Hardees'

[amiee2006]

70 carbs!!!! oh my goodness.... get it away! LoL



I'm glad you had a good experience and that they were so kind. Your DH had to be shocked about them carbs? I know I would have been!

[Sweet_Sadie]

OMG - The Hardees Low Carb burger (the one that comes with NO BUN, it comes wrapped in lettuce leaves) is out of this world totally YUMMY! It is ANGUS beef and VERY YUMMY! It is kinda messy to eat but it makes it taste even better when I need more napkins! DID I MENTION YUMMY!


They have changed their beef to Angus and woo yummy VERY GOOD and ATKINS approved!

YUMMY!

[amiee2006]

Agreed! and the best part is you get soooooooooooo full!

Those suckers need a caution to warn people to be napkin and Tide to go ready! :P

[Scooterjam]

Hi Everybody,

Megs (Not2late) asked that I post here. I wasn't sure if I should start a new post or not. But anyway, several years ago (about 5) I worked for Hardee's parttime on the weekends. I was responsible for loading and unloading trucks. Sometimes between waiting for trucks I was stacking materials in the freezers. I took time to read the ingredients on some of the boxes and discovered some pretty amazing things. Here is what I know.

1. The eggs that use (they used to be fresh, crack open eggs) they come in a big bag of liquid now, have some type of starch added to them, to make them 'fluffier' without having to beat them. Probably not enough to worry us, however that isn't the big problem. They use this stuff 'Liquid Margarine' a mixture of butter, margarine, cornoil, and canola oil it is full of trans fat...and believe me they slop that stuff on the grill when they make those pretty little folded eggs.

2. Bacon. The bacon they use on the burgers is 100% bacon and cooked in the ovens, that's good. What's bad is, the breakfast bowls they serve..someone said they're low carb, but I never remember them being marketed that way, have a mixture of real bacon, and baco's, baco's of course being made out of modified corn starch, vegetable protein and artificial flavoring and color, and sugar. Not very good for you. You can request the breakfast bowl without the bacon crumbles and ask them to substitute real bacon, whether they do it or not...that's the mystery. (sorry to burst any bubbles here)

3. The Low Carb Burger. I'm just like the next guy or girl, sometimes you need something quick, we live in society of cell phones, microwaves, hurry hurry and you gotta have something quick. Anyway...on the box it states this, 100% Angus Beef/Modified Starches/Soybased Seasonings. When I asked about this, the Rep basically said, we never said the burger was 100% Anugus Beef, the beef used in the burger is 100% Angus beef with fillers, every fast food restaurants use fillers in their burgers except Steak & Shake.
This was kind of an eye opener. Now, that being said, yes they are delicious, and a 1000 times better for us than a real bun burger. When you order it, you have to tell them NO KETCHUP I've seen them slather those things with ketchup which of course makes it no longer low carb. You don't even want to go there...personally I think the ketchup is just sugar, water and food coloring, oh yes....and maybe hint of tomato! haha..

4. Someone referred to eating their chicken strips...they are definately a no-no. They come breaded, as do the porkchops, the chicken breasts.

5. They have a breakfast ham too, and canadian bacon, both are shipped in a curing solution of sugar and artificial flavorings as well.

Well anyway, I really am sorry to shed this light. I only did as I was asked too! I still do have the low carb burger occasionally. It hasn't hurt me or stalled me in anyway...oh yes, something else, someone mentioned earlier on in this post NO SIX DOLLAR BURGER, the pickles that they use are sweet pickles, those come from a separate bucket than the pickles used on the low carb burger, you still might want to make sure they use the right ones...once again, if they run short of one, they substitute with the other. Good Luck to everybody!

[Nightporter]

Thanks so much for verifying this for me... I must have completely missed this forum when I was browsing for a place to post!

... Anyway... That #4... Is me! I learnt the other day that the chicken strips have 45 GRAMS OF CARBS! I used to eat them thinking they were OK! I also found out that the Southwest Chicken salad (With NO taco shell) Is still 26 grams! Oh my!

Thanks again for shedding us the light on Hardee's,

-N-

[adkins]

If you're looking for a low carb "fast food" burger, I think Hardess is ok, the low carb chicken is better IMO. They're both messy trying to eat, drive, shift, talk on the phone, etc. J/K.

[cinadina]

I think the Low Carb Thick Burger at Hardees is wonderful! I never thought about dressing a burger with low carb ketchup, mustard, mayo, little onion and pickles and wrapping it with iceburg lettuce. I just had one of these burgers the other day and now I make them at home. Yummy!

[jimmyolsenblues]

the nearest hardees is 33 miles away from reston va....can i get it at roy rogers.