 grams
(Hash browns not pictured.)
You’re taking in the same amount of sodium as you would if you ate 17 servings of Chex Mix!
THE BETTER CHOICE:
Denny’s Fit Slam
Calories: 360
Fat: 10 grams
Saturated fat: 3 grams
Sodium: 820 milligrams
Sugar: 16 grams
THE DIET DISASTER:
Bob Evans’ Spinach, Bacon, and Tomato Biscuit Bowl
Calories: 1,013
Fat: 60 grams
Saturated fat: 29 grams
Sodium: 3,188 milligrams
Sugar: 7 grams
You could eat seven small Wendy’s Frosty treats for the amount of fat that’s in this dish.
THE BETTER CHOICE:
Bob Evans’ Garden Harvest Omelet
Calories: 478
Fat: 33 grams
Saturated fat: 14 grams
Sodium: 1,454 milligrams
Sugar: 5 grams
THE DIET DISASTER:
IHOP’s New York Cheesecake Pancakes
Calories: 1,100
Fat: 44 grams
Saturated fat: 21 grams
Sodium: 2,430 milligrams
Sugar: 53 grams
You might as well eat four Snickers bars—you’d take in the same number of calories.
THE BETTER CHOICE:
IHOP Original Buttermilk Pancakes (short stack)
Calories: 470
Fat: 15 grams
Saturated fat: 5 grams
Sodium: 1,590 milligrams
Sugar: 13 grams
THE DIET DISASTER:
Panera’s Pecan Roll
Calories: 740
Fat: 39 grams
Saturated fat: 12 grams
Sodium: 320 milligrams
Sugar: 50 grams
This has as much sugar as 11 fun-size Reese’s cups.
THE BETTER CHOICE:
Panera’s Chocolate Pastry
Calories: 410
Fat: 23 grams
Saturated fat: 14 grams
Sodium: 250 milligrams
Sugar: 18 grams
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