How to Eat Healthy at Old Spaghetti Factory

Eating healthy at any fast food restaurant is a challenge. You need to know the amount of calories and fat that go into the different menu items. The following will give you an idea of the least and most calorie items at Old Spaghetti Factory, broken down by category.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

1. Decide on your appetizer. The Chicken Orzo soup is the best item on the menu, since it contains only 90 calories and 2.5 grams of fat. The Orzo salad has less calories but if you add a salad dressing it will be more calories than the soup. The appetizer with the most calories and fat is the Garlic Cheese Bread Starter which has 1,220 calories and 85 grams of fat.
2. Order lunch. Surprisingly the lunch selections are healthier than having a sandwich. You can order Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce or Spaghetti with Tomato and Meat Sauce. Each of these have 300 calories and 3.5 grams of fat. The Factory Burger has 1,380 calories and 89 grams of fat.
3. Have dinner. Again, the Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce has the least amount of calories, 440, and the least amount of fat, 5 grams. The Meatloaf with Spaghetti Topped with Mizithra Cheese and Brown Butter has 1,370 calories with 96 grams of fat.
4. Avoid the platters because they all have a high number of calories and fat. The Hearty Platter Number 4 with Spaghetti Sauce has the least amount of calories and it has 740 calories with 9 grams of fat. The Hearty Platter Number 4 with Mizithra contains 1,590 calories and 98 grams of fat.
5. Order for your children. Their selections vary from the Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce to the Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce and Meatballs, which have 300 to 440 calories and 3.5 to 13 grams of fat, respectively.
6. Deserts range from 29 to 40 grams of fat. The calorie value for all of them (there were only three) were approximately 685.

Tips & Warnings

• The fat free Honey Mustard salad dressing only has 60 calories and no grams of fat.
• There are links in resources for calculating how many calories and fat grams you should consume each day to maintain your ideal weight and eating healthy at restaurants.
• Be careful when you order for your children. Although the Grilled Cheese has less calories then the Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce and Meatballs the fat content is much higher.