Eating Breakfast at Home vs. Fast Food
09/15/2016
By Mike Thayer
Breakfast kick starts your day, providing your body the fuel it needs to drive through the day. But it's important to eat right whether you're on a diet or not.
I suggest eating at home if you can. Not only will you save a few bucks, you'll save on some calories and believe it or not, time as well.
Consider this, you get ready for work, but you have to leave early so you can either sit down at a fast food joint or wait in line at the drive through. Don't leave early, don't wait in line, eat at home.
You can whip up a great quick breakfast, right in the comfort of your own home. In the amount of time you had to leave early, eat at the restaurant or sit in a drive through then eat in your car or at your work station, you can scramble some eggs, fry up some bacon and put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher.
Don't Eat This:
Costing you about $6, this breakfast comes with over 1,000 calories (that's half the government's daily recommended allowance), over 100 grams of carbohydrates (you don't need that many, especially all those at once in one meal) and 17 grams in sugars. And don't forget the time factor, time to drive to the fast food joint (5-10 minutes), time spent in it or in the drive through (at least 10 minutes dining in, around 5 minutes in the drive thru (and hopefully they got your order right). And about consuming that meal, you have to weigh it against eating in the comfort of your home.
Eat This Instead:
Pictured left, a veggie egg scramble with cheese and a side of bacon breakfast. This meal took about 10 minutes to prepare is all, cost about $2 in ingredients and here's the nutrition breakdown: About 600 calories, about 7 grams in carbs from the veggies and 1 gram in sugars. Yes, this meal will make you feel full, satisfyingly so, not overstuffed like the McDonald's meal will (and never mind the pending carb/sugar crash that goes with that).
The best part of this meal, you get to eat in the comfort of your own home. I don't know about you, but I'll take that over eating in the car or at the office!
$pend Wisely My Friends...
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