What can you eat at McDonald's while on a diet? This article provides 7 healthy meal choices at the famous fast food restaurant with calories counted for you.
Yes, you can even have a burger and nuggets! Eating at fast food restaurants can be difficult, but even at McDonald's, you can make better choices and stay within your calorie and fat gram counts.
1) The first option is for those summer weekends when the smell of barbecue is filling the air and you are feeling left out.
For this fix, head to McDonald's for a hamburger, small fry and a packet of barbecue sauce.
Use the sauce for your burger and french fries for that smokey, BBQ vibe.
Then top it off with a diet coke all for a total of 535 calories and 20 fat grams.
This is the highest calorie count of all the "healthy" meals listed, but sometimes, you just have to have a burger and french fries.
2) Chicken McNuggets are another craving food that sometimes just has to be indulged.
You can do it! Try the 4 piece nuggets with sweet and sour sauce, a side salad with Newman's Own Low Fat Balsamic and an unsweet tea.
The taste of nuggets for just 275 calories and 13 fat grams.
3) -Bacon Ranch Salad with grilled chicken, again with Newman's Own Low Fat Balsamic dressing.
If you have to have ranch, bring your own lower fat version.
Don't be shy, just whip it out of your purse! For 280 calories and 12 fat grams, you deserve to show people how smart you are! 4) Breakfast on the Run - A plain bagel with strawberry preserves, a hash brown and coffee for 435 calories and 9 fat grams.
Morning carbs never tasted so good.
5) Salad, salad, everywhere salad - Think one salad wont fill you up? Have two! Get one Caesar salad with grilled chicken and one without grilled chicken.
Mix them together with one packet (those things are huge) of Newman's Own Low Fat Balsamic and you have only eaten 330 calories and 13 fat grams.
There will be no doubt you'll be full, and you got a lot of leafy greens to keep you going! 6) Caramel sundae tempting you? Try the caramel apple dippers instead.
You can get them for breakfast with an English muffin, grape preserves and a diet coke or coffee for 285 calories and only 3 fat grams.
7) The Sweet Fix - Feel like cheating? Think you are going to lose it and binge? One chocolate chip cookie with a low fat milk and a kiddie vanilla cone can keep those urges at bay.
Feel satisfied with 305 calories and 10.
5 fat grams.
Better than the whole bag of Oreos you were about to eat! Next time you are at McDonald's and on a diet, feel good knowing you can make healthy choices and find things to eat in your calorie range!
Yes, you can even have a burger and nuggets! Eating at fast food restaurants can be difficult, but even at McDonald's, you can make better choices and stay within your calorie and fat gram counts.
1) The first option is for those summer weekends when the smell of barbecue is filling the air and you are feeling left out.
For this fix, head to McDonald's for a hamburger, small fry and a packet of barbecue sauce.
Use the sauce for your burger and french fries for that smokey, BBQ vibe.
Then top it off with a diet coke all for a total of 535 calories and 20 fat grams.
This is the highest calorie count of all the "healthy" meals listed, but sometimes, you just have to have a burger and french fries.
2) Chicken McNuggets are another craving food that sometimes just has to be indulged.
You can do it! Try the 4 piece nuggets with sweet and sour sauce, a side salad with Newman's Own Low Fat Balsamic and an unsweet tea.
The taste of nuggets for just 275 calories and 13 fat grams.
3) -Bacon Ranch Salad with grilled chicken, again with Newman's Own Low Fat Balsamic dressing.
If you have to have ranch, bring your own lower fat version.
Don't be shy, just whip it out of your purse! For 280 calories and 12 fat grams, you deserve to show people how smart you are! 4) Breakfast on the Run - A plain bagel with strawberry preserves, a hash brown and coffee for 435 calories and 9 fat grams.
Morning carbs never tasted so good.
5) Salad, salad, everywhere salad - Think one salad wont fill you up? Have two! Get one Caesar salad with grilled chicken and one without grilled chicken.
Mix them together with one packet (those things are huge) of Newman's Own Low Fat Balsamic and you have only eaten 330 calories and 13 fat grams.
There will be no doubt you'll be full, and you got a lot of leafy greens to keep you going! 6) Caramel sundae tempting you? Try the caramel apple dippers instead.
You can get them for breakfast with an English muffin, grape preserves and a diet coke or coffee for 285 calories and only 3 fat grams.
7) The Sweet Fix - Feel like cheating? Think you are going to lose it and binge? One chocolate chip cookie with a low fat milk and a kiddie vanilla cone can keep those urges at bay.
Feel satisfied with 305 calories and 10.
5 fat grams.
Better than the whole bag of Oreos you were about to eat! Next time you are at McDonald's and on a diet, feel good knowing you can make healthy choices and find things to eat in your calorie range!
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