20 WORST kids foods

This is a list i just found for kids worst food to eat, you might be surprised at all of the empty calories they have.


20. Cap'n Crunch (1 cup)

• 146 calories 2 g fat (1 g saturated) 16 g sugars 1 g fiber

The Cap'n's cereal is the archetypal hypersweetened breakfast. It didn't make our list by its abundance of fat or calories; it made the list by being among the dominant sources of empty calories in a child's diet. Aside from the small amount of added vitamins, which are mandated by the government, this cereal is a food scientist's concoction of worthless food-like particles and chemicals. Corn flour makes up the bulk of each crunch, and sugar, brown sugar, and coconut oil hold it together. This cereal is also coated with loads of the food colorings yellow 6 and 5, which have been linked to irritability and poor behavior in children.
19. Austin Cheese Crackers with Cheddar Jack Cheese (1 package)

• 210 calories 10 g fat (2 g saturated, 4 g trans) 370 mg sodium

The calorie count is the least of your concerns with these ubiquitous orange cracker snacks. They made the list because each package contains two days' worth of trans fats. Most of the food industry has figured out how to make foods free of these nasty lipids (which have been proved to raise bad cholesterol); we suggest Austin do the same.
18. SunnyD Smooth Style (16 ounces)

• 260 calories 60 g sugars

Remember those commercials where the kid with SunnyD in the fridge always had the coolest mom? What they didn't tell you was that mom's love of the orange stuff was quietly undermining her kid's well-being. Don't mistake SunnyD for OJ; there's just 5 percent real juice in this bottle, which means the other 95 percent is well-marketed sugar water. Do you really want your child slurping down the sugar equivalent of a dozen Chips Ahoy cookies?
17. Bob Evans Smiley Face Potatoes

• 524 calories 31 g fat (6 g saturated) 646 mg sodium

These incessantly smiling potatoes are more than just creepy; they're more fat- and calorie-packed than Bob's Sirloin Steak. Let this be a lesson to you youngsters: Just because they're smiling doesn't make them nice.
16. Atlanta Bread Company Peanut Butter & Jelly

• 550 calories 15 g fat (3.5 g saturated) 690 mg sodium 34 g sugars

Apparently it's a bad idea to stick an American classic on French bread. How else could we explain a 550-calorie peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Toss some chips onto that plate and you've got a meal that can quickly make a small child big. Make this meal at home instead and you not only save a ton of money, but you can also cut the caloric load by half.
15. Auntie Anne's Pepperoni Pretzel Pocket

• 650 calories 27 g fat (12 g saturated) 1,120 mg sodium 11 g sugars

Oversize pretzels are already precarious, because they pack a ton of empty carbohydrates. So stuffing a pretzel with sausage is wrapping barbed wire around a fire ax. It will take more than a day of walking around the mall for your kid to burn off all the fat in this greasy fat sponge. (Better warm up that credit card
14. Au Bon Pain Kids' Grilled Cheese

• 670 calories 41 g fat (25 g saturated) 1,060 mg sodium

You wouldn't even consider feeding your child this if they called it by its real name: an oil sandwich with cheese. So soaked is this sandwich that you'd need to eat 25 strips of cooked bacon to equal the amount of saturated fat found between the two slices. Wait until you get home—in about five minutes you can make a pretty mean 300-calorie grilled cheese sandwich.
13. Oscar Mayer Maxed Out Turkey & Cheddar Cracker Combo Lunchables

• 680 calories 22 g fat (9 g saturated) 61 g sugars 1,440 mg sodium

Lunchables has established itself as the prepackaged lunch choice for kids, but just because your kids love Lunchables doesn't mean Lunchables loves your kids. The Maxed Out line is the worst of the lot; Oscar Mayer packs this one with nearly half of an 8-year-old's daily calorie allotment and sweetens it with more than twice the sugar and fat of most candy bars.
12. Uno Chicago Grill Kid's Sundae

