Daily Menu for June 19

What is really in that fast food chicken grilled breast? If you thought "just chicken", boy were you wrong! Look at ALL THESE INGREDIENTS for one piece of chicken - including sugar, soy and wheat (common allergens) and partially hydrogenated oils! It definitely isn't CORE. If I wasn't already off of fast food meat, this might be enough to scare me away.

This is from the McDonalds ingredients page.

Grilled Chicken Breast Filet:
Chicken breast filets with rib meat, water, seasoning (salt, sugar, food starch-modified, maltodextrin, spices, dextrose, autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed [corn gluten, soy, wheat gluten] proteins, garlic powder, paprika, chicken fat, chicken broth, natural flavors (plant and animal source), caramel color, polysorbate 80, xanthan gum, onion powder, extractives of paprika), modified potato starch, and sodium phosphates. CONTAINS: SOY AND WHEAT. Prepared with liquid margarine: Liquid soybean oil, water, partially hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, salt, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, soy lecithin, mono- and diglycerides, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (preservative), artificial flavor, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene (color). CONTAINS: SOY LECITHIN

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Daily Menu

Breakfast
oatmeal
1 c. milk
peach
1 c. raspberries

Lunch
2 tortillas, 1 oz. cheese - 5
Big veggie salad with homemade raspberry vinaigrette

Dinner
Lemon Snapper
Zucchini sauteed in olive oil
Wild rice
1 c. milk

WPA (Weekly Points Allowance) points used today: 5
WPA points available: 21
Activity points today: 4
Activity points this week: 8

Daily 8 - the 8 Healthy Guidelines
1. Fruits and veggies - 6
2. Whole grains - oatmeal, brown rice
3. Milk - yes
4. Healthy oil - yes
5. Protein - yes
6. Limit sugar and alcohol - yes
7. Water - 8+
8. Multivitamin - yes