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Fast food tip:
If you're like me, if I'm eating out or have to grab something on the run, I have come to know what restaurants have "stuff I can eat" and I have learned to google nutrition menus and figure out what I want in advance. I have 4 kids with busy schedules, and we live about 20-30 minutes from town, so there are a lot of evenings when we have to stay in town for some kind of school function, extra-curricular activity, church thing, etc. And we eat on the run. Unfortunately, fast food is just a weekly reality in this family. But I have discovered a very good "go to" item for me that is calorie friendly and yummy/satisfying:
Taco Bell has "al fresco" items. You can order any of their tacos (and probably burritos) "al fresco." They take out the cheese and give you pico de gallo in its place. I knew this, but...bleh. They're kind of bland. But I finally figured out that you can add things to your tacos...
So, I order chicken soft tacos al fresco (that's 140 calories each), but then with a couple of add-ins, they are so much more tasty: I ask for jalapenos and some reduced fat sour cream. That makes them creamier, spicier, more flavorful, and they are still only 160 calories each. Filling, too.
Last night was not a busy stay-in-town night, but it was a "Mom's tired and doesn't want to start cooking at 6pm when we all get home and not have dinner ready until 7 p.m. and the youngest has a book project that she's not even half-finished illustrating and Mom will be helping her get that done and it will take all evening" kind of night, so I picked up Taco Bell on the way home. Most of my crew likes the regular, normal crunchy tacos, and then I ordered my chicken soft al fresco tacos for me, and I doctored them up when I got home w/ my own jalapenos and low-fat sour cream. Not too shabby for fast food.
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