Earlier this summer, Noodles and Company invited me to try the new salads on its menu. The American version is a spinach and fresh fruit salad, the Asian version is a Chinese chop salad and the Mediterranean version is a Med salad, which is what I ordered. It’s made up of romaine, mixed greens, tomato, cucumbers, red onion, olives, cavatappi pasta, spicy yogurt dressing and feta, and I followed the restaurant’s suggestion and added marinated steak to it.
At first glance, I thought I was given just a few pieces of steak, but I was delightfully surprised to find a lot more hiding beneath the greens. Overall the Med salad is a wonderful combination of flavors, though I was indifferent to the pasta. Frankly, it’s nice to see Noodles and Company expand its menu for non-carb lovers like me.
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I didn’t have high expectations at first, but I actually really like the new Spicy Chicken McBites at McDonald’s. It’s not like popcorn chicken that’s 95 percent breading; rather, it’s a sizable portion of chicken breast with a little kick (spicy but not too spicy).
It’s an easy snack in the car if you don’t care to eat a sandwich, and you can choose from snack size, regular (as seen in the photo) or shareable.
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It’s not that new, but I wanted to write about the Pizza Hut Dinner Box. Since I ordered it originally, Pizza Hut has added another size. So the original version is now called the Big Dinner Box and comes with two medium, one-topping pizzas, breadsticks and your choice of wings or pasta.
The plain Dinner Box consists of one, one-topping pizza, breadsticks and cinnamon sticks. At $19.99 and $10, respectively, I think they’re great deals for the amount of food you get. And now Aaron Rodgers is endorsing it, so what does that say?
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