How Fast Food Gets Us To Eat More

4 For 4 

2 For 5 

3 For 3 

My favorite has to be the Wendy’s 4 For 4. You get 4 chicken nuggets, fries, a drink and a burger for just 4 bucks. What a great price for the value right? I’m sure you have your “go-to” whenever you hit up your favorite fast food restaurants, but there are hidden costs.

It’s no secret, that one of the best ways to manage our money, is to try to get the most or best value when we spend it. We also want to be able to do the least amount of work, for as much pay as possible. In part, its human nature, one of the laws of survival, but it’s also just common time management and financial sense. When it comes to selling and buying food, it’s no different. Big fast food chains recognize this, and thus, they created meals and value bundles that look great for unwitting consumers. But, the catch is,  they usually try to use the cheapest, and most likely, the least healthy ingredients possible, so that they come out financially ahead, at consumers’ expense. 

For example, a burger can be $4.75, but for as low as $1.75, you can get a drink/fries with that. So for an additional cost of 36% more, you can get an extra 120% more of food and calories. Also, because these extras cost more when purchased individually, fries ($1.25) and drink ($1.50), we feel like we’re getting a “killer” deal, and we are. However, in keeping our wallets “fatter,” it is our waistlines that spread, and our health that is depleted.

An average “meal” from fast food restaurants often run upward of 875 - 1200 calories. Taking into consideration what else we might typically eat and snack on for the rest of the day, we are most likely eating way over the 2000 calories RDA for adults. Multiply that by 365 days and over the period of 10 years, you can see how we might have saved a few bucks, and some hours of healthy food prep time, but we have created an unwelcome problem to deal with. The weight starts coming on and the risk of diabetes, heart problems, and other health complications starts rolling in. Health costs can skyrocket over time, and value of life can be severely diminished. So, what have you really saved/earned from your “fast” choices?

 Therefore, you can see that  choosing fast food “value bundle” offers, although quite enticing,  in seeming to save us “valuable” time, effort, and money, will only buy poor health and shorter life spans, in the long run. It’s never too late to start earning back some of your “wealth” of health, by decreasing, or eliminating excessive “value” eating. 

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