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UK: Benjys offer low carb option
Discovered today thanks to a couple of colleagues that the sandwich
chain "Benjys" (www.benjys-sandwiches.com) are doing a line of 'low carb friendly' lunches, which could be useful for people like me who work and want a cheap-ish meal, or who are stuck in the city for the day or are travelling. I've found that travelling low carb is particularly difficult in Britain given the universality of the potato chip and the sandwich, and this should help a bit. Choices include a 'meat platter' which was ham, egg, brie, and a bit of salad. Folks perhaps need to tell them not to include the honey roast ham (lots of emails to their customer service people can't do any harm) but it will do in an emergency, a container of chicken wings (which they will do hot for 30p extra), a container of spicy meatballs with a sachet of Heinz mayo (which again they will do hot for 30p extra) and a tuna salad with no pasta and no rice. Not sure about the low carb credentials of this last one, because the mayo is 'light' which tends to mean higher carbs, and one of the veggies is carrot which is higher glycemic than one would ideally like. Have to say, though, it is a start, the only other thing I've seen advertised as low carb is Michelob Ultra. And it gives me an opportunity to vary my lunch; smoked mackerel, which I've been eating most days for lunch since I started LC, has started to bore even me. -- Lexin (300/263/182) LC since 9 June 2003 |
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Benjys offer low carb option
"Lexin" wrote in message =
om... Discovered today thanks to a couple of colleagues that the sandwich chain "Benjys" (www.benjys-sandwiches.com) are doing a line of 'low carb friendly' lunches,=20 snip Choices include a 'meat platter' which was ham, egg, brie, and a bit of salad. Folks perhaps need to tell them not to include the honey roast ham (lots of emails to their customer service people can't do any harm) but it will do in an emergency, a container of chicken wings (which they will do hot for 30p extra), a container of spicy meatballs with a sachet of Heinz mayo (which again they will do hot for 30p extra) and a tuna salad with no pasta and no rice.snip Lexin (300/263/182) LC since 9 June 2003 Yep - ran across one of these in Birmingham(The Palisades next to = Central Library) It didn't look particularly appetising however and I = gave it a miss. instead I had Egg Mayo, cheese, ham and a green salad = for =A31.07 from the student canteen at College. --=20 Elise 223/157/133 Atkins since 27/03/03 UK http://uk.photos.yahoo.com/elisebutt |
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