Healthy fastfood choices

[crossfire]

You can usually find sushi to go boxes anywhere around here. Just avoid the eel rolls, the tempura rolls, and the ones with cream cheese or mayonnaise.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You can usually find sushi to go boxes anywhere around here. Just avoid the eel rolls, the tempura rolls, and the ones with cream cheese or mayonnaise.

Here you just want to avoid it unless you got it from an actual restaurant.

 

[Penumbra]

I go to a really good local sushi place sometimes. They're fast and inexpensive, but have really high quality fish, since they don't spend money on fancy presentation. It's great as a rare treat for me.

I've got issues with various aspects of the ingredients of sushi in general, though. The salmon is usually farmed rather than wild-caught, so I avoid it. Tuna tends to be high in mercury thanks to global coal burning (and prone to overfishing). California rolls are almost always made of imitation crab meat. Various additives are often put in to sushi, especially lower-grade sushi. I get tuna avocado rolls when I go, which is not very often.

Plus, since sushi tends to be high in carbs and protein and low in fat and fiber, it doesn't keep me full and is a high-glycemic food. If I go there for a work lunch, I'll be hungry 2 hours later and need to have a snack. A chipotle bowl with similar calories will keep me full for 7 hours.

 

[VioletVortex]

I just skip tortillas altogether and stick with bowls, personally.

I've pondered that idea, but I feel like the tortilla adds an element to it. The one thing that pisses me off about Chipotle is the fact that they charge extra for their guacamole because the avocados are imported from Mexico. Their guacamole is very good, though. I generally get burritos there.

Subway is fairly healthy as well, but I prefer meatball subs from Zeroes.

 

[VioletVortex]

Here you just want to avoid it unless you got it from an actual restaurant.

I go to a really good local sushi place sometimes. They're fast and inexpensive, but have really high quality fish, since they don't spend money on fancy presentation. It's great as a rare treat for me.

I've got issues with various aspects of the ingredients of sushi in general, though. The salmon is usually farmed rather than wild-caught, so I avoid it. Tuna tends to be high in mercury thanks to global coal burning (and prone to overfishing). California rolls are almost always made of imitation crab meat. Various additives are often put in to sushi, especially lower-grade sushi. I get tuna avocado rolls when I go, which is not very often.

Plus, since sushi tends to be high in carbs and protein and low in fat and fiber, it doesn't keep me full and is a high-glycemic food. If I go there for a work lunch, I'll be hungry 2 hours later and need to have a snack. A chipotle bowl with similar calories will keep me full for 7 hours.

I ****ing love sushi. I had some the other night. I had a rainbow roll.

I know this isn't fast food, but is a food that is convenient. I just got a bunch of soup bowls. At the Harris Teeter, they carry a huge variety of microwavable soups. They have soups that are even cheaper than ramen noodles that you can add water to and microwave. I got some of the Campbell's microwavable soups for school. They contain a decent level of protein and they don't have too much fat, so I'll finally have something substantial to eat at school.

 

[psychoslice]

I myself treat all fast food with suspicion, no matter what they claim, but I do have at least one fast food item per month, just for a junky treat.

 

[Milton Platt]

Well Ive been watching My 600 Pound life reruns and have seen some who say when they are on the road theres no other place to eat except fastfood places that are cheap and convenient .The truth is she could go to a restaurant or make her own food. But sense she and a few others have said similar stuff Im putt this here.

In the first place most fastfood places these days if nothing else have salads chicken salads which are lowfat leave off the dressing.

Taco bell, tacos made out of corn shells are a healthy carb so you can get chicken or steak without cheese,or you can put cheese if the fat doesnt bother you and salad stuff in it. Usually a refrieds bean and cheese side doesn't bother me with the fat,I think it only has 8 fat grams so its not that bad or you could get healthy black bean serving which is healthier. They also have mexican salad.Im sure taco bueno and other fast food mexican places have something similar.

Subway is number one in my book several lowfat sandwhiches you can get on whole wheat and baked lays a variety of them yumm!

SOnic has a nice Chicken breast on whole wheat bun sandwhich. Mcdonalds has chicken sandwhice and yogurt parfait and also a health breakfast biscuit sandwhich available.

Jasons deli has lowfat baked potatos which nice stuff in them too, also soup or salad is a good place.

Even Braums has a version of sugarfree icecream.

Depending on what you view as "healthful", it could be argued that the phrase "health fast food" is an oxymoron. Yes, I eat at fast food places now and again....My point is that fast food places do not buy the very best and very freshest produce and meats. They watch the bottom line to squeeze out every penny. So the salad you get at a fast food place will not be as fresh or as wholesome, as you would get at home, or even from a higher quality restaurant. I have worked at a fast food place in my youth. The tomatoes and other fruit comes in green and unappetizing. The lettuce may or may not be fresh when it hits the door, but it may sit in a cooler for days before it hits the table. And you have kids making minimum wage being pushed for all they are worth prepping your stuff. Some food there is better than other......but you are still scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

 

[Riders]

But I'm not buying it this attitude towards fastfood. Everyone says theyre unhealthy and unnatural yet fastfood is one of the richest places for manager and assistant managers to work at and the ones who own and run it. Every one buys it but every one talks about how unnatural it is.

