Subway Veggie Delite

The Subway Veggie Delite costs £6.49 and comes to just 227 kcal in a six inch, which makes it the lightest sandwich Subway sells in the UK and the lowest in salt by a distance. It is the salad rail in bread, priced at the menu floor, and marked (V) by Subway itself.

There is no fixed filling in the usual sense: the sandwich is the vegetables. Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, peppers and onion, as much as you ask for, plus your choice of bread, optional cheese, and a sauce. What you build is genuinely all there is, which makes the counter choices the entire sandwich.

The taste is fresh and crisp rather than rich, and texture is the point: cold crunch against soft bread. It lives or dies on generosity and sauce. Ordered timidly with a scrape of dressing it is austere; loaded properly with a proper line of sauce it is a legitimately pleasant lunch that happens to be the lightest thing on the board.

It suits calorie counters, vegetarians, and anyone whose last three lunches were beige. The honest catch is protein: this is by far the lowest protein sandwich on the menu, so it will not hold you through a heavy afternoon the way the meat and plant patty options do. Adding cheese fixes some of that at a calorie cost.

On the Sandwiches menu its nearest relative is the Plant Patty, which answers the protein problem with a vegan patty for more money and roughly double the calories. They serve different jobs: the Veggie Delite is the light order, the Plant Patty is the meat free meal.

The value case is unusual: you are paying the lowest price on the menu for ingredients that cost Subway pennies, and yet as the lightest, least salty thing available it earns its place. If the day calls for something light, this is the honest answer, and salads are the only step lighter.