How to Eat Healthy at Noodles and Company

Noodles & Company is a restaurant that specializes in meals created by their individual customers with combinations of noodles, protein, veggies, and sauce, which Noodles & Company cooks to order. They have a variety of nutrition-packed cuisine including Asian, American and Mediterranean. They also serve some healthy and delicious salads. Use the following steps to help you eat healthy at a Noodles & Company restaurant.

Instructions

• 1

  Start off with a small salad to fill your stomach with veggies before eating your entrée. The Tossed Green side salad with fat-free Asian dressing is 190 cal, 2g fat and 43g of carbs. Or, you can choose to have a Cucumber Tomato side salad, which is 120 cal, .5 fat and 24g of carbs.

• 2

  Enjoy bowl of soup with your side salad to make it a meal, which makes for a great lunch or light dinner. Noodles & Company has three soups to choose from and they are all basically healthy. The two least fatty of the soups are the small size Chicken Noodles soup, which is 170 Cal, 7g of fat and 17g of carbs and the small Thai Curry Soup, which is 200 calories, 8g of fat and 24g of carbs.

• 3

  Order a regular salad instead if you'd rather just have greens. The Chinese Chop Salad with fat-free Asian dressing is the least fatty at 120 calories, 5.5g of fat and 18g of carbs for a small and 250 calories, 11.5g of fat and 36g of carbs for the regular size. If you'd rather have a Caesar Salad, it will cost you in fat content. It has 160 calories, 12g of fat and 14g of carbs for a small and 310 calories, 26g of fat and 28g of carbs for a regular size.

• 4

  Eat an entrée with a side salad for your meal. The small Bangkok Curry bowl is the least fatty of entrée dishes at 230 calories, 5g of fat and 35g of carbs. The Indonesian Peanut Sauté is also a good choice at 330 calories and 11g of fat. These small portions are great sizes for the kids as well.

• 5

  Add chicken or shrimp to add nutrition and protein to your soup, salad or entree. Each addition of chicken has 160 calories, 6g of fat and no carbs, and each addition of shrimp has 60 calories, 2g of fat and 1g of carbs. Add extra veggies to your meal as well, which adds a lot of nutrition to your meal with very little calories.

• 6

  Order one of their trios instead. If you are watching calories, Noodles & Company recommends their Bangkok Curry Trio with Shrimp and Tossed Green side salad with fat-free Asian dressing. This whole meal has 330 calories and 15g of at. Or you can choose the Japanese Pan Noodles Trio with Shrimp and Tossed Green Side Salad with Fat-Free Asian Dressing at 420 calories and 7g of fat.