Subway Meatball Marinara & Cheese Jacket Potato

The Subway Meatball Marinara & Cheese Jacket Potato costs £8.69 and comes to 606 kcal. That is 159 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. Marinara travels worse than any other filling, so this one is best eaten where it is made.

The filling itself is rich tomato sauce and soft pork and beef meatballs, the closest thing to a hot dinner. 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 Meatball Marinara sub, which is the only hot, sauced filling in the range in bread. That sub costs £7.39 against £8.69 here. The potato and its standard cheese are where the extra 159 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 only hot, sauced filling in the range 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.