It's Not Enough That It's Raining...

Today promises to be the absolute worst day in, well, a couple of days. The euphoria reached a couple of days ago when I got to lecture to two college classes has ebbed, the Yankees lost in extras to Boston last night, it's a Saturday and raining hard here in Titletown, and now I find out that eating crap at fast food places is bad for me!
I suspect I knew it all along, but just HOW bad the potential heart-stopping foods were, I'd chosen to push back out of working memory. I knew that each Krispy Kreme was 200 calories, but I never ate more than 10 or so at a time and rarely ate more than three or four times a day on the days when I knew I was going to gorge myself later. So, when the "Eat This, Not That" website promised to tell me how to eat better, I figured I'd sneak a peek...bad move. While most of the things I eat when I'm fast-fooding it are relatively benign, comparing the worst "drive-thru" (their spelling, NOT mine) meal to Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts was hitting below the belt (which, at this point, I can still see: I checked) Here are some of the high (or low, depending) lights of the list. As always, there's a website URL below so you can ruin YOUR whole day, too!

1. Worst fast food shake: McDonald's triple-thick chocolate shake featuring 1160 calories. Supposedly, two quarter pounders would be mnore healthy for me. As it is, A&W is offering root beer floats for $.99 so there's no chance I'm going for this one.

2. Worst "value-menu" item: Burger King Spicy Chicken Crisp Sandwich, weighing in with 30 grams of fat, 450 calories and 810 milligrams of sodium.
Even at $.99, this is no bargain. I usually eat from the $.99 menu, too!

3. Worst Mexican entree: Taco Bell's Grilled Stuft Beef Burrito: dumping a whopping 2120 milligrams of sodium down my gullet in addition to 680 calories. Fine, but I wouldn't eat this anyway...if a restaurant cannot spell "stuffed" correctly, I'm not eating it.

4. If breakfast is your chosen eat-out meal, skip biscuits entirely. Anything made with biscuits is a killer. Scrambled eggs? I can make those at home. I suppose that means biscuits and gravy at Big Boy is on the no-no list, too. The South is going to fall again!

And finally, (drum roll) AMERICA'S WORST DRIVE THROUGH MEAL: comes in the form of Carl's Jr. Double $6 Burger meal which also comes with medium fries and a 32 oz. drink. That doesn't sound just too horrible, does it? I mean, it's not a Caesar salad with dressing (on the side, of course), but I've eaten stuff like this before. Anyway, here are the details:
This meal has
a salt combination equal to 7 1/2 servings of large fries at McDonald's (2892 mg.)
a saturated fat component equal to 52 strips of bacon (mmmm, bacon!)
449 grams of fat, of which 51.5 grams are saturated
2618 calories (just a few more than a week's worth for senior citizens like myself)
AND...
The caloric output (well, input, really) of 13 KRISPY KREME GLAZED DOUGHNUTS. Ouch! That hurts.
And it's not even the Dough-Vo donuts, either.
My day is ruined. Back to the tofu for me.


http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/30464/the-worst-drive-thru-foods-in-america-and-what-to-eat-instead