I typically eat out for lunch every workday. I have been going to sandwich places and ordering more healthy options, but I am getting real bored with sandwiches. Any suggestions on places other than Subway?

Can't you pack a lunch? Cheaper and healthier.

Wendy's chili - low calorie and packed with protein and fiber, yum!! Plus it's on the dollar menu!

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There really are no healthier alternatives than making your own healthy balanced meals. You really never know what goes into fast food. You can think that by ordering a "healthy" salad that would be better until you get back here to track it and find out that your "healthy" salad had 60+grams of fat and 2500 mg of sodium. IMO the only thing healthy in a fast food place is a plain salad no cheese no dressing....and really, who wants to pay$$ for something you can bring from home for free? I bring my lunch every day to work:
Tuna pouch
fat free vinagrette
spinach
baby carrots
La tortilla factory tortilla

Less than 300 cals, 28 g of protein, low fat, low carb, lower sodium (the tuna is kinda high but oh well).

Unfortunately it also has 830mg of sodium in a small and a whopping 1310 mg of sodium in a large.

I usually get some variation of a salad with cooked chicken. Or maybe just get some grilled chicken from one of the fast food places as many have just that. Skip the buns though.

You can also consider getting a wrap as a sandwich, but make sure you skip the cheese. Just go for vegetables and meat. Then try to estimate the actual calories as close as possible.

Sure you can make your own, and that takes about ten minutes. But then you need to clean up all that dishes, which takes another five minutes, uses water and soap.

I really like small Noodles Pad Thai, no egg. I almost never get to finish the whole thing because my daughter (3 years old) really likes it too and shares it with me. A small is 350, minus egg with be less then 300.

Wahoo's Fish Tacos!!

the charbroiled fish taco is around 160 calories per taco.

If you are near a MacDonalds you can get their Fruit N Parfait yogurt. 5oz @ 139 cals -5g fat-4g protein. If you ate 2 that would be probably pretty filling and is still low cal/fat/carb.

The Fruit and Walnut Salad is 210 cal-8g fat-4g protein, a good choice. Again, you could eat 2 and it would be a good, pretty nutritious filling lunch.

At Wendy's you can get a side salad with fat free dressing and it's around 120 cals, but I'm guessing because I can't remember if there is cheese on it or not.
Also at Wendy's, you can get a baked potato. I suggest broccoli and LIGHT (as in go easy on the butter) butter. Filling, relatively healthy, less than 500 cals and if you don't over do it on the salt--low sodium. I think that the potato at Wendy's is the only thing you can get that doesn't come already loaded with sodium. If you aren't a broccoli fan I would recommend topping your spud with one of their fat free salad dressings. I would use any of them. I think the FF Ranch or FF French is decent on a baked potato. Lower cals than the processed cheese crap they have ,although they are a bit heavy on the sodium.

Taco Bell-

Hard Taco Fresco Style
Chicken Ranchero Soft Taco Fresco Style
Grilled Steak Soft Taco Fresco

McDonalds:

Fruit & Yogurt Parfait without Granola
Plain Hamburger, with just mustard
Ceasar Side Salad

GO FOR SUBWAY

Arbys:

Plain Jr. Roast Beef

I don't eat at these places but these seem to be the healthiest choices. I always eat a subway, a lot. I don't consider it "fast food."

Are you near a Chick-fil-a? Get a salad! Yes, it's high in sodium...but geez, let's quit judging the eater-outers. I like the regular chargrilled chicken salad with 1/2 packet of reduced fat vinaigrette. I wanna say that's around...400 cals or so. I ate one for lunch yesterday, so feel free to look at my plate.

Also try:

Chick-fil-a Chargrilled Chicken Sandwich (270 calories)

Chick-fil-a Chargrilled Chicken CoolWrap (380 calories)

Zaxby's Grilled Chicken House salad (375 calories, not counting dressing or toast)

Wendy's plain baked potato with salsa, and a side salad with fat free french dressing (405 calories total)

I can come up with more!! It might be more productive for you to tell us what fast food restaurants are nearby. I can usually find at least one meal I can eat everywhere, though it takes a little creativity!

Yes, I second the Chik'Fila'A idea....plus, if u want a side.. or just a small snack, they're medium fruit bowl is around 70 calories.

Both of those suggestions are good for low calorie options. It's not that difficult to work around a fast food menu for lower calorie/fat options.
The problem lies in the mega doses of sodium that is in almost every item on the menu, or any fast food restaurant for that matter...not just Taco Bell. If you go to Taco Bell and think that because you are getting a "Fresco" bean burrito you are making a healthy choice, think again...there are 1200 mg of sodium in that "healthy" fresco burrito. 1200 mg of sodium is half of your RDA. In one food item. Then add the sodium in the soda and anything else you get and there's your 2500 mg daily amount right there in one meal.
I hate it too, I used to live on Taco Bell. I loved eating there. But when I decided to lose weight, that was the first thing I corrected. No more fast food. Maybe once a month whilst PMSing...maybe.

Chick-fil-a Chargrilled Chicken Sandwich (270 calories) 940 mg sodium

Chick-fil-a Chargrilled Chicken CoolWrap (380 calories) 1310 mg sodium

Zaxby's Grilled Chicken House salad (375 calories, not counting dressing or toast) 1153 mg sodium

Wendy's plain baked potato with salsa, and a side salad with fat free french dressing (405 calories total) =this is the only one with a normal sodium content. the potato has 25 mg sodium, the fat free dressing has 190 mg sodium.

Yes, but sometimes fast food is a necessary evil. As much as I would like to, I cannot cook every meal that I eat. I try to make healthy choices at every meal, but sometimes, something's gotta give. Every meal I eat is not going to be perfect. At fast food joints, sometimes I have to let myself eat half of my daily allotment of sodium without feeling bad about it. Everyone does. Otherwise, how do you live? You'd never be able to eat out anywhere! And for many of us, restaurants are a big slice of the social pie.

I do appreciate your comments, but I feel like your advice leaves me with approximately two options. So I choose to eat more sodium than I should sometimes...just like I choose to eat more calories than I should sometimes...so that I can continue to life my life!

On the days that I'm not feeling all the veggies in a salad, I often turn to soup from some places.

If you're lucky to be near an Au Bon Pain, they have some awesome soups:

-A Large garden vegetable soup is 100 cal
-A Medium Chicken Noodle Soup, Carrot Ginger Soup, french onion soup is 130 cal
-A medium chicken gumbo is 200 cal

There's actually a lot more that are really low cal, check their website. Also, if you get one of the lower cal ones there, you can add a breadstick for 180 cal. 280 cal for a large garden vegetable soup and a breadstick...I'm sold! *Note* these soups aren't low-sodium, but they're mighty tasty.

Panera has some great soups too, and all but one (new england clam chowder) are under 300 cals. Just make sure you order an apple as your side and you're golden.

Another thought: bringing your lunch can be a drag, but have you thought about bringing a lean cuisine or a can of soup for your lunch each day? It requires heating up, but no prep work at all. Just a thought. Good luck!