Subway Vegan Options UK 2026 – Plant-Based Subs & Prices
Eating vegan at a big sandwich chain used to mean one sad option: salad in bread, hold everything interesting. Subway is genuinely one of the better high-street choices now. There is a proper plant-based patty, vegan cheese, a handful of suitable sauces, and a vegan cookie for afters. You still have to know what to ask for, though. This guide pulls all the subway vegan options together in one place, with prices, so you can order with confidence.
The short version: order a Plant Patty or Veggie Delite sub on Italian White, Hearty Italian or 9-Grain Wheat bread, swap in vegan cheeze, load the salad, and pick a plant-based sauce. The longer version, with every option worth knowing about, is below.
The Vegan Subs at Subway UK
Two subs anchor the vegan menu, plus a couple of plant-based specials that appear in many stores.
| Item | Format | Price (6-inch) | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Patty (VE) | Sub, wrap or salad | £8.69 | 424 kcal |
| Veggie Delite | Sub, wrap or salad | £6.89 | 227 kcal |
| Plant Patty & Vegan Cheese jacket potato (VE) | Jacket potato | £9.08 | 474 kcal |
| Double Chocolate Cookie (Vegan) | Cookie | £1.39 | 220 kcal |
Prices are the ones listed across our menu guides and can move a little between stores.
Plant Patty
The main event. Subway’s Plant Patty is a vegetable-based patty with peppers and spinach in the mix, seasoned enough to carry a sandwich rather than just fill it. It comes as a create-your-own style sub, so you choose the bread, the salad and the sauce around it. Ask for vegan cheeze slices instead of the standard cheese and the whole thing stays plant-based. It is filling in a way salad-only subs are not, and at 424 calories for a 6-inch it is a proper lunch rather than a side quest.
Veggie Delite
The old faithful. Every fresh salad item on the counter piled into bread: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, peppers, red onion, sweetcorn, olives and pickles if you want them. It is the cheapest vegan sub on the menu and, at 227 calories, by far the lightest. The trick is the sauce. A plain Veggie Delite is a bit worthy; with the right sauce and vegan cheeze added it becomes a sandwich you would choose rather than settle for.
Plant-Based Specials
Keep an eye out for the rotating specials. The Plant Picante from the Signature range is a plant-based recipe with a bit of heat, and a BBQ pulled plant-protein filling has been rolling out across UK stores, with a smashed falafel sub trialled in hundreds of branches. Availability genuinely varies, so treat these as a bonus when your local has them rather than a promise. The core two subs above are the ones you can rely on.
Vegan Breads and Wraps
Most Subway bread is fine for vegans. Two are not. The full picture:
If in doubt, the first three are confirmed vegan-friendly and listed in our Subway breads guide, which has the full bread menu with prices and calories. Wraps deserve a mention too. A Plant Patty wrap eats differently to the sub, lighter and easier on the go, and the filling quantities stay the same.
Vegan Cheeze and Extras
Subway stocks a vegan cheeze in most UK stores, sliced like the dairy version and fine toasted or cold. Ask for it by name, because the default cheese on a Plant Patty order is not always swapped automatically.
Beyond that, every fresh salad item on the counter is yours: lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, red onions, sweetcorn, black olives, jalapeños, pickles and crispy onions. Smashed avocado or guacamole turns up as an extra in many stores and is worth adding to a Veggie Delite, where the extra richness makes the biggest difference. For more ways to load a sub up, our toppings guide runs through everything on the counter.
Which Sauces Are Vegan?
Sauce is where vegan orders usually go wrong, because the creamy ones hide egg and dairy. The safe bets at Subway UK are the non-creamy sauces:
Avoid mayonnaise, garlic aioli and Garlic & Herb, ranch, Caesar and chipotle southwest, which are egg or dairy based, and skip honey mustard for the obvious reason. Recipes can change, so if you are strict, it is worth a ten-second check of the allergen information in store. Our Subway sauces guide lists every sauce and what it pairs with.
