Quick Guide: Healthy Food Court Snacks

Snack smart at the mall.

Healthy food court snacks are on the menu! Shopping works up an appetite, after all! Here are some ideas for healthy food court snacks:

Good Choices:

• Au Bon Pain: fruit cup, 6 oz. - 70 calories
• Auntie Anne's Pretzels: original pretzel without butter, half - 170 calories
• Chick-fil-A: Hearty Breast of Chicken Soup, small - 140 calories
• Haagen-Dazs: mango sorbet, half cup - 120 calories
• McDonald's
  • Kiddie Cone - 45 calories
  • Fruit 'n Yogurt Parfait, snack size (no granola) - 130 calories
  • vanilla reduced-fat ice cream cone - 150 calories
• Starbucks Coffee
  • Caffe Mocha, tall (nonfat milk, no whip) - 174 calories
  • cappuccino, tall (nonfat milk) - 75 calories
• TCBY: Kid's Favorites Hand-Dipped - 150 calories
• Taco Bell: Pintos 'n Cheese - 180 calories

Choices to Avoid:

• Au Bon Pain: blueberry muffin - 510 calories
• Auntie Anne's Pretzels: parmesan herb pretzel - 440 calories
• Dunkin' Donuts: coffee cake muffin - 580 calories
• Haagen-Dazs - Mocha Almond Fudge, half cup - 340 calories
• McDonald's: Chocolate Triple Thick Shake, 32 oz. - 1,160 calories
• Mrs. Fields: white chunk macadamia cookie - 310 calories
• Taco Bell: Nachos Supreme - 460 calories

To find the calorie content for these and many other restaurant foods, visit Calorie Count.

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Calorie Count. Nutrition Data for Fast Food Restaurants. Retrieved 13 Nov 2008.