| it comes down to eating healthy, we’re all a | | | | pronounce? Compare this to choosing out your own |
| little guilty for eating –eh- not so healthy | | | | ingredients to make your own meal. At least you |
| every once in a while. If you were to keep a food | | | | know what you’re putting into something. It |
| diary of everything you ate over the past five | | | | might cost you a little extra money out of pocket, |
| years…EVERYTHING…would you pass | | | | but isn’t your health and well being worth it in |
| the test of being a relatively healthy eater? Even the | | | | the end?? Additionally, many frozen foods will add |
| people who think that they are eating healthy diets | | | | sodium as a preservative, and too much sodium is |
| are sometimes seeing the world through | | | | never a good thing. |
| “rose colored glasses.” This is due, in | | | | If you’re thinking about stopping off at |
| large part, to the fact that most people cannot | | | | McDonalds and getting some “all natural |
| honestly tell food apart from being healthy versus | | | | chicken strips” because they’re |
| not. And those that can simply justify their eating | | | | supposed to be healthier than the McNuggets, |
| habits to themselves so that they don’t feel | | | | you’re, once again, justifying a poor meal |
| as guilty when they slip up. So, what are some | | | | choice in exchange for one that’s not much |
| examples of some bad food choices that people | | | | better. Did you know that a standard five-strip |
| make compared to some of the more healthy | | | | chicken strip meal has approximately 630 calories and |
| alternatives? | | | | 11 grams of fat in it? That’s almost as much |
| When it comes to losing weight, the first place that | | | | as a Big Mac- and that doesn’t even include |
| most people head to in the supermarket isn’t | | | | the calories and fat in the dipping sauce! Instead, why |
| the produce section; it’s the frozen food | | | | not opt for something else to snack on such as |
| section. That’s right. They have heard about | | | | carrot sticks with a lite ranch dip. Or, you could even |
| all of those Lean Cuisine and Pepperidge Farm frozen | | | | make your own chicken strips by baking boneless, |
| meals and figure that they’re automatically a | | | | skinless chicken breasts yourself. |
| safe bet because: a) they’ve been advertised | | | | Have you ever been to the Cheesecake Factory? |
| as such and b) they’re portioned better so | | | | It’s absolutely d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s ! However, you |
| that portion control isn’t necessarily left up to | | | | probably don’t even stop for a second when |
| you to figure out. Life’s pretty easy now, | | | | it comes time to order dessert to think about how |
| huh? Wrong. What a lot of people fail to realize is | | | | many calories are in a single slice of plain cheesecake: |
| that although many of these frozen meals advertise | | | | approximately 610 calories! That’s almost 29 |
| otherwise, there are A LOT of additives in the food | | | | grams of saturated fat, which is equivalent to almost |
| which help to give it the flavor or preserve it beyond | | | | 1.5 days’ worth of what your fat intake |
| simply being frozen. For example, go to your local | | | | should be! Instead, why not opt for a low fat or fat |
| supermarket and read the labels on the back of any | | | | free yogurt? You’d be doing your body a |
| frozen food box. What does it say? Are there | | | | favor. |
| names in the ingredients that you can’t even | | | | |