Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Healthy fast food

So who wacks together most of the meals in your home? Having a family of my own, i certainly know that the task usually falls to one person on a regular basis, bar a few special occasions. It just happens for some reason. I decided to do all the cooking in my house a while back now, then its ME who gets to decide what we eat! It aint so bad! And its not like i have to go and prepare 3 meals for every day! In this fast paced, contempory society, its more like 1 anyway. Everyone always sorts out their own breakfast at the right time, and no-one is ever together for lunch, so all i really have to concern myself with is dinner.

Now, while i always strive to prepare healthy dinners on a more than regular basis, i can't help but wonder what my family are consuming for the other two meals of the day. More and more people rely on the local fast food place for a rather rushed number 2 meal, or a double bacon delux burger. Now, we all know without me preaching to you, that this is entirely unhealthy. However, Americans seem to have fallen into the 'she'll be right' attitude, and these popular fast food places aren't about to disappear. The good news is they are coming out with a few healthy fast food items. Check the latest menus at the local place.

Lets start with your favourite fast food 'restraunt'. Do you prefer the cheeseburgers from McDonalds? Boneless chicken from KFC? Well regardless of what you stuff down your throat at lunchtime, you dont have to do it blindly anymore. These days we can get info an ALL fast foods. Yup you guessed it! Im speaking of the world wide web. Are you aware of the differences between the healthy fast foods, and the heart stoppers? Some of the combo deals are laced with fat and cholesterol, while others don't contain all of these evils. If you order with just the basic ingredients, like tomato sauce, pickles, lettuce and onions, its no where near as bad as it could be. One fast food item i LOVE and i know lots of other people like it too is the rpast beef sarnie at Arby's. You can choose what you want on it too, keeping you in the loop of what your eating.

So you searching for some nice, healthy fast food on your lunch break? Well its about time you jumped online, as the internet provides nutrition guides for pretty much ALL fast food, so go and find out which ones work, and which ones don't.

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