Adilene Pimentel
English R101
Blog #2
Fast food
Fast
food was not really a big part of my childhood, my parents rarely took us to
eat at fast food restaurants we would always eat home cooked meals made by my
mom. But we would occasionally, once a month we would go to McDonalds and spend
time together as a family. While we were there, my sisters and I would either
get a cheeseburger or chicken nugget kids meal. I remember it just like
yesterday it was the best time of the month. We would show up my father and I would
go to the cashier and place our order while my mother and sisters would go look
for the nearest table by the playpen. Once our order was placed we would go to
our table and my sisters and I would run to the play pen while our meal was
being prepared. Once it was ready it was time to go back to the table and eat.
We would each get our closed up little box and inside that wonderful box would
be a side order of fries, chicken nuggets and a TOY!! We would always argue
about who got the best toy and according to my dad we all did. As we grew up fast food became less of a
choice to eat because we started playing soccer and our diets got stricter and
stricter. My father became our biggest food critic and dietician. He would
always tell us “Do you need to eat that? ... or “You’re going to feel that
while you’re running”.
My
fast food habits now have become really bad compared to how healthy I used to
eat. Fast food has been my worst habit.
Since I am always on the run, I am either at work, school, or on the road to my
destination. Fast food seems to be the easiest solution for me to actually get
something to eat. It’s simple I don’t even have to get off; I simply go thru a
drive thru and order my food and be on my way. I occasionally take left overs for
lunch, but I am too lazy to get up earlier in the mornings to pack my lunch.
Therefore I just go to a fast food restaurant around the clinic I work at. To
think I would eat healthier than I do because I work for a clinic, but I
actually eat worse than when I first starting working there. I am trying my best to change my eating habits,
back to how they used to be when I played soccer. I am packing my lunch in advance the night
before and I am switching my choices on things to snack on. As much as I am
trying to change my eating habits it is hard due to the fact that every where I
turn there is a different fast food restaurant. Fast food restaurants are
practically taking over our world, people don’t eat many home cooked meals let
alone healthy meals and sadly I am part of that “society habit”.
