<p>“Chili from Wendy’s with a dry baked potato. Put the chili on the potato. YUM!”</p>
<p>Ding, ding, we have a winner. This tastes great and is pretty damn healthy, despite including a small amount of red meat. You can add a child-size Frosty, and it’s a solid meal for $3.</p>
<p>McDonald’s Asian salad with grilled chicken was very good, but I think they’ve discontinued it. The best thing on the menu now is the Egg McMuffin, which you can health-ify a bit by removing the cheese.</p>
<p>I think Subway’s new breakfast sandwiches are quite good, and since they’re made to order, you can add vegetables. An egg or egg white English muffin with tomatoes, spinach, and honey mustard sauce is very tasty…sort of a healthy eggs Florentine to go.</p>
<p>I don’t know why people feel, at any restaurant which allows you to customize a plate, that you are required to sign on to 770+ calories.</p>
<p>When I go to Chipotle I order a chicken fajita bowl. That means it lacks high-carbs such as rice, beans, tortilla. It has meat, fajita veggies (peppers, onions), and I ask for lettuce on top. I haven’t asked for a calorie count of that, but it will not be any 770 calories.</p>
<p>Coolweather, I like La Salsa’s fish tacos<a href=“again,%20because%20no%20tortilla,%20and%20burritos%20are%20way%20too%20large%20&%20bulky%20for%20me”>/u</a>, but the last time I ordered two fish tacos from them it was $7.99, I believe, so my suggestion would not be economical for a crowd. But the sauce (which is given in small portions) is yummy.</p>
<p>About the closest thing to healthy (or at least edible) I’ve found on the NJTP is a **Nathan’s **hot dog with chili. I usually just get a Starbucks coffee and keep driving.</p>
But it is a compromise and really not that bad - the buns on most burgers don’t really have much taste anyway - they’re just a meat holding device with empty calories IMO. I balked at lettuce replacements for buns as well until I decided that bread can be counter to maintaining my figure and switched to lettuce as the holding mechanism. It’s really not bad.
A ‘protein style’ burger (lettuce instead of buns) from In-N-Out is 240 calories (310 with ketchup/mustard) vs a regular cheeseburger which is 480 calories. All the extra gunk and buns adds a lot of calories. </p>
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Yes but if one skips the tortilla and rice it’s not so bad (as Northminnesota stated and I mentioned earlier). At any ‘real’ Mexican place (we have a lot of them around here) it’s best to avoid the tortillas which alone are a lot of calories and fat (the large ones made with lard). </p>
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Excellent observation and suggestion Miamidap especially if they make the guac without adding sour cream to it (I grow and sell avocados!).</li>
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<p>Well, today I didn’t take time to eat breakfast, had a class until 1;30, then had to race to a dentist appointment. The only thing I passed on the route from one place to another was a fried chicken place and a Wendy’s. I succumbed to those bad instincts which arise when you don’t eat properly. I got a cheese burger at Wendy’s. The bun was so thick and the burger so thin, I couldn’t even eat half of it because it literally grossed me out. So, I would love to see a lean burger on one of those really thin buns-I think some brands are called Deli thins. If it were 100% whole wheat, that’s definitely a compromise I would be willing to make. But I’d rather go without the burger most of the time and enjoy the bun on a rare basis then eat a “burger” with no bun or cheese.</p>
<p>^^ Yeah - since we all have our individual tastes it’s best to take the suggestions that seem the most compatible. When I mentioned to some Japanese colleagues that I no longer eat rice (because of the carbs) they were somewhat taken aback to say the least.</p>
<p>I love the Subway veggie delight on wheat. I have them take out some bread from the roll and load it up with spinach, tomato, green pepper, black olives, yellow pepper and oregano. No cheese or sauce. Sometimes I add a few hot peppers.</p>
<p>Is Panera regional? I’ve not heard of it. My daughter is a regular at El Pollo Loco a few times a week. She swears that the woman at the drive-through is like a second mother to her – she feeds her and is always happy to see her. But their chicken is really quite good and some of their salads are fairly low in calories. But even the healthiest fast food is probably really loaded with sodium.</p>
<p>My acceptable fast food joints are the spicy chicken sandwich at Wendy’s. Chicken tenders at KFC (or elsewhere), but only if they are actually made from real chicken. I don’t do nuggets. And, my fav is Bojangles, which has excellent fried chicken and great biscuit sandwiches. The country ham biscuit is not bad calorie wise (270). The fried chicken breast biscuit is not too bad (450). The delicious steak biscuit is, unfortunately, unthinkable (649). Just a fried chicken breast is 278 calories, pretty darn reasonable for fast food, especially because it’s actually good.</p>
<p>Some Subway restaurants also offer a veggie patty called Veggie Max. Not an appetizing name, but it’s a good veggie burger – the kind that tries to be a veggie burger, not the kind that tries to imitate beef. It’s especially good with the barbecue sauce.</p>
<p>The chipotle chicken fajita bowl is 270 calories: [I googled this, but the link is getting censored for some reason it’s at f i t nesspal.com - probably some hidden dirty abbreviation…], but like so much restaurant food it’s saltier than it should be 1280 mg - that’s half the daily recommended amount. :(</p>
<p>Okay, so a single BBQ Chicken wrap at Tim Hortons has 180 calories, 6g of fat (2 saturated; 0 trans), 30mg cholesterol, 600mg sodium, 19g carbs, 3g sugar, and 13g protein.</p>
<p>That’s not so good if you are watching your salt, but otherwise not bad.</p>
<p>When I ate there last November, you could get one such wrap for $1.99 or two for $3.99. IMO, that’s not bad considering the high food quality and overall nutritional punch.</p>