Lunch at Panera Bread today! I have been living in a small town and that has made it a lot tougher to healthfully eat vegetarian (but it absolutely can be done). Still, today I went to a bigger town (although still not huge) where I could actually go out for lunch at a healthy place with real food (read: not fast food). Yea! They even had my favorite-- black bean soup. As you can see, I like to get it in the bread bowl with an apple on the side. Can you believe they offer more bread as a side with this? No wonder Americans have so many weight issues.
I ate every drop of the soup, but I didn't finish the bread bowl. That makes it a little tougher to figure out the protein, but I'm estimating I ate about half. According to Panera's website that is still 11g... and that's without the soup! Here's where it gets tricky... one page of their site says the soup is 6g, another says 13g (both for 12 oz.). Hmm... My Livestrong Daily Plate (where I usually find nutritional info) says a bowl is 8g (and that is 'verified'). That sounds about right and it splits the difference, so that's what I'm going with.
Protein Punch: 19g
