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Whenever your schedule gets tough or hectic or something comes up and you didn't have time to meal prep or make yourself a healthy meal what do you guys like to get ?
I know me personally often times before work or after a workout and before work I don't feel like cooking or if I didn't shop yet my go to is a chipotle bowl or Panera bread
Subway, unfortunately, is garbage. Cold cuts of 'meat' are not healthy. The bread they use is not healthy, it's basically puffy nutrition-less garbage.
I saw a story on how they sometimes use rotting spoiled chicken for their chicken options, and use something on it to drown out the odor.
I'd rather starve than eat fast food. You won't die missing one meal, and it builds character to suffer a little
It takes 5 minutes to fry up a patty of ground beef (80 or 90% lean) with cut up tomato, green pepper, mushrooms & onion and 2 minutes to eat it. You'll waste more time than that waiting in line to buy garbage prepared in unsanitary conditions.
A few years ago, to much public fanfare, Chipotle announced they were going to use only grass finished beef. That was just an excuse to import cheap Australian beef. Most fast food beef is imported- cheap & inferior. [I could add "can you trust the foreign inspection process, but how many people die each year from eating fast food?" Not too many.]
Chipotle also advertises that it uses "organic" lettuce. Industially produced lettuce is fertilized with synthetic ammonium-organic molecules- very -safe. "Organic lettuce" is fertilized with manure-- much higher risk of fecal contamination. Caveat comedentus.
I've been grabbing ready-made salads from Walmart when I'm in an bind and on the road.....my local FL grocery chain Publix makes a lot of salads as well.....very convenient.
I'll grab two side salads from Wendy's or a baked potato with a couple of ice waters if I'm really hungry and didn't plan.
I just grab a no meat salad from Wal-Mart, usually because I HATE meat in salads unless it's seafood.
Or a salad from Firehouse Subs cause those things are bomb.
If I'm in a huge time constriction and simply can't wait, I just grab some fruit and some muscle milk. The combo makes me feel fuller longer, and usually two or three apples does the trick.
We have a chain called Zoe's (they're in a lot of southern states, I think). It's Greek/Mediterranean-style food, and pretty much everything on the menu is awesome. Lots of veggies, lots of vegetarian choices.
Sometimes I'll get a grilled chicken sandwich or a salad at Chick-fil-A. Salads are everywhere.
Here in Texas, tacos are king. A good corn tortilla and some fajita chicken with peppers and onions plus salsa. Yum.
Starbucks has some good choices in the grab-and-go area -- protein boxes, apples, bananas, eggs, juices. I just tried Hippeas from there the other day. Like cheese puffs, but made from chickpeas. Pretty good.
Lunch meat is horrible for you and most commercial bread, like Subway has a lot of added sugar.
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