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I am noticing more and more fast food places offering healthy options on the menu and more and more vegetarian restaurants popping up? No you think this is a trend that will continue or just a trendy fad? We all know cutting back on red meat and high fat is healthy but I have also seen many food fads go down the drain in my life.
I hope that eating properly never becomes a 'fad.'
and I hope you are right, but often what seems right ends up being proven not always right, thus another way to eat enters the picture and our old, well learned habits change.
i think healthy options will stick around. i recently went to ruby tuesday and had a 300 something calorie lunch with the salad bar as one of the sides and broccolli as another. i love it there, i load up on at least 2 full plates of salad bar. IHOP also has some nice low calorie options.
i think vegetarian wont catch on because there is no need to cut meat from your diet so less people will feel the need to.
I don't think that "healthy" fast food tastes all that good to be quite honest. And even the healthy menu items usually have way more salt (or sugar/starch) in them than anything I would cook at home.
In many cases you would be better off ordering a plain hamburger and a side salad vs. one of the "healthy" entree salads or chicken sandwiches.
That said, when I want a healthy meal I don't go to a fast food restaurant to get it. On the rare occasions that I do go to a fast food restaurant, I order whatever I happen to want and I don't even bother myself with the nutrition info...that isn't why I'm there.
When I go to a fast food establishment I go to eat cheeseburgers and fries.
I don't go there to eat a salad that I can take to work from home which I do at least three times a week.
The fast food industry has been built around fried foods that taste good with no regard to their nutritional content.
This industry obtained the overwhelming majority of their profits from the food staples they have built their businesses on.
At the end of the day "" healthy "" food options will at most be a minor part of their business mainly in order to satisfy fascist food police factions of local, state and federal governments.
Here's the thing. If I want a cheeseburger and fries, I want a cheeseburger and fries. NOT tofu, or sprouts or yogurt. If I want those things, I'll fix them myself at home. Happy Meals with apple slices? Blasphemy!
I have rarely seen a vegetarian restaurant last long, even in towns overrun with vegans -- like Ann Arbor. The fact is that a lot of meatless cooking is coarse, tasteless and even higher in fat than the meat dishes, so where's the gain? The other issue is that most people don't want to pay restaurant prices for what is, after all, a salad or something else easy to fix. If I can make my own burrito for a tenth of the price, why go out for it?
Healthier choices in restaurants I expect to stay.
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