Choices, choices ???...

Today I was faces with a couple of choices I wasn't prepared for. I had to go back into town this after noon to take my son to a meeting. He was going to be served dinner but, the rest of us that were hanging around till he was done were not getting dinner and I did not pack anything to take with us. So......as you may have guessed that leaves eating out! I was feeling really cheep and not wanting everyone to load up on fast food so we went to Taco Bell. They got two things each from the value menu ($.99 & under) and I got one thing and a side of lettuce. Well, I chose a small nacho that was new on the menu.......bad choice! it was loaded with calories, fat and sodium! I would have been better off just having a regular burrito or even better yet, calorie wise, a taco. I was not prepared and was not thinking when I ordered it.......and to top it off it wasn't even that good! As the evening went on we attended the missionary report meeting and when it was all over guess what.......all my kids are hungry again, of course! I did not want to go home and cook at 9:30pm so once again.......fast food! This time they wanted McDonalds and I said "O.k......one thing from the....you guessed it....value menu! " They all chose a chicken sandwich without mayo and I chose a yogurt fruit parfait. This turned out to be the better of the two things I was thinking of choosing, the other one was the grilled shicken snack wrap. I looked these up and was shocked at the sodium content of the snack wrap..... 800 mg!!!! in that little thing!!!
The yogurt parfait had only 160 calories and 85mg of sodium. :)


So, after all this I made a bad choice at Taco Bell and a good one at McDonalds. Calorie count was still within my days count but I think I could have made a better choice at Taco Bell.

Because I retain so much water I have been looking at the sodium content of foods a bit closer and not just the calories and fat.