I’ve decided that I need to take better care of myself and this includes watching more carefully the food I eat. This is probably the least fun part of eating out every meal for lunch (hey, we have to get out of the office for a little each day or we’ll go crazy).

Well today Arby’s was suggested. Now, I like Arby’s and I figured that with their “Market Fresh” sandwitches I could find something that wasn’t terrible for me to put into my body.

So off to Arby’s we went!

I ordered up a Southwest Chicken Wrap and was a bit surprized at how small it looked. Compared to the roast beef sandwitches it was positivly tiny! But I decided I was being good for me so if I was still hungry later in the day I would hunt down some fruit.

Back at the office I ventured onto Arby’s web site to see exactly how good I had been! I was shocked to find out that my meager little wrap contained 550 Calories and 30 grams of fat (with 9 grams coming from saturated fat)!

As I scanned the nutrition page I found I could have had a Giant Roast Beef for only 450 Calories and 19 grams of fat (9 grams saturated fat). I will say, in its defense, the Southwest Chicken Wrap is the “healthiest” of the wraps.

Now I know that fast food isn’t “good” for you, but Arby’s has done a good job promoting these sandwitches as “fresh” and “just like you make at home” which in my mind would translate into a sandwitch that isn’t nutritionally terrible for you.

Those marketing scalawags have won again, equating “fresh” with “healthy” when it really is neither.

I should know better - you almost never can have your cake and eat it too…

Mmmmmm…cake……