Fast Food!

As a kid growing up fast food wasn’t an everyday thing. My parents would make home cooked meals most days, and when we didn’t eat at home we would go to a relative’s house and there would be a home cooked meal. Fast food was something we got as a treat or something we had when the day was just to crazy to cook a meal. We really never had just one place that we went to all the time because our decision on fast food was usually decided by what we ate that week or what one of us was craving. Our fast food experience usually wasn’t dinner most of the time, but breakfast was our downfall for fast food. Since me and my brother were always in some type of sport most of our lives we had a pretty healthy regime where my dad would give us certain things to keep us at our best. We were always on the go the days where we had games or tournaments two hours away it was hard to get a good breakfast in. We would resort to some type of donut shop, but only allowed to get a muffin or sandwich with milk or juice. The one thing that I always looked forward to as a kid was Saturdays when it was football season and the snack bar and what they made always smelled so good and tasted good too. We were allowed one thing, but it always had to have a Gatorade or water with it so we would keep hydrated in the sun since my brother was a football player, and I was he cheerleader. At times it was really helpful to keep us healthy and on the go, but still have all the right nutrients we needed.

Fast food through my senior was a necessity some days between having or working games along with ASB, I wouldn’t get home till ten and have to do my homework that picking up something was the only way I would actually be able to get a decent amount of sleep that night. Since the end of my senior year till now I haven’t relied on fast food as much and prefer not to eat it. Especially after getting food poisoning from Burger King one day. I try to be home in time for dinner most days of the week but there are some days when I have class or im out with friends that it doesn’t work out that I try to make arrangements to eat later that night at home versus eating fast food. For me, I feel that fast food just makes me more tired and doesn’t give me the energy I need. After eating fast food I find myself craving fruit or vegetables. I try not to rely on fast food, but sometimes you can’t help it with certain situations. Even as hard as I try to shun it, I always end up eating it occasionally. I’m glad my parents didn’t rely of fast food when I was a kid because I know the importance of a home cooked meal is to people.