It is important to maintain proper nutrition by eating healthy. Includes recipes for beef stir, fiesta chicken and a superb chicken apple and cranberry salad.

Remember that huge grasshopper-ish insect leg that Reader Stacie pulled out of her mouth while eating an Applebee's Apple Walnut Chicken Salad? After her story was posted to the Consumerist, Stacie was contacted by Applebee's and finally got the apology that she wanted.

Here at the Consumerist we're wary of stories where people "find something in their food." That being said, we believe Stacie found an enormous insect leg in her Applebee's salad...after biting into it. We understand how that could happen. What we don't understand is Applebee's response...

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