Re: Making Better Choices??

[Guest guest]

I am a big big fan of the DOLLAR menu at mcdonalds. I buy the $1 burgers for the races. I just make sure I only eat 1 or 2. No fries and diet drink. Eat very good in the morning and no big lunch. Usually fruit. BUT they do now have a side salad for a buck.

NH... Mom to Abby Liz 10/94 Anne 7/99

[Guest guest]

>then my sister in law wanted to go to Mcs instead of getting my usual 2

double

cheeseburgers and fry I got a Grilled Chicken sandwich and no fries. Well I just

looked it up

online a Grilled Chicken sandwich has 410 calories and 9 grams of fat, and a

double

cheeseburger has 460 calories and 22 grams of fat. Yes the chicken is better but

not by much.

Normally I would grab a regular vault or a pepsi, so overall I guess I made

pretty good choices

considering what I had to work with.

>

Yes, but you had ONE grilled chicken sandwich - not two, right? And NO fries.

Even the *small*

fries (and who ever gets the small?) are 250 calories and 13g of fat saved! The

large are a

whopping 570 calories and 30g of fat.

Now, admittedly, one of the salads with a low-fat dressing would have been your

best choice -

but, it's over and done with and there's always next time to get it right.

> I already told the girls no more fried foods we were making out a grocery

list and the first thing

they said was fried chicken.. I told them no more fried chicken we can make

baked or maybe get

the shake n bake or something.

Good for sticking to your guns! Oh, and shake-and-bake really isn't /that/ much

better for you

than fried, likely. Processed carb stuff! I crush up triscuit whole-wheat

crackers for a crunch

oven-baked chicken. It's lower Gi than breadcrumbs and I find it to be

crunchier, too. You could

even try some of the new flavored ones such as the rosemary & olive oil!

> Anyhow I feel really good lately.. I feel like we are moving in the right

direction and so far it

seems to be going ok..

>

>

SulaBlue

[Guest guest]

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> stopped at CVS I got a Vault Zero ( Diet Vault)

What is Vault?

> Grilled Chicken sandwich has 410 calories and 9 grams of fat,

You did fine. You made a conscious effort to eat healthier. You just need

to tweak that a bit. Next time get it without mayo and you'll save even

more calories and fat.

> I already told the girls no more fried foods we were making out a grocery

> list and the first thing they said was fried chicken..

I'm looking at the Cooking Healthy with Kids in Mind right now. I don't see

my kids going for any of this stuff but I think it will help that the book

is supposedly for kids. I can force them to pick some recipes to try.

They are way too picky.

> Anyhow I feel really good lately.. I feel like we are moving in the right

> direction and so far it seems to be going ok..

Great! Getting motivated is half the battle.

Ann

[Guest guest]

> > Grilled Chicken sandwich has 410 calories and 9 grams of fat,

>

> You did fine. You made a conscious effort to eat healthier. You

just need

> to tweak that a bit. Next time get it without mayo and you'll save

even

> more calories and fat.

I agree with Ann--you did better than usual! And I almost always

get the Grilled classic chicken (no mayo) when we go to McD's.

*shrugs* Throw some mustard on there and it's really good!

> I'm looking at the Cooking Healthy with Kids in Mind right now. I

don't see

> my kids going for any of this stuff but I think it will help that

the book

> is supposedly for kids. I can force them to pick some recipes to

try.

> They are way too picky.

Mine are, too. Pizza, hot dogs (*shudders*), PBJ, grilled cheese,

pasta. That's about all they really like. However, once I made them

try a few bites of each meal out of that cookbook, they wound up

liking 'em I will say, though, that because they've never had

'white' bread or pasta, they do love the whole wheat stuff. They get

the chunky health-food-store type bread and they don't really like

white bread or pasta. *shrugs* They eat well, all things considered.

I never introduced most junk foods.

Anyway...off to go grocery shopping

-Bonnie

[Guest guest]

Hi ! I would have thought the grilled chicken would have been better,

too. Oh well! I have heard that the Asian chicken salad at McD's is very

good and low in points if you use the dressing sparingly. That was shared

at a WW meeting I was at. Just in case you end up there again and want to

try it.

Hugs,

~Angel

On Fri, 9 Jun

2006, wrote:

> Well I was feeling pretty good about the choices I made today until I came

home and looked up the info online. Today was the first day I have really been

able to go out do alittle shopping etc. While I was out we stopped at CVS I got

a Vault Zero ( Diet Vault) soda and then my sister in law wanted to go to

Mcs instead of getting my usual 2 double cheeseburgers and fry I got a

Grilled Chicken sandwich and no fries. Well I just looked it up online a Grilled

Chicken sandwich has 410 calories and 9 grams of fat, and a double cheeseburger

has 460 calories and 22 grams of fat. Yes the chicken is better but not by much.

Normally I would grab a regular vault or a pepsi, so overall I guess I made

pretty good choices considering what I had to work with.

>

> I then went to the bread outlet got 3 loaves of different kinds of wheat

bread.. some light wheat some 100 % wheat, I figured me and the girls will try

them out and see which one we like best. At the bread outlet its only 1.00 a

loaf so that is much better then the grocery store.

>

> I already told the girls no more fried foods we were making out a grocery

list and the first thing they said was fried chicken.. I told them no more fried

chicken we can make baked or maybe get the shake n bake or something.

>

> Anyhow I feel really good lately.. I feel like we are moving in the right

direction and so far it seems to be going ok..

>

>

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