My Picks For The Healthiest Meals At Fast Food Restaurants
As much as I advocate for cooking your meals at home as often as possible, and much time as I’ve put into showing what to do so with, sometimes you’re on the road and you need to eat then and there. Fast food is often your best shot at that. And while fast food often gets the reputation of not being the healthiest food out there, I was personally curious as to how good they could actually get. I think for many of these chains, they’ll surprise you.
Apologies for the long intro. There were a lot of guidelines I wanted to lay out first so there is as little confusion as possible.
Intro – 0:00
Meal Criteria – 0:55
Restaurant Criteria – 1:57
A&W – 3:38
Arby’s – 4:12
Bojangles – 4:39
Braum’s – 5:08
Burger King – 5:40
Captain D’s – 6:10
Carl’s Jr – 6:43
Checkers & Rally’s – 7:12
Chick-fil-A – 7:38
Culver’s – 8:12
Dairy Queen – 8:45
Del Taco – 9:17
El Pollo Loco – 9:49
Freddy’s – 10:23
Hardee’s – 10:51
In-N-Out – 11:12
Jack In The Box – 11:39
Jimmy John’s – 12:09
KFC – 12:37
Long John Silver’s – 13:05
McDonald’s – 13:33
Panda Express – 14:07
Panera Bread – 14:35
Popeyes – 15:09
Quiznos – 15:31
Schlotzsky’s 16:03
Sonic – 16:34
Starbucks – 17:00
Steak n’ Shake – 17:31
Subway – 18:04
Taco Bell – 18:37
Taco John’s – 19:11
Tropical Smoothie Cafe – 19:39
Wendy’s – 20:14
Whataburger – 20:46
White Castle – 21:14
Zaxbys – 21:40
Outro – 22:11
Nutrition Facts Links:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQsYML4ASsYnSYHdc8TQzqCggKCtJdtS-0BuApJzHFmNdTt-1QzemMA67mH0lvfNJUrjjerG6qY3v4e/pub
Disclaimer: This video is mainly opinions for the purpose of entertainment because I was curious about this myself and wanted to share it. I am not a doctor or health care physician who understands your personal individual health needs. Nor am I someone who has the most in depth knowledge about any of the foods featured in this video. I only have access to what these restaurants share with the general public. Obviously, this video is also not endorsed by any of the brands featured either. These are my own personal conclusions. Please consult a professional who understands your individual situation before making changes regarding your health.
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26 Comments
In case you haven't seen it, my REAL April Fool's video was released on January 8th.
Does anyone have suggestions for what would be helpful for CookOut? I was hoping they had enough restaurants to be on this list but they didn't make it.
Chicken or salad with a splash of chicken in salad but never chicken salad!
As long as I get 50g of protein per meal 👌🏻
That green goddess salad from Panera is really good, I ate it a lot with soup when I was losing 60lbs during covid
Can you make one for fast casual too?
Do Wawa in part 2
What are the chances of doing a video reviewing subscribers weekly meal plans?
tl;dw – grilled chicken salad
I'd love to mention that brauns uses A2 milk in all their products, and the cottage cheese that comes with their salad is no exception, it's so delicious
TLDR: grilled chicken
Don't sleep on the Popeye's Blackened Chicken tenders yall.. they're also super easy to make at home with a basic Cajun seasoning!
I like the idea of a good breakfast items tier list. Its easy to eat poorly at most fast food places for breakfast but I think its be interesting to see how the McDonald's oat meal compares to things like a Burger King egg and sausage sandwich
took my break early to watch this😭✨
"My Picks For The Healthiest Meals At Fast Food Restaurants" : …..salad
general rule, never eat fast food in america if you value ur health
most of these places are overpriced and still take 30+ mintues to get food
It's true, the green goddess salad is pretty good. Also made me ant to go to panda express to try this lighter fare. I've never been.
Well thanks for the info on the 2 places that exist outside the us I guess
Happy April Fool's everyone!
Its all just chicken with no sauce 😭
Love it! Taco bell for the win!!! #TeamTB
Gas station foods next? They are becoming more and more like little restaurants.
Also another great idea is sub or fan meals ranking? We can probably learn a lot from each other!
What a pathetic indictment of the awful state of food in the United States GMO Chicken, Chicken, Chicken, surrounded by carbs and fat. I became nauseous before you even got to the letter “H”
I'd love a fast casual video cuz CAVA is my go to when I can't cook or don't have a lot of ingredients at home. Not to say it's super healthy compared to cooking at home, but choosing the veggies and meat well makes it solid after the gym
I make about 99% of the food I eat from single ingredients. Steak and veggies. Chicken soup. Eggs and kimchi. Peanut butter. Lots and lots of great (healthy) normal food. I buy organic produce. I drink water and rarely have alcohol. As a result, I never have chronic symptoms like headaches or upset stomach or congestion.
One day I said fuck it and had two egg mcmuffins for breakfast thinking it couldn't be so bad. By noon, before lunch, I had an unusual upset stomach and the worst hunger pangs I've ever had in my life, and I don't ever get hunger pangs. Things didn't get much worse, but that night, into the next day, I had farts like you read about. Luckily I was working outside because a few morsels of fast food did a number.
Don't eat that crap people, it's terrible for you. Look up a few east recipes online and spend two hours a week cooking. That's not asking much and you'll feel way better.
Some times, such as between flights in an airport concourse, fast food may be the only option.