Fast food restaurants get bad press, and for good reason! Mac Do menu, KFC menu or even Subway or O’Tacos… All these brands associated with junk food are attractive with, in the same meal, a combination of pleasure products, fatty and sweet, which we guess are very addictive. However, should we ban them completely?
Fast food owes its popularity with teenagers to various factors: tasty food according to them, low prices, ease and speed of consumption, open at any time. It is also a moment of relaxation and conviviality to share with friends.
Make the right choices at fast food
By choosing the right meals eaten at fast food outlets, by compensating with those eaten at the homeI’balance food can be preserved.
The ideal being:
- Choose a hamburger without mayonnaise, most often the cheapest, the simplest, even if it means taking two.
- Avoid the fries, prefer a salad.
- Only drink sodas light or water.
- Favor fruit salads rather than ice creams.
If all of these tips aren’t immediately followed, don’t worry. I have often noticed that, despite the latent protest, constantly repeated recommendations often end up bearing fruit. To make up for this kind of meal, prepare meals that will compensate for the shortcomings of fast food:
- A breakfast with bread or cereals (check the sugar level of these), a dairy product, a fresh fruit.
- A snack with fruit and yogurt.
- A dinner with starch, green vegetables or soup, fish or eggs or poultry, yogurt, fruit.
Do not focus on a Mac Do menu
my own daughters as well as my grandsons have often asked me to go eat a Mac Do menu (among other things) but what they like to snack on is what is in our cupboards and they appreciate the dishes that we usually cook for them just as much.
I have no doubt that they are very affectionate and loving children and that their answer was dictated in this sense, but it does not matter: the notion of good balanced diet entered their heads (despite an occasional Mac Do menu).
Faced with this type of food (tacos, kebab, etc.), show flexibility regarding your own disordered eating behaviors or those of your children. Too much control can lead to the opposite effect.
Balance in homemade dishes
Especially since the adolescent will become much more receptive to food requests coming from outside. It’s time for meals “at the restaurant”, for the discovery of fast foods or the delights of exotic cuisine… has come.
At this age, the child expresses himself through the economic systems that are specific to him. Clearly, he only manages to afford inexpensive meals. Result, the bakeriesthem fast food where the asian caterers receive his favors. It is useless to dispute this choice, the actors being too numerous and the principle of diversification and food autonomy must be acquired.
However, if a child gets into the habit of eating hamburgers twice a week, it is ridiculous to offer them fast food on the weekends. Just as it is useless to prepare exotic food for him if he eats it regularly with her friends outside.
Moreover, the systematic denigration of this system of restoration has no effect and is not justified on the nutritional level. Indeed, you can eat quite well at Quick, with a Mac Do, “Greek” or “Chinese” menu… as long as you know choose and combine your foods.
Compensate for a Mac Do menu with soup?
Only the incorporation of this catering system in the menus of the week by adapting the homemade meals can have positive effects, of the rebalancing type. Thus you will ensure the intake of vitamins and minerals necessary for a healthy.
Thus, when a child has eaten a sandwich in a fast-food restaurant accompanied by a portion of fries and a sweet product, the role of the parents consists, in the evening, of serving him a soupof the vegetables and low fat products in order to teach him not the food balance of the meal but that of the day.
Consequently, even if the adolescent is autonomous, the adults around him remain capable of make healthy its news distribution of food compensating with the evening meal, snack or breakfast.
But these tips for feeding your children well, do you apply them to yourself?
