Welcome to the Eat This Not That podcast. I'm John Hammond and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi everyone.

And this week we are going to shock and surprise you a bit.

Yeah, that's right.

I mean, this isn't quite a scared straight episode, but if you frequently find yourself ordering

your meals from a drive-through window, then this one might be a bit enlightening for you, which is what we're going for, of course, right, John? That's right. Because believe it or not, there has been a dramatic shift in the way we eat in the last couple of years, actually. And it was just a couple years ago that for the first time ever in this country, Americans spent more money per year eating out than they did at the grocery store.

The first time ever?

For the first time ever.

That's amazing.

It was, uh, I think it was at the end of 2016, the survey results came out.

And it was the first time that they've been conducting those surveys that more money was

spent at restaurants or, uh, quick service restaurants than at, uh, supermarket's grocery stores.

Yeah, which is terrifying because, you know, you're not

taking control of your food source, which it's not surprising that it runs parallel with the

obesity epidemic in this country, all of the health kind of issues that, you know, the heart

disease and all those kinds of things. So, so anyway, so that's why we wanted to kind of talk about

this today because, you know, so many of us are trying to balance all of life's responsibilities, appointments, errands, whatever you might have.

And for a lot of us, that's going to mean fast food.

Of course. And because we go for fast food, like you said, when we're pinch for time, we don't have time to cook at home.

And it's really easy to miss some of the

surprising realities around these meals and the dramatic impact they can have on your health. Like,

you know, we did the episode on salads and it was shocking how oftentimes, 2,000 calorie

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