RowdyGowdy wrote:Sadly, I'm still struggling with overcoming those fast food addictions... support / suggestions ?
With a bit of skill and discipline, any food can become "fast food" at home. You don't have to get lazy and go to a drive-thru and get some mass-produced processed crap.
Hard boiled eggs can be done in 13 minutes which is relatively fast especially when you consider the benefit in protein.
When I eat hard boiled eggs I'll have anywhere from six to ten eggs, but I only eat the whites, I never eat the yellow/yokes. A hard boiled egg white has about 10-12 calories and a decent amount of protein, and they fill you up quite a bit.
Pasta, ideally whole grain type, can be prepared in 11 minutes. I like to mix onions and garlic in with the sauce and then pour the finished pasta into the sauce and stir it up so the pasta is drenched in the sauce and has absorbed the sauce.
You can grill up a chicken breast in 7-10 minutes and have a nice grilled chicken sandwich, I like to add onion powder and garlic powder on my grilled chicken sandwich and I use some honey mustard [a brand without High-fructose corn syrup and without other crap in it].
I've found that people who frequent fast food usually lack basic cooking skills and they tend to suffer from some degree of laziness.
It takes a bit of work, not much, but a bit of work, to boil water, make some eggs, make some pasta, and then clean up afterwards.
One of the major reasons so many children are obese is because most women are too lazy to cook for their children these days. They also tend to think that cooking is beneath them because feminism has taught them that they don't have to cook and that men are wrong to expect them to cook. They don't need to do much to land a man these days, so they don't. A woman would rather come home and throw a bag from McDonald's on the table for her kids and let them wind up 200 pounds by age 12 than spend 40 or even 20 minutes cooking a meal and then 5-6 minutes cleaning up afterwards.
If you're a young man these days you should know how to cook/prepare at least 2-3 breakfast items, 2-3 lunch items, and 4-6 dinner items, because you cannot count on women knowing how to cook [or being willing to cook], and you cannot just get lazy and rely on fast food.
At the very least you need a stove, a microwave [to heat frozen vegetables, I won't eat TV meals and haven't eaten one in probably 5-6 years, I refuse to eat those, and to heat water/reheat left-overs] and a contact grill.
I use my contact grill so much that I go through about one every 12-16 months. I grill a tremendous amount of chicken and steak, probably chicken 2-3 times per week and steak 2-3 times per week, either for lunch or dinner.