They do have green beans. In Florida anyway. It's on their website too.

I have heard that they don't raise their own chicken. They buy it from poultry farms like Tyson.

yea the In n Out protein burger is great, but its only on the west coast. You need to also ask them to also leave out sauce otherwise it will be around 11g. I just started today so I think ill just stick to home made food.

http://www.hamburgerla.com/inout.html

I think that the new KFC ad campaign is brilliant. There is a market out there and they are going for it. If they do well other fast food restaurants may follow. This could open up a whole new list of options for us low carbers.

I went to the KFC website and emailed them telling them how much I liked their new ads and requested that they consider adding a side salad to their menu.

While I would like to have more genuinely healthy LC choices at fast-food places, I really have my doubts this will occur. I'm sure the fast-food industry can and will offer LC choices in an attempt to get us to buy their products, but will they take the time and trouble to develop truly healthy LC choices? I seriously doubt it.

KFC is a good example of what I am afraid will happen - they are touting their chicken as a healthy food. Their chicken is fried with breading in hydrogenated oil that has been heated over and over to high temps - this is a trans-fat / lipid peroxide / free radical nightmare. Even if it had zero carbs, it still would not be a healthy LC food because it violates several other guidelines found in the books regarding LC WOEs - look up trans-fat in the index of whatever book(s) you are using for details.

What I fear will happen is what has happened in the push to get low-fat foods to consumers - foods have been developed that contain ingredient after ingredient that we don't recognize as a food items and can't begin to pronounce. These are equivalents to the frankenfoods serious LCers all over this board - regardless of which LC plan they use -choose to avoid in droves.

I firmly believe you should avoid most processed foods as much as possible and avoid any factory-style restaurants like the plague. My guideline for this is simple. If the food they make isn't made on the premises, I avoid it. I made the assumption that any food made in a factory is much more likely to contain all sorts of fraken foods. I try to focus on smaller restaurants who clearly focus on homemade foods.

Have you noticed KCs low fat commercials? They are going to bring back skinless chicken which makes the chicken low fat... Who are they kidding?!

JudyR- Could you tell the resturant you go to, to please open up a chain here in the Northeast? Pretty Please?

I've seen both commercials and quite frankly I think KFC is clueless! The guy sitting on the back of the car eating chicken has breaded chicken. The couple eating out of the bucket of chicken ARE EATING BREADED CHICKEN! KFC seriously needs to do a couple of different focus groups - LC and LF.

I used to love KFC but now just driving past one makes my stomach turn. I've gotten to accustomed to eating really good food that I cook for myself.

shortstuff

this is too incredibly funny - I started reading this thread at the beginning, and while I am reading Tom Brokaw comes on with a spot on how the Gov't. is going to investigate KFC for false advertising. They feel that they can't be a lowfat food, and that they are encouraging people to eat it with false claims!!!!!!

That's good news Shari. Maybe the Government will send a message to all fast food places. Don't get into the LC business unless your serious about it.

Aragon - I think back to the last time I did Atkins. I was totally doing it on my own, and would have thought that was a great thing!! I do love a piece of white meat from there!! I would have believed the ad and made a trip there quickly. Now I know from reading so many journals and the book that this would be quite suspicious to be just 11 carbs. Not to mention that 11 carbs for a piece of chicken would mean that it is all in the coating anyways. At one time I would have just eaten the coating and left the chicken!!!!!1

I guess that I just think of KFC as a fast food joint. I mean like any fast food place it's not something that you would eat every day. I haven't seen the commercial that claims that KFC is low fat but any so called healthy item in a fast food restaurant is not something that I would really call healthy.

If I were in a pinch and needed a lower carb lunch I would definitely choose KFC though I wouldn't consider it over a home cooked low carb meal.

I still think that KFC advertising a lower carb alternative is a good thing.
I would not however expect to eat at any fast food place all the time and lose weight or expect to stay healthy.

I didnt like KFC when I was eating whatever I wanted. Plus its not low carb, they use flour which could trigger cravings.

There are far better fast-food choices for people who truly want to eat a healthy diet. Grilled chicken with a salad or hamburgers without the bun, catsup or processed cheese food are widely available choices that do not contain trans-fats and aren't deep-fried in a slug of lipid peroxides at temperatures sure to produce free radicals.

For people who are simply dieting and into the mentality that if it's low in carbs then it is OK for me to eat, KFC is probably going to be an acceptable choice. But for people who are actually practicing an LC WOE, KFC chicken is no more an acceptable product than margarine, shortening and hydrogenated lard are - the last three contain zero carbs but they aren't acceptable choices on an LC WOE for exactly the same reasons KFC chicken isn't.

Look! Look! It seems as though our friends at BK are finally getting a clue:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...015#post1586015

Just read this post, yeah I know I am a month late in replying, but thought I'd throw in my 2 cents' worth nonetheless...

here in Australia at least, restaurants are only JUST NOW getting on to the low-fat bandwagon, I suspect it will be at least another 10 years before low-carb even enters their field of vision!!!

Katt