Salad Creations at 360 Mall

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like their salads and i am boycotting junky food and this time i mean it 🙁

Here is the list:

Hardees
Mcdonalds (ouch ouch)
KFC
Burger King
Pizza Hut

should lose at least 10 kilos

yummm i love their tuna melt panini and chinese chopstick salad soo good!

why don’t you use their delivery service

Yamy

nice place

man the menu looks tasty! *drools*

gotta try their salads someday

https://www.saladcreations.net/images/customers/128221/storage/NUTRITION_DATA_SALAD_CREATIONS.PDF

Its very easy to think that since you are eating salads and wraps that they are healthy. However, with Salad Creations nothing could be further from the truth. All their wraps and paninis have over 800 calories (which is much higher than a nice tasty Big Mac). All the salads are around 300 Calories + another 300 Calories for the dressing. Thats 600 Calories for a ‘healthy’ salad. A Big Mac meanwhile has 500 Calories.

Dont fool yourselves, If you wanna go on a diet you’re better off eating at McDonalds than eating at this place.

Mark take a look at the link, 600 is not the max calories of their salads. Also nothing on the menu is even close to 60 calories (not sure where you got that).

My bigger beef is with their wraps and paninis (no pun intended). They actually have crazy high calories with some items as high as 1000 calories. Nothing in McDonalds even comes close to that.

They are representing themselves as a healthy franchise, even though the overwhelming majority of their products are not. Yes they have two low fat salads and a couple of low fat dressings, but all other items on their menu are not ‘healthy’.

Adam,

A crash course in corporate positioning 101 is desperately needed 🙂

I agree with you, it’s sometimes baffling when you uncover that a ‘Salad Store’ is selling variations of it’s wraps that may exceed the diet limits of the average consumer… but hey, they are a business and are catering to their whole market… not just the diet conscious…

It’s like Mark said, you could order the salad that suits you… as for me, I like my Italiano Panini extra cheesy with bacon dripping out of it… but thats me…

As for McDonalds, I don’t think the issue is just Calorie intake… The bigger issue here is the quality and freshness of the food your eating! great food thats market fresh with a little ‘sinful’ dressing is a lot better than synthetic food my friend…

Take a look at this news clipping below:

McDonald’s Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months

Vladimir Lenin, King Tut and the McDonald’s Happy Meal: What do they all
have in common? A shocking resistance to Mother Nature’s cycle of
decomposition and biodegradability, apparently.

That’s the disturbing point brought home by the latest project of New
York City-based artist and photographer Sally Davies, who bought a
McDonald’s Happy Meal back in April and left it out in her kitchen to
see how well it would hold up over time.

The results? “The only change that I can see is that it has become hard
as a rock,” Davies told the U.K. Daily Mail.

She proceeded to photograph the Happy Meal each week and posted the
pictures to Flickr to record the results of her experiment. Now, just
over six months later, the Happy Meal has yet to even grow mold. She
told the Daily Mail that “the food is plastic to the touch and has an
acrylic sheen to it.”

Davies — whose art has been featured in numerous films and television
shows and is collected by several celebrities — told The Upshot that
she initiated the project to prove a friend wrong. He believed that any
burger would mold or rot within two or three days of being left on a
counter. Thus began what’s become known as “The Happy Meal Art Project.”

“I told my friend about a schoolteacher who’s kept a McDonald’s burger
for 12 years that hasn’t changed at all, and he didn’t believe me when I
told him about it,” Davies told us. “He thought I was crazy and said I
shouldn’t believe everything that I read, so I decided to try it
myself.”

Some observers of the photo series have noted that the burger’s bun
appears at different angles, and therefore aired suspicions that the
Happy Meal may not in fact be as “untouched” as the project’s
groundrules stipulate. Davies says there’s a simple explanation for the
mobile-bun effect. “The meal is on a plate in my apartment on a shelf,”
she says, “and when I take it down to shoot it, the food slides around.
It’s hard as rock on a glass plate, so sure, the food is moving.”

Photo courtesy of Sally Davies
Davies’ friend was the person who should have done the additional
research. Wellness and nutrition educator Karen Hanrahan has indeed kept
a McDonald’s hamburger since 1996 to show clients and students how
resistant fast food can be to decomposition.

