Subway Chicken Tikka & Cheese Jacket Potato

The Subway Chicken Tikka & Cheese Jacket Potato costs £8.69 and comes to 502 kcal. That is 157 calories more than the same filling in a six inch sub and £1.30 dearer, which buys you comfortably the most filling version of it.

A baked potato replaces the bread, and most builds in this range include cheese as standard. The filling goes over the top rather than inside a roll, with the salad rail and sauces still available. The marinade means this filling arrives already flavoured, so it needs less help from the sauce rail.

The filling itself is warmly spiced with cumin and paprika, tangy from the marinade, not actually hot. The potato is soft the whole way through with a firmer skin, so the texture contrast is inside the potato rather than between bread and filling. It eats with a fork, slowly, which is a different proposition from a sandwich entirely.

It suits a proper sit-down lunch and a cold day, and it is the most filling thing on the menu for the money. The catch is portability: this is an eat-in order, and it does not survive a delivery bag the way a cold sandwich does. Cheese comes as standard on most of this range, and it is a good part of why the floor sits where it does.

The obvious comparison is the Chicken Tikka sub, which is the highest protein of the classic fillings in bread. That sub costs £7.39 against £8.69 here. The potato and its standard cheese are where the extra 157 calories come from, not the filling.

A jacket potato costs more than the same filling in bread, and it is also the most filling thing that filling can become. On this one specifically, the highest protein of the classic fillings is what you are actually buying, and the Jacket Potatoes menu lists every alternative with its own price and calories if you want to compare before ordering.