Healthy Fast Food Survival Guide (When the only option is fast food)

If I plan on traveling somewhere and know that i wont have the option to make my own food. i will look up the nutritional information for the entire menu in order to figure out what would be the best thing for me.

Please note that this is how i sort through foods. if you are on a Higher Fat or Higher Carb diet you can easily adjust accordingly.

My order of operations in selecting fast food items.

1.  I print out the Nutritional Information.
2. I grab a highlighter, look at the sodium content, and highlight any number that is under 500 (though i would prefer it to be under 400 but that makes the options extremely limited)
3. Next go through items that were highlighted in step 2 and  look at the protein amount highlighting any number that is more than 10g.
4. Afterwords i will sort through the Items that met both expectations and narrow them down even further based on the total amount of fat.

Below is a small Fast Food Survival guide that i was asked to create for someone who was looking into the “healthier” fast food items. Current restaurant nutritional information posted is for: Taco Bell, McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Wendy’s, Popeye’s, Chipotle, Subway, Five Guy’s, White Castle, Arby’s, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Long John Silvers, and Denny’s.

I hope you find it helpful, I did not narrow this down as strictly as i normally would for myself.  If there are any other restaurants you would like for me to include please leave a comment below and i will happily add it to this list.

** All nutritional information provided above was retrieved directly from the restaurants online website.

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