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Taco Bell released their "first meal" (read: breakfast) menu in 10 Western states this week, including California and Arizona. The menu includes three varieties of burritos, along with fried balls of cinnamon-flavored dough, stuffed with cream.
While full information on the breakfast items isn't yet available (and they won't make their way across the country until 2013), it's an unexpected entry into the fast-growing convenience breakfast market.
Obviously, Taco Bell wasn't going for healthy fare.
Many fast food breakfast menu items are presented as if they are nutritionally sound. But it's a good idea to take a closer look.
Here are a few seemingly redeemable 'first meals' that deserve a skeptical eye:
Jamba Juice actually serves real honest-to-goodness steel cut oats, which is much better than either McDonald’s or Starbucks.
If I wanted instant oatmeal, I would buy it at the grocery store and not at McDonald’s.
I stopped at a Starbucks for breakfast once. They made the oatmeal by mixing hot water with a packet of Quaker instant oatmeal! Yeah, they add nuts and fruit to it, but I can get instant quaker oats a lot cheaper than that.
thanks for posting.
lol good one
anybody eating at fast food restaurants should know it isn’t healthy fare
agreed, i do the 80/20 rule, 80 percent healthy, 20 not.
hahahahaha i love it, i did the same thing. i dont eat after dinner so i live vicariously through these stories.
i love the apples and cinnamon or whatever it is. you have made me hungry!
It is as good as it looks!
Talk about starting your day on the wrong foot, fast food will do that!
Yep, nothing like a big plateful of cholesterol with a side of salt, fat and nitrates!
Ring the bell at taco Bell and burn your ass
Get up and fix your own breakfast ya lazy whippersnappers
it’s probably the "portion distortion"….most people eat too much oatmeal
starbucks perfect oatmeal, hold the sugar! Theee best
I buy the pkgs of instant oatmeal and eat daily spending less than $3 a week. I have it at home and at work so I’m covered in both places. Instant is cooked in less than 3 minutes. We’d be in line for at least 5. Add fruit and I know I’ve done great.
It’s good cholesterol though, and eggs have a lot of other nutrients as well.
Oatmeal is not healthy food. Just a bowl of carbs topped with carbs. No thank you. I’ll eat my eggs and bacon.
Eating Taco Bell at 3am after a long night out isn’t breakfast?
1 egg? Ha that’s funny. Says who? The makers of Lipitor?
Just because things look good to eat doesn’t mean its the best for u. U need to eat foods that are healthy, but at the same time unhealthy foods are needed to. There should be more healthy foods in your diet though a little quantity of unhealthy foods are needed for your body in order to be as healthy as a horse.
I really don’t have a meaningful comment, but the food pictures looked so tasty that I had to click on this article. That Chick-fil item looked great.
I like hard boiled eggs for breakfast too. Fast and tasty. Problem is, one egg is a whole day’s worth of cholesterol.
Gross. Hard boil a dozen eggs and keep them at the ready in your refrigerator. Make a bowl of plain instant oatmeal (takes two minutes; peel yourself two eggs while that’s cooking) and add fresh or frozen blueberries, or a sliced banana, and cinnamon. Breakfast is ready in under 5 minutes for well under $2. Eating fast food for breakfast? Seriously? Where are we going? And why are we all in this handbasket?
McDonalds oatmeal is just instant doctored up with fruit.
All the fast food joints want your money. They disguise breakfast as being healthy. It is still all fat, sodium and Taco Bell’s balls are full of sugar.
There is a great website that breaks down the healthiest options at popular restaurants, coffee shops and fast food places. This page showcases the best things to order at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King and more. Definitely eye opening.
Eat This, Not That
http://www.skinnyscoop.com/listitem/42867/11830/subway-mcdonalds-wendys-etc
Taco Bell in the Healthy Living segment, Really?