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• Construction of a small feast!

  If you've ever been in a Subway, you'll know it's not so much a choosing of a sandwich as the construction of a small feast!Oops, did I say sandwich? How ignorant of me, it is of course a 'Sub', as in a submarine roll which has now appeared in supermarkets all over the country. For the rest of us, it's a plain old long bread roll! But.........................It's never as easy as that! The first thing you did is decide what size Sub you want, 6" or a foot long (by the way, according to the bbc website the UK leads the way in seeing innuendos in everything!) Easily enough apparently, but no, now you have to choose the type of bread. There is:Italian (White) Bread Wheat Bread Parmesan Oregano Bread Honey Oat Hearty Italian Bread Italian Herbs & Cheese Personally, I always go for the ordinary Italian bread, or Herb and Cheese, I'm not a huge fan of wheat bread, I find the Hearty Italian a bit stodgy and personally, I've not seen the Parmesan Oregano bread yet. The bread is baked in store every morning, and if you're lucky enough to get there early you'll have it all nice and warm! Although it could be argued its not freshly baked as it's part-baked, delivered frozen and then finished off. They also never seem to have enough of anything over than the Italian bread, so get there late in the afternoon and you'll be restricted to that!They've also started doing wraps, but its just not the same, and to be honest they don't put enough filling in them so you end up with mostly a mouth of stodgy wrap.So you get your size, you've got the bread, what do you put in it? Well this is where it gets difficult! There's no just walking in here, picking one of the shelf, paying and leaving, nope its far more difficult! So you choose your basic filling:Chicken & Bacon Ranch - Chicken breast strips, cheddar cheese, baconItalian BMTTM - Genoa salami, pepperoni, ham, cheeseMeatball Marinara - Hot meatballs in marinara sauce, cheeseSpicy Italian - Genoa salami, pepperoniSubway MeltTM - Sliced turkey breast, ham, bacon, melted cheeseSteak & Cheese - Hot steak, onions and peppers, melted cheeseTuna - Do I really have to explain this one?Veggie PattyTM - I'm really not sure whats in this and haven't been able to find out either!Personally I always go for the Steak and Cheese, although the onions and peppers are indistinguishable the steak is definalty very nice, and the Meatball Marinara is only to be attempted when you're not wearing your best clothes or out on a date! The sauce is very messy, drips everywhere and the meatballs are a little too large to bite into comfortably! But by gawd, its lovely!Then (it's a long process this), you can choose the salad, lettuce, cucumber, sweetcorn, peppers, onion, pickles and olives, just choose one or all of them.And you think you're done! But alas no! Now is the choice of dressings.Salt and pepper, light mayonnaise, Chipotle Southwest dressing, Ranch dressing, Sweet Onion dressing, HP sauce, and Honey Mustard. Personally the Sweet Onion is fabulous, if only they sold bottles of the stuff!You can also choose to have them toasted so the cheese goes all nice and melted!But a word of warning, these options are not low fat, Steak and Cheese are your best bet at 336kc and 9.8g of fat per 6" serving up to 461kcal and 26.1g for the Spicy Italian!**************************************** *****************************But aha!, you thought choosing the above was difficult to choose from? Well, there's another range of ingredients to choose from with less than 6grams of fat per 6" serving!Beef Chicken BreastHam* Subway ClubSweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki Turkey BreastTurkey Breast & HamVeggie DeliteTM And the all but the Chicken Teriyaki are under 300kcal per serving, but watch the dressings, the Ranch one is 196kcal per squirt! Which, when you consider a cheese and onion sandwich from Tesco's can be nearly 500kcal is quite fabulous!My daughter however assures me that the Chicken Teriyaki is by far the best of all the fillings!And I hate to say it but if you go in before 11am there's a whole different range to choose from, the Breakfast Sub, which I have personally never tried, nothing has managed to drag me away from my sausage patty and pancakes yet! Bacon Bacon & Egg (includes cheese) Cheese & Egg Mega Breakfast (includes cheese) Sausage & Egg (includes cheese) SausageAll high in fat and quite frankly I would avoid like the plague!So to make yourself look like you really ae keeping to the diet at work, make it a Subway!

  Emma1973
  Review Date: 05/08/2008 Report review