Wendy's - Even with the dressing, most of their salads aren't awful for you, and they taste pretty damn good. The various wraps also fill one up with tastiness for a not obscene number of calories. Other fast food restaurants naturally have similar items on the menu, but the salads and wraps and such I've tried at places not named Wendy's taste awful or don't fill me up particularly well.
Panda Express - Panda Express and the many related chains get crazy points for using fresh vegetables. Well, fresher than any other fast food-type place. Many of their entrees are less than 300 calories per serving, and the mixed vegetable side option is low cal AND fairly low sodium. For the love of all that is holy, avoid the Beijing Beef though. Beijing Beef tastes wonderful, but has nearly twice as many calories as the next highest calorie entree.
Subway - Subway can be as healthy or unhealthy as you want it to be. Personally, I usually get a basic turkey or chicken sub loaded with most of the available vegetables. A loaded footlong will usually cover my food needs for both lunch and dinner.
Staple of staples
My major beef with Wendy's is now the drive-thru people say "see you tomorrow!" which makes me feel like a superfattie.
ReplyDeletePanda Express is also extremely bad for you. Everything they have is loaded with salt.
Haven't eaten at Wendy's in well over 12 years. And don't they have Quiznos in Atlanta?
ReplyDeleteNot ALL of Panda's stuff is loaded with salt (the spicy/peppery stuff isn't awful on that score), and most of it is relatively low calorie. Unless you make awful choices, their food isn't going to kill you any quicker than the fare at other quick-serve places. And at least Panda gives you a reasonable amount of vegetables/fiber.
ReplyDeleteQuiznos exists in Atlanta, but they're far less common than Subway. Hell, Firehouse just arrived in Atlanta a scant few years ago, and they're already more widespread than Quiznos.