As for Davies, she said that she might just keep her burger and fries
hanging around for a while as well.

“It’s sitting on a bookshelf right now, so it’s not really taking up any
space, so why not?” she said. It ceased giving off any sort of odor
after 24 hours, she said, adding: “You have to see this thing.”

In response to Davies’ project, McDonald’s spokeswoman Theresa Riley
emailed The Upshot a statement defending the quality of the chain’s
food. Riley’s email also blasted Davies’ “completely unsubstantiated”
work as something out of “the realm of urban legends.”

“McDonald’s hamburger patties in the United States are made with 100%
USDA-inspected ground beef,” Riley wrote. “Our hamburgers are cooked and
prepared with salt, pepper and nothing else — no preservatives, no
fillers. Our hamburger buns are baked locally, are made from North
American-grown wheat flour and include common government-approved
ingredients designed to assure food quality and safety. … According to
Dr. Michael Doyle, Director, Center for Food Safety at the University of
Georgia, ‘From a scientific perspective, I can safely say that the way
McDonald’s hamburgers are freshly processed, no hamburger would look
like this after one year unless it was tampered with or held frozen.'”

https://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101012/bs_yblog_upshot/mcdonalds-
happy-meal-resists-decomposition-for-six-months

Click Link for Pics.

i dont believe in the calorie issue i m working at Baitak Towers and a regular customer .and i feel their salads are very healthy .

Salad Creations is one of the healthiest restaurants to open in Kuwait. That is to say they make healthy eating easy. And, unlike McDonalds, their ingredients are fresh and not chock-full of preservatives and crap.

At Salad Creations (like Subway) customers are able to easily customize their meals to suit their dietary needs. Like in Subway, if you get a 6″ Veggie Delite sub it’s just 162 calories, but if you get a footlong Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki sub its more than 740 calories.

You can’t say that Salad Creations is unhealthy because they offer higher calorie options. They’re food is healthy but not all their food is DIET food (and they’ve never suggested that it is).

The difference between Healthy and Low Calorie (or diet) food is very apparent in comparing something like fresh Orange Juice and Diet Cola. Yeah sure, Diet Coke has zero calories. And one cup of OJ has 110 cals. But OJ will provide your body with vitamin C and other nutrients while diet coke will pollute your body with artificial sweeteners and colors (and increase your risk of osteoporosis).

So puh-lease don’t go around saying crap like McDonlad’s is healthier than Salad Creations, cuz that’s just ignorant.

ok there are good calories and bad calories right… just like there’s good cholesterol and bad cholesterol.. how about we try an experiment.

Adam, why dont you go on a Mcdonalds Diet for a while. eat a certain amount of mcdonalds calories everyday, then try a salad creations diet and eat the same amount of calories in salad creations’ food. which diet do you think is gonna make you feel better, let alone BE better for your body?

o salamatkom

Adam,

Im still at the office, and for this discussion I luckily have their menu in my drawer…

It’s doesn’t say “HEALTHY” anywhere on the menu… It say’s Salad Creations ‘Fresh is Fabulous’ and a little further below it say’s ‘It’s a matter of taste, Yours!.’

Plus, on the dressing list it labels which dressings are ‘low-fat’ and which are ‘carb-free’..

Now that I’ve read that, I don’t see what your argument really is?!?! They obviously haven’t actively gone to any lengths to make sure people label them ‘healthy’ or ‘low-calory’… *not that they’re not 🙂

However, It’s obvious it’s rubbed you the wrong way that people perceive/label them as such… but that opens a whole different discussion!

NBK claims that they’re the safest bank in the world. But do we raise an issue that they actively promote the use of credit cards over micro consumer loans, even though we know as a consumer your getting robbed if you use your credit card as a source of guilt free extra funding…? NO!

So mate, stop this attack on the salad… I personally love my Chinese Chopstick Salad with extra spicy peanut dressing in the morning… and lately I’ve been asking for it in a wrap but without the mandarines 😛 It’s Fantastic!!! (But Fahad say’s thats high in calories, so what now!)let just hope they come up with a fat free spicy peanut sauce 😉

I’m not going to rehash everything I said yet again. Cajie seemed to understand my point, read his post, hopefully he’s explaining it better than I am.