This is one of my favorite mid-week at-home meals. Easy, fast, healthy, easy to cleanup, inexpensive.
Consider the choices:
Our chicken salad - with a dessert! - made at home in about 20 minutes for $4.25/meal and about 1,300 good calories, notably salad and good clean organic chicken.
Subway footlong Chicken Bacon Ranch for about $9.00 with 1,080 mostly good calories (and I love bacon!) and 20 minutes to go and get. This is just the sandwich. no drink. no dessert. I can RARELY say no to the cookies at Subway, so you might as well add $1.29 and 300 calories for three chocolate chip cookies
Arby's #14 Fresh Market Sandwich combo with large curly fries and a green iced tea for about $10 and 1,330 calories and 20 minutes to go get. This doesn't have a dessert, although the curly fries are close to be a dessert(!).
Our chicken salad absolutely wins when I'm at home. When travelling, I try to stick with the Subway. If I'm driving, I generally go for the Arby's (and get a turnover, too, with the large order!). Even considering the calories and type of food, our chicken salad wins because it is SIGNIFICANTLY CHEAPER, and we get to eat as a family at the dinner table. And it's very easy to clean...very few dishes because the chicken is BBQ; most of the dishes go straight into the dishwasher...clean and simple!
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My wife and call it chicken salad (so creative!). Let's do some basic math to compare to fast food. I only eat at Arby's and Subway for fast food, and the cheapest I can get there is about $8 and walk out mostly satisfied ($7 footlong plus tax).
This meal has 1/2 pound chicken (1.89/pound off the chicken truck), so let's round up to $1 even.
Half a bag salad bought for $2.49, so call that 1.25.
Two rolls from a box of six for 2.49. Let's round up to a dollar (those are 50 cents each?!?!?!.....might pass next time at the store). But Grandma's homemade strawberry jam (free!) is awesome and needs a method to get in my mouth!
1/3 of a bag of mixed veggie steamers. Bag is maybe 1.39 so round up to 50 cents.
Add $1 for the fundraiser chocolate bar (very small) I had for dessert.
Drank water only. I prefer water but sometimes have iced tea in the summer or Lipton drink mix in the winter.
$4.25 total, and COMPLETELY satisfied and full, including chocolate bar to hit my sweettooth!
'Versus $8 minimum for fast food and no dessert. Calories?
Chicken about 500.
A small squirt of ranch dressing has maybe 50 calories; just spice on the chicken.
Salad probably 250. Rolls: 2 x 80 = 160. Chocolate = 180
Total Calories = 1,300 calories, almost all good pure food.
Serving Size: 1 footlong, Calories: 1080, Fat: 53.1g, Carbs: 87g, Protein: 67g
Arby's Meal of a large #14 combo = 1,330 and about $10
Fresh Market Sandwich = 670 calories
| Turkey Ranch & Bacon (Honey wheat bread, roast turkey, natural cheddar cheese, leat lettuce, tomatoes, red onion, creamy ranch spread, pepper bacon) | 371 g | 42 | 73 | 23 | 15 | 670 | MORE |
| Curly Fries (Potatoes, partially hydrogenated canola or soybean oil, bleached enriched, wheat flour, modified food starch, cornmeal, corn starch) | large | 7 | 66 | 30 | 13 | 560 | MORE |
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