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Do not lie to ourselves:Pasta andPizza are probably some of the best foods around. Fortunately for gourmands, it is not necessary to travel to Italy to indulge in a delicious Italian cuisine these days. Enter:Macaroni grill of Romano, the American casual catering chain with a series of tasty Italian-American favorites.

Because the options are endless while restaurant at the popular restaurant, we arrived at Amy Tao, MS,Well-being based, to inform us about the best and the worst menu item options. Antipasti and pizza with pasta, meat, chicken and seafood, you will want this practical list helps you make smart decisions while enjoying a hearty meal in one of the 88 locations inspired by the Mediterranean.

Here are the best and the worst items you can order in the Romano's Macaroni Grill menu.

antipasti

These goat cheese peppers and Androfum bread are marinated with ingredients such as sugar and vinegar, which is probably why the sugar content is so high. However, this option is low in bold.

"Despite 40 grams of sugar, this option has less than half of the grease of the next choice, which is the crisp germs of Brussels," says Tao, noting that the popular green veggie is also a smart choice. "Even though Brussels crispful cabbages have more fat, they are not a bad option because they contain almost three times the amount of fiber and half of the sugar as a goat cheese pepper."

While this tasty and creamy mixture of spinach, artichokes, parmesan, mozzarella, white wine, spices and shrimp with brushed rosemary bread with garlic sounds succulent, it's not a Great health decision, according to Tao.

"The dish contains Fools 29 grams of saturated fat per serving, which speaks of the same amount of saturated fat you would find in three major Macs," says Tao. "In addition to containing tons of grease, this selection also contains an entire day of sodium." Yikes!

Soups and salads

To save the amount of fat and sodium, you consume in your meal, Tao suggests starting your meal with a cup of this soup, then divide an entrance with a friend or to eat half of your entry and bring the stay at home.

When you think "salad", you probably think "healthy". But this mixture of roasted chicken, chopped spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh pasta, tomatoes Roma, capers, olives and pines with a Mediterranean vinaigrette is quite opposite.

"This salad is packed with calories, fat and sodium and presents the second largest amount of sugar of the 22 choices," says Tao. "Even the Pizza Pepperoni has fewer calories and less fat."

Sandwiches

This fresh mozzarella, the tomato, the basil pesto, the rocket and the Mediterranean vinaigrette on the Ciabatta bread sandwich contain a good amount of fat, but it probably comes from healthier sources such as olive oil, the Nuts and cheese, according to Tao.

In addition to receiving this sandwich as part of the Mix and Match option, which comes with half a sandwich and soup, Tao recommends improvising a full sandwich part.

"Register even more calories by taking the top half of the sandwich, and the healthy factor asking extra vegetables on the sandwich," she says.

Even if a parm chicken sandwich is a warm favorite, Saly and Ringard, it's one of the worst options in the Romano's Macaroni Grill menu.

"This sandwich contains almost doubling the fat, including seven other grams of saturated fat as the Italian catching pesto," says Tao. "A big part of the fat in this option is probably due to fried chicken, so look for chicken options that are not breadboat and fries."

Sides

This delicious green vegetable is by far the best choice for a dish of accompaniment. "Although it contains fewer calories and fat [other sides], it is also full of vitamins and beneficial minerals," Tao said.

Although crisp and full of flavor, "this" side "contains as many calories as a standard meal could, in addition to a lot of sodium," Tao said.

But we know that the flavor of the truffle is difficult to pass, then just comes from "see if the restaurant can add truffle oil to some brocolini or asparagus," says Tao.

Pasta

Tortellacci stuffed with a four-cheese mix, an imported pomodorin sauce and a carbonized tomato may seem like it is not the best choice, but it's a healthy option, says Tao.

"It's a vegetarian dish that is certainly the best choice of pasta with a total of 460 very reasonable calories and 280 fat calories," she says.

As much as we would like to deliver us with Parmesan Chicken, Lasagna Bolognese and Fettuccine Alfredo, Mama's trio is far from the best option.

