Most of us love ordering fast food.  It saves us time in preparing and cooking our own food and it taste great.  But a lot of us don’t know what ingredients were used to come up with our fast-food favorites.  Before you gobble your way through another value meal, take time reading this to understand what’s really in your food.

1. A normal nugget would contain chicken and breading.  But the meat in the McNugget contains 7 ingredients like water, wheat starch, dextrose, safflower oil and sodium phosphates and some of these ingredients are made up of more ingredients. The breading is made up of another 20 ingredients.  Wendy’s Chicken Nuggets…

If you’re tired of eating the same bland vegetables everyday, here are a few tips to make your veggie dishes more exciting.

1. Some vegetables increase in flavor as they mature and are also much bitter and less tender.  Instead of using mature vegetables, try purchasing baby vegetables.  Baby vegetables like artichokes, turnips, squashes, Brussels sprouts and carrots are much tender, sweeter and take less time to cook.  You can find the babies at larger supermarkets, specialty grocers or farmers markets.

2. Dunk raw slices of veggies in hummus, low-fat dips or your favorite salad dressing for a healthy and low calorie snack.

3. Toss slices of cheese in your favorite green salad.

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