McDonalds 'Seared chicken mini snack wrap'

So,

I went to a concert last night, and usually afterwards, me and my friends go to the 24hr McD's and get food.. (and of course, i used to sit there with my diet Coke, hoping nobody notices).

But, since i'm trying to introduce normalised eating habits, i though that i'd try to eat something socially.

I ordered a 'Seared chicken mini snack wrap', with no mayo, and when i got home i looked it up and realised that it was pretty low cal :)

The normal snack wrap is 201cal : http://www.calorieking.com.au/foods/calories- in-burgers-sandwiches-wrap-seared-chicken-min i_f-Y2lkPTQxMzg5JmJpZD00NDYmZmlkPTIxMjkwMyZla WQ9NjEyMjgxMTkmcG9zPTEyJnBhcj0ma2V5PW1hY2Rvbm FsZHM.html

And, without mayonaise, it would be at MOST 150 calories!..  and it's not very "mini", in my oppinion.  Paired with an apple, it could be lunch!

I just thought that i'd share this, since it made me feel 'normal' for the first time in a looong time :)

ohh, and i know it says that there's quite alot of fat, but keep in mind that that's probably from the mayo.

All it is really is a thin wrap with lettuce and seared chicken :)

wow that sounds pretty good. Im for no mayo anyway maybe I will try that one day for lunch when I have nothing eles better to eat.

Not sure about the mini part, but McDonalds website lists all the grilled wraps without the cheese and sauce as 210 Calories. Not a big deal just FYI.

UD

210 calories for a snack wrap seems pretty low.. kinda too low

keep in mind that those things arn't exactly portion controlled and the amount of chicken in them plus the grease left on the grill differs everytime

fyi: I worked at Mc Donalds for over a year, and those "grilled" or "seared" chicken wraps are still cooked on the same grill used to cook the burgers... and I hate to break it to you, but it's MCDONALDS.. do you think that the employees there give a damn if you're on a diet or not? No they don't.. I bet that those chickens absorb quite a bit of the fatty burger grease if they don't clean the grill everytime they cook something so it just builds up

those calorie estimations were probably done at the Mc Donalds headquarters where they controlled how much sauce and chicken was in this certain wrap, and not cooking it with other burgers... the wrap itself may not very much, but the chicken, grease, and condiments will

sorry, but I really don't trust fast food places,

I can say exact same thing about any restaurant. *shrug If you are not preparing food yourself it all a guestimations. Even if you do it yourself is still a guestimation just a slightly more accurate one.

UD

With an apple it sounds like a reasonable snack, not a meal.  I'll have to try one sometime.

I was depending on these as a default drive thru item - chipolte chicken wrap without the chipolte sauce but found myself tearing off 3/4 of that mega tortilla which I knew was a big chunk of the calories (as Im carb sensitive).

Discovered you can order simply a whole chicken breast (the wraps use half of one).  Here its the same price as the wrap and its call "Grilled Chicken Patty" eventhough its a filet, not a processed 'patty'.

If youre big on protein, something to consider. 

You can also, if you don't want to pay so much for their salads, order a side salad with a grilled chicken patty on it. A lot of my friends who diet do that.

The McD's here will allow you to order just a plain piece of grilled chicken for $1 (provided you actually order something else - you can't just go in and order the grilled chicken).  Anyway, I usually get two side salads from the $1 menu and a piece of chicken for lunch if I go there.  They give you two packs of dressing since you are ordering two salads, but I always take one pack home for when I have salad at home.  Decent lunch, and it's only $3. 

I agree with the person who worked at McDonald's. I was a manager of  3 differebt Mcdonald's over a period of 3 years and things usually aren't done by the book, so the nutritional content of the products vary GREATLY. It is true that all mcdonald's have teenagers working in them and most absolutely hate to be there and want to do as little work as possible. The grills do not get cleaned regularly, there is huge carbon build up and these fake 'seared' products end up cooking in beef/bacon grease on the grill. Also on the prep benches there is a lot of grease from spilt burger patties andf the snack wraps end up getting placed ontop of this. Not to mention all the grease that ends up in the tubs of lettuce because at mcdonald's you wear the same gloves to touch cooked sloppy greasy meat & salads

:)

Thank you Helloelloello now I want to petition Mcdonald's to leave my neighborhood! That just sounds disgusting! I am very glad I went vegan. I will never, ever, buy ANYTHING from fast food restaurants! Is anything there clean?! YUCK!!! Thanks for the inside peek, now I have to vomit!

