Who knew ? Wendys now has Baked sweet potatos, mac and cheese, and chili cheese fries. I'm not likely to ever have the mac and cheese or the chili cheese fries, but I 'love me some taters'. ( I kind of like saying that about the chili cheese fries because I know the line is drawn in the sand and I really won't ever get them. these are a weakness )
But back to sweet orange potato goodness, if you don't junk the potato up with too much butter or brown sugar cinnamon ooze it is pretty healthy and full of fiber and b carotene (or something like that Dr Oz says is good for us). Driving home with a fresh, wonderful smelling burger in the car is not good.
As I am a carb eater, I'd gotten a sweet potato and planned to eat half. Mmmmmmm. I ate the cinnamon buttery ooze stuff. I would have been better off using my un-natural chemical butter spray with truvia and ground cinnamon from a calorie perspective. Not to mention sweet potatos are around 99 cents a pound. Yea, I could have bought 2 or 3 sweet potatos at Publix.
Half way through the potato I stopped and asked my husband to go to the Wendy's website and check the calories on this ooze/potato combo. 380 calories. nom nom nom nom ....
my recommendation is take the slower food route and just bake them yourselves.
NO PHOTO FOOD PORN on purpose.
There was a restaurant in the smallish town in Virginia where we lived -- it had INCREDIBLE sweet potato fries. The third time I had them, I figured out why they were so good: salt (of course) with cinnamon and sugar. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteSo I make them at home out of grocery store sweet potatoes, cut them like steak fries, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with a mesquite seasoning and sea salt. Nom nom nom nom... Prep time plus baking time is still less than an hour. It helps that I rarely go anywhere near a Wendy's.
This is good to know - don't know if it's hit southeast PA yet, but I will find out. Wonder if you can get them sans ooze! Thanks for the hot tip!
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