• 860 calories 38 g fat (20 g saturated) 94 g sugars

Consider the repercussions of slapping three Baby Ruth bars' worth of fat and sugar onto the end of your child's meal. Weighing in at an astounding three-quarters pound, this abominable sundae is twice as big as the Kid's Pasta, and twice as caloric as a child's entire meal should be.
11. Ruby Tuesday Kids Turkey Minis & Fries

• 873 calories 46 g fat 88 g carbohydrates

When we first pointed out how bad this restaurant kids' meal was, Ruby Tuesday sprang into action, shrinking the meal down to save ... a total of 20 calories. That's not going to help your child fight obesity and all the health problems that can come with it, not when these mini burgers still have more calories than a Wendy's formidable Baconator. The best solution? Avoid Ruby's burgers entirely. Chicken and broccoli, at just 201 calories, is best, but the chop steak plate is like eating a burger without the bun (not to mention all those excess calories).
10. Boston Market's Kids' Meat Loaf with Sweet Potato Casserole and Cornbread

• 890 calories 46.5 g fat (17.5 g saturated) 131 g carbohydrates 1,500 mg sodium

This is not your mother's meat loaf—and that's too bad. This slab-o-meat begins as beef and ends as a science project with 55 ingredients that include the understandable (cheese cultures), the detestable (partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil) and the unpronounceable (azodicarbonamide). Stack the amalgamation next to a sugar-and-cream-injected sweet potato and a starchy piece of cornbread and you're asking your kid to be the lab rat. We can tell you right now, the results will be big. Roast turkey provides a safe haven for discerning eaters.
9. Romano's Macaroni Grill Fettuccine Alfredo

• 890 calories 67 g fat (38 g saturated) 1,480 mg sodium

This plate of noodles has two days' worth of saturated fat—for a full-grown adult! For a kid, this could serve as a precursor for obesity. And to make matters worse, Macaroni Grill likes to throw in a free ice cream with every kids' meal. They sure don't make it easy to be a responsible parent.

8. On the Border Kids Bean and Cheese Nachos

• 980 calories 57 g fat (29 g saturated) 1,850 mg sodium

On the Border's Beef Soft Taco meal has been downsized just enough to keep it from topping our list this year. But we've spotted several other troubling dishes in the kids' domain, especially this plate of nachos. It's hard to imagine how chips, cheese and beans are transformed into a day and a half's worth of saturated fat, but once you see the train wrecks on the adult side of the menu, you begin to understand.
7. Uno Chicago Grill Kid's Deep Dish Pepperoni Pizza

• 980 calories 70 g fat (20 g saturated) 1,860 mg sodium

We analyzed every kids' pizza in every chain restaurant in America, and these sloppy slices beat out the next closest competitor by 27 grams of fat. Calorie-wise, it's like eating more than two whole boxes of Bagel Bites.
6. Chili's Pepper Pals Little Chicken Crispers with Ranch and Homestyle Fries

• 1,010 calories 75 g fat (13 g saturated) 1,780 mg sodium

A moderately active 8-year-old boy should eat around 1,600 calories a day. This single meal plows through about 65 percent of that allotment. Unless he plans on munching on nothing but celery the rest of the day, he ought to plan on skipping the country-fried crispers.
5. Denny's Little Dipper Sampler with Honey Mustard Dressing Dipping Sauce and Deep Space French Fries

• 1,030 calories 61 g fat (15 g saturated) 1,590 mg sodium

Nuggets, mozzarella sticks and fries make an unholy trinity of sodium and saturated fat. Parents can choose the convenience of giving their tots something that doesn't require a fork to eat, but not if it delivers two-thirds of the kid's daily calories.
4. Baskin-Robbins Small Snickers Shake

