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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if i had to chose i would say wendys or taco bel. I would never feed my kids macdonalds.

that said on those nights we choe [b]healthier fast food like district taco or a sub shop[/b]. [/quote]

Whatever gave you the idea that those joints are "healthier?"[/quote]

How are they not?

Let me see, a place like district taco that makes their food fresh every day and uses fresh ingredients like meats, grilled veggies and serves kids meals with black beans or a burger from MacDonald's that has about 50 ingredients, chemical preservatives and is made in some plant in the middle of god knows where ?  how is district Taco not healthier? [/quote]

You are really gullible. You can make poor choices in either establishment. But from a nutrition standpoint, a McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese will have half the calories, fat, and sodium as a District Taco burrito. Chips and salsa from District Taco will have loads more fat and sodium than French fries.

As for the sub shop, sure you can eat healthy there. If you stick to a veggie sub.[/quote]

sure but my son is not eating a DT buritto with a bag of chips. I'd never argue that a huge boritto is healthy, but what kid is eating a buritto? i can't eat one. . He gets a flour tortilla with chicken, cheese (they put about 1-2 tbsp) and guacamole, rice and black beans. the only heavily processed thing is the tortilla.
 
are you really arguing that you would feed your child a MacDonald's burger and fries over this?? who's gullible??
a quarter pounder with cheese has 520 calories, 30g of fat, 1100 mg of sodium...

I can take the worst menu option at any restaurant and try to say that it means that place is less healthier than another place, but that is not a fair argument.
it also depends on what you mean when you say healthy. Is health to you defined as calories, sodium content and fat or does it matter where those nutrients are coming from and the quality  and freshness of that food?[/quote]

BTW, I used the Chipotle calculator and put in the meal you described.

Got 1,000 calories, 40.5 grams of fat, 1790 grams of sodium. http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/menu/nutrition_calculator/nutrition_calculator.aspx

I know it's not District Taco, but it would basically the same thing.[/quote]

Um the chipolte taco calculator is for 3 tacos. A 6 inch flour tortilla, chicken, cheese small scoop of guacamole and 1/2 c rice and black bean is not quite the same.

Either eat my logic is that quality matters and simply looking at calories is not the same. 
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