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Healthy Fast Food – Subway Subs

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:26:42 +0000

Healthy Fast Food – Subway Subs

Unless you live in a cave, you have heard of Subway spokesman Jared Fogle. At 425 pounds, Jared ate nothing but Subway sandwiches every day and lost over 240 pounds. Certainly an astonishing success story, but are Subway subs really a healthy fast food choice like their commercials make them out to seem?

Subway offers seven 6” subs, all with 6 grams of fat or less and all fewer than 320 calories. what is important to note is that the subs are made using wheat bread and does not contain cheese, mayo or any other dressings.

The subs themselves are a reasonable healthy fast food choice, but where most dieters fall into a trap is with the toppings. Adding cheese for example can add approximately 40-50 extra calories per 6” sub, and an extra 3-5 grams of fat. Adding mayonnaise makes things even worse tacking on a Massive 110 additional calories and 12-13 grams of fat! If a dry sub (one with no dressing) is too much for you, try replacing the mayonnaise with mustard or one of Subway’s fat free dressings including Red Wine Vinaigrette, Sweet Onion Sauce or Honey Mustard sauce, all of which have less than 40 calories per serving.

Looking at the remaining subs on the menu, the fat content skyrockets. The Chicken & Bacon Ranch sub for example has 30 grams of fat per 6” sandwich. One particularly deceptive sub for dieters is the 6” Tuna sub. Most dieters would Think about a fairly healthy sub, but in reality contains a good deal of mayo and has 31 grams of fat! In fact, the Tuna sub actually has the most fat of any sub available on the standard Subway menu!

If you’re looking for a good place to dine out on a diet, take a look at off Subway’s menu of low fat subs. Overall, I found Subway subs to be a great way to maintain your diet but still enjoy going out to lunch, especially for those of us who love to get out of the office at lunch time. If you can avoid the cheese and high fat dressings, Subway sandwiches are an excellent healthy fast food choice.

Healthy Fast Food – Subway Subs

Healthy Fast Food – Quiznos Subs

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:25:24 +0000

Healthy Fast Food – Quiznos Subs

Not to be out capitalized in the healthy fast food arena by Subway’s low fat menu, Quiznos has been touting their own menu of low calorie small subs, all with 420 calories or less, but unlike Subway, the Quiznos calorie totals include the recommended dressings, but no cheese.

While the Quiznos subs have a greater variety than the otherwise standard (read: boring) Subway low fat menu, the fat content in three of the five low calorie Quiznos subs is a Tiny high. The small Tusan Turkey, Steakhouse Beef Dip and Baja Chicken all have 13 grams of fat or more, despite being relatively low calorie. One note about the fat content however: the bulk of the fat content comes from the suggested dressing , without it the subs contain 9 grams of fat or less, making it a healthier fast food option.

The remainder of the Quiznos sub menu contains a number of high fat subs, and again the Tuna Melt sub is one of the highest fat culprits, weighing in at an incredible 54.5 grams of fat for a small! Quiznos features bacon and high fat dressings on the majority of their subs, which contributes to the higher fat and calorie content. Many of the subs would be a reasonable (not great, but reasonable) choice if you hold the dressings and bacon.

Quiznos offers an assortment of Flatbread Chopped Salads, which without the flatbread and dressings are 300 calories or less, but adding the flatbread doubles the calorie counts, bringing all salads over 600 calories.

Quiznos also offers their Flatbread Sammies, which are mini sandwiches that nearly resemble soft tacos, made with flatbread. Quiznos boasts that five of their six Sammies have 200 calories or less, however they’re very small, and the typical person will eat two in an average meal, so go ahead and double that calorie count. Additionally, the calorie count does not include dressings or cheese, so they aren’t quite the healthy fast food option that Quiznos would like us to believe.