• 1,040 calories 50 g fat (26 g saturated, 1 g trans) 112 g sugars

Baskin-Robbins has a whole line of these candy-themed shakes to help nudge your child toward a lifetime of elevated blood sugar. How they manage to fit so much fat and sugar into a 16-ounce cup is a mystery of modern food science. This one's the equivalent of nearly four whole Snickers bars. You're better off giving your kid the real candy.
3. Burger King Kids' Double Cheeseburger with Small Fries and Coke

• 1,100 calories 52 g fat (17.5 g saturated, 1.5 g trans) 1,870 mg sodium

BK's double beef earns the distinction of being the fattest meal for an on-the-go kid. It has 18 more grams of fat than the same meal at McDonald's. The meal might be quick, but it takes a long time for a 90-pound child to burn all those calories.
2. P.F. Chang's Crispy Honey Chicken on Brown Rice

• 1,210 calories 51 g fat (9 g saturated) 610 mg sodium

Although P.F. Chang's doesn't offer a proper kids' menu, this is the item it identifies on its menu as the "Kids' #1 Favorite." As a single entrée, this dish will saddle your child with two-thirds of her day's calories and nearly an entire day's worth of fat. They put the lazy Susan on the tables at Chang's for a reason; these dishes need to be shared.
1. Uno Chicago Grill Kids' Kombo with French Fries

• 1,250 calories 79 g fat (11.5 g saturated) 2,850 mg sodium

For food marketers, the color of money isn't green—it's beige. Any parent knows that most foods kids clamor for, from fries to white bread to chicken nuggets, come in beige. It's also a marker of cheap, calorie-rich, nutritionally bankrupt foodstuffs. So when you see this monochromatic cluster of cheese sticks, dinosaur-shaped chicken and fried potatoes, you know your kid's in trouble. Make it a rule when eating out: All dishes must come with at least two colors (and ketchup doesn't count).

i guess its a good thing none of my kids eat that crap...yikes i didnt know that stuff!

My kids havent even tried any of that. That stuff is outrageous.

Damn. I love Captn Crunch. Now I want some.

Wow, I'm surprised and relieved to say my kids have never had any of those things!

Can say neither my son or I have ever had anything on that list.

wooah, luckily my kid has never had any of that.....but I always suspect stuff like that to be real high in cals and fat anyway.

Quoting madflash3:“ Damn. I love Captn Crunch. Now I want some.”

You read my mind!

Hmmmm, I'm actually surprised that off that entire list, my children have never even tried any of that. Make me feel kinda good inside  

Whenmy son starts eating foods I still wont be taking him out to eat. My parents made that mistake with me and I wont be making it with him. Im not saying he wont ever eat any, but it wont be much at all.

who feeds their kidsa double cheeseburger with fries and a coke  

I was really shocked with the meatloaf from Boston Market, I always thought the sweat potaoe casserole looked gross and fat, good thing neither of us have had it.

those are the kind of things i expect to be high calorie. sadly... a lot of kids live off that kind of stuff, especially fast food because it's more "convenient". the only thing we do off that list is peanut butter & jelly and it's not an every day thing.

Quoting Rette Mich:“ Whenmy son starts eating foods I still wont be taking him out to eat. My parents made that mistake with ... [snip!] ... made that mistake with me and I wont be making it with him. Im not saying he wont ever eat any, but it wont be much at all.”

We eat out way too much since the twins were born. But who orders a double burger for a kid? My son always wants a hamburger with only ketchup, my daughter always wants a hamburger with only mayo and lettuce, or a grilled chicken wrap with mayo and lettuce, and my 2 yo is all about chicken nuggets or mac and cheese. None of them get fries, and they drink chocolate milk, milk or orange juice.

I spent months on bedrest when I was pregnant reading fast food nutrition facts...

Still though, we are slowly transitioning back to a more healthy and home cooked diet, now that the twins are not needing to be constantly held. My slow cooker is my new best friend.

Quoting Sammi + Bailey *JAS08*:“ who feeds their kidsa double cheeseburger with fries and a coke  ”

lol parents whoe dont care and have kids that turn out to be morbidly obese by the time they turn 2!