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Valerie, I'd love to look through a book like that. I hardly ever eat fast food, but it's just more of a reason not to, y'know?
I love cooking too much to pay someone else to do it badly for me.

Or popular drinks ...
Worst Smoothie – Smoothie King Peanut Power Plus Grape (large, 40 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 20 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Worst Drive-Thru Shake – McDonald’s Triple Thick Chocolate Shake (large, 32 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 13 McDonald’s Baked Hot Apple Pies
Worst Frozen Fruit Drink – Krispy Kreme Lemon Sherbet Chiller (20 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 16 medium-size chocolate eclairs
Worst Float – Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Soda (vanilla ice cream and cola) (large, 28.6 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 9.7 Fudgsicle fudge bars
Worst Frozen Coffee Drink – Dairy Queen Caramel MooLatte (24 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 12 Dunkin’ Donuts Bavarian Kreme Doughnuts
Worst Lemonade – Auntie Anne’s Wild Cherry Lemonade Mixer (32 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 11 bowls of Cookie Crisp cereal
Worst Espresso Drink – Starbucks Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha with Whipped Cream (Venti, 20 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 8½ scoops Edy’s Slow Churned Rich and Creamy Coffee Ice Cream
Worst Juice Imposter – Arizona Kiwi Strawberry (1 can, 23 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 7 bowls of Froot Loops
Worst Functional Beverage – Arizona Rx Energy (1 can, 23 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 6 Cinnamon Roll Pop-Tarts
Worst Soda – Sunkist (1 bottle, 20 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 6 Breyers Oreo Ice Cream Sandwiches
Worst Bottled Coffee – Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino (1 bottle, 13.7 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 32 Nilla Wafers
Worst Energy Drink – Rockstar Energy Drink (1 can, 16 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 6 Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Doughnuts
Worst Bottled Tea – SoBe Green Tea (1 bottle, 20 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 4 slices Sara Lee Cherry Pie
Worst Water – Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water (1 bottle, 20 fl oz); Sugar Equivalent: 2 Good Humor Chocolate Éclair Bars

Haha, idk .. I LOVE ice cream and milkshakes but I have learned to go smaller.
The top one (from the list I took those from)was Cold Stone's PB&C Shake which has peanut butter and chocolate ice cream in it. It was the equivalent of 32 Chips Ahoy cookies or something which also comes out to like .. 68 strips of bacon or something?
So .. a shake that's like drinking 68 strips of bacon?!! lol
That is .. indeed ... pretty gross. XD

I must say this exact information is what got me to READ LABELS.
To find out all the sugar and calories in something called "antioxidant water" really changed how I look at everything I consume. It's all lies! They don't care if they are killing you.

Also I learned some of the dyes they use in packaged food+drinks are by products of chemicals. Ick!
I am convinced that artificial ingredients (not just sugar)have been killing me. I hope to grow 100% of my food one day by learning to make my own cheese and raise chicken+fish.
I'm stick of the lies and crap n packaged foods. It's killing us all. ; ^;
Damn you chez-its~!!

Some of the most delicious things are the worst for you ;w;

It would be pretty neat to grow your own food. I intend to someday have a constant supply of chickens and bunnies, but they'll be for my future cattery, not for myself. I don't know how I would feel about eating rabbit, especially one I raised. Chickens I could handle, and eggs for sure, but rabbits are more of a pet. Feeding it to another animal would be different though I think..

++ Valerie, how do you find the switch from whole to skim? I switched from 2% to 1% a couple years ago and drinking 2% now is pretty gross, it's way too creamy.

I could NEVER kill a chicken,cut off its head, pluck it and all the other stuff involved. gonk

Yes most dressings are pure fat with as little as 2 tablespoons. The problem with some meat is salt.

Yea, like pastrami .. it has so much salt. x~x

I will have to be able to pluck a chicken. If not .. I will just have to not eat a chicken. It's not fair it should be done for me by a meat packing plant ... that is just a horrible life in a box for the chicken. I'd rather make sure it doesn't have to spend it's life in a box of it's own crap.