Fast Food
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Sushi - I eat what I want but make it fit my calories.
Subway - chicken breast with lots of veggies.
Chipotle - salad with chicken
Panera - a salad
Chilis/Applebees - a lower calorie meal, they actually have some really good ones.
Italian - about once or twice a month I'll get a chicken cheese steak or stromboli. This is the only time I don't log the food because I know it blows my calories. Everything else I make fit.
The usual "fast food" staple places disgust me....I never really ate there growing up anyways and still got fat, haha!0 -
At Subway I'll get a turkey and ham or turkey or steak sandwich with the bread scooped out and no cheese and some veggies and mustard.
At Burger King, Wendys or El Pollo Loco, I'll get a grilled chicken filet (or the chicken already chopped up at El Pollo Loco) and a side salad. And I bring my own dressing to save on the sodium.0 -
I had 4 whitecastle burgers last week for dinner the hubby brought home a crave case. It fit into my calorie budget0
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Subway veggie on wheat-no cheese with red wine vinegar. 1/2 for supper 1/2 for lunch the next day.
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Dairy Queen-Grilled chicken no mayo.
Very seldom go to either place though, maybe once every 6 weeks or so.0 -
Extraordinarily rare for me to eat fast food, but I usually opt for Wendy's. This time of year I would opt for a plain baked potato and get a small chili to top it with. Warmer months I opt for a grilled chicken sandwich.0
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seltzermint wrote: »Original chicken sandwich at Burger King - the fried one, on a big bun with mayo and all. It's a ton of cals/fat so it takes up a ton of my daily allotment...but I love it so it's worth it, and I usually have a BOGOF coupon for my mom and I to each get one.
I thought I was the only person who liked those original BK chicken sandwiches! Although I'm weird and get them cheese only...
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seltzermint wrote: »Original chicken sandwich at Burger King - the fried one, on a big bun with mayo and all. It's a ton of cals/fat so it takes up a ton of my daily allotment...but I love it so it's worth it, and I usually have a BOGOF coupon for my mom and I to each get one.
I thought I was the only person who liked those original BK chicken sandwiches! Although I'm weird and get them cheese only...
Oh yeah I love 'em!!! Always have. In the 80's they would slice the sandwich diagonally, so my mom and I always bring them home and do that. It's a quirk I guess, lol...
In my area, they do not come with cheese at all. I guess MAYBE you could special order it with cheese, but they don't serve 'em that way and I have been puzzled in the past when logging my original chicken and seeing entries w/ cheese.
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Basically, I don't eat it at all anymore. I didn't plan to "never" have any - it just happened and I would likely eat a single Mickey D's in a pinch...but I needed to lose close to 200 pounds and just thought of it being counter productive. I still get my wife her fast-food once a week or so (see eats very modest amounts & no weight problem) and must say it doesn't bother me a bit. She deserves her treat.0
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We go to Whataburger a lot (husband's favorite). If I need to watch my calories, I order a grilled chicken sandwich dry (no bun oil or mayo) and add pickles. Other good options are the grilled chicken melt, a grilled chicken salad with low or no-fat dressing, or a double jr. Taking off half the bun helps, usually one side gets soggy anyway. I would assume you could order similar items at other places. Just watch out for the oil, mayo and large buns.0
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I try to avoid fast food places. Fast casual places I eat at often - Panera, Corner Bakery, California Pizza Kitchen, etc.0
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Jimmy Johns. Replace mayo with extra avocado. Also there's an option to replace bread with lettuce. Yum!!0
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seltzermint wrote: »seltzermint wrote: »Original chicken sandwich at Burger King - the fried one, on a big bun with mayo and all. It's a ton of cals/fat so it takes up a ton of my daily allotment...but I love it so it's worth it, and I usually have a BOGOF coupon for my mom and I to each get one.
I thought I was the only person who liked those original BK chicken sandwiches! Although I'm weird and get them cheese only...
Oh yeah I love 'em!!! Always have. In the 80's they would slice the sandwich diagonally, so my mom and I always bring them home and do that. It's a quirk I guess, lol...
In my area, they do not come with cheese at all. I guess MAYBE you could special order it with cheese, but they don't serve 'em that way and I have been puzzled in the past when logging my original chicken and seeing entries w/ cheese.
I remember the diagonal slice. They also used to have a special chicken parmesan sandwich on occasion.
I don't eat mayo(unless its in something like dressing or dips) so I always just order cheese on chicken sandwiches, whereever I go.
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I like these:
- Flame Broiler (small chicken bowl with brown rice)
- Chipotle (burrito bowl with chicken, lettuce, beans and brown rice)
- El Pollo Loco (grande chicken tacos -- off of the 'under 500 cal' menu)
- Rubios (3 chicken street tacos al la carte)
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I really had to think about this, because I've only been to 3 fast food places in the past year. Yay me. Almost every time I've picked up the 2 for 3 bucks breakfast croissants at BK with either ham or bacon for the lower calories. A few times to DQ for a mini-blizzard (Mom does not have one in her state, so when we travel, she needs a fix, and sorry folks, I will never have the willpower to say no to a blizzard, but I can reduce damages), and once to Panera Bread where a sandwich was incredibly close to 10 bucks. Gasp! It was pretty much a food emergency, I had to eat then (diabetic who finished her carry snacks the day before). It was tasty, highly caloric, and I feel should have been gold plated at that price.0
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One of my better choices out is that I crave a Veggie sub from subway on a regular basis, even though I know I could make a better one myself at home. How the heck is that only 230 calories?! I am highly suspicious of that count. I consider it a magic sandwich (bread). Anywhere else and I pretty much blow my day over on calories.0
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Man all you people who feel like you're having to be forced to eat fast food don't know how to live! A fresh beef and cheddar is delicious.0
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The Pita Pit Rocks! Just make it a small whole wheat pita. They have all the calories on the menu and the coke machine is awesome because it offers flavored sparking water. Yum0
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Cindy4FunFit wrote: »One of my better choices out is that I crave a Veggie sub from subway on a regular basis, even though I know I could make a better one myself at home. How the heck is that only 230 calories?! I am highly suspicious of that count. I consider it a magic sandwich (bread). Anywhere else and I pretty much blow my day over on calories.
The 230 calorie Veggie Delite is based on the following: 6" sub on 9-grain wheat bread, no cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, red onions, cucumbers, no sauces and no extras.0 -
I go to wherever I feel like eating for the day and ask for whatever I want... Just got to make sure to exercise to make sure it fits into my calories. :flowerforyou:0
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