It's lunchtime and those golden arches are puling you in. You remember the 8 year old hambuger that you saw at your friends' Health Home Event and decided to get the kids something healthy...McBites!! Well, think again. By the time you read the ingredients, you could have made it home and had some PB & J sandwiches with more nutrition than these.
Chicken breast chunks with rib meat, water, maltodextrin, modified rice starch, yeast extract, sodium phosphates, salt, modified tapioca starch, onion powder, garlic powder, sugar, spices, carrageenan, natural (botanical