The healthiest new fast food option
When you're traveling, sometimes it's not the easiest task to find healthy food options, especially if your only options are fast food joints.
I try to stay far far away from places like mickey d's or BK... I think I've only had them once or twice in the past 2-3 years.
But I've found a much healthier fast food option recently on many of my travels. I've been seeing a lot of these fresh mexican food places popping up all over the place. There are several different chains such as Chipotle, Baja Fresh, Rubios, etc.
But here's how I modify their options to get the healthiest meal possible...
Usually the menus are full of burrito and taco options, but I really don't want the wheat or corn tortillas since those are just useless carbs and calories without much nutrition value. Plus, most wheat wraps are made with hydrogenated oils (trannies), so that's another reason to avoid them.
So what I do is ask the worker to make me a special plate where I'll just pile up a few of the meat options, tons of veggies, beans, salsa, and LOTS of guacamole. I always decline the rice too since that's also a pretty useless carb with no real nutrition value and doesn't add much on taste either.
This pretty much confuses the worker every time since this "mixed plate" option isn't really on their menu, and they don't know what to charge me, but I just ask them to charge me for whatever they think is fair.
Considering this is fast-food, this is about the healthiest option that packs the most nutritional punch without overloading on useless carbs. Plus, it's pretty damn tasty too! And it also satisfies the appetite for a long time since it has plenty of healthy fats from the guac and fiber from the beans and veggies.
Consider giving this little trick a try next time you're out and about and want to find a healthier fast food option.
**If you haven't seen this yet, and you want to get yourself on the right track nutritionally to get lean for summer, I highly recommend my good friend and nutritionist Isabel De Los Rios' program here:
http://the-non-diet.com/
Enjoy!
Til next newsletter,
Eat clean and be lean.
Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Author - The Truth about Six Pack Abs
I try to stay far far away from places like mickey d's or BK... I think I've only had them once or twice in the past 2-3 years.
But I've found a much healthier fast food option recently on many of my travels. I've been seeing a lot of these fresh mexican food places popping up all over the place. There are several different chains such as Chipotle, Baja Fresh, Rubios, etc.
But here's how I modify their options to get the healthiest meal possible...
Usually the menus are full of burrito and taco options, but I really don't want the wheat or corn tortillas since those are just useless carbs and calories without much nutrition value. Plus, most wheat wraps are made with hydrogenated oils (trannies), so that's another reason to avoid them.
So what I do is ask the worker to make me a special plate where I'll just pile up a few of the meat options, tons of veggies, beans, salsa, and LOTS of guacamole. I always decline the rice too since that's also a pretty useless carb with no real nutrition value and doesn't add much on taste either.
This pretty much confuses the worker every time since this "mixed plate" option isn't really on their menu, and they don't know what to charge me, but I just ask them to charge me for whatever they think is fair.
Considering this is fast-food, this is about the healthiest option that packs the most nutritional punch without overloading on useless carbs. Plus, it's pretty damn tasty too! And it also satisfies the appetite for a long time since it has plenty of healthy fats from the guac and fiber from the beans and veggies.
Consider giving this little trick a try next time you're out and about and want to find a healthier fast food option.
**If you haven't seen this yet, and you want to get yourself on the right track nutritionally to get lean for summer, I highly recommend my good friend and nutritionist Isabel De Los Rios' program here:
http://the-non-diet.com/
Enjoy!
Til next newsletter,
Eat clean and be lean.
Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Author - The Truth about Six Pack Abs
posted by Mike Geary at
4:35 PM
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