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hey guys! i was wondering --


i know we have such a hard time finding things to eat out sometimes. i was curious, and browsing the menus for the fast food restraunts to see what i could eat on days when i couldn't fix my own meals, and good restraunts aren't cheap.

SO -

here's my question. for example, on a wendy's chicken salad, it's like, 60 grams of carbs. now, i think i remember reading from atkins book that salad stuff is good carbs and wouldn't that be subtracted from the fiber?? OH! i forgot to check the fiber!!

oh, but you understand the question, i hope?? the fiber you could subtract from the 60 g like atkins says, right? i'd appreciate anyone else's opinion!! thanks so much guys!!

I'm no expert (maybe I shouldnt reply :)) but I think the chicken is glazed or prepared with some sort of sugar coating and that could contribute to the carb count. After learning about McDonalds salads I just shy away from all the fast food salads. I figure I can just though one together at home (keeping the dressing seperate until I'm ready to eat) and save myself the money.

Well you subtract fiber but you need to look at what else is with the salad.

Looking at Wendys salads

The Spinach Chicken Salad
on the listing it shows with a sweet and sour bacon dressing 24g carbs
and Homestyle Garlic Croutons 9g carbs
So the salad including those has 43g carbs and 5 fiber

But if you substitute Caesar dressing and no croutons your salad just dropped to 11 carbs 4 fiber and no dressing at all would be 10 carbs 4 fiber. 6 or 7 carbs makes it much more reasonable now :-)


Their Chicken BLT salad same thing. It lists 30g carbs but take away the honey mustard dressing 11g carbs and their croutons 9 and we are back to the same basic of 10g -4 fiber

Wendys Manderin chicken salad is something that should be saved for late owl on up since it is more on the carby side. On its own it lists as 50g carbs

Keeping the almonds but removing the rice noodles and the sweet oriental dressing you have 21g carbs -6 fiber

Thats all for their chicken salads and I hoped it helped.

For more info you can go to www.wendys.com and customize a menu so you can see the nutritional info for each part.

Wendys dressings are very carby and thats where the majority of these carbs are coming from, but once you ditch that and the croutons you should be okay.

Their Ceasar dressing is the lowset in carbs with under 1g
Their Blue Cheese has 3
Ranch has 5

If you get a salad from them you might wanna keep some of your own dressing handy if you can and save on some of those carbs