By the way I worked at Burger King for a year and Pizza inn for a year and 9 months, that's against the law what you said. Theyre not allowed to leave it out for several days at a time it wouldn't be eatable, it would be poisonous, none of them leave them out, they put it in the big fridgerater where all their produce goes. Then they all put time stamps on it and food health department come sin and checks on them regular. They have to pass a test for food handlers I use to have a certificate for food handling

The thing is that every person I know where it comes to fastfood and restaurant eat goes on and on like yall and shows off the all natural eating they do. Huh I guess this is the fittest country on the planet. America spends more money on fastfood and restaurants and is the fattest unhealthy because of overeating country there is. Nobody admits were all in denial, I know about 300 people who have told me that fastfood plces and restaurants and in natural eating is horrible and fastfood places should shut down. Well I wonder where all their money is coming from? Maybe the mice are going out to eat there that's it.

 

[VioletVortex]

But I'm not buying it this attitude towards fastfood. Everyone says theyre unhealthy and unnatural yet fastfood is one of the richest places for manager and assistant managers to work at and the ones who own and run it. Every one buys it but every one talks about how unnatural it is.

By the way I worked at Burger King for a year and Pizza inn for a year and 9 months, that's against the law what you said. Theyre not allowed to leave it out for several days at a time it wouldn't be eatable, it would be poisonous, none of them leave them out, they put it in the big fridgerater where all their produce goes. Then they all put time stamps on it and food health department come sin and checks on them regular. They have to pass a test for food handlers I use to have a certificate for food handling

The thing is that every person I know where it comes to fastfood and restaurant eat goes on and on like yall and shows off the all natural eating they do. Huh I guess this is the fittest country on the planet. America spends more money on fastfood and restaurants and is the fattest unhealthy because of overeating country there is. Nobody admits were all in denial, I know about 300 people who have told me that fastfood plces and restaurants and in natural eating is horrible and fastfood places should shut down. Well I wonder where all their money is coming from? Maybe the mice are going out to eat there that's it.

You still eat fast food after viewing it from an inside perspective? I suppose that's a good sign.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

But I'm not buying it this attitude towards fastfood. Everyone says theyre unhealthy and unnatural

It's because they are. From sperm and seedling to your mouth everything is very chemical, it's loaded with tons of extra junk, and the occasional home cooked burger, nutritionally speaking, won't be nearly as bad as a burger from any fast food place. Eating a diet of whole foods and avoiding the chemicals alone will shed weight because a number of those chemicals program the body to retain weight, throw blood sugar levels off, and some may even lead to long term damage and causing adding to things such as the rise in cancer rates. Pretty much, unless you know where the food actually came from, or read the labels and know the different chemicals, you're putting junk into your body. Things we have never eaten before and hopefully never will again, and even things that are illegal in many other countries. Our digestive systems should be processing our food, not a machine.

yet fastfood is one of the richest places for manager and assistant managers to work at and the ones who own and run it.

Because people like paying for convenience, many people don't know how to cook, but none of those reasons justify eating fast food. Every now and then probably won't hurt you, and there certainly are better choices (such as egg mcmuffin vs hardies triple decker whatever), but they aren't as filling or nutritious as they would be cooked at home, and even with dishes you'll save time making the same thing at home since you won't have to wait in line, and it's much cheaper to cook it at home (generally speaking - I found eating beef only occasionally then some things, like tacos, are cheaper getting them somewhere).

By the way I worked at Burger King for a year and Pizza inn for a year and 9 months, that's against the law what you said. Theyre not allowed to leave it out for several days at a time it wouldn't be eatable, it would be poisonous, none of them leave them out, they put it in the big fridgerater where all their produce goes. Then they all put time stamps on it and food health department come sin and checks on them regular. They have to pass a test for food handlers I use to have a certificate for food handling

I argued with a manager once over throwing out green hot dogs, and she told me no. This manager, who was a visiting manager called in from another store in another city, said their morning guy cooks up a "big 'ole batch" of bacon to last them the day, meaning they had bacon sitting for up to 18 hours. The one I worked at was even worse. First one I worked at had me serve a fish fillet that had sat for so long that the inside meat had started to brown. Timers are not universally used. Things that are "against the law" are done on a regular basis at many of them. I worked at one place that failed a health inspection, and was given time to get their act together, and as soon as they left and were done it went back down hill.
Me working fast food is why I don't like eating at them unless they're busy to ensure you're food is fresh, with subway being the one exception because you can see what is going on your sand which. That still doesn't tell you everything, but it tells you much more than any other places do.