Fast Food Factsby Heather Long | More from this Blogger 20 Apr 2006 04:30 AM When was the last time you went to McDonald's or any other fast food restaurant? Come on - we've all done it. The hotter it gets outside, the more we're out and about and the less we want to spend an hour cooking on a hot stove. It's really easy to pull up to the drive through and feed the kids and ourselves on a fairly low budget. Still, when it comes to fast food - there's a really good way to talk yourself out of that drive-through and back to the stove - hot or not. McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese (this is a personal favorite of mine)
That makes me ill just thinking about it. What about the McDonald's Deluxe Breakfast?
Taco Bell Fiesta Taco Salad
Think Wendy's Garden sensations might be better? Wendy's Mandarin Chicken Salad
Just thinking about the contents is enough to turn my stomach and definitely turns off my fast food cravings. The next time you are thinking about swinging through the McDonald's window and that just one meal won't hurt right? Think about what's in it before you think it won't hurt. It's enough to turn off even the worst of your cravings. Learn more about Heather Long  Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. Relevantweight loss tags christmas | weight loss | Kids | children | baby | Coupons | holidays | pregnancy | Food | Scrapbooking User Comments  babydawn (7008) 20 Apr 2006 06:34 PMI have to add as well that my husband and I have been trying to watch what we eat and we were out running errands around lunch time, so instead of stopping at McDonalds for ourselves (we still did for our son) we chose Quiznos, a sandwich shop. We each ordered a regular sandwich on wheat....I get home, go on their website to check out the calories....310 for one of their small lite sandwiches, which ment we ate at least double that considering we didn't order lite and they were the next size up. I couldn't believe it. If you want to eat healty, I guess you have to eat at home. I can make myself a sandwich that will fill me up at home for under 400 calories and have it all be healthy stuff, you just never know what you are getting at a restaurant, as much as I love them.  Heather Long (16954) 20 Apr 2006 06:51 PMThat's a great piece of advice! It really can be stumping when you study the nutrional components in what looks like healthy food. Subway sandwiches are the closest thing I have found to offering a healthy sandwich for a low calorie amount that is still filling. But even then, ultimately you may be better off fixing a lunch bag. We're trying to get into that habit here -- especially if we know we're going to be out and about at lunch time.  Lisa Kennedy (4068) 20 Apr 2006 07:50 PMI think it is great that you mentioned the salads. A while back I was doing some research about nutritional info at restaurants and found out that most of the time the salads are just as bad as everything else. It can definately be a trap! Heather Long (16954) 20 Apr 2006 09:51 PMThe salads are probably the most misleading and likely the most disappointing. Even when you go to a sit-down restaurant -- looking at the fat content of a salad can be appalling! Community Tags Burgers, calories, fast food, fat grams, mcdonald's Discuss this article
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