Monday, February 2, 2009

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Healthy Fast Food

By KC Kudra

You might be surprised to see the words health food in the same sentence as the words fast food and maybe you thought fast food is the ultimate sin unless you are trying to gain weight. It is possible however to include fast food in your diet, even if you are trying to eat more healthily or lose a few pounds.

That is not to say that you should stuff yourself full of fast food three times a day but the occasional treat is fine, whether it is juicy, succulent southern fried chicken or a cheeseburger and fries. Now that more people are aware of healthy eating, fast food restaurants are also offering healthier choices and nutritious side dishes as well as the traditional fast food fare.

Choose Your Food Carefully

One in four Americans will eat fast food every day and many fast food options give you enough fat, sodium, and calories to make up your entire daily requirement. Also, a lot of people are fairly unknowledgeable about nutrition and do not choose their meal well. You might think that a salad is a healthy option but some salads contain fried meat, deep-fried croutons, and a creamy, high fat dressing which makes it comparable in calories to a cheeseburger.

There is only one way to know exactly what you are eating and that is to make your own food. You might not be a seasoned chef but there are many easy recipes out there, a lot, of which you can make from start to finish in less than twenty minutes.

The Healthy Way to Enjoy Fried Chicken

Lots of people love fried chicken and you can make your own by following an easy fried chicken recipe. You can also make the right amount. In a fast food restaurant, you often get huge portions and you feel like you must finish off every last bit of food on your tray because wasting food is bad.

If you make fried chicken at home, you can satisfy your fast food cravings without visiting a fast food restaurant to order a huge portion of food, which comes with fries and a large thick shake.

If you want to lose a few pounds, perhaps you might like to know about oven-fried chicken. This is basically a baked chicken recipe in a crispy batter. It actually tastes just like fried chicken but without all the fat and calories. Actually, some people prefer oven-fried chicken to deep fried chicken.

Whether you want to indulge your fried chicken craving once a week or make a healthy oven fried chicken recipe, you can eat fried chicken whilst on a healthy diet as long as you eat plenty of grains, fruit and vegetables too.

A little of what you fancy does you good, as they say, and there is nothing wrong with enjoying fried chicken occasionally if your diet is balanced overall. If you serve your homemade fried chicken with mashed potatoes, green beans and corn on the cob, you will have a nutritious meal, which tastes great.

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