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Nineteen fast food chains will now offer healthier kid meals that feature more fruits and vegetables and less salt, sugar and fat. All the restaurants will now have at least one menu item of no more than 600 calories and a side dish of 200 calories or less. At least 15,000 restaurants will participate.
Keep clicking to find out what restaurants will participate in the effort.
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Burger King has new healthy options, too. A fat-free milk bottle, apple juice, muffin breakfast sandwich, kid's hamburger and apple fries.
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Au Bon Pain will offer a variety of options, including a grilled chicken sandwich, half tuna and cheddar sandwich, half turkey and Swiss sandwich, an egg white and cheddar breakfast sandwich and grapes.
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Cracker Barrel has on its kids menu a special request egg substitute, bacon and toast meal, grilled chicken tenders with corn, chicken and dumplings and a kid's vegetable plate.
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Chevys Fresh Mex offers a special request chicken soft taco, a special request picadillo beef soft taco, and apple sauce and fresh fruit side options.
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Corner Bakery Cafe will offer a variety of options, including a pasta marinara dish, a half turkey sandwich, grapes, bananas and apple juice.
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Chili's new healthy kids options are all about chicken. The restaurant will offer kids a grilled chicken platter with broccoli, a grilled chicken platter with celery, a grilled chicken platter with mandarin oranges, a grilled chicken sandwich, a pineapple side dish and special request corn-on-the-cob.
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El Pollo Loco offers kids a special request chopped or skinless chicken breast, a special request chicken taco al carbon, or special request kid's drumstick.
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Friendly's now has on its menu for kids carrot and celery sticks, special request broccoli, chicken garden salad, apple slices, applesauce and special request corn and mixed vegetables.
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Outback Steakhouse has a grilled chicken or sirloin meal with broccoli, as well as sides of special request broccoli and broccoli medallions.
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Silver Diner features a kid menu with bison sliders and vegetables, teriyaki salmon, turkey sliders with strawberries, a special request grilled fish taco, and eggbeaters, strawberries and multigrain toast.
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T-Bones Great American Eatery now has a healthier option for kids in its grilled barbecue chicken and grilled salmon dishes.
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ZPizza has choices like two slices of curry chicken and yam rustica pizza and half a Caesar chicken salad. Other choices include vegan pizza (2 slices) on wheat crust and a mixed greens side salad, and a California pizza (2 slices) and a California salad.
