WTF????

The Market Fresh sandwiches are like 800 calories. I was pretty amazed when I discovered that. However the plain ol' regular roast beef if only 350. Yums. Like someone said, check calories BEFORE you go, or I think they have to have them displayed in the store somewhere, at least in CO.

I don't know why you thought a fast food item with bacon in the title would be "healthy"

:laugh: Bacon is the healthiest meat ever

Their Market Fresh Turkey Sandwich is 330 calories if you only eat HALF. If I EVER go to a restaurant, regardless of the type, if I order a sandwich, salad, or any other "healthier" item, I still make sure and eat only half. REAL restaurant meals I will eat maybe 1/3 and pack the rest away. Its too easy to eat too much when going out, so that's my rule.

If I know ahead of time that I'm planning to join a friend for dinner later in the week, I will do my "homework" and come with a game plan. My friends like Mi Cocina, for example. I usually order a fish entree with vegetables and it fits easily into my day. It can be done, just gotta do some detective work. And maybe be the one who is proactive in suggesting a place so that you can go where you already know the menu.

Arby's turkey bacon WRAP is AT LEAST 600 calories?????????? What the hell??? OMG. I am so freaking pissed. I guess NO WHERE has anything healthy. So what do you do? Decline all invites from family/friends when they wanna go out to eat?? What is wrong with all these fast food places?? And sit down restaurants are no better, probably are even worse. That's ridiculous. SCREW ARBY'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you eat half it's only 300cals

Well, that's math, but I couldn't find a MATH pepsi can.

I don't know why you thought a fast food item with bacon in the title would be "healthy"

Blasphemer...

ROFL!!! Bacon IS pretty amazing. :laugh:

I love bacon... i told my husband it was the perfect food. Totally acceptable for breakfast, lunch and dinner (BLTs are my favorite sandwiches!).

LOL! I know what you mean! Anytime Ihave to eat fast food, unfortunately, I always opt for a salad with limited dressing. And we wonder why so many folks are overweight??? Eating healthy is not only expensive, it's very time consuming. Hang in there!

A head of lettuce isn't all that expensive...

I've saved a ton of money by not eating out and cooking all my meals. Healthy doesn't have to be expensive.

The calorie count of a food has absolutely no bearing on whether it's "healthy" or not. Plenty of healthy foods are high calorie, and there are plenty of low or no calorie foods that aren't healthy. If you want to complain about it being higher calorie than you expected, that's one thing, but to rant about it not being healthy solely for being higher calorie is rather ignorant.

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I use to work there, the food is pretty bad for you. A few of the sandwiches there are almost 1,000 calories! Before I go out to eat anywhere I check the nutritional information. Some of the things that I like at places are an entire days worth of food for me and I know I have to eat at least 3 times a day or I'll get sick!

I'd be more concerned about the salt and cholesterol, tbh.

Want to be REALLY pissed off? That'll happen when you realize that the published nutritional info isn't even accurate a lot of the time. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/health/12calo.html

Recent example... I ordered the premium grilled chicken classic sandwich at McDonalds. Listed calories are 350 per their website. Let me tell you.... there was at least 300 cals in mayo on that stupid sandwich! Whoever was working the assembly line GLOBBED the stuff on there. I scraped 75% of it off.

Trust no one :-P

i always get it without mayo because of that. they just squirt it on. they're not measuring. LOL surprisingly, it's not dry or bland that way. i like mayo myself, but i don't get it when we eat out because i'm not the one preparing the sandwich to know how much is going on it.

It's a bummer, isn't it? A lot of times, a majority of the calories come from cheese and sauce. Maybe you could have it prepared without those. You CAN eat fast food, you just have to some research first. You can look at almost every chain's nutrition info online, and that can help you make an educated decision about what you can eat where. It would be really nice if every restaurant had to clearly post nutrition
info for everyone to see, wouldn't it? Maybe some day...

I agree try to order it without the high calorie stuff. It helps. But most really healthy ppl dont eat out that much.

You would have been better off getting their small roast beef & cheese sandwich. Somewhere around 400 cal I believe.

Try to look up stuff before you go, I find that my "logic" means nothing when it comes to estimating calorie content at restaurants!!

I rarely choose to spend my precious calories on fast food, but that certainly doesn't mean I will forgo social time or ever eating out, especially going to a nice restaurant for a special occasion.

Yesterday I had such an occasion at a lovely restaurant, Richardson's in Central Phoenix. I studied the menu on-line in the afternoon, so I already knew what I was going to order. It's kind of New Mexican cuisine. . . I was not going to order a salad with the dressing on the side. I had the pork tenderloin with red and green chili jelly. I came with vegetable and a house specialty: green chili potato, which looked sort of like a spicy mashed potato mixture squeezed onto a chili. I asked for a box to arrive with my meal. I took at least 2/3 of the meal and put it in the box, which I got out of sight. I spread the rest out on my plate and ate slowly while enjoying lots of iced tea. I did not feel deprived or hungry because I ate some fruit before I left for the meal. I finished eating at the same time as my dinner companions. Every bite was delicious.

And I have two meals of this wonderful food left.

Applebees has several meals under 550 calories - Chili's has low cal meals - McDonalds has a great Southwest Salad for around 550 calories - :Popeyes has a great jambalaya for 220 calories - Panda Express has some low calorie options (choose vegies instead of rice or chow mein). Check websites before you leave - most of them have calorie counts for their food.