Healthiest Fast Food: Questions & Ideas (Part 2)

What's the healthiest fast-food restaurant?

Must be Subway. I live in a small-ish college town (15,000) and there are FOUR Subways in my town now. We were just talking about this today, wondering how in the world they can afford to open so many. I guess a lot more people are eating there since the Jared commercials.

What is the healthiest fast food?

Well really any of them can be healthy. If I were you, I would go onto their websites and look at their menus and see the nutritional facts. Places like Carl's Jr. I know offer Low Carb Burgers so they're really healthy, but I'm not sure about those places.

What is the healthiest fast food breakfast?

If you're talking about actual "fast food" then i'd say either mcdonald's fruit n' walnut salad, fruit n' yogurt parfait, or an egg mcmuffin. If you're talking about fast food to make at home then I'd say a smoothies made with either juice or milk, yogurt, banana, and berries, a wrap made with a whole wheat tortilla, 1 tbsp peanut butter, and 1 banana, or a wrap made with scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, mixed veggies and salsa, etc. That kind of stuff :)

Healthiest Fast Food: Questions & Ideas (Part 1)

What is the in general healthiest fast food place to eat at?

I am thinking that. I think that "healthy" and "fast food" is an oxymoron. For that matter, I don't even think that most of those places even sell food. On the rare occasions that I have to do fast food or go hungry, it's either Burger King for the veggie burger (though it's still on white bread and automatically comes with mayo and cheese unless otherwise requested), Subway for their pathetic salad on a white bun (their wheat bread is not whole wheat), However, Subway's "healthy" sandwiches are full of sodium and nitrates from the deli meat. Taco Bell is okay as I can get things with beans instead of meat and with no cheese, Wendy's because they do have a baked potato (ironically, I own about five shares of Wendy's stock, purchased long before I cared about what I put into my body and from where it came; Now, financially, I'm better off keeping it) and Tim Horton's which also has a veggie sandwich (and some yummy fat free muffins and coffee). (I also own Tim Horton's stock which I acquired when the two companies split. Even better, I receive dividend checks for about a dollar periodically and I didn't buy the stock but acquired it when Wendy's bought TH's. I digress.)

The best is Panera, which has several vegetarian choices that can be easily made vegan. They offer whole wheat bread and apples in lieu of their baked chips. I used to get hummus sandwich there, but now I get hummus and pitas from the local Mid-East restaurant or from Trader Joe's and some whole wheat pitas as well.

I avoid McDonald's. They're pure evil. I noticed that they started to add "healthy" options after people began to question the "healthfulness" of their food. I think the "healthy" Happy Meals are a joke. Sure, they offer apples, but their skinless, most of the fiber and nutrients are in the skin, so what's the point?

Anyway, I hope this has been of some help.