Four Alarm Foods - Part 1 - The Convenience Store

There's going to be a lot of instances when you're forced to make choices outside of your regular "healthy diet." You're not going to be anywhere near a chicken breast or brown rice and veggies. What do you do? Well, here's part 1 of a part 5 series where I'm going to discuss your healthiest options.

What could be simpler than running into the am/pm or 7 Eleven. You're on your way to a doctor's appointment or to drop the kids off at practive and you need a quick snack. Which one of these would you pick?

A) Jack Link's Beef jerky and a small bag or Corn Nuts
B) Nachos and a blueberry muffin
C) A bean and beef burrito

With option B, the neon-orange "cheese" on those nachos could come from a hot vat that hasn't been cleaned in weeks. Along with that you get a blueberry muffin equipped with 710 calories, a very low 10 grams of protein, 85 grams of carbs and 36 grams of fat.

With the beef and bean burrito, it may seem like a well-rounded meal. But guess what? It's overloaded with carbs (37 gram), and although it's only 9 grams of fat, it only has 15 grams of protein in which you'd want to eat almost 2 to make it a good protein source. But with that you'd have to eat twice the fat (18 GRAMS!)

Stick with low fat (2 grams), high protein (28 grams) beef jerkey and a small bad (1.7 oz) bag of corn nuts, which boasts 20 grams of slow digesting carbs (corn is fairly low on the glycemic index) and just 5 grams of fat. So the answer is A.