My default choice is a cobb salad or a mixed green salad with steak or chicken, no dressing.

Here are my other options for specific fast-food places:

Johnny Rockets: the Original with bacon, lettuce wrapped (aka protein style) with a load of pickles for the side! Yummy!

Chipotle: salad bowl with chicken, no beans, no dressing, but loads of guacamole!

Boston Market: 1/2 chicken with two sides of steamed veggies.

Thai: spicy beef salad, no dressing, with lemon wedges.

Sharkey's (for the Californians): Half Power Plate, with steamed broccoli and grilled veggies!

In-n-Out (again, for the Californians): Animal Style (no spread), Protein Style, double-meat.

The chicken curry salad from Whole Foods is amazing. Its basically just free range chicken covered in curry sauce and nuts with a tiny bit of raisins.

No disrespect Josh- But a lazy Paleo-man dies of starvation, but I know what you are asking. This is one of the true benefits of Intermittent fasting (which I believe needs to be UN-planned). There is always time to wait til a nice steak is done in a pan. or a few veggies (never forget the veggies) are chopped. That mexican stuff has way too much corn meal, starch and grains for me. Roasted Chickens are always the chicken that could be sold for one reason or another (old), so they roasted it. Get a slow cooker crock pot and come home to some real food. Keep a hard boiled eggs in the frig. Eggs are quick to cook- hardboiled ones even quicker, and I don't think I have gone a day with cutting an Avocado open and spooning the guts out.

hard boiled eggs from the prepared food bar at whole foods.

Earlier today, I was driving up I-75 on a long trip. I had already exhausted my supply of snacks and was getting hungry. After saying to my husband that it was difficult to find "Paleo fast food" on the road, the light bulb went off. BBQ!!! After all, we were in GA where there is an sign for a BBQ joint every 20 miles or so. Half an hour later, we had a pound of pork plus a pound of ribs and were back on the road.

BBQ is going to be my new emergency go-to snack on the road. The extra bonuses are that most of the smoked meats are cooked in advance, so takeout orders are usually pretty quick and most meats are available by the pound. Pork ribs, pulled pork, or smoked chicken without the sauce are my favorites.

• Five Guys double with bacon (no bun no ketchup)

• Moe's or Chipotle burrito bowl (double meat, guac, no beans no chips)

• Wendy's Grilled chicken sandwich (no bun no sauce) eaten on top of 99 cent side salad

• Plain BBQ Brisket or Pork (the picture below was snapped while in N.C.)

• Convenience store pork rinds (no msg or other additives) and gluten-free/sugar free jerky

  

If you want to read more about my recent attempt to stick with paleo while traveling, check out "Going Paleo (and not so Paleo) on the Road"

In N Out burger animal style, protein style FTW!

i go to 7-11 and get black coffee, hard boiled eggs, and almonds.

I don't know how many of you have a Wegmans supermarket in your area, but with the size of the Prepared Foods section being built into most of them, it's a huge variety of "fast food". What's more, they (usually) list the ingredients plainly for a lot of what they offer, as well as the calorie count (if that's of issue to you).

I'll go in some nights and snag roasted brussels sprouts or broccoli with a plain roasted chicken and some green tea.

The Low Carb Six Dollar Burger at Carl's Jr.

Actually, Carl's will lettuce-wrap any of their sandwiches, and is one of the only fast food chains that "gets" low-carb. I used to like In-N-Out protein style as well, but after a while In-N-Out burgers seem to not have enough meat for me.

Another very good option is the Low Carb BBQ Plate at L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, for those of you fortunate enough to live close to one.

A third alternative is a whole rotisserie chicken at CostCo for $4.99. The price is unbeatable, and it is actually one of the best rotisserie chickens available at any price.

Bunless burger.

Find a grocery store - just a regular one - and hit the deli counter. Most will have some kind of a basic roast beef with no or minimal seasoning - like Boar's Head brand Oven Roasted Top Round. I have 4oz or more of this for a quick lunch quite often - just roll the slices up and chow down. Really good if you get a couple of slices of a good all-natural cheese and add some good mustard for dipping!

The problem with getting a lot of these things like BBQ, chicken breasts at fast food places, etc. is that most people don't realize how many additives are but in there. Whole foods usually has rotisserie chickens, but you have to be careful if you're looking to stay paleo. One is cooked in soy sauce and a bunch of other stuff, but they also have one cooked with only pepper on it, and another one that is cooked completely plain. If it comes down to it and nothing else is around, you can always find raw veggies that anywhere that will satisfy your hunger for a good while.

I carry food with me, in an insulated pack with a cool-pack in it.