Vegan Sides, Salads and Jackets
Your sub does not have to be the whole meal. Hash browns are vegan and cost 99p on the Saver range, which makes them the easiest add-on going. Nachos with salsa work too, as long as you hold the cheese or swap in vegan cheeze where the store offers it.
Any sub filling can also be ordered as a salad bowl instead, which suits anyone skipping bread. And the jacket potato menu has a proper vegan option: Plant Patty & Vegan Cheese at £9.08, baked potato with the patty, vegan cheese and salad. It is one of the heartier vegan lunches on the whole menu.
Something Sweet: The Vegan Cookie
Dessert is usually where vegan options run out completely. Not here. The Double Chocolate Cookie is made without milk or eggs, costs £1.39, and is honestly one of the best cookies in the case regardless of diet. It also comes in a three-pack for £2.79 if one is not going to be enough, which it usually is not. The full cookie line-up is in our cookies guide.
A Word on Prices and Meal Deals
Vegan eaters pay the same as everyone else at Subway, which is not always true everywhere. The Plant Patty costs a bit more than the cheapest meat fillings, about the same as the premium ones, and the Veggie Delite is one of the cheapest subs on the whole menu. Vegan cheeze swaps in without turning your order into a maths problem.
Meal deals apply as normal too. A Plant Patty or Veggie Delite can be the sub in a 6-inch or footlong deal with a drink and a side, and if you choose the double chocolate cookie as your side or add hash browns from the Saver range, the whole meal stays plant-based without any special pleading at the till. On a budget, a Veggie Delite meal deal is one of the cheapest full vegan lunches sold by any national chain.
How to Build a Great Vegan Sub, Step by Step
- Pick your base. Plant Patty for something hearty, Veggie Delite for something fresh and light.
- Choose a vegan bread. Italian White for classic, 9-Grain Wheat for something more filling.
- Say the words vegan cheeze. Do not assume the swap happens on its own.
- Load the salad properly. This is a sandwich built on vegetables, so do not be shy.
- Finish with a plant-based sauce. Sweet Onion on a Veggie Delite, BBQ on a Plant Patty. Job done.
One etiquette tip that helps everyone: if you are vegan for ethical reasons and care about shared prep areas, it is fine to ask staff to change gloves before they make your sub. Subway staff get asked this all the time, alongside similar requests covered in our halal Subway guide, and a polite ask is never a problem.
Vegan at Breakfast, and What to Drink
Breakfast is the thinnest part of the day for vegan choice at Subway, but it is not a dead end. Hash browns from the Saver range are vegan and cost 99p, so a portion or two with a hot drink makes a cheap, hot start. A Veggie Delite built on one of the vegan breads works just as well at 8am as it does at lunch, and plenty of stores will build you a Plant Patty in the morning if you ask. The egg-based breakfast fillings are off the table, obviously, so breakfast here is more about building around the sides and the salad counter than picking a set recipe.
Drinks are mostly straightforward. Bottled water, fruit juices and the standard fizzy drinks are plant-based, and a black coffee or a plain tea is fine. Where it gets murkier is flavoured coffees and anything made with milk. Some stores can swap in a non-dairy alternative and many cannot, so it is worth asking at the till rather than assuming either way.
Ordering ahead helps as well. In the Subway app, plant-based items carry the VE mark, which takes the guesswork out of the patty and the cookie. Still worth building your order carefully, though, because the app will happily let you add dairy cheese to a Plant Patty if you are not paying attention at the customise screen.
FAQs About Subway Vegan Options
Final Thoughts
Subway vegan options are better than most people expect. A proper patty, vegan cheeze, six safe sauces, a jacket potato option and a vegan cookie add up to a menu you can actually eat from rather than pick at.
Order the Plant Patty on 9-Grain Wheat with vegan cheeze, all the salad and BBQ sauce, and finish with the double chocolate cookie. That is a lunch any omnivore would happily steal. For everything else on the menu, the full price list lives on our homepage.
