You're busy, rushing from place to place, juggling work and family, driving kids from one appointment to the next.
But, you gotta eat.
The quickest option might be fastfoof, but that doesn't mean you have to compromise your goal to eat healthy.
Heather Bauer, author The Wall Street Diet, indicates in her book:
- a 6" subway turkey sandwiche on wheat, with lettuce and mustart has 280 calories
- a small chili from Wendy's has 220 calories, a Jr. burger has 280 calories and Wendy's mandarin chicken salad with fat free dressing on the side has 240 calories.
- at McDonalds, she says a plain hamburger has 250, and a honey mustard wrap, just 260.
Most fastfood restaurants will give you the nutritional makeup of their food if you ask. You can also get most of the information on their websites. But, I'm guessing, if you're the type of person always on the run, eating fastfood, you don't have time, either, to look up all the info on a website.
Here's a link to what seems to me to be a reliable calorie calculator. It's provided by the Washington Post. Some of the calorie counts in this calculator differ from the totals the author above gives... But keep in mind many businesses are constantly trying to make their food more healthy because they know consumers want healthier food. There's a very good chance that since the information for the book was gathered, or since this calculator was built, that the nutritional makeup of some food has changed slightly. This is probably a good guideline, however, since most of them haven't changed any of their foods dramatically.
Don't forget fruit, too. You can't go wrong with the bagged, sliced and peeled apples from McDonalds. And Wendy's offers both mandarin oranges and yogurt with granola.
