Subway can be part of your weight loss ride **Commit to Health Excellence Write-Off***
Written: Jun 24 '08 (Updated Jun 24 '08)
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Pros: probably the best chain alternative for healthy food at a modest price
Cons: limited menu
The Bottom Line: If you like sandwiches and can stay away from the high-fat toppings and extras, it’s a decent alternative.
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| Saxguy's Full Review: Subway |
This is my first entry into my “Commit to Health Excellence Write-Off” encouraging Epinions writers to make or renew a commitment to excellent health and review the products that help get you there.
I’ve been on the weight watchers program for about a month now. The program consists of having the member write down everything you eat and assign points to it. Members have a finite point total, based on sex, activity and current. Points are increased by calories and fat and decreased slightly by fiber.
I’ve been aware of Subway for YEARS. I remember going to one when I was in the Berklee School of Music summer school program in Boston in 1974.
More recently, I hadn’t been to them much. I thought it was just a fluke when Jared became the poster boy for Subway after losing all that weight. However, I am looking for some good alternatives for lunches that will get me feeling full and save enough of my precious points for the occasional bottle of ale.
Subway is a sandwich place. You choose your bread, meat and topping and they make it in front of you. The bread is billed as freshly baked and the veggie fixings are fresh as well. The meat seems to be standard deli meat, but I thought it ok.
What intrigued me is that they have a low fat sandwich menu, 7 sandwiches with less than 6 grams of fat. That includes veggie toppings like lettuce, tomato, onion and green peppers. No cheese, obviously. That menu includes the following choices: Veggie delight, ham, turkey, ham and turkey, roast beef, chicken breast and Subway club. A special, sweet onion chicken teriyaki is also under 6.
Better yet, they have a rotating daily special of a 6 inch sub for $2.99, and several of the 7 under 6 are included.
Over the last two weeks, I’ve had the ham and turkey and the turkey subs at different stores. One was with whole wheat bread, the other was with the cheese bread, which was still not that caloric. The turkey ham sub grades out at 5 weight watchers points, more than manageable in my daily allotment of 41 points.
I bought the sandwiches at different stores. Each was tasty and made to order. One store was not putting tomatoes on, which is an inconsistency. They also seemed a little reluctant to put on extra veggies, although they did so.
I liked the taste of each one.
They also have wraps, salads, soups, cookies, chips and drinks, most of which are heavily caloric, none of which I have tried.
I’m not going on the Subway diet. On the other hand, I could see having an occasional sandwich, using only 5 points, tasty and at a very attractive price. Even the foot long, double the size but only $5 is a decent alternative when the ingredients in the 7 under 6 are used.
For fast foods, there are not a lot of good alternatives that I can eat regularly. My favorite Wendy’s sandwich, the Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger is 9 points and half the size.
My experience is that Subway provides healthy food at modest prices and I can recommend them. 4 stars
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Thanks for reading. God bless!
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