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[beetiger]

I never really was much of a fast food type. I've eaten it regularly because it's convenient and I'm lazy sometimes, but I've never craved it. Unhealthy food, yes: bubble tea and pork dumplings and hot sugar-and-cinnamon cookies and especially pie, but not really burgers and fries. Not only that, I went to see Super Size Me not too long ago, and I read through Fast Food Nation every once in a while. Hell, I used to work for the big food companies, albeit in beverages; I know the stuff is hideous and addictive. Not the best lactating fare, truly.

But I'm finding myself eating a lot of fast food these days. Why? It's the harried mommy diet. You see, in Westchester, you pretty much have to drive everywhere, so the baby is in the car a lot. He falls asleep there, but doesn't really transfer out of the car to the house very well. So, when I'm on my way home for lunch after a morning appoitment, I have two basic choices. I can go home, fail to keep the baby asleep, and try to eat while tending an unhappy underslept baby, or I can go to a place that will give me food that I can acquire and eat without getting out of the car, while my baby sleeps peacefully. So, I eat the things you can get at drive-through windows.

If someone would open a place that would serve me healthy food in my car in my neighborhood, I'd be there all of the time.

Yeah, I could pack myself a lunch the night before, and bring it with me, I guess. But somehow, being hungry and having a sleeping baby in the car seems to take me by surprise every time.

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[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'll check that out.