Has anyone in this thread heard about vegetables, and how they're important in your diet? ...damn.
vegetables alone arn't really a meal though, you still need to actually eat a real meal, with enough calories etc. Unfortunately with the busy nature of today's society, fast food tends to be the goto place most of the time. I tend to just snack on vegetables, or make a stir fry with them or something. Not really something you have time to do for lunch when you work.
I struggle with that myself, why spend over an hour making a meal when I can just order a pizza. If I consider how much my time is worth, pizza is cheap, and will feed me for more than a day as I'm not going to pig out and eat the whole thing, but have left overs for next day. But yeah, super unhealthy and been trying to figure out the best approach to diet without having to spend so much time cooking. I hate cooking. Most recipes are chinese to me so it's hard to learn new stuff, I just don't have the will power. Hmm, pizza sale at dominos.....
Are you serious? I don't normally cook, but the family has been in Japan for the month, and I have had to fend for myself. I can make a dinner/lunch the next day of a protein, carb, and 4 servings of steamed veggies in about 15 minutes of prep time for less than an value meal at McDonald's. Change up the spices if you need a change in flavor. Tack that on to an Ironman training plan and a normal work schedule, and I don't see what legitimate excuse exists for relying on fast food, unless you feel like it. Nothing wrong with eating a Big Mac, just don't try and say it's your only option.
$15 for food that wasn't even cooked? Sucker...10+ yrs ago, I used to goto McDonalds for lunch.
$1 McDouble or $2 McChicken/medium fries combo (doesn't work w/McDouble)
can of coke (from home)
or bringing my own lunch:
1) 1/4lb lunch meat (turkey, ham, baloney, etc), wheat bread, mustard, lettuce and tomato.
a lb of Oscar meyer lunch meat costs between $2 and $5, depending on meat.
2) fruit (1 banana,apple or orange)
so ~$1 total for home lunch
nowadays:
$15 for all you can eat sushi (like today)
burp!
going to try all you can eat Japanese $10 later this week.
limited selection sushi (nothing much I like), teriyaki chicken/beef, tempura veggies (yum!), a rice section, and a noodles section.
if McDonalds kept the $1 McDouble, I'd probably would have kept on alternating between McDouble, McChicken/fries, and making my own sandwich.
but something psychological about it no longer at the $1 price point.
if it's more than a $1, might as well spend $15 on a buffet for lunch.
What the heck?
I don't understand it...
How many weeks are there in your year?I'll go out and get a $6-7 sub at Jimmy John's for lunch, but will balk at a $10-11 Thai lunch combo. Do the former instead of the latter just once a week and that's $400 per year.
That's still cheap. Here you'll pay near or even more than $10 for a typical meal at McDonald's. Usually will come up to 9 something. I don't even think you can get anything for $1, maybe an apple pie?
Are you serious? I don't normally cook, but the family has been in Japan for the month, and I have had to fend for myself. I can make a dinner/lunch the next day of a protein, carb, and 4 servings of steamed veggies in about 15 minutes of prep time for less than an value meal at McDonald's. Change up the spices if you need a change in flavor. Tack that on to an Ironman training plan and a normal work schedule, and I don't see what legitimate excuse exists for relying on fast food, unless you feel like it. Nothing wrong with eating a Big Mac, just don't try and say it's your only option.
This is the best burger I've ever had and surprisingly it was not in the USA.. It beat In-n-Out, Carls Jr, White Castle, McDonalds in the US, Burger King and many local diners.
If I could like your comment I would, but I can't so I'll quote you instead. This is what I keep telling everybody around me, well almost everybody, they all seem to think it's completely impossible to make good food, quickly, at home.
it's because people are lazy and stupid. it's really just a mixture of both. it's hard to say which one is more. i'd say lazy because if you are lazy you're inherently stupid.
Real good food does take a longer time. A veggie medley is not anything beyond a simpleton level dish for lesser palettes. Indeed, it's mostly the spices and sauce helping the veggies go down the chute. Dumping sauce on a pile of vegetables is unskilled cooking. Oh yes, you'll get more calories than a McDonald's value meal, but don't tell me that the shit coming out of a 20 minute cooking session will be anything beyond mere functional in terms of tasty food.
The most wholesome vegetable as far as feeling full after eating is the potato. Something that needs to be skinned and then cut to specs. And that is before anything else is cooked.
people look at prices when ordering food?
i remember having to do that when i was younger. burger king had that different deal depending on what day it was and id even share that meal with my gf at the time. lol
my parents have become frequent chinese/international super buffet goers when they actually decide to eat out as well as the AYCE sushi buffest. more bank for buck. i go sometimes and its not all that bad. i prefer ordering from the menu in a non sushi buffet environment. wont step foot in a golden corral though. yuck.