My Bad Romance with Fast Food

            “Should I go to the grocery and buy some chicken to cook later today?” “I don’t think I have time to go buy and then cook, I think I will just stop by McDonalds and get something through the drive thru” this is how my current love affair with fast food is. It is some sort of bad romance because I really dislike going to go get something at Jack in the Box or some other fast food chain because I know that it is not the healthiest thing I could be eating. But their is many reasons I that persuade me to go somewhere to buy food instead of buying the ingredients myself and cooking it at home.

            In my family’s life and in my past fast food was not a very common thing because food was usually cooked at home. I would usually come home from school and my family would cook up a good dinner in about an hour or so.  Although I really did not have a choice in the matter since I was a kid. But when we did go out to eat fast food it would only be on some random day just because we were either lazy to cook or just because my parents had decided upon that.  We would usually go to McDonalds or sometimes Jack in the Box.  I was never a big hamburger person and still I am not so I would usually get something with chicken or some chicken strips. At the time it was never a real big deal because well I was a kid and food was food. But it also was not just any food it was pretty delicious food that the more one would have the one would more want.

            Life in the fast food section of my life was almost the same up until quite recently. I would say it was about two years ago that a transition began to occur. I started driving, this meant that I was out of my house much more often. Eating at home started becoming less and less frequent, and same thing with my sister. I began eating out more and more.  Fast forward up to now and I sort of have become relied onto fast food. Not completely but it has become something unique in my life.  I try quite hard not to go to a fast food place but with the time and sometimes money being a issue I really do not have a big choice other than to go eat something from a fast food establishment. Currently I might eat it 3 to 4 times a week.  Comparing that to the past, I go much more frequently than I used to.  But I do know where I stand one eating fast food, and that is to slowly start decreasing the amount I eat. For one, I know that it is not very good to be eating that much fast food, but I do know that there is something I can do about it. And when an opportunity is open for I know I want, in this case it being for me to eat less fast food. I have taken it and am attempting to try my current fast food trend.