Fast Food

Fast Food

As a child, fast food was never really a regular part of my family’s life.  My mom would cook all of our meals, from breakfast to dinner.  Fast food was more like a treat, even though I remember going to a restaurant ever Sunday after church to get breakfast/lunch.  But as far as fast food, we would occasionally go to McDonald’s, which I remember ordering a chicken nugget kids meal until I was old enough to order regular meals.  Other times we would go to Taco Bell and I would order either a hard or soft taco along with a bean and cheese burrito.  That was until I tried the nachos and fell in love with them, then I would order both nacho and one of the other items.   As I started getting older and was working, I noticed that 50% of my meals were eaten out.  Fast food soon became a part of my normal routine because it was and still so easy to grab when you’re always on the go.   When I was working at Target, most of the time I would arrive to work early just so I can have something to eat there, especially if my friends happen to go on break or lunch around that time.  If I worked the opening shift, I would sometimes eat two meals there, breakfast and lunch.  On occasion, I would even grab something from the food court just to snack on.  I think that was probably what contributed to my bad eating habits.

As a single adult living on my own, fast food has became a part of my daily lifestyle.  Don’t get me wrong I know how to cook it’s just that I’ve become accustomed to eating out for most of my meals. It’s a lot easier and cheaper than having to cook for one.  But within the last 2 years, I’ve started to become more aware of what I put in my mouth.  I now look at calories, carbs and the fat content of items I order from fast food places.  Since I discovered Fresh and Easy, which was within the last 6 months, I started to cook at least one meal a day for myself, whether it’s taking lunch with me to work or cooking dinner.  I’ve noticed such a big change within myself.  I’ve lost weight which was the main reason why I started to cook for myself.  When you cook for yourself, you know how and what was used to prepare your food.  Now sometimes when I eat fast food I can feel it.  I will start to feel so sluggish and just not like myself.  I hope that I will come to a point in my life to where I won’t want to eat any fast food.  I think I am still a long way from that, but that is my ultimate goal.  Until then, I will continue to be aware of what I order and try to aim to order from the healthier side of the menu, even though I know there is no real healthy side of fast food.