Is spending $10 on a single menu item from the same fast food restaurants we’ve eaten $1 value menu options from ever worth it?
To answer that question, we went out and purchased the most expensive menu items from 5 popular fast food chains to eat and let y’all know whether items like that new McDonald’s Smoky BLT Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese or Wendy’s Italian Mozzarella sandwiches are worth splurging or saving on!
For the full scope of what you get for these high-priced fast food options, we snagged a few value menu offerings from the same establishments to see what something like a $1 burrito from Taco Bell looks like next to the $8 version.
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- Wendy’s NEW Italian Mozzarella Triple Cheeseburger + Chicken Sandwich (Limited Time Offering) - Wendy’s Pretzel Bacon Pub Triple Cheeseburger + Chicken Sandwich - McDonald’s NEW Smoky BLT Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese (Limited Time Offering) - Burger King Triple Whopper with Cheese - Taco Bell Double Steak Grilled Cheese Burrito (Limited Time Offering) - Dominos Specialty Pizza with Brooklyn Style Crust XL
*These were the menu items available in December 2022 in the U.S.A. and the price points reflect our specific region (Rhode Island & Southern Massachusetts stores). ____________________________
Q: How do you not gain weight? A: Endurance sports (primarily running, cycling and some resistance training) and extreme discipline & sacrifice with our daily diets is how we manage not to gain weight. We eat mostly vegetables, fruits, some whole grains and low fat dairy on the days outside these videos. The calories consumed in a food challenge or mukbang are the only calories consumed that day and sometimes the day following as well seeing our appetites are typically shot from so much food and the thought of eating is very off-putting. Two days out we are back to large amounts of vegetables and increase to maintenance from there. We also often eat most of our days calories in a smaller eating window (we frequently bounce between intermittent fasting & OMAD diet as it just seems to work with our lifestyles and eating preferences). Anyone with a larger than normal stomach capacity like us, the drive to push through the discomfort of a challenge like this, and a basic understanding of energy balance (calories in vs calories out) can do it with enough disciple and intention (not that we recommend it). Also worth mentioning is that we do not exercise to burn the calories consumed in a video but rather we are able to consume higher calorie diets due to our participation in endurance activities and said discipline with our daily diets.
Q: Can you make a “What I eat in a day” / fitness focused video? A: While we’re sure that type of video will eventually make its way out there, this is not a health and fitness channel and we intend to primarily focus on indulgent food entertainment. We’re still in the very early stages of establishing ourselves within this genre and we’re constantly experimenting and trying to improve upon our style to make our channel a unique experience. Food is our passion while fitness is our discipline so, while we currently only have the availability to produce one quality piece of content a week, fun food-centered videos is where we’ll be focusing our attention (and trust us, it’s more fun for all of us this way). That’s not to say it will never happen, but it’s not a top priority for us.
