My Life With Fast Food

As a child I rarely ate fast food. Home cooked meals are so much better. Happily I had an abundance of those growing up. Many of the dishes contained elk and deer meat my family had hunted. When I was old enough I also contributed to the stock in the freezer. The only time I can remember eating fast food was on extended road trips. Like when we visited Grandma. Her house was eight hours away in eastern Montana. My dad didn't like to stop for too long along the way. He wanted to get there as soon as possible. Fast food fit into that philosophy: get in and get out and maybe use the bathroom if you needed to. It wasn't until high school that I really started to eat fast food. Depending on what was available in the cafeteria dictated whether I ate fast food or not. Because cafeteria food came with the stigma of being in the cafeteria I found myself eating out more often than not. When I got my first car it made it even more likely; the greater range meant more food possibilities could be obtained. Even then it was just for lunch. I still had mom's cooking to go home to. After graduation I ate even less fast food. I moved into my friend's house who happened to be a chef. So if I did the dishes he would feed me. I also found that I liked to cook. So if I didn't want to do his dishes I fed myself. For work I brought a bagged lunch most of the time. Though I did indulge in the occasional frosty with fries. Fast food rarely factored into the equation at the time. When I joined the US Navy I never ate fast food. Having matured I no longer had a stigma for cafeterias and regularly enjoyed food at the galley. It wasn't until I got married and left the Navy that I once again found fast food.

Presently I try to avoid fast food. Besides the fact that I know it's not healthy for me; most of it doesn't taste very good. It's a fast paced world today. Which unfortunately means I have to partake of fast food sometimes. I find myself spending most of my food making time on my kids. Their nutritional needs come first for me. I would much rather they didn't munch on the unmentionables lurking in fast food. So if I only have enough time to make them something I'll tide myself over with fast food. Even though I would prefer anything else. I do like Popeyes and Chick-fil-A, while a frosty and fries still wouldn't be turned away from my stomach. That wraps up my fast food experience.