Solar

Original Post by solareclps:

Thank you Helloelloello now I want to petition Mcdonald's to leave my neighborhood! That just sounds disgusting! I am very glad I went vegan. I will never, ever, buy ANYTHING from fast food restaurants! Is anything there clean?! YUCK!!! Thanks for the inside peek, now I have to vomit!

Solar

Seriously?

UD

Original Post by umneydurak:

Original Post by solareclps:

Thank you Helloelloello now I want to petition Mcdonald's to leave my neighborhood! That just sounds disgusting! I am very glad I went vegan. I will never, ever, buy ANYTHING from fast food restaurants! Is anything there clean?! YUCK!!! Thanks for the inside peek, now I have to vomit!

Solar

Seriously?

UD

Well that and the fact that Mcdonald's restaurant are disportionately in minority neighborhoods (which I happen to live in one) and there also seems to be a correlation that where lots of fast food places are, the population is tends to be overweight. So yea I already wanted them out, she just gave me more fuel!

Original Post by helloelloello:

I agree with the person who worked at McDonald's. I was a manager of  3 differebt Mcdonald's over a period of 3 years and things usually aren't done by the book, so the nutritional content of the products vary GREATLY. It is true that all mcdonald's have teenagers working in them and most absolutely hate to be there and want to do as little work as possible. The grills do not get cleaned regularly, there is huge carbon build up and these fake 'seared' products end up cooking in beef/bacon grease on the grill. Also on the prep benches there is a lot of grease from spilt burger patties andf the snack wraps end up getting placed ontop of this. Not to mention all the grease that ends up in the tubs of lettuce because at mcdonald's you wear the same gloves to touch cooked sloppy greasy meat & salads

:)

Before we get on a rant about how all McDonalds are evil.....all stores vary.  The one I worked at for 3 years was always in pristine condition.  The grills were cleaned between all uses, if you dropped something on the prep table you cleaned it up before you went on, and there were tongs for the meat.

Now I understand stores are different because the Wendy's I worked at next needed to be reported to the health department.  Rotten tomatoes anyone?

I have to agree with chaotickitty. I worked at McDonalds back in the 80's (of course I can't vouch for how anything is now) and we kept the prep table clean and actually the chicken was cooked in a separate area of the grill away from the beef. We did not have snack wraps then but we did make chicken fajitas. I think it is that way with any chain or even small restaurant. You get good ones that follow procedure and bad ones that don't care. Actually if a customer had a special request as to how their sandwich was made we did "give a crap" and complied.

As for the condition and practices of ANY restaurant, it really all depends on the management.  To the OP, I'm glad you found something decent to eat there!  I like the low-fat cones from there the best :).

Original Post by solareclps:

Well that and the fact that Mcdonald's restaurant are disportionately in minority neighborhoods (which I happen to live in one) and there also seems to be a correlation that where lots of fast food places are, the population is tends to be overweight. So yea I already wanted them out, she just gave me more fuel!

Actually I and my friend had this same discussion a while back. If you want to take this "offline" send me a message.

P.S. Actually in my previous post I was reffering to the later part of your post about almost throwing up.

UD

Original Post by helloelloello:

I agree with the person who worked at McDonald's. I was a manager of  3 differebt Mcdonald's over a period of 3 years and things usually aren't done by the book, so the nutritional content of the products vary GREATLY. It is true that all mcdonald's have teenagers working in them and most absolutely hate to be there and want to do as little work as possible. The grills do not get cleaned regularly, there is huge carbon build up and these fake 'seared' products end up cooking in beef/bacon grease on the grill. Also on the prep benches there is a lot of grease from spilt burger patties andf the snack wraps end up getting placed ontop of this. Not to mention all the grease that ends up in the tubs of lettuce because at mcdonald's you wear the same gloves to touch cooked sloppy greasy meat & salads

:)

You were a manager. Wasn't it your job to make sure environment was clean and standards were followed?

UD