(multiple area locations; harristeeter.com). Harris Teeter loves bars: In the Adams Morgan store’s prepared-foods section, there’s a salad bar, a bread bar, a hot-foods bar, an antipasto bar—even a melon bar. Our favorites are the bread bar, where flavorful loaves such as rosemary/olive-oil ($4.59) can be sampled before buying, and the antipasto bar ($7.99 a pound), which features such unusual crowd pleasers as aged-provolone-stuffed green olives and a flavorful combo of marinated squash and zucchini. The roast chicken ($7.49; $4.99 on Sundays), with its poultry-seasoning-rubbed skin, is another winner.

While the heat-and-eat meals sealed in cartons look attractive, the lengthy list of ingredients might not appeal to diners looking for less in the way of high-fructose corn syrup. For a more virtuous snack, try the avocado-salad roll ($4.99)—fanned slices of avocado, romaine lettuce, and a julienne of cucumbers and carrots in a rice-noodle wrapper. It won’t fill you up, so grab a sushi-roll chaser from—where else?—the sushi bar ($3.99 to $11.39).

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