Contains 100% of your RDA for sodium.

These places (fast food) are trying, but just not getting it.

They're in the class, they've got the textbook open in front of them, but while all the other restaurants are reciting their times tables, the fast food restaurants are shooting spitballs & picking their noses. Grrrrrrr.

If it's not sodium, it's hydrogenated oil. And no, I don't go there expecting health food, but at the same time...guh.

Just an FYI.

Actually, as far as tastes and points, its pretty good, but the chicken leaves this funky film in your mouth.

Do you remember the ad campaign they ran a couple of months ago? It featured people eating fried chicken and claiming it was healthy. They received a LOT of bad publicity for it, and the ads quit running. KFC said the reason they quit running the ads had nothing to do with the negative publicity, but that the campaign was scheduled for a limited run anyway. I'm not quite sure.

I agree that the restaurants are not getting it. They grab onto the latest diet catch phrase because it sells more meals, even though we're not always helping ourselves by eating them. The current low-carb campaigns are a good example. Some of them are just plain crazy, containing over a thousand calories and hundred fat grams per meal. Once again, portion control plays into it, and that's a big part of why we are obese. It isn't always just what we eat, but how much we eat.

Doesn't KFC have rotisserie (sp?) ckn and if you pick off the skin isn't that pretty healthy? I mean if you gotta eat there.

Go to their web site and see how many calories and fat are in their meals.

The new chicken thing is ok (my husband tried it), but he didnt like the rice and said the green beans were over cooked--he could have stayed home and gotten a bad meal--why go out LOL

KFC is not a place I'd go for a good meal. Personal responsibility is what we need to have instead of expecting others to do it for us. You can go to all the websites for fast food before you ever set foot in the place and decide if you want to eat there. If the food didn't sell, they wouldn't cook it. I will occasionally get a salad at Wendy's and the new ones at Burger King with the Shrimp are delicious. But its a once a month thing for me.

I am so glad somebody else thought it let a funny taste or film in your mouth everybody looked at me like I was crazy. It tasted pretty good but the aftermath was gross!

Amen to that - PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is what it's all about.

At least the fast food places are TRYING...but we all have a choice - we can choose to eat there - or eat elsewhere.

I also would not go to KFC (or Taco Bell, McDonald's, or whatever) and expect 'health food'. Yet there are SO MANY people out there who order a taco salad at Taco Bell and believe it's a 'healthy choice' when it is loaded with over 1,000 calories and tons of fat. Even though McD's has salads, I would still rather go to my local market's salad bar (in their produce section) and make my OWN salad, which I do frequently! Now THAT's what I call healthy fast food.

KFC in Canada has no tender roast or non deep fried chicken alternatives. In my weight watchers fast food companion it lists mash potatos and corn on the cob at KFC but all we have is mayonaise (ick) ladden salads and fries and taters. I don't see why the Canadian store should be so different, Canadians want *somewhat* healthy choices too. :/

KFC is a franchised operation so talk to the guy who owns your local franchise and see if they can get better choices on the menu for you. Never hurts to ask.

I tried the oven "roasted" chicken strips. The rice and green beans were good, but the chicken was terrible, it left a greasy film in my mouth. I also got a biscuit with mine - ????.

I agree that the responsibility is mine. I really enjoy Subway sandwiches - I usually get the turkey-ham, or turkey-ham-roast beef. I do not get the sandwiches that have to be heated. I stick with the "fresh" sandwiches, usually without cheese.

I thought this was something interesting I found about KFC, which I will NOT be going back to

PETA is asking KFC to eliminate some of the worst abuses that chickens suffer on the factory farms and in the slaughterhouses of its suppliers, including live scalding, life-long crippling, and painful debeaking. Click here for the details about PETA’s demands.

Chickens are inquisitive and interesting animals and are thought to be at least as intelligent as dogs or cats. When in natural surroundings, not on factory farms, they form friendships and social hierarchies, recognize one another, love their young, and enjoy a full life, dust bathing, making nests, roosting in trees, and more.

The more than 700 million chickens raised each year for KFC aren't able to do any of these things. They are crammed by the tens of thousands into sheds that stink of ammonia fumes from accumulated waste; they are given barely even room to move (each bird lives in the amount of space equivalent to a standard sheet of paper). They routinely suffer broken bones from being bred to be top heavy, from callous handling (workers roughly grab birds by their legs and stuff them into crates) and from being shackled upside down at slaughterhouses. Chickens are often still fully conscious as their throats are cut or when they are dumped into tanks of scalding hot water to remove their feathers. When they’re killed, chickens are still babies, not yet two months old, out of a natural life span of 10-15 years.

Let me step in here for a minute - this is a very controversial subject and this article is bound to spark some comments, so please let's not let an argument come to surface about it. PETA is a group a lot of people love or hate, and we do not want the thread to go that direction. Thank you in advance!

Also:

For those interested in learning more about it, do a Google search on free range chicken. In defense of KFC (I'm neutral, not pro-KFC), most chickens (as well as other animals farmed for food) are raised in a similar fashion to what is listed above, so the chicken you buy at the grocery store or another restaurant may be from the same type of situation. Free range chicken is always listed as free range or cage free, including eggs. You can find lots of sites on the internet where you can learn and discuss the topic.

I agree with all the points made on this thread. I've had the rice, green beans and nonfried chicken strip meal and felt it wasn't a bad meal theoretically, but I didn't care for it all that much. I also would rather make my own meal with the same foods (except I like brown rice better) and if I wanted to eat it on the go, I think it'd work cold in a cooler ... a chicken, brown rice and green bean salad. Also, it'd be cheaper, I think.

Re the commercial with the guy eating fried chicken as a weight loss measure, words fail me.

One thing I keep in mind about any fast food, though, is that the nutrient counts can vary a lot from serving to serving and almost always would seem to vary from the counts given on a company website or furnished to publishers of calorie books or sites. How much fat a deep fried food would soak up if, say, left in the oil longer or maybe just prepared in some way that slightly differs from the instructions given to the restaurant, would have a lot to do IMO with the fat and calorie content of that particular serving, so you'd have to allow for a slush factor if you were on a strict diet and wanted to eat that food.

It's all about individual choices and using our own heads when deciding the best path, IMO!

Interesting thread.

Actually some groups are trying to make people think KFC raises their own birds, and they do not. The birds are coming from the same place as the ones in the grocery store.

That said, I love the way they are slowly changing their name from "Kentucky Fried" to "Kitchen Fresh". Is anyone falling for it???