Healthy Eating: Kids Meals

Top 10 Worst Kids' Meals

These meals may be made for little ones, but they serve big time helpings of fat, calories and sodium

#9: Worst Fast Food Chicken Meal

KFC Kids Meal with Popcorn Chicken, Potato Wedges, and Pepsi
800 calories
37.5 g fat (8 g saturated)
1,755 mg sodium

Fried chicken is almost always trouble, but the Potato Wedges constitute this meal’s biggest calorie portion. And its most dangerous. Despite the Colonel’s high-profile PR campaign touting its trans fat-free menu, these wedges are loaded with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, the precursors to the perilous fats.

Eat This Instead!
Kids Meal with Grilled Chicken Drumstick, Mashed Potatoes (no gravy), and Capri Sun Roarin’ Waters Tropical Fruit Juice Drink
250 calories
9.5 g fat (3 g saturated)
725 mg sodium

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