Health & Fitness
Weigh In Wednesday: Fast Food Alternatives
Fast, fast, fast. What do we eat with a schedule that has us running from place to place. Must we eat fast food? Any other options?
by Joline Atkins of Slimsavers.com
There's been some creepy news as of late surrounding KFC. I honestly do NOT think that this is what the Colonel had in mind when he created the chain years ago.
My family? We've not eaten at a fast food restaurant since I watched Food Inc. back in 2010. Sure there was a rogue drive-through order of french fries that my husband picked up for my son one night. And a coffee at McDonald's where he was meeting a parishioner. But MEALS?
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No dice. Sorry. Call me snobby, uppity, paranoid. I just can't do it.
My family had to come up with alternatives, for those times when we WOULD like to go out for a quick meal, because surely everyone needs to do so once in a while. Here are a few examples:
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- sushi (I know, I know, you are laughing a bit, but my kids really do like sushi.)
- Cheeburger, Cheeburger
- make your own pizza nights (we pick up the ingredients and then bake at home)
- grocery store food courts (like Market District)
- taco Tuesday at Biba
Have you given fast food the heave ho?
What do you do instead for a quick meal out????
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Erin and Joline, both health and wellness junkies, spent many years pinning down the truths about eating healthy and inexpensively. Both feel the it’s-too-expensive-to-eat-healthy excuse is untrue and infuriating.
