Lunches to buy downtown around 400 calories?

[Anonymous]

Broth based soups are your best bet.

[Anonymous]

You should be able to get a decent turkey sandwich that's about 400 calories. Just don't get it with Mayo and only get one slice of cheese instead of multiples.

You can also get a good bowl at Chipotle that is about 400 calories - black beans, barbacoa, lettuce, roast veggies, salsa. That will fill you up! Just avoid rice and carbs.

[Anonymous]

ABO vegetable soup + 1 breadstick

[Anonymous]

I lost a lot of weight a few years ago eating Chop’t and California Tortilla every day. Big spinach salad with low cal dressing or 2 chicken tacos on corn tortillas

[Anonymous]

Potbelly Mushroom Melt is 350 calories. It’s in my lunch rotation.

[Anonymous]

Sweetgreen's Spicy Thai salad is around 400 calories. So yummy and filling.

[Anonymous]

I think a cup of tomato soup and a piece of their bread at cosi is right around 400 cals. Bonus is that it's also cheap. Cosi also has a couple sandwiches in that range, and the calorie content is displayed on the menu boards.

I also like pret for low cal lunches. Other times I'll go to a deli and buy a yogurt and something else (like a small bag of pita chips), but that's not very filling.

[Anonymous]

Chipotle bowl with no rice, half serving of beans, beans, lettuce, just fajita veggies and half serving of cheese

[Anonymous]

Or get whatever you want in your Chipotle bowl and eat half.

[Anonymous]

Panera broth bowls
Panera Mediterranean veggie sandwich
Bowl at Rice Bar

There’s a nutrition calculator on the District taco website, you can plug things in to figure out what you can get for 400 calories.

[Anonymous]

Starbucks egg and cheese protein box. Very filling.

[Anonymous]

I know you said no salads, but thought I’d mention an option not yet in this post...Cava. You can build and preorder your mail on their app and it calculat s the calories fro you. So you could add, remove, edit to meet your calorie goal. Ordering in advance also helps prevent the impulse splurge. I always ordered the pita until I saw it added almost 200 extra calories to my lunch. Good luck! Eating out is tough when you are counting calories. And I hear you with the lunches. I pack my lunch 4 out of 5 days a week, plus my husband’s plus my kids’ lunches and snacks. Not fun but does keep my eating in check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all the options! Really would like more non salad options. I'm not a natural salad eater, so if I eat salad more than a couple times a week, I feel like I'm punishing myself. I wish carbs had fewer calories!

And I hear what everyone is saying about packing my own lunches, but I already pack lunches for 4 kids and I can't bear to pack myself something too. Plus getting up and walking away from my desk is sort of a high point.

You can't bear to pack your own lunch and your kids. Rough life.

[Anonymous]

Some of these options...Starbucks, I am looking at you, aren't going to help you lose weight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all the options! Really would like more non salad options. I'm not a natural salad eater, so if I eat salad more than a couple times a week, I feel like I'm punishing myself. I wish carbs had fewer calories!

And I hear what everyone is saying about packing my own lunches, but I already pack lunches for 4 kids and I can't bear to pack myself something too. Plus getting up and walking away from my desk is sort of a high point.

Why not pack your own lunch and still go on a walk.