Healthy Fast Food
Well I am back to report on my visit to Carl’s Junior to sample the Turkey Burger. And I must say it was quite enjoyable with it’s 490 calories. The turkey meat tasted like it should and the wheat bun, lettuce and tomatoe was the ideal accompaniment, although that did not stop me taking some of the fresh tomatoe, onion and cilantro salsa to put inside part of the burger. So I recommend this fast food for it’s low calories, nutrition and importantly flavor.
Now along with the Carl’s Junior brand there is a menu branded as Green Burito which I didn’t sampled but which I will check into to see what is acceptable food on that menu. And in addition I see “Eat This, Not That” on their website has “The Nine Healthiest Mexican Foods,” which I’ll be looking at. There is a great deal of information available on the internet about what is good for your health and what tastes good.
I went to Carl’s Junior about 12.30 and the lunch time trade was going strong with a full parking lot and almost no free tables. But I’m pretty sure they weren’t all there chomping on the Turkey Burger. And that is OK because at the moment we still seem to have some free choice in what we eat despite encroaching Government nannyism. You don’t really change behaviour by force and government directives, you just send the behaviour underground with the consequent attempts to circumvent the controls. So while I advocate healthy food choices, I want to emphasis the word choices.
Now I was so impressed by the quality of the food at Carl’s Junior and the friendly service that after I left I thought I’d like to instigate a regular lunch time meeting for the men in the family. I have seven sons and the eight of us could enjoy a relaxing trip to Carl’s Junior for food and friendship maybe once a week. A male bonding experience! The only hitches to that plan could be that one of the boys runs his own pharmacy and has a hard time leaving the business, and another is a vegan. He tells me Burger King has a veggie burger but I don’t think that Carl’s Junior has that option. Getting eight busy males together may be difficult but I think it would be great to communicate (usually about football, and basketball) and have some fun. That too can contribute to good health; believe me, as there would be plenty of laughing and joking. We all need a break from the stresses and strains of life. So have fun.
