Josh's Chick-fil-A Order Starts With A Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich
Although Chick-fil-A is well known for its crispy, fried chicken sandwiches and nuggets, their grilled chicken is also a delicious and more weight-loss-friendly option, with the same beneficial protein from the lean chicken, but fewer calories and fat. Their grilled chicken club sandwich comes with a grilled chicken patty, cheese, bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
Josh's balanced order starts with a base of a grilled chicken club sandwich, but he substitutes and adds ingredients to add a twist.
"This is one of my favorite orders from Chick-fil-A when I want to hit my macros and still feel alive inside," he says in his video. "This one's got flavor, volume, and just enough chaos to keep it interesting...I'm not saying it's normal, but I'm saying it's effective."
Josh starts with a grilled chicken club sandwich but asks for a lettuce wrap instead of a bun, then asks for extra lettuce, extra tomatoes, and extra pickles.
Josh Spices Up His Sandwich With Sauces & Mac And Cheese
Without having a bun on his sandwich, Josh notes that he saves around 210 calories, which he decides to trade in on a small order of mac and cheese, one of the restaurant's most famous items. It's cheesy, gooey, and often has a fresh layer of baked cheese on top. The dietitian says that adding the mac to his order gives it "just enough cheesiness to bring the comfort without the coma."
To assemble his lettuce wrap chicken club and mac and cheese hybrid sandwich, he stacks a layer of lettuce, a tomato, pickles, his chicken patty with the cheese and bacon, before scooping some mac and cheese on top. Then, before eating it, he drizzles some special sauce on it. While Chick-fil-A is notorious for its unique, signature sauce, it can add some excess calories, fat, and sugar that you may want to avoid.
Whenever Josh knows he's going to hit up a Chick-fil-A, he brings a homemade rendition of the sauce, created by another weight loss influencer, Macros for Mac. If you can make your own sauce with healthier ingredients, by all means, use it, but if you need to have a little taste of the restaurant's sauce, consider drizzling on half a packet to get the flavor for fewer calories.
If he's not in the mood for the mac and cheese, Josh will ask for an order of the restaurant's waffle fry chips, crush them up, and sprinkle a few on top of his lettuce-wrap creation. It's an order he says "has no business being this good."
Would you try his order?