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Best Restaurant Lunches

It’s a minefield of high fat, high calorie, super salty choices at some lunch joints while others offer at least a few healthy options. Here’s a quick look at the best restaurant lunches. By: Maureen Callahan, MS, RD and Karen Ansel, RD.

Healthy Dining Out Tips

Dining Out Tips

Lunching out with an eye toward eating healthy is tricky business. A chain that delivers a lighter lunch is just as likely to dish up unhealthy fare. And salty items are the norm with most sodium tabs hovering close to 2000 milligrams or more. The best strategy: review nutrition charts, either from onsite brochures or online, before you make a choice.

Favorite lunch spot not on our list? Sorry, we had to narrow down our checklist to the top 15 best selling chains. Since some didn’t cough up nutrition numbers or weren’t open for lunch, we plugged in few staff favorites to round out of our list.


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