Healthy Fast Food Lunch Picks

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Subway

Best Salad: Grilled Chicken & Baby Spinach
140 calories
3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat
450 mg sodium
4 g fiber
20 g protein

Best Sandwich: Deli Style Turkey Breast
210 calories
3.5 g fat, 1.5 g saturated fat
730 mg sodium
3 g fiber
13 g protein

Best Soup: Spanish Style Chicken with Rice, 1 cup
90 calories
2 g fat, 0.5 g saturated fat
800 mg sodium
1 g fiber
5 g protein

Worst Overall: Double Meat Meatball Marinara six-inch sub
960 calories
42 g fat, 18 g saturated fat
2,490 mg sodium
10 g dietary fiber
37 g protein

Takeout Tip: Skip all the packaged dressings on your salad -- Atkins Honey Mustard and Ranch each add 22 grams of fat, while the Fat-Free Italian contains 720 mg sodium. Ask for oil and vinegar (from the sandwich condiments) instead, which add just 45 calories and 5 grams of fat.

Originally published in Fitness magazine, April 2006.

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connie375 wrote:

Info & Place Options limited, but enough info to figure it out. Would be helpful if "how" to choose short-cut included. Diabetics are a whole different animal. They need their own section.

4/26/2011 09:57:52 AM Report Abuse

Debbie_Hall wrote:

Carbs are the absolute most important thing to know for a diabetic. It's too bad that the carbs are rarely mentioned by fitness magazine. Most of the recipes and food articles look good, but they are just shy of enough information for me to use. What a shame.

3/24/2011 10:52:35 AM Report Abuse

lumib wrote:

Great! I have 3 of these places close by. Will definitely use these options when I go to lunch. Thank you for that!

7/22/2010 10:36:45 AM Report Abuse

rschallert wrote:

Thanks, this feature will be helpful, when I need to eat lunch out.

7/8/2010 10:12:58 AM Report Abuse

marlum wrote:

They are not saying to only eat 140 calories for lunch...they are just giving low cal options. And as for two not being available in the west coast... only one is available where I live...but I'm not complaining, I appreciate all the information I am given. Buck up and do a little research on your own if its that big of a deal. Not everything should be handed to you on a silver platter. I lost 35 pounds by watching what I eat and looking at nutritional values of food...even fast food. 5'7'' 135

6/24/2010 10:57:31 AM Report Abuse