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[FortNinety]

Long story short, where I live, I cannot cook or prepare my own meals. So I am forced to rely on purely fast food on sustenance. So the question is, what are my healthy options?

Could someone please tell me what's the best things to eat? FYI, I have a Subways real close... that is the most healthy fast food around, right? What exactly was the Jared diet anyhow?

You obviously have not been on the subway in the last year or so.

 

[Hitokage]

Step 1: Abstain from fried potatoes of any kind. Transfat and high glycemic indexes will immediately kill any notion of "healthy" in a meal.

Step 2: Go for nonfried food in general.

Step 3: Cut down on saturated fat, and this means going for chicken over beef when neither are fried.

Step 4: Get water instead of soda. Saves money too.

Sub-places aside, you should be able to manage with Arby's, Chick-fil-a(somewhat), or even Wendy's and JITB some of the time(provided you actually scan their whole menus instead of their "value" menus). Of course, widening your establishment list will help immensely. Try to find places that'll get you a meal relatively quickly but without the assembly line processing. Oh, and don't forget to investigate what local supermarkets have to offer.

 

[xsarien]

Basically what Hito said. Chicken's the safest route, what the specific nutritional values of it depend wildly on where you get, how it's cooked, etc. Personally, for chicken, I don't think you really go wrong with Ranch 1. But Quizno's is always a great option, Subway too.

 

[explodet]

Hitokage makes some good points. I still eat quite a bit of fast food, but drastically cut down the fries and soft drinks. Although I'm not in the greatest shape, I don't sweat when I walk up stairs, either.

 

[duderon]

Chipotle

Yum.

 

[teh_pwn]

Basically what Hito said.

Also take whole wheat over white when you can.

When I'm at school, I like Harvest Power bars. They're just really expensive.

 

[Warm Machine]

Mega Wraps

 

[yoshifumi]

fast food is supposed to be unhealthy!!

 

[Sumidor]

Cut the Mayo out as much as possible in your burgers or whatever. And if you REALLLLLY need something, add ketchup or mustard.

 

[goodcow]

I eat at Subway almost every day, but that's partly due to the fact that I'm vegetarian.

 

[Orin GA]

Pollo Tropical...that is all

NM, forgot they were only florida and latin and america based.

Another choice is wendys. Chilli, Baked potatoe, and there salads are good.

 

[xsarien]

Cut the Mayo out as much as possible in your burgers or whatever. And if you REALLLLLY need something, add ketchup or mustard.

Ketchup ain't the healthiest stuff in the world either.

 

[Hitokage]

Pollo Tropical...that is all

NM, forgot they were only florida and latin and america based.

Another choice is wendys. Chilli, Baked potatoe, and there salads are good.

No, baked potatoes are only better than fried potatoes in that they have less bad fat... from not being fried. They still rapidly break down into sugar because the baking process already did most of the job.

...and you misspelled "Potato".

 

[xsarien]

...and you misspelled "Potato".

And you forgot Poland.

 

[Hitokage]

Oh shit, how could I?

 

[CrimsonSkies]

Subway is about as healthy as you are going to get for fast food.

Pizza is also very healthy if you go veg on it or just cheese.

Another thing to consider would be to call a steak house and do a pickup of a hamburger steak and baked potato. Avoid the extra rolls and that's also fairly decent as long as you use lowfat butter.

 

[Diablos]

Healthy fast food? That's like saying healthy STD. Healthy abusive drug. Healthy wifebeater. Healthy child molester.

 

[Megafoo Chavez]

a Number 1 - NO cheese, supersized with a diet coke.

if you weigh 300 pounds you will lose weight
if you weigh 175 pounds you will gain weight

 

[Diablos]

^ if you take this advice seriously you lose your ability to sense a prank

supersized fries have like 600 calories dode...

 

[MrAngryFace]

eat one meal a day like I do. Nodoz and Advil will handle the rest.

 

[Megafoo Chavez]

eat one meal a day like i do as well. Only make sure its extra fatty and puke it up afterwards. I swear it works.

Edit> save puke to eat later if its only 50% or less digested

 

[MrAngryFace]

or you can just have ramen or something non-fatty but high in sodium

 

[Megafoo Chavez]

or you could go to the back of an abortion clinic and feast on all the dead fetus's. regardless, remember this if your ever in a pinch

 

[XS+]

Jamba. freakin. Juice. Then just hit up your local deli and chow down on cold cuts.