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Do you have to eat at fast food places? Why not avoid them altogether and eat real food? I understand in a pinch, but otherwise if you are concerned about your health at all they should be avoided at all costs.
If you know what to buy at the supermarket and you can make some time to cook you can have very healthy food that is a gazillion times better for you. Shop on a day off and make stuff ahead of time. Boil eggs, clean veggies and lettuce, cook up some chicken breasts, make soup...the list is endless.
I also forgot to include Subway. I love the club and roasted chicken. Never get cheese and a tiny bit of the low fat mayo.
I seriouslly could eat fast food every day for at least one meal. I don't though, because my wife insists on cooking. But I always complain when I have to clean up!
I'm 5'11 and 186lbs as of this morning. Got about 15lbs to lose so I can get back into 32" pants. I'm in 34"s right now and it's pushing it. I have a $1,000 elliptical and $400 bowflex weights downstairs that I am too busy to use (yeah, my excuses...).
It really isn't that hard to eat good when going out. Apple Bee's has a great 6oz steak and steamed vegetables under 550 calories.
Face it, it's cheaper to get 3 tacos at Taco Bell for 5 and drink a diet soda at home than making tacos at home. Not including the time, electricity, and cleanup (soap, water, time).
It may be cheaper, but it's not healthier. You're feeding your body, so cheap shouldn't be your only criteria.
With fast food, you should be looking at the sodium count just as much (if not more) than fat grams. Three tacos from Taco Bell have a 1500 mg of sodium combined, which is about 70% of your recommended daily intake. The McDonald's Grilled Chicken Sandwich has 35% of your daily sodium.
"Good fast food items"? That's an oxymoron, it's neither good nor is it food that fits my description of 'food'. It may keep you feeling sated, but it certainly isn't 'food' that will sustain normal life in the long term. Salts, sugars, pesticides, insecticides, GMO'd, steroids, oils of questionable quality...and the list goes on. Enjoy while you can.
Now they are engineering meat in a test tube it puts a whole new meaning to that phrase - Fast Food!
An example for you to understand what you're comparing it to:
A home-made carne asada taco will have more meat in it than a taco bell taco. It'll have no cheese, no lettuce, no nothing - just marinated skirt steak, cilantro, and raw onion, with a squeeze of fresh lime. But it's twice as filling, so let's call 2 carne asada tacos the equivalent of 3 taco bell tacos, in terms of fullness.
So: 4 ounces carne asada (from Trader Joe's packaging) =
1/4 pound of marinated skirt-steak
180 calories
8 grams fat (6 saturated, 2 trans-fat)
60 mg cholesterol, 440 mg sodium, 21 grams protein
2% each vitamin A and C, 10% iron
2 small corn tortillas, ready-to-heat:
120 calories
2 grams fat
0 cholesterol, 6 mg sodium, 24 carbs, 2 grams fiber, 2 grams protein
10% calcium, 4% iron
You can heat the tortillas on a flat grill, no need to fry or bake or anything else. Just press down with a spatula, turn over, press again, and it's ready to fill.
It'll also cost you around $2.50 for the two tacos, net. A pound of skirt steak will yield 8 tacos.
Squeeze the other 3/4 of the lime in a glass of ice water, add a 1/4 teaspoon of honey, stir, and you have some vitamin C, a tiny hint of sweetness with less than 10 calories, and it won't rot your teeth or give you the burps.
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