The 5 Healthiest Foods to Eat at Timmy's

I was telling my sister about my last blog and my discovery of how bad in general the food there is for you (Ironically while stuffing our faces with fried shrimp at Red Lobster - but it was her birthday!). She inspired me to write this post because she asked, "So what is there to eat at Timmy's?" So here I present to you the 5 best foods to eat at Tim Horton's:

1. Chicken wraps: 190 calories each and relatively low-fat (4.5 - 6g depending on the dressing). Save more calories and fat by requesting less dressing.

Yummy AND one of the healthiest choices on the menu!

2. Oatmeal: For breakfast only, but the only breakfast item that's trans-fat free. Around 220 calories per serving. A little higher in sugar, but you can request less maple or berries on top to save some sugar.

3. Soups: Stick to soups with clear broth rather than cream-based soups - most of these have trans fat. Chicken noodle, minsestrone, and hearty vegetable are all good choices that are under 120 calories and low-fat.

Remember, avoid the cream-based!

4. Garden vegetable sandwich: This is the only sandwich I eat at Timmy's. Get it with swiss cheese to eliminate the trans fat. Around 320 calories.

5. Drinks: Coffee, lattes, and cappucinos are all under 100 calories. Try iced lattes instead of iced capps - 11g of sugar in a small vs. 32g in a small iced capp. Also, if you must have hot chocolate or french vanilla, try requesting it with half coffee to halve the sugar.

Hope this helps! Again, check out Tim Horton's nutritional info for further information.

The Top 5 Foods to Avoid at Timmy's

Most Canadians love Tim Horton's - myself included. But have you stopped to look at what their products contain? I did, and it really surprised me.

So here is my list of the Top 5 foods to Avoid at Tim Hortons:

1. Breakfast Sandwiches - Any of them, on a homestyle biscuit, will earn you 0.5g trans fat. Considering it's encouraged to eliminate consumption of trans fats as much as possible, that's a hell of a lot for one food item. On an english muffin, 0.2g.

2. Iced Cappucinos - A small serving will get you 11g of fat - 6 saturated and 0.4 trans fat, both of which are considered "bad fats". Why? Because there is a lot of cream in there. Get it with milk instead - 1.5g fat, 1g saturated.

A customer favourite that you may want to rethink.

3. Honey Crullers - ALL the donuts and cookies have at least 0.1 g of trans fat, but this one takes the cake with 0.4g.

4. Hot Chocolate - A small. drink has the most sugar of any item on the menu - 38g. Also 6g of fat, 5g saturated and 0.2g trans.

5. "Real" Fruit Smoothies - These are really a travesty, and marketed as a healthy choice, which is severely misleading. It's 1/5 of some kind of alien fruit concentrate mix out of a box, and the rest a beverage base, which is basically sugar and water. Eat a fruit, for gosh sakes! Or go to McDonald's, their's are actually made from fruit. Small with no yogurt 30g sugar, all the way up to large with yogurt 60g of sugar.

Sorry, but what is your definition of "real", Timmy's? SMH!

Need more info? Go to Timmy's official nutition guide or their nutrition calculator.