20 holiday items from Restaurant Chains

Peppermint and gingerbread in everything.


Peppermint with gingerbread, thevacation Huancez many festive flavors that restaurants incorporate in their small and creative time menus. In chains across the country, you will find sugar (Santa Donuts!) And Spice (Jalapeño and Granada Vitré Bacon!) And all pleasant (Garland wrapping the stem of a glass of margarita!).

Certainly, these follies once a year, such as 1,200 calorie batteries with candy studded pancakes,Does not end exactly on the "beautiful list" for food recommended by registered dietitiansSo we sprinkled in some of their tips on how to make a little healthier vacation offerings.

Here are 20 more festiveHoliday menu items with restaurant chains.

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1

Cookie pancakes of IHOP 'N'

ihop milk and cookies pancakes
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A leading sign of Santa's favorite night snack, thePancakes of milk biscuits 'N' At IHOP are festive, fluffy and filled with pieces of Oreo cookies, then garnished with sweet milk mousse, more cookies, vanilla drizzle, red and green sprinkles and powdered sugar.

But these pancakes similar to desserts are loaded with sugar and clock to 1,190 calories, emphasizeTalia Hauser, RDN in the colony, Texas. A better option on the Holidays menu of the IHOP is the pumpkin Spice Crancakes, which, made with true pumpkin, will give you a little boost of vitamins and will have half of the calories.

"Even better, get a half-stack or lateral control of pumpkin pepper pancakes and balancing the meal with a white egg vegetable omelette," says Hauser.

In addition to the pancakes that IHOP has on its seasonal menu, the breakfast chain has a holiday family feast that comes with a pancake decoration kit.

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2

Robin Red Robin Gingerbread Milkshake

red robin gingerbread milkshake

Mixed with a gingerbread flavor and garnished with criber graham crumbs, thisGingerbread milkshake From the limited time menu of Robin deserves to try. Doubling dessert, Shake comes with a gingerbread cookie.

3

Berry Applebee Merry Colada

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A tropical torsion on Christmas cocktails, Applebee's Bay Merry Colada is a Piña Colada peat with red (strawberry) and green (Midori). Captain Morgan's switched Coplada is on the Soups menu of $ 5 "Sileigh Bell". And for another holiday cocktail, the chain puts a cherry dash in the punch of the reindeer vodka which is mixed with the spray cranberry of the ocean and soft and acidic.

Because holiday cocktail menus tend to wear drinks loaded with sugar or fat, such as chicken milk, you will do better to make spicy wine at home, explains Hauser.

"Most recipes call only just red wine, spices like cinnamon and pods, oranges and brown sugar to increase sweetness," she says. "Try playing with different recipes. You can find that you may not even want the brown sugar."

4

Panera Mint Biscuits

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Bring your hands on these adorable iron cookies in the shape of Panera mitten. You can buy a unique cookie or a six pack.

5

Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits Biscuits Box

red lobster biscuits on plate
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Buttery, Garlicky Bay Cheddar Bay Cookies are an emblematic menu base all year round on the red lobster. But they come only in aHoliday theme gift box once a year. Take a six and gift pack as a salty alternative to cookies.

6

Merry Berry Rita de Chilis

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The channel deploys a margarita of $ 5 each month. In time for the holidays, they gift us with aHappy Berry Rita, a margarita made with a strawberry mashed and a blackberry, with the rod wrapped in a mini garland.

If you are looking to reduce sugar or calories, ask the bartender if there is a way to make your drinks with less sugar or syrup, suggests Silvia Carli, R.D, with1andLife.

7

The jalapeño bacon and the pomegranate of the snooze pomegranate

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A breakfast chain that is in states, including California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, North Carolina and Missouri, Snooze is known for its decadent pancakes. For the holidays, they have a specialholiday menu With pancakes of peppermint bark and pumpkin pecan pancakes. But they also have more unexpected offers, including Jalapeño and glazed grenade and a bowl of holiday harvest that get a squash of bites and soft potatoes mixed with vegetables and garnished with a poached egg, cheese to Dutch cream, candid cranberries and crisp prosciutto. It is finished with the same mixtures Jalapeño and Pomgranate on the bacon.

8

Milkshake Chick-Fil-Fil-A Peppermint

chickfila peppermint chocolate shake
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A trafficking inspired by a bon-blooded cane, peppermilm mint milkshake has a just right ratio of chocolate bits and peppermint. Milkshake Minty is a seasonal treatment that is served with a whipped whipped whipped and a cherry on the top.

