Subway Rant

This same thing happened to me...on the website it says it allows onions, cheese, other veggies on 9 grain bread. Then if you look at the information on the cups or napkins it tells you it doesn't include cheese. It puzzles me also...something that is also misleading not about Subway but about Applebee's...they have their Weight Watchers meals and under 550 meals. If you get on their website and look up nutrition on all their meals...those things are loaded with sodium!

So in all reality they aren't that good for you.

Good luck in your weight loss!

I went to Subway for lunch and got the blackforest ham and turkey on wheat bread 6 inch. Added tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, avacado, onion, spinach, pepper, and vinegar. No mayo or mustard. So if I select this sub on their website it says it includes some of the veggies and is 280 calories. I realize I added avacado and that is high calorie (70 calories for a 6 in.). However, if I add all of the ingredients of my sandwich seperately the calories are over 400! 439 to be exact, why is there such a huge difference? I know it is not only the veggies because the bread and meat alone are 320 when added seperately so why is it so different and what is accurate?

I think the 280 calorie includes the veggies you mentioned, except for avocado. Did you add the whole serving for your veggies? for example, the tomato they add is probably equivalent to 1/5 of a medium tomato.
An avocado, depending which kind, has about 300 cals. The sandwich probably has around 1.4, so around 75 cals.
Did you add cheese? the 280 estimate assumes no cheese

Also, feel free to eat mustard...no calories!

There are much better sandwiches, and I hate their pricing, they have $5 footlongs (starting at 800 cals), but you want a 6" sub, well that will be $4.50.. hmmm what will most people get?

being close to the expected calories shouldn't be much of a problem. I eat subway all the time and get the 6inch oven roasted chicken on wheat with lettuce, tomato, onion, jalapeno, and the fat free sweet onion sauce..... all the toping add such a minimal amount of calories....Obviously it's not great for you because it's somewhat processed and loaded with salt.....but it's better than a drive thru

I find their nutrition information much to difficult to navigate through to eat there regularly. As for the subs being accurate, there are a certain number of topping they are supposed to add (certain number of tomato slices and the like) based on what Subway says should be on the sub unless you ask for me. Do they always do this, probably not, but at the same time Subway corporation sends people around to evaluate how well their franchisees are keeping those standards, so it will likely be close. As I said, the annoyance is that their nutrition guide is about as user unfriendly as it can get and does not generally include the cheese.

Here's another I just came across during lunch: "Make any 6" sub a salad for $5" But a 6" sub is only $4. So I have to pay an extra $1 for you to leave out the bread?!?!

There are much better sandwiches, and I hate their pricing, they have $5 footlongs (starting at 800 cals), but you want a 6" sub, well that will be $4.50.. hmmm what will most people get?

I am so glad I'm not the only one who noticed that price thing : )

I have to note here that once, in a long line at McD's, a friend of mine suddenly said, "I just did the math, and buying 2 cheeseburgers, a medium fry, and a medium drink separately costs LESS than the 2 cheeseburger value meal!"

So, it's not just Subway!

I've been screaming about Subway for YEARS. It is not nearly as healthy as they want everyone to think! Sure, it is better than Mickey D's or Burger King (in most, not all, occasions) but the sodium content alone is enough to make me barf.

And for the record, my favorite 6 INCH sub from Subway has over 600 calories, over 2500 mg of sodium, and a whopping 67 grams of fat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe if we all ate lettuce on whole wheat bread it would be different...

Oh, which brings me to another point. Did you notice looking at their website that their whole wheat bread has MORE calories and MORE sugar than regular white bread??? I get subs from there with their Italian (white) bread as it is lower in sugar and calories. I will just get that measly 1 extra gram of fiber somewhere else.

If you are adding the items separately you are not adding their specific bread or meat but even still, how on earth are you getting >400? They have more salt in their products to preserve it which probably also reduced the need for added fats so if you are adding a generic grocery store sub bun you may not get the same results BUT, my calculations did. I know if I were to do the same I would get <300 cals as they state b/c a whole wheat sub bun from the grocery store is 180 cals, the amount of ham used (6 slices) is 80 cals + lettuce/tomato/cucumber/onions = <260 which is EXACTLY what a 6 inch sub is in Canada.

Considering they are larger than McDonalds worldwide I'm sure there are systems in place monitoring them. For example, there was an article in a local newspaper on Friday about this alleged scone sold downtown Toronto that's only 200 cals. Someone brought it in for nutritional testing and diagnosis and it's actually 600 cals. It's a small coffee shop in the Financial District and there is virtually NO one who is remotely overweight working in that part of Toronto, we're all overworked there, LOL! So obviously someone investigated. What was their defense? They said they calculated the nutrition themselves using a website, much like MFP. Ironic.