Hard-boiled eggs (peeled), nuts, and a mixture of cream cheese/butter/heavy cream. And purified water.

Canned chicken, tuna, salmon, sardines and herring make good fast food.

Pork rinds, too. Dipped in the cream cheese/butter mixture with Rotel is nice.

Where I live we don't have a lot of those places. I would think that one of the salads at Wendy's with grilled chicken would be satisfying, maybe with a baked potato. When I lived in Omaha we had Runza. They grind their own meat for the burgers, nice and greasy, the way they should be. In the winter they used to have a deal where with the purchase of a drink and a side the main item cos the low temp for the day. If it was -10 degrees you paid a penny for the burger.

Rotisserie Chicken at most big grocery/Sams/Costco

Pound of Pork at most BBQ places- no sauce

2 Large Burgers, Lettuce for Bun

Grilled Chicken Salad from Zaxbys etc no dressing

find a good country kitchen/greasy spoon and talk to them at an earlier date about how they cook the food, once you find the right one this is gold, we have one that cooks in lard

run into the buffet, and get a Togo plate, fill it with steak

moo shu beef or pork, no rice at Chinese place, talk to them first about cooking oils local places tend to use good stuff, chains are almost all veg oils

I hate to say it, subway salad.. Such low quality meat

of course nothing beats leftovers of real food from last night

Hit a Chinese Buffet that has a heavy selection of seafoods.

Eat as much Steamed and or Broiled fish and/or shellfish as you care to.

Steamed veggies on the side!

If any meats have escaped sugared or floured preparation, enjoy some of those too!

If they have a sushi section, why not peel the good stuff off the top, and set the rice aside?

A couple of good options for paleo fast food, with a few tweaks.
Chick Fila - grilled chicken salad
Wendy's - apple pecan chicken salad

Actually both of these are pretty tasty. Just thought I would share.

Check out www.paleofastfood.com where there are some other good paleo fast food options.

Can of sardines from a local grocer, and maybe some veggies if they look fresh. Also, the Whole Foods prepared foods dept peeps are sometimes nice to me and will cook up the little bit of grass-fed beef that I buy from their meat dept. And then there's the seafood dept, which often has prepared shrimp or alaskan wild-caught salmon. But I usually just have the sardines with some kombucha or tea on those lazy evenings.

Eggs fried in butter - fast, delicious, and nutritious.

When I'm out, I get either a breve latte (made with half-and-half, yes it's not strict paleo) or an espresso with pure cream in it. Makes a decent breakfast!

There's also a great local cafe that makes a delicious bacon cheeseburger - bunless of course - that comes with a side salad.

Quick? Easy? This is FastFood.

I surely don't let myself get to that point. Where I live the restaurants are closed till 7:00-8:00 pm. The only fast food is McDonalds. I have stopped for their baby carrots, nothing else there. Or if for some reason I am tired of the dried figs, cranberries and almonds I keep in the car I stop at a mini market (when opened) for prosciutto, turkey, roast beef, carrots, fruit (devour it in the car or take it home)

I love Jimmy Johns roast beef un wich. Its all the stuff that would be on a reg sub but wrapped in lettuce.

I go to McDonalds. I get the biggest burger, but I don't eat the bun. I do eat the chips (aka french fries). It only happens once every six weeks or so. How bad can it be?

When I'm travelling, especially early AM through airports - egg mcmuffins sans muffins.

If I need to buy something when I'm out (and it'll normally be to get protein, for fear of muscle wastage, or because I'm feeling cold and tired, rather than just to get fat calories), rather than going to a restaurant, I tend to just go to a shop and buy some cold, cooked chicken. It tastes pretty awful, but I can normally find something that's just chicken and maybe a couple of grams of dextrose in a glaze and no vegetable oil.

I keep my freezer stocked with homemade meals ready to go for just these times.

I can hardboil-poach two eggs in the microwave in 2 minutes. Slap on some butter and I'm good. No muss, no fuss. I do this a lot.

Otherwise Chipotle or roast pastured chicken from my local grocery store.

Canned sardines if I'm really hard up ;)

The nice thing about Florida, is that wherever they put a fast restaurant, they usually stick some sort of grocer in as well. It's just as fast to run into a grocery store, buy some grape tomatoes, an avocado, some almonds, and a pound of (preferably organic) turkey. It might not be a purist's version of Paleo, but it get's the job done. It's faster to go to the produce section of a Publix, than to go through a fast food drive-thru sitting in your vehicle.

I also try to keep a backup plan with a pack of tuna and some fruit and nuts.

Wahoo's has grilled steak and veggies. Get double steak.

In Norway I always buy fishcakes. Wild cod with little additives, yummy!