How healthy is your favorite fast food chain?

Maybe you feel rushed sometimes and your budget does not allow for you to eat healthier food, which can be expensive; so, you often resort to fast food restaurants. While it’s understandable that everyone does not have time to cook or cannot buy groceries at an organic grocery store, there are ways to eat healthier, even at fast food chains.

Wake Forest Baptist Health has provided an interactive tool that allows you to assess the nutritional value of items at fast food restaurants. Click HERE to access Wake Forest’s helpful tool, and enjoy searching through some of your favorite fast food menus (webpage shared with permission from Wake Forest Baptist Health)!

Now that you have a better understanding of fast food chains, I still need help with budgeting to eat healthier and complement my physical activity program. How can I eat healthy on a budget?

>Check out the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s site, “ChooseMyPlate,” which provides useful informational on how to eat healthy on a budget.

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