fast food

I eat once a year. Only to realise again how much I don't like the taste. Everything tastes so weird. If I make french fries at home that tastes so real, but at Mc* it just tastes... plastic.

If I want to binge I'd much rather go to a proper restaurant recommended by the Gault Millau than to a junk food place...

What makes a 500 calorie salad bad for you?

Well good for you. I'm glad you feel so superior.

I eat fast food every weekday for lunch because as a mom of 3 school agers, I just don't want to make time to deal with making it. And I sit at a front desk and don't have a private place to eat in at work on my hour long lunch break. I eat salads with grilled chicken and dressing. The dressing adds most of the calories btw. And wendys Cobb salad is also popped up by the blue cheese and bacon, all real. I also eat grilled snack wraps, no sauce and the shrimp scampi platter at long John silvers and a small chili with chive baked potato. Healthiest? Maybe not. But it fits my calories, fats, protein, and sodium, etc. It's a vast improvement over the angus deluxe with large fries and sweet tea that I used to consume some variation of 5x a week. If you don't like it, don't eat it. But there are healthier, whole food options for those that choose to use it. Sure, my own home cooking is better, but that hour with my children, husband or working out are more important to me personally.

I may be missing the point here.....am I?

What makes a 500 calorie salad bad for you?

exactly. you are misinformed OP.

And if that's your opinion, then don't eat fast food. why let other peoples choices make you mad?? that's what I don't understand.

Sometimes people like the convenience of it when there's just no time to cook a meal.............especially (in my case) when you have small children.............or to treat yourself to an indulgence once in a while. Yes, you are entitled to your opinion, but don't knock those that make the choice in purchasing fast food.

Because I actually could care less what you think, believe it or not.

you could care less? then stop caring so much and care less!

People complaining about not being able to lose weight or how fun down and crappy they feel, then they go to one of those places.

That's why we are all here actually. Because people are not perfect and tend to find it hard to distance themselves from what they like. I personally don't like fast food (taste issues) but the people who like it are not perfect so they struggle with this. Everybody knows in 2012 already that it is not healthy. They just find it hard to resist it.
I personally smoke. Others drink. Do meth. Break the law. Eat fast food. I am sure you have something too..

Also, I do not struggle with fast food, if I want it, I eat it. No struggle here.

I'm pretty sure people that have mentioned the salad thing is because your equating calories to health, which is not true in the least. People can add healthier calories, like chicken, egg, and god forbid, mayo and it may be a high calorie salad but it's not unhealthy if it's in the context of total calories. Hope that helps.

What makes a 500 calorie salad unhealthy? That's the point right? you just don't know.. I just ate an entire salad serving bowl full of salad with dressing on it and it was less then that.. I read the labels on those thing..Lots of unnecessary additions. It really doesn't take much effort to choose healthy foods. I just don't get it.

Would you like some help getting down off that horse of yours? It's pretty high.

Man, I could go for some french fries. On a salad.

I've never liked fast food to be honest, even as a teenager. My parents never let us go to places like Mcdonalds so I never did! As an adult I don't go, and my young children have never eaten at a fast food place.

Each to their own though. I'm sure it's fine in moderation. It's the taste that doesn't appeal to me, and I don't find it particularly healthy.

I live in England so I can't comment on Taco Bell.

The only fast food I've had in the past couple of years is Dominoes, and that was when my daughter was a newborn and it was easy to eat and we were too exhausted to cook!

I don't see what's wrong with a salad that's 500 calories, or are you referring to a salad from a fast food place? If you make your own salad with chicken and potatoes and coleslaw for example it'd be close to 500 calories.

whenever I travel to the valley, I do stop into "In and Out Burger" they cut their own fries, use healthy fats to cook and everything is as clean as you can get, nutritionally in a burger and fries...and is really DYNOMITE....check them out if you get a chance...OH, I don't eat hamburgers or frys otherwise anymore...but I do love these... and I am still loosing....