Can Potbelly be considered healthy in any way?

[Anonymous]

This is one of the dumbest questions I've read on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't mean can you make it healthier by getting a salad or skinny sandwich. I mean how many times a week would you get a regular turkey sandwich there or let your kids do so? I mean I don't liken it to McDonalds or anything, but I always think eating out is less healthy. I've gotten into sandwiches big time lately though.

You'll tire of it.

I used to go there all the time because I was restricting calories. The salads there (built the correct way) were a great option for s 500cal lunch. I got tired of it. Can't stand it anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

To me, the thing that makes a Potbelly sandwich unhealthy, even if you skip stuff like cheese and mayo, is the portions. The turkey sandwich I make at home will simply be smaller, so it'll be a lot fewer calories, carbs, etc. The Potbelly sandwich will be significantly larger but odds are I'll finish it anyway, so I'll end up eating a lot more than I really need.

I mean, the calorie count for an original turkey breast is 440 calories, and a skinny TKY is 300 calories. That doesn't sound like an obscene number of calories to ingest for one meal.

If that's truly the only thing you (no chips, no caloric beverage, etc.), it's fine for an occasional lunch out. The problem is that when people go there regularly (a few times a week every week), eventually that gets old. And they throw bacon and mayo on their original turkey. Or they get some chips to go with it. Or they get the roast beef instead of turkey. And the next thing you know, they're eating 600-700+ calorie at lunch every day, which is excessive.

[Anonymous]

If that's truly the only thing you (no chips, no caloric beverage, etc.), it's fine for an occasional lunch out. The problem is that when people go there regularly (a few times a week every week), eventually that gets old. And they throw bacon and mayo on their original turkey. Or they get some chips to go with it. Or they get the roast beef instead of turkey. And the next thing you know, they're eating 600-700+ calorie at lunch every day, which is excessive.

There are several sandwiches on the menu that are under 500 calories (or if not, right around, and the salads are also 500-600 calories). Adding mayo only adds an extra 100 calories to a sandwich. Even the roast beef is only just over 500.

Anyway, if you are eating 600-700 calories for lunch, that might not be so insane, depending on what else you eat. Like, say, if you just have a small bowl of cereal or a piece of fruit (or nothing) for breakfast, and a 700 calorie lunch (assuming the typical adult died is 1800-2000 calories), then you still have maybe 900-1200 calories left over for dinner, snacks, a glass of wine, whatever.

Is a potbelly turkey or roast beef sandwich as healthy as some sort of quinoa, kale, and beet salad? No. But some of these attitudes regarding normal food (like, say a turkey sandwich with cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, and mustard) seem kind of disordered to me.