> If you're cooking a can of soup for lunch, throw a handful of the pre-shredded cabbage (sold as cole slaw in the produce section, bagged like the other salad stuff) or spinach into the pot first with a little water, let it cook down, then add the soup - much heartier soup, added veggies, and no great cooking skills required. <

Well, I do canned soup sometimes - never been much for veggies in them, but maybe a little can be done here.

> Just get in a habit of looking for the heartiest-looking breads you can find. <

I'm going to replace half my white bread at the restaurant with the wheat - still do the fried eggs for awhile simply because that is what I get the bread for so it may be a good way to see if I can adjust my taste little by little, then I'll see about changing the egg thing too.

I don't eat rice much - especially here in Hawaii where almost every restaurant uses a pretty pasty rice (because so many Asians are here). But I've had brown rice before and I don't have a preference one way or the other on that. I'll see if any places offer it.

> Don't feel bad about special-ordering your eggs - the restaurant will do what it takes to get you to come back. <

Oh, they do special orders all the time - and are very nice to me since I eat there so much for breakfast - as often as 5 days a week though usually just three now that I'm riding further but less often.

> Go for a slice of ham if they got it - always look for the leanest option. <

Don't think they had ham - other that the chopped pieces they put in omelets.

> Oh - and SUBWAY! Subway I know! Okay. Go for the honey/oat or whole wheat bread. Truthfully, much tastier than the white bread - especially if you get it toasted. <

I tried one of those and didn't care for it. Still, I can work on that. I'll look into getting it toasted.

I probably do the roast beef as much as anything. I haven't done turkey or chicken yet - too often those meats are so processed that it doesn't seem "real" anymore!

> Get it with lettuce, extra tomatoes (just ask for more, they'll do it) spinach, fresh peppers, cucumbers, and go easy on the dressings. Skip the pickles, pickled peppers and olives - too much sodium in all of those. <

I do a little lettuce. Also do normal tomatoes. They have spinach? Have to check that out. I'm not into peppers or cucumbers. THe only dressing I use is mayonaise - no oil. Also no pickles, pickled peppers, or olives.

When you come right down to it, I'm a meat eater and mostly use things like tomato to keep the sandwich from being dry!