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  • When I first experienced the salad-buffet restaurant concept (well, beyond Sizzler anyway) back in 1992, I thought it was the greatest invention ever. "I'm eating healthy!" I told myself, "and therefore I can eat whatever I want, because everything in this place should be good for me! Including multiple bowls of tapioca pudding for dessert!" Fast forward to now, where I've gone to this specific Sweet Tomatoes location a number of times, and I realize I have aged, as I now think to myself, "How many calories am I actually ingesting for this simple 'healthy' lunch?" First, there's the salad bar. Somehow the pop-up dishes here have issues being completely clean. Not the best sign. Now, when you're trying to eat healthy, you realize that you're skipping at least half of what's offered in the salad bar. You're limitied to the veggies. Maybe some "fat-free" honey mustard dressing (which is probably still laden with high-fructose corn syrup). And thus when you're thinking "healthy" and carry this over to the soup/pizza/muffin/pasta area you realize you're more or less going to skip everything, save a baked sweet potato with some chives and salsa maybe. And an odd melon ball from the fruit bar. Now, when I was 18 I ate EVERYTHING at these places and enjoyed myself to no end. Hell, even several years later when Sweet Tomatoes opened up in my hometown, my appetite felt like it was in a culinary Six Flags and wanted to be on each ride at least twice before closing. But many years later, I'm realizing eating everything in such places means I gotta go buy a new pair of work slacks. Which costs, uh, money. And when I take stock of everything healthy on my tray, is it worth the $7.50 or however much it is? One plate of salad? A baked sweet potato? A bowl of cut up melon? No way. Especially since the quality of the veggies isn't that great to begin with (such as the driest broccolli I've ever had). But if you throw caution to the wind and think, "I'm way hungry right now - and I am not going to give a rat's ass towards being good today" then hey, you've found your nirvana, because amidst the 1500 calories you just ate, you probably got your day's worth of folate, fiber, and vitamin C, along with a perfect ending of your very own soft-serve cone of chocolate-vanilla swirl.
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