When I was growing up, fast food was never really in my life. My mother was a stay at home mom so she cooked us breakfast every morning, made our school lunches, and cooked a nice family dinner every night. On occasion my family would eat it. For example, every year we take road trips and we would be driving in the middle of no where and randomly see a McDonald’s and stop to eat there. Also, when I was younger my grandma lived with us for a couple years and we used to go to the beach together on the weekends and afterwards we would stop and eat Wendy’s together. It was kind of a tradition we had together. I would always get their kid’s meals because it came with a little frosty and toy. At that time I really enjoyed fast food and whenever I got it I looked at it as a treat. I have this one memory of being in middle school. One of my best friends would get McDonald’s brought to her to school at least once a week. I was so jealous and always bugged my mom and asked her why she wouldn’t bring me fast food. My mother always responded with, “I take my time to make you a nice healthy lunch. I could easily go buy you fast food, but its not healthy and one day you will thank me for it.” And I do thank her for it today.
Today my food habits are pretty regular. I usually make myself eggs and bacon in the mornings before school. But if I don’t have time I will just grab a granola bar. Because I have soccer everyday at lunch time, I usually miss lunch so I’ll eat a Cliff Bar before my practice and then by the time practice ends I’m starving. This is where fast food becomes an issue. After my practice my teammates will always invite me out to eat. Somedays we will go to In-n-out, other days it’ll be the Habit, it is just random food every day. I would not say that I rely on fast food at all. I always could come home and make a sandwich or something, it’s just the convenience of fast food that is tempting. With that said, I probably eat fast food about three or four times a week. I don’t see this as an issue because I am so active, but ultimately fast food is not good for you. I never really stopped and thought about it but now I want to make an effort to not eat it. Maybe I’ll start reading some cooking books so I can make a fresh tasty meal at home.
That is actually a really good thing you hardly ate fast food and actually ate made at home meals. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteI remember telling my mom the same thing when i was in middle school^-^ I think its a good idea if you starts reading cooking books because you get to taste different foods and your not going to be spending a lot of money on fast food(:
ReplyDeleteWow! That's great that you had better food choices growing up. Both my parents worked when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteLucky you! you actually had fresh home cooked food every day I envy you.
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