9

Dunkin 'Sugarplum Macchiato

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Novelty of Dunkin Donuts's vacation espresso range This year is a sugarplum macchiato that is made with a mix of plum flavors and berries, including blueberries, raspberries and ripe, and accentuated vanilla notes. For instagram-dignified treatment, combine it with frosted snow flake donut, which has purple icing seeds and snowflake.

10

The festive donuts of Krispy Kreme

krispy kreme santa belly donut

The Krispy Kreme holiday donut range is almost too cute to eat. Almost. Among the holiday treats there is a donut of the belly of Santa which is filled with chocolate cream, soaked in the red ice and the sanding sugar, and decorated with a sugar belt. Another holiday option is the Christmas donut, filled with sugar cookie cream and green and red icing finish and a sugar bow.

11

Grilled hot chocolate from Starbucks

starbucks peppermint white hot chocolate
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Starbucks elects all types of drinks approved by the Santa this period of the year. You will find several holiday drinks from hot chocolates specialty to a Creme Vapor Praline Chestnut.

If you like the idea of ​​grilled white hot chocolate, Hauser has tips for cutting calories, greases and sugar in this drink. Sub nonfat milk, bring back to two white chocolate syrup pumps and jump the whipped cream, and you will always have an indulgent and festive drink.

A general advice at Starbucks for holidays: Custom-order your slats to ask a syrup pump, saysKatelyn Brockmiller, R.D. Or, go for steamed milk with a cinnamon stroke instead of a latte, saysAshley Harpst, R.D.

12

Cracker Barrel's Heat Do not serve vacation meals

cracker barrel spiral ham with side dishes and pies
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In the middle of a normal new holiday season, Cracker Barrel has a new offer of menus: the heat and the heat dishes that come in a size of family dinner (serves four to six) or a festive size (Serves eight to 10) and characterize a spiral trench. , hardened ham. The family dinner and the feast have corn vinaigrette, grilled sauce, cranberry taste, sweet yeast rolls and a choice of sides. The party also comes with a Pecan Pecan Streusel pie and a pecan pie.

13

Peppermint cheese cheese of peppermint cheese plant

cheesecake factory peppermint cheesecake slice
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Available by the slice and as a 10-inch cake, peppermint bark cheese at the Cheesecake factory is made with white chocolate and swirling peppermint bark pieces. It gets a pinch of chopped chocolate foam at the top of peppermint.

14

Taco Bell cinnamon twists

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Although it is not technically a holiday menu element, because Taco Bell cinnamon twists are available all year round, the sweet treatment of cinnamon deserves a place on the season of season snacks. In addition, compared to the holiday desserts on top, this iconic menu item is 170 calories.

15

The famous Turkey smoke of Hickory Daves

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Most holiday specialty items fall into the dessert category. But the famous davers have an exception: a smoked Turkey at the holiday hickory that has been smoke for both three hours and rub with a "spice holiday mix".

16

Chuck E. Cheese Cock Fromon Churros

chuck e cheese holiday churros on plate
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Sprinkled with blue sugar and watered white icing, theChuck E Frost Churros E. Cheese are sprinkled with edible glitter. The holiday treats menu also has a giant chocolate chip cake with red and green candies.

17

Dairy Queen's Cocoa Hot Cocoa Blizzard

dairy queen peppermint hot cocoa blizzard

The Blizzard of the month at DQ is a hot cocoa blizzard of peppermint made of chocolate pieces, cane cane with peppermint candies, cocoa fudge and whipped filling. Dairywool also has a cute ice cream decorated as a snowman.

18

Robbins Baskin Holiday Cakes

baskin robbins christmas tree cake

TheRobbins Baskin Holiday Cakes are impressive. You can order cakes with reindeer designs, snow, elf, santa or fleece. Candy Lane cottage cake looks like she came directly from the page of a tales book.

19

Triple Treat Treat's Pizza Hut

pizza hut triple threat box
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In a triple-decker box that is decorated to look like a gift,Triple Treat Treat's Pizza Hut Comes with two average pizzas, five baguette breads and 10 mini rollers of Cinzabon. Order the box and synchronize it with a Christmas movie marathon.

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Frost with hot chocolate Aunt Annes

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Mall Bretzel Purveyor Auntie Annes joined Hershey's for a seasonal limited time drink. The hot chocolate gel is garnished with whipped cream and watered with the Hershey syrup.

The articles in this list have almost recorded all buddy restoration groups the "four main food groups" of the ELF, which includes candies, candy canes and syrup. We are waiting until Halloween arrives to check the fourth article of the famous Elf, Candy Corn.

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