Lunch & Learn: Cosi deconstructed

We are meeting with a vendor at work and they ordered the staff lunch. I was helping set up the room and the food so I scouted the options and rather than not eat while everyone else was, I decided to deconstruct 2 sandwiches to make a salad. I started with the spinach salad which had pears and grapes. I then opened the veggie and hummus sandwhich and the fire roasted vegetable sandwhich. I added pineapple and strawberries and ended up with a really great looking salad!

I calculated the WW points of the cosi flatbread the sandwiches are made with and figured each half a sandwhich had 6 points of bread added to the value. The fire roasted veggie sandwhich was 11 points and I had half of one for a total of 5 points. With the oil used to cook the vegetables and the hummus from the vegetables sandwhich I felt good about the calculation. I had a bag of baby carrots instead of chips and some water and a diet peach snapple. I never have snapple and especially don't ever have soda but I needed something sweet besides the fruit so the snapple was a perfect option (0 WW points). All in all I am happy with the lunch and glad I ate with the group. Having food allergies or a living a healthy lifestyle should not mean feeling left out. It just means altering what already exists to make it work for you!

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