Stay away from fast food if you want to have a healthy body and a healthy marriage. Yes, you heard it - fast food addiction could be a significant contributing factor to people needing divorce lawyers.
For a start, fast food is usually loaded with fat and sugar. That really helps you to load on the pounds and look attractive. Not.
As your arteries clog up with fat your whole body begins to go down hill, but that's not the only killer.
Think of the stress it causes on your wallet. The average fast food meal costs about $7. Now if you're in the habit of upsizing it'll probably cost you $7.60 - yep, double the fat for 10% extra cost. Now that's value.
Now multiply that by two adults and three children and you've got a meal cost of over thirty five dollars. Add another five dollars in running costs to get to the fast food outlet and back home and you've got a forty dollar meal.
So now, compare that against the alternative option of buying some nutritious food ingredients from your supermarket. That might cost you, say, $15 to feed two adults and 3 kids and possibly 30-40 minutes to cook the meal.
Ok, I can appreciate that it's not really as convenient as buying fast food, but then the outcome of habitually eating fast food isn't that convenient either.
Firstly, you're saving $25 or more on a meal. For a fast food addict, that could be $100 or more a week, or $5000 a year! And that's not to mention you're saving your health at the same time.
The pressure of financial stress is often a large factor in divorce, and as you are able to see, having a fast food habit will contribute substantially to that stress. Could you imagine as an alternative investing $5000 every 12 months into your marriage and family?
What about having a $5000 yearly pay cut in exchange for some more holiday time. This way you may be able to spend some real time with each other and not be strangers beneath the same roof.
What else could you do with another $5000 per year? Pay off the mortgage much faster? Take your spouse out to a fine restaurant every fortnight and paying a babysitter so that you can have some 'together' time?
So now I'm sure you will comprehend. If you want a great marriage and want to keep the divorce lawyers away, keep away from fast food. It is going to be a lot better for your body, your finances and your marriage.
For a start, fast food is usually loaded with fat and sugar. That really helps you to load on the pounds and look attractive. Not.
As your arteries clog up with fat your whole body begins to go down hill, but that's not the only killer.
Think of the stress it causes on your wallet. The average fast food meal costs about $7. Now if you're in the habit of upsizing it'll probably cost you $7.60 - yep, double the fat for 10% extra cost. Now that's value.
Now multiply that by two adults and three children and you've got a meal cost of over thirty five dollars. Add another five dollars in running costs to get to the fast food outlet and back home and you've got a forty dollar meal.
So now, compare that against the alternative option of buying some nutritious food ingredients from your supermarket. That might cost you, say, $15 to feed two adults and 3 kids and possibly 30-40 minutes to cook the meal.
Ok, I can appreciate that it's not really as convenient as buying fast food, but then the outcome of habitually eating fast food isn't that convenient either.
Firstly, you're saving $25 or more on a meal. For a fast food addict, that could be $100 or more a week, or $5000 a year! And that's not to mention you're saving your health at the same time.
The pressure of financial stress is often a large factor in divorce, and as you are able to see, having a fast food habit will contribute substantially to that stress. Could you imagine as an alternative investing $5000 every 12 months into your marriage and family?
What about having a $5000 yearly pay cut in exchange for some more holiday time. This way you may be able to spend some real time with each other and not be strangers beneath the same roof.
What else could you do with another $5000 per year? Pay off the mortgage much faster? Take your spouse out to a fine restaurant every fortnight and paying a babysitter so that you can have some 'together' time?
So now I'm sure you will comprehend. If you want a great marriage and want to keep the divorce lawyers away, keep away from fast food. It is going to be a lot better for your body, your finances and your marriage.
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