#1 Quaker Harvest Crunch Origional Blend Cereal

-No doubt she'd prefer a low fat, low sugar, whole-grain cereal like Cheerois or any regular shredded wheat cereal. If you're stuck on granola (and sugar), at least choose a product like Health Vally No Fat Added Granold.

#2 Dunkin' Donuts Plain Cake Doughnut.

You could turn down Dunkin' Donuts' Dounuts' glazed, frosted, and "kreme" doughnuts and still end up with as much artery-clogging saturated fat as a Big Mac simply by eating a plain cake doughnut. Blame it on the trans fats in the shortening that Dunken' uses to fry (yes, all) its doughnuts. Try a toasted bagel with jam instead.

#3 Nissin Cup Noodles With Shrimp

What could be wrong with a cup of steaming-hot, high-carbohydrate noodles? Let's just say you's be better off with a small bag of 14-or-so potato chips. That's because, like the chips, the noodlesare pre-fried and salted. And Nissin compounds the problem by frying in artery-clogging palm oil and dumping on 9 times more sodium (1,550 mg) than the chips.

#4 Movie-Theatre Popcorn Popped in Coconut Oil.

A large bucket (20 cups) of unbuttered popcorn at theatres that pop in coconut oil has almost three day of artery-clogging saturated fat! Add the fake "butter" and you'll boost the cholesterol-raising fat to almost four days' worth. Thats like eating eight McDonalds Big Macs. Even a small bucket (7 cups) contains almost a days worth of saturated fat.

#5 Oscar Mayer Lunchables

It would be hard to invent a worse food than these combos of heavily processed meat,artery-clogging cheese, and mostly-white-flour crackers. The line average 5 teaspoons of fat (thats 54% of calories).

#6 Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream

Regular ice cream wasn't fatty enough? Haagen-Dazs has managed to squeeze in more than twice the fat of regular ice cream. Eat a cup of Butter Pecan and you've drowned 48 grams of fatt...about as much as half a stick of butter into your body. And a cup of Chocolate Chocolate Chip has as much artery-clogging saturated fat (24 grams) as three McDonalds Quarter Pounders! That's more than a whole day's quota. A cup of Ben & Jerry's No Fat Frozen Yogurt, on the other hand, tastes almost as rich as full-fat Haagen-Dazs, with none of the fat.

#7 Campbell's Regular Soups

They're brimming with salt. Half a can averages 1,000mg of sodium. Thats about half your ideal quota for an entire day. If you're looking for a soup with about half the sodium, check out Cambell's Healthy Request Soups.

#8 Rice-A-Roni Chicken & Vegetables

One cup-a mere side dish- has 1,470 mg of sodium (more than half your day's limit). As for the vegetables, the two people who share the two-cup box will have to fight over the nine peas, teaspoon and a half of carrot slivers, teaspoon of tomato particles, and even less chicken. "Rice & Salt" would have been more a honest name. Marrakesh Express CousCous or Terrazza Pasta & Beans cuts out 90% of the sodium.

#9 Fettucini Alfredo

An average dinner-size entree contains an amazing 97 grams of fat- or 22 teaspoons of fat. It is like sitting down and eating a entire stick of butter! If you want a lower-fat pasta meal,try spaghetti or linguini topped with a tomato sauce, red or white clam sauce, meat sauce, or meatballs.

#10 Stick of Butter or Margarine

Don't buy either butter or margarine if it is a stick. A tablespoon of stick butter has 7 grams of saturated fat, a third of a days worth. Margarines (or butter-margarine mixtures like Land O'Lakes Country Morning Blend stick) aren't much better. If you add their saturated plus trans fat, they can have up to 5 grams of artery-clogging fat. Instead of a stick, get a tub. Better yet, go for a low-fat tub margarine.

1996 by Center for Science in the Public Interest