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Kids that Jack goes to school with often have parents show up with a “happy meal,” (a name I have always thought ironic,) or some other fast food junk.

See I was a vegitarian for seven years of my life (I eat meat now because I married a carnivorious man, and well, when in Rome…,) but I was never able to shake that icky feeling Mcdonalds gave me. I can count on my hands how many times I have eaten there in the last ten years, and almost all of those times were for breakfast while traveling.

When we drive by Mcdonnad’s now my kids will say “YUCKY!!! But the toys are cool. That’s how they trick you.” Hahaha! They buy into the multi billion dollar marketing like most everyone else and are enchanted by the lure of what ever toy they are pushing just like everyone else.

In fact when Jack was still a toddler a pepsi truck pulled up beside our car at a red light and he yellled “mama, mama, ba-ba-ba-ba-bahhhh!” We don’t even drink soda in our house, except Aaron at night when he is working. It took me a moment to figure out that he was calling the ginormous pepsi logo that because of the song they sang on the comercials that flooded the air waves at the time. It hit home to me that markeing for all this rott gut food “product” is litterally made to reach people from the cradle to the grave. It’s all about the money.

When Aaron and I watched Morgan Spurlocks ‘Super Size Me,’ it was a refreshing lesson in why we don’t often do fast food.

Our fast food for us is usually, a Jack’s sandwich through the drive thru, or me running into a grocery store to get something with some nutritional value. I make a point to never leave the house with out ice water for everyone and a few snacks to hold us over when we get the urge to splurge.

We do, on rare occasions, grab Chic-fil-A (when we have cupons,) or Taco Bueno bean burritos. Those two more closely resemble real food than a burger that contains 50 different unpronounceable ingredients. Burgers should have one ingredient. Beef.

So, that is how I feel about the evil fast food industry that has creeped into the American way of life, changed how we eat, and become so common place that most people don’t blink an eye at eating “food like” things for the convience.

Our Pediatrician Dr. Mccrory put it best “food doesn’t come from windows.”]]>

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