Favorite healthy fast-food items?

Spicy Chicken Sandwich from Wendy's.

Noodles & Company Buff bowls!
I like the Bangkok curry one but sub out tofu and get pork instead. Filling, hot food.
(Can't eat cold sandwich or salad for dinner in the winter!)

EDIT: 320 kcal for the bowl if you switch to pork. You can add a side of curry soup for $1.75 and 250 kcal.
Total of 570 calories and just under $10 where I'm at!

Not sure about sodium but I don't have a reason to worry about sodium.

midwesterner85 wrote: »

wizzybeth wrote: »

midwesterner85 wrote: »

As others have said, "healthy" is subjective. Unfortunately, a single fast food meal could easily put me over daily calorie goals. Even reasonably sized fast food meals bring me within 200-300 calories of my total daily goal.

Unless I want to over-eat for the day, "fast food" means I get a chopped salad at Subway. At times, I even can fit enough calories to add cheese in it.

A quarter pounder without cheese is about 440 calories. It is filling for a lunch for me - coupled with a bottle of water. If I want a small fries (229) and/or small coke (140), then we're closer to 600-800 calories.

I stick to 1300 calories a day and my breakfast is often only about 285 calories. That's got me at 1085 calories with a little less than 300 for dinner, unless I walked the dog and/or went to the gym that day so I may have an extra 250-300 calories there.

I envy anyone who says that a quarter pounder is filling. I'm hungry even when eating my salad, and I'm almost never satisfied with my 1,620 daily calories even when filling up with foods that are not calorie dense at all..

Your goal might be too aggressive. But I hear you, most fast food doesn't fill me up at all, unless I eat 1000 calories or more of it. I see people being full with a quarter pounder or kids meals (or a hamburger, small fries, and small mcflurry like above) and I'm shaking my head, lol.

I don't do fast food much, but chili usually fills me up somewhat well (or meat and veggies at the Chinese or Japan places). Most sandwiches won't, and I avoid fast food salads because the lettuce is tasteless.

Chik Fil A grilled chicken sandwich & a fruit cup

A place near my mother's clinic sells the most amazing local fast food. They're basically pastries either filled or covered with all kinds of things, from greek yogurt with olive oil and mint, to spinach, to potatoes with peas and carrots, to local cheeses, to meat and tomatoes, eggs...etc. Greek yogurt has always been my favorite closely followed by spinach.

I actually found a recipe in English for the spinach pastries (and yes, spinach is traditionally made into triangles)
http://chefindisguise.com/2013/01/22/spinach-pastry-triangle-fatayer-sabanekh/

Answers are going to vary depending on how you define healthy. I usually look for items under 400 or 500 calories and relatively low carb - depends on what else I'm eating that day.

I like Rubio's salads, the chicken tortilla soup at Baja Fresh, protein style burgers from In-n-Out, and the bowl of steamed veggies with Kung Pao chicken at Panda Express.

Just remember healthy doesn't mean it's void of dense calories. Lots of healthy foods involve oil (IE nuts, avocado, etc). Weight loss comes down more to CICO than how healthy you eat. Mind you that's not a knock on healthy eating, but I hear about healthy eaters all the time OVEREATING just because they believe eating healthy isn't the cause for weight gain.

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