McBreakfast vs Madam Breakfast

Seattle Times reports on Fast Food giants fighting over breakfast market share. While Wendzilla and Rodan McD are battling it out over you and your money, here are my top five reasons for choosing homemade:

1) Homemade can be just as quick. Really, how long does it take to mix some fruit into oatmeal? Or peel a banana? Or grab some nuts?

2) Rats. Cockroaches. Teenagers cooking your food for minimum wage. In other words, stuff happens:

"In a Chicago Wendy’s, inspectors found dead rodent decomposing on a rat trap. At a California Taco Bell, someone bit into a taco, only to find chewing gum. An inspector in Texas found a worm in a Wendy’s salad. At a Hardee’s in Florida, a customer was handed a cup of soda with blood dripping from it. There was blood on her change as well. The list goes on. A cockroach in someone’s soda, a sharp metal object in a man’s sandwich." Dirty dining? ‘Dateline’ hidden cameras investigate cleanliness of America’s top 10 fast food chains

3) You are what you eat. And in case of fast food, you are a cocktail of flavor chemicals created by flavor chemists. An imitation, if you will. Eating real whole food will create real healthy cells. That's a promise.

4) Science. "Eating at Fast-food Restaurants More than Twice Per Week is Associated with More Weight Gain and Insulin Resistance in Otherwise Healthy Young Adults" What a mouthful. Bad pun so totally intended.

5) Better relationships. Eat together, stay together. Slowing down to chew, to laugh, to talk and actually enjoy your breakfast makes all the difference.