I’m traveling this week and eating lunch mostly at fast food restaurants. That makes it hard to follow any diet, including the MIND diet.  One good thing, though, is that the nutrition info for the chain fast food restaurants is usually available.

This is what I ate yesterday:

Culver’s Strawberry Fields Salad.

It contained 4 of the 10 foods that are recommended on the MIND diet.  Ingredients are listed here.
Strawberries
Leafy green vegetables (lettuce plus)
Other vegetables (grape tomatoes)
Nuts (pecans)
The only avoid food it contains is bleu cheese.  I wished I had asked to have this left off because I don’t like it much anyway.  I really don’t want to waste my one serving of cheese per week on it.

Also, Culver’s doesn’t have any olive oil-based dressings.  I don’t use much anyway, but I should start carrying my own dressing.

Calorie-wise this salad isn’t too bad : 400 calories and I could have saved 50 by omitting the cheese.  I was glad it had pecans, but there were a lot of them.  Actually, the 160 calories for the pecans probably means it was just an ounce. With those providing protein, I could have cut down some on the chicken. That would have saved me from some of the sodium, too, which was listed as 550 mg.

This salad was a lot better than most of my other choices.

Added later: Don’t confuse Culver’s Strawberry Fields salad with a salad by the same name at Wendy’s.  I had it the other day and the strawberries had been frozen! It had sunflower seeds instead of pecans. The apple balsamic vinaigrette was good, though.