These days at seems like a Subway restaurant is about as difficult to find as a McDonald’s restaurant! I seriously have 4 Subway restaurants within one mile of my workplace (not joking!).
Wouldn’t it be great if Subway offered gluten free foods? Unfortunately, as their focus is on bread and the insane amount of cross-contamination possibilities, we are pretty much out of luck.
According to my research, Subway’s official menu page on their website contains an allergy chart (PDF) which anyone can download. A quick browsing over the most current version of the document shows that many of the salads appear to be gluten free. With the exceptions of the the Seafood Sensation, Meatball Marinara, and Sweet Onion Teriyaki Chicken, all the other salads are safe (assuming their of careful to avoid cross-contamination).
If you decide to try a Subway salad, you’ll want to make sure you tell them to hold the croutons. Oh, and as for the salad dressings, the only one which appears to contain gluten is the “Atkins Sweet as Honey Mustard,” so you’ll want to avoid that as well!
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I have had lots of salads at subway, but I have to say I sound like a maniac, guiding the salad-makers away from breadcrumbs. I had 2 major breadcrumbs on my order-ahead salad today because I wasn’t there to yell at them while they made it. Ask them NOT TO CUT the meat they put of top of the salad – they just cut the last bread with the knife. Every time they put the waxed paper down then they pick it up and slide the crumbs off the bottom of it righ tinto your salad. Go when they’re not busy so they can be hyper vigilant and focused. I’m going to go to Subway rest site right now and ask if they have some way to work with their salad makers to get the GF right! Seriously, even as I yell at them “IM ALLERGIC TO BREAD” they start lining up the ingredients and say “um, was that a 6-inch or a footlong?”. That’s happened 4 times. Npt GF friendly unless you’ve got a friend working their who is a notch above the others.
I have found it depends on the subway. There is one near my house thats great about making sure that my salad is not cross contaminated. There is another one near my office that takes no extra steps to avoid cross contamination.