"This choice of meal has a crazy 2,110 calories, 129 grams of fat, 57 grams of saturated fat and nearly 4,000 milligrams of sodium," says Tao. "To put this in perspective, a whole butter stick has 88 grams of fat, 56 grams of saturated fat and 720 milligrams of sodium. This dish has the same amount of sodium as an entire package and half a bacon."

Chicken

This light and tasty grilled chicken breast with mozzarella of Buffalo imported, the pomodorine sauce and Capellini landed like a healthiest chicken option because it contains the smalle amount of calories, grease and cholesterol.

"This option contains almost a third of the calories and fat compared to the worst choice of category, parmesan chicken," Tao said.

Similar to Pollo Caprese, except with breaded and fried chicken, "a parmesan chicken meal is packed with a mass of calories and more fat than consuming in a day," said Tao.

Seafood

While this fillet of Mahi-Mahi grilled with tomatoes of Bruschetta, the pesto gnocchi and the basil are similar to calories on lobster ravioli and grilled salmon, the grilled mahi with pesto gnocchi contains less than half of the calories of grease compared to the ravioli of the lobster. and more than 100 calories of fat with grilled salmon, "says Tao.

Grilled salmon is a great option too. "Grilled salmon also contains fewer saturated fat and 850 milligrams of sodium," says Tao.

This jumbo shrimp combo jumped, capellini, spinach, mushrooms, garlic, pine nuts and lemon butter sounds rich and inviting. However, "this dish contains 1,200 calories in a portion, nearly 700 calories in the grease and the maximum amount of trans fat (two grams) that you should consume in one day in a single dish," says Tao.

Carn

While this 10 ounce highlighted, the mashed potatoes of Buttermilk, and the broccolini sauté with a sauce in Oneganata is far from the best choice of the menu ", grilled steaks and potatoes with the oreganata sauce contain the Low quantity of calories and grease compared to other options under the Carne section, "Tao says." But it also has the greatest amount of sodium compared to other choices. "

Porterhouse steak with rosemary lemon butter and haircil halves of Brussels with balsamic icing sounds delicious, but it's far from good for you. Honestly, it looks like you'd better jump entirely from the carne section.

"The wearhouse steak contains a height of 1,480 calories, and more than twice the amount of trans fat should consume in one day," says Tao. "In addition, this dish contains 115 grams of fat, which is just a little less than the amount of fat that is in five orders of big fries of McDonald."

Brick brick pizza

Surrounded by many fresh ingredients, this pizza has fewer calories than cheese pizza.

"This option contains more sodium than cheese pizza, but also does not contain trans fat, while cheese pizza has half a gram," says Tao.

That said, Tao adds that cheese pizzas and Margherita are a boost, nutrition. "It would be great to share one of these pizzas with one or two other people, then add a cup of Italian soup of herbs or Tuscan beans and on one side of Brocolini or asparagus," said Tao.

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The disadvantage of this butcher's chopped bacon, Prosciutto, Pepperoni, spinach jumped, fresh mozzarella and parmesan pizza is that it is packed with sodium.

"It contains 3,030 milligrams of sodium, which equates to teaspoons of salt of one and third of third parties," Tao said.

Dolce

"You do not have to say no dessert when a portion of vanilla ice cream contains only 310 calories," says Tao of creamy and delicious treatment. "Check to the restaurant to see if they have fresh fruits that you can add to the ice cream or even see if someone from your table wants to divide the ice cream with you."

This extremely rich chocolate cake is superimposed at chocolate ganache, chocolate butter, with fresh whipped cream and caramel girlfriends, which you can imagine, it's the perfect recipe to hit the worst option of Dessert menu.

"A slice of this cake contains more calories than a meal should," says Tao. "In addition to the extreme quantity of calories, this cake also contains 88 grams of fat." But what distinguishes it on top is the shocking of 48 grams of sugar ", which equates to 12 teaspoons of sugar and is the same amount of sugar you eat if you have eaten two full size Hershey bars," Tao said.

The next time you go to Romano Macaroni Grill, keep this list in mind when you place your order.