You don’t have to count calories or grams of fat if all your sandwich ingredients are lean. Mix and match these fixings for an easy low-fat meal by picking one item from each of the four categories below. Add as many extras as you like.
BREAD
FILLINGS
¡ Bagel
¡ Chicken salad
¡ English muffin
¡ Grilled [...]
Next we come to the two areas in which imagination serves up the greatest rewards for sandwich eaters: vegetables and condiments. Both of these ingredients have traditionally been used to fill the important role of moistening the other filling ingredients, but they can also do much more.
Tomatoes and lettuce are fine sandwich garnishes, but [...]
If you prefer the convenience of canned seafood, be sure you get water-packed tuna, salmon or sardines rather than the oil-packed versions. The savings in fat are considerable: Three ounces of oil-packed chunk tuna usually contains 18 grams of fat, about 16 ½ grams more than the water-packed kind.
For low-fat sandwich fillings, things that [...]
A good place o begin is with the foundation of the sandwich: the bread. Even the spongiest, whitest of white breads supplies healthful complex carbohydrates, but it’s best to go with whole-grain varieties, which offer the additional benefit of two times the fiber of plain white bread. For our money, whole-grain bread also tastes better.
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Want to know how to build a better sandwich? Here are some healthy hand-held meals for the well-breaded lifestyle.
FROM ITS VERY BEGINNING, the sandwich has been the ultimate in regular-guy food. John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, invented this prototypical nosh not out of culinary genius but because he was a lunatic card player. [...]