Healthy Fast Food? Is It Possible?
I was chatting with a friend of mine about healthy eating. This friend of mine doesn't cook anything at home. I was trying to get him to understand that a quick trip to a local farmer's market or produce place can make healthy meals for him all week long!
I said "Dude, you're 40+ years old and you're STILL eating all you meals at fast food places?" He then proceeds to try and convince me that he can actually eat as healthy at a fast food place, with the same amount of money, then I could by going to the local farmer's market.
We compared prices and he goes, every day, to a Mexican fast food place (I'll let you figure out which one) and spends $2 a day. So, for 5 days it's a total of $10. AND, according to him, it's just as healthy as anything I can get at the farmer's market for the same $10. He argument was, that this particular Mexican fast food restaurant was the healthiest of all the fast food restaurants.
Isn't that like saying "I'm the coolest of all the nerds?" [no offense to nerds, but you understand my point]
I was talking with my VPT (Virtual Personal Trainer), Coach Red, and told her about this. I thought she was gonna pass out from laughter. Oh well, what can you do sometime.
In the end, I came to the realization that I was talking with a healthy food idiot, but he's still my good friend. Like the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water….
June 8, 2010
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