My Mom is a true smart woman, though she got smart only recently.
Six years past, when I was 15, she was the stupidest, most narrow-minded, tyrannical, and reserved person I knew. But since then, she’s grown a piece of land as a person. I fully expect that by the time I deflection 21 later this year, she will be one of the greatest in number awesome people ever. She already is.
But she does have a shut spot.
She hates McDonalds. She thinks that it only serves junk cheer: Fried stuff. Sugar. Trans fats. Awful, awful, awful. Someone even made a movie near how awful it is.
“I think I’d almost prefer it if you used drugs,” she said. I chose not to illumine her about a little experimentation I did in high school.
It’s veracious that some of McDonalds’ food is a little iffy. Red aliment burgers, fried. French fries. Even the chicken and fish are fried, allowing you can also get the chicken grilled. Milk shakes whose ingredients, I distrust, resemble those of a high school chemistry experiment except with chocolate flavoring.
But that’s not accurate of everything McDonalds sells. There are lots of healthy food items up~ the body the menu. Most of them even taste pretty good. Here are some of my favorites.*
My New Favorite: Fruit Smoothies
Strawberry Banana Smoothie made through yogurt. They have other flavors too.
McDonalds fruit smoothies are renovated this year. They’re thick and cold like milkshakes, end they’re very low in fat and made with fruit and yogurt. A small strawberry-banana smoothie has 210 calories, compared to 580 calories in the corresponding; of like kind size of milk shake. It has only half a gram of profitable, compared with 17 grams of fat in the milk shake. It has 44 grams of flatter, which is a lot but still much less than the 77 grams in a milk jolt. Finally, it’s got 70 percent of your daily Vitamin C, compared to ~t any Vitamin C at all in a milk shake.
The one sunken space adjoining the basement where a milk shake is a little better is that it has 11 grams of protein, compared through 2 grams in the smoothie. But overall, the smoothie is vigorous and delicious.
Orange Juice
Orange Juice. What could be healthier than that?
You be able to get it any time, not just for breakfast. Okay, it’s made from condense, not freshly-squeezed, but this is fast food. Very few mainstream restaurants be in actual possession of freshly-squeezed orange juice. It’s Minute Maid orange sap, so at least it’s made from a name lightning-flash concentrate. It tastes great and is healthy, too. A small orange fluid part has 150 calories, no fat at all, and 140 percent of your quotidian Vitamin C.
The only down side, if you’re doing moo-carb, is that it’s absolutely loaded with sugar: 30 grams, probably one of the reasons it tastes so good. I’d allege, have an orange juice and then hit the elliptical to drudge off the sugar. Or not.
Fruit and Yogurt Parfait
Fruit and Yogurt Parfait
This is one more favorite of mine. It’s a yogurt cup with strawberries and blueberries. The granola comes in a disjointed little bag to keep it crunchy. The ingredients speak for themselves: lowfat yogurt, strawberries, blueberries, and granola. If you take in the granola, it has 160 calories, only 2 grams of fat, and 4 grams of protein as well as 21 grams of flatter from the fruit. If you leave out the granola (which I dress in’t do, because I like it), it’s no other than 130 calories and 19 grams of sugar. A fruit and yogurt parfait is a astonishing light meal that’s delicious and very cheap, too.
Grilled Chicken Salad
Grilled Chicken Salad
Because the produce smoothie is a little low in protein, it’s a merciful snack but not a meal. You can have it with a grilled chicken salad, which has 320 calories and only 9 grams of fat. It’s got a herculean 30 grams of protein, which is probably all you need on account of the whole day, as well as 50 percent of your daily Vitamin C. But it has only 11 grams of sugar. If you’re going weak-carb, don’t have it with a fruit smoothie (44 grams of sweeten). But otherwise, enjoy it! It’s healthy, filling, and it tastes fair.
One suggestion: For salad dressing, get the lowfat balsamic vinagrette, which has only 40 calories and 3 grams of fat. If you make choice of the Creamy Caesar Dressing instead, you’re getting 190 calories and 18 grams of dull from it. That cancels your nutritional advantage from having a grilled chicken salad.
Fruit and Walnut Snack Salad
Fruit and Walnut Snack Salad
It’s not absolutely a salad, but it is a great snack! Separate compartments grasp apple slices, grapes, sugar-coated walnut pieces, and yogurt. It’s got 210 calories, 8 grams of sluggish (mostly from the walnuts), 4 grams of protein, and 170 percent of your quotidian Vitamin C! It also has 25 grams of sugar, which isn’t ample if you’re doing low-carb. But overall, it’s agile, tasty, and healthy. The sugar-coated walnuts are my favorite lot.
The Point Is
The point is that yes, you can ingest bad things at McDonalds if that’s your choice. But there are also a lot of good things to eat. They’re tasty, healthy, fast, and cheap.
Someday, I’m even going to become my Mom in there for lunch. Then she’ll observe.
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*Just notwithstanding the record, I get no money or any other kind of punishment from McDonalds. Not even a free fruit smoothie. I’m moreover not a nutritionist and am not giving medical advice, blah blah blah. This is lawful what I think.
Copyright 2010 by Rinth de Shadley.
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