Fast food restaurants

If we were to be honest most of us love fast food restaurants.  We love the convenience of pulling up, yelling into the menu, driving forward and picking up our food. Fast food restaurants have made billions of dollars over our inability to stop and smell the roses.





I, maybe, could understand this craze when you could go to McDonald's and eat by cleaning out the change in your car.  I know I'm dating myself but remember when you could get a Big Mac meal for $3.00?  Now, that was worth it.  Today, that same Big Mac meal (not really the same because I think they got smaller...but who knows) is almost $7.00 and that's if you don't fall for the "would you like to super size this."  I mean what the heck...$8.00 (I always super size the meal because those small drinks...please what is it six swallow, maybe) I can go and sit down and have some wait on me.

I don't just want to pick on McDonald's because they are all the same; Burger King, Taco Bell, Sonic, etc.  What bothers me the most...when I drive through and take my lunch back to the office they are not there to be accountable for what they put in my bag.  If they get the order right (and in my experience it's about a 50/50 chance for this) you just never know...you never know if the bun fell on the floor, you never know if you have a disgruntled employee, etc.  I singled out McDonald's because my brother went through the drive through on his way home for work.  Family of four, $26.00 later and when when my niece (age 12 at the time) opened her hamburger, lifted the bun off to make sure no mustard was on it, found a bite (yes I said bite) was taken out of the meat.  Really?  Who does this?  If she hadn't "double checked" to make sure the order was correct she would never have known.  My point is this...the person who did this & the manager at the time didn't have to look into the eyes of their customers so they didn't care. 

Now let's look at the nutritional (or lack of nutrition) of fast food. Can you eat healthy at a fast food restaurant?  Yes and no.  Yes they have the healthy alternatives but those alternative have half the fat and calories of their regular menu...which isn't saying much. Since I'm picking on McDonald's let's look at the Big Mac.  (I want to add that I love McDonald's Big Macs) 540 Calories...WOW!!  Now let's add large fries (another 500 calories) and you already have more than 1000 calories and the daily suggestion for calorie intake is no more than 3000 (and this number is for adult men under the age of 30).  Click HERE for more information.  But let's forget the number of calories for a minute....85% of your calories should come from nutritious foods.  Hmmmm does a Big Mac count as nutritious?

Want to know what your favorite fast food restaurant is serving you?  Click HERE for nutritional information about Fast Food.






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