**********Uno's Chicago Grill *****************

Recently this "chain" [ please don't run away just yet ] was rated #1 by Health magazine of a survey of restaurants for "healthy offerings" on their menus.

The link to the complete article is below.

They are in MANY states and quite popular around the northeast at least. I eat in them often and completely agree with the rating as far as I can tell.

Their menu [ of course linked to here and in the article ]has numerous "Zone friendly" options but perhaps more importantly they will for all practical purposes prepare your food any way you want within reason and allow any combination of substitutions off of the menu.

When you walk in [ at least around here ] there is ALWAYS a huge bowl of fresh fruit such as apples and you are welcome to take as many as you want - coming OR going.

I am a cerfified pizza lover and their "deep dish" version is excellent but unfortunatly - too excellent.

However - they have another totally different variety called "flatbread pizza" which is VERY ZONE FRIENDLY.

TWO versions of this variety are "balanced" DEAD ON per serving :

BBQ CHICKEN

Serving Size(g) 155g Servings 3

Calories 310 Calories from Fat 100

Total Fat 11g

Total Carbohydrates 36g
Dietary Fiber 1g
Sugars 9g

Protein 22g

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MY THAI CHICKEN

Serving Size(g) 150g Servings 3

Calories 230 Calories from Fat 60

Total Fat 7g
Saturated Fat 1.5g

Total Carbohydrates 28g
Dietary Fiber 2g

Protein 15g

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Link to complete "Flatbread Pizza" section of menu with nutritional analysis http://www.unos.com/kiosk/nutritionUnos.html
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America’s Healthiest Restaurants: Our List of the Best Casual Dining Spots


Uno Chicago Grill

http://www.unos.com/index.html




If you haven’t been to your local Uno’s recently, you’re in for a great surprise. Sure, its famous deep-dish (read high-fat) pizzas still hold court, but nutrition has become the word of the day with a completely trans fat–free menu and plenty of grilled entrees (including antibiotic-free chicken). Adding to the healthy variety: whole-grain pasta and brown rice, organic coffee and tea, and flatbread pizzas that have half the calories of deep-dish ones. Plus, you can add a salad to your pizza for half-price because, according to the menu, “We want you to get some greens in your diet.” Now that’s a blue-ribbon commitment to health. Another reason Uno’s is at the top of our list: You know what you’re eating. In the lobbies of most of the restaurant’s locations, there are Nutrition Information Centers that detail ingredients, fat and sodium contents, and calories and fiber of every item, in addition to gluten-free options.

Danger zone: Deep-dish pizzas can pile on the fat.
We love: The Penne Bolognese—just 16 grams of fat (well within the daily recommended max of 65 grams of fat for a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet).


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Complete article with links to other rated "chains"


America’s Healthiest Restaurants: Our List of the Best Casual Dining Spots


http://eating.health.com/2008/04/23...o-eat-out/


... from your local "Uno's Zone"

E.Wally

ewally@verizon.net

I visited the Uno's website, curious to know whether we had them here. DUH! we do! And, I actually realized that I had eaten at one last year, in Wisconsin Dells. I remember having the grilled mahi mahi, and I must say that it was a delicious meal (and able to zone it well).

I don't live NEAR any of these restaurants, but my family lives in a larger metro area, and looks like there are several Uno's in the area. I had suggested to them that we try Uno's, and they had never heard of it! Well, now I know why I hadn't!

Anyway, This is definitely a restaurant that will be making it to my list of places to eat out.

CranberryCat,

Glad to be of some help and glad you are making an effort to support Uno's.

Uno's has clearly gone out of their way to offer a menu that enables someone with the inclination [ or actually NOT the inclination too ! ] and/or ability to chose a sensible nutritional meal to do so.

Now - being a "business" just like their competitors, and the food business IS VERY COMPETITIVE, if they don't realize a materiel benefit to this - that is, PATRONAGE, THEY WILL DROP THIS LIKE A HOT POTATOE - and like their competitor ACROSS THE PARKING LOT - pick up the potatoes that comes baked with a pound of cheddar and 1/2 pound of bacon bits - and serve it as often as they can.

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If YOU AND I don't go to some minimal effort to seek them out and support them - the attractive nutritional choices they offer - will soon disappear.

...and - WE WILL ONLY HAVE OURSELVES TO BLAME.

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Truer words were never spoken when at a meeting of the now famous "Minute Men" of the American Revolution in Boston, it was said, in reference to the choice of "putting up with the British", or, "STANDING UP for yourselves and your way of life" -

"If we fail to hang together, we will CERTAINLY hang separately"


Consider "hanging out" at an Uno's Chicago Grill near YOU.


[ or other establishments in the survey :

http://eating.health.com/2008/04/23...o-eat-out/

America’s Healthiest Restaurants: Our List of the Best Casual Dining Spots



... from the "UNO'S ZONE" NEAREST YOU

E.Wally

ewally@verizon.net

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