Cheap Lunch – $2.50 + Tax

Finding fast, cheap, easy and healthy lunches on the go is challenging. Usually the fast, cheap and easy lunches you will find out there are not so healthy. 

I have never been a Subway fan until they started giving customers the option of toasting their subs.  To me, a warm meal feels for filling than a cold one!  My favorite one to order was their Chicken & Bacon Ranch sub.  However, Subway came up with a selection of $5 footlong subs.  The Chicken & Bacon Ranch sub footlong was approximately $2 more, so I decided to go for the cheaper subs.

Meet my new favorite: the Oven-Roasted Chicken Breast from Subway’s Fresh Fit menu and part of their $5 Footlong Subs.  I order it with Italian Herbs & Cheese bread, admittedly not the healthiest bread there is, but I love it and would rather not give that up.  I top it with American cheese, spinach, tomatoes and cucumber, then some ranch dressing.  I do not care for their shredded lettuce, hence the spinach for alternative greens.  The tomatoes provide a nice sweet counterbalance to the saltiness of the cheese and ranch dressing, while the cucumber gives the sandwich a crunchiness reminiscent of my favorite bacon, without the fat and cholesterol.

The best part?  I only eat half the footlong sandwich for lunch and eat the other half either for dinner or for lunch the next day.  That’s a $2.50 lunch plus tax.  What a great deal!

It doesn’t last until dinner however, and by mid-afternoon my stomach starts asking for snacks.  I don’t mind that too much.  I usually keep a stash of fruit cups or crackers in my desk.  Eating snacks also keeps me from being desperately hungry in the evening and which allows me to cook dinner at home instead of going through the drive-through.

Here’s to a healthier, no-longer broke New Year !!!

What is your favorite Subway sub?