I've been seeing a nutritionist to try to help with weight loss and his emphasis has been on a healthy plate, which is a plate that is half vegetables, a quarter protein, a quarter starch or grains. Even at nice restaurants, it is extremely difficult to order meals that fit these proportions, and, as you move down the quick service spectrum it gets harder and harder. By the time you arrive at fast food, its difficult to find a vegetable at all.

And, almost all the vegetables you find at quick service restaurants are lettuce or greens heavy salads, which are fine, but not ideal. Really, the only way to guarantee that you are getting a vegetable heavy diet is by cooking at home.

The less we cook at home and the more we eat out, the fatter we (as a society) will become.