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You could be surprised to see the words health food in the same sentence as the words fast food and maybe you thought fast food is the ultimate sin unless you’re trying to gain weight. It’s possible however to include fast food in your diet, even if you’re trying to eat more healthily or lose a few pounds.
Healthy eating is something that’s always in the news these days and fast food restaurants are starting to offer healthier options and low calorie side dishes as well as the hamburgers and fried chicken.
Watch What You Order
Daily, one in four Americans will eat fast food and a lot of fast food choices pack in enough calories, fat, and sodium to provide your complete daily requirements. In addition to that, many people don’t know enough about nutrition to make good choices. A green salad might look like a healthy choice but if it’s smothered in high fat dressing and covered in deep fried croutons, it might contain more calories than a hamburger.
The only way to know exactly what ingredients are in your food is to prepare your own. You might not consider yourself much of a cook but some recipes are so simple that absolutely anybody can make them.
Techniques to Enjoy Fried Chicken the Healthy Way
Fried chicken, for example, is a food that many people love. If you’ve some chicken pieces, flour, batter, oil and a deep fat fryer you can make your own in minutes. You can also make the right amount of fried chicken. In a fast food restaurant, you often get a large portion by default and feel like you’ve to finish all, to avoid wasting food.
Satisfying your craving for fast food once a week by making fried chicken recipes at home means you’re less likely to give into temptation and visit fast food chains, pigging out on huge helpings and ordering high calorie milkshakes and fries to go with your chicken or burger.
If you’re really watching your calorie or fat intake, you’ll be pleased to hear that there’s an answer to the deep frying problem and that’s called oven fried chicken. Oven fried chicken is literally baked chicken in a crispy batter which tastes like deep fried chicken, except with less fat and fewer calories.
Whether you wish to make a healthy oven fried chicken recipe or indulge your craving for fried chicken once a week, you can incorporate fried chicken into a healthy diet as long as you also eat fruit, vegetables and grains as well.
The saying “a little of what you fancy does you good” is true and there’s no harm enjoying fried food occasionally, as long as you eat a balanced diet.
