food habits

Hello,

During the course of my life fast food has always been there in the corner of every street side by side to each other.  Growing up as a kid all I can remember was the happy meals from McDonalds they were always a kid’s favorite.  That’s one thing in a child’s memory that won’t be forgotten the exciting commercials with Ronald McDonald. Fast food places to me growing up were all about bonding with the family outside the home and family dinners. On Sundays, early in the morning’s right after church I clearly remember the entire family going to the old esplanade mall to go eat at a Chinese food restaurant. Of course that was not the only place we ate, there was the occasional KFC, Panda Express, etc. but that Sunday get together never got old.  Yes I cannot forget about the happy meals, happy meals growing up were like buried treasure it was something I wanted to have for breakfast lunch and dinner every night to get a different toy every time I opened the box. Too bad happy meals were rarely Baugh ten for my brother and I   they were more like incentives for us to be extra behaved in school and responsible with our chores at home. Any ways I preferred the trip to the toy store more than a happy meal when it came to reward time.

            Now as the time moved on I enjoy the pleasures of buying my own fast food to bad happy meals are no longer what I crave for. I would say I’m not addicted to fast food I’m more of an ice cream and smoothie fan when it comes to the drive thru. I try to avoid it most of the time once in a while ill buy a hamburger combo, but I hardly like to. I’m more of a non-soda drinker I prefer to get the lemonades or iced teas with a salad or if I’m really hungry a small hamburger and small fries or an occasional medium size meal. I try to keep each item under 150 calories and monitor how much fast food I intake in a month and limit myself so I won’t gain or lose weight. The only bad part now is that temptation is near me most of the time since I work at McDonald s. It makes it harder on me to not eat the occasional fry; I must admit fries are my weakness. But even though I have all access to these tempting items I know that in the long run they will catch up to me fast so I hold back majority of the time. I prefer eating fast food on an occasional weekend rather than very often at work. Although fast food is delicious when it comes to eating out I’d rather prefer going out to a nice restaurant where the food is higher quality and is comparable as to something I would have cooked at home myself, after all my money is being spent and I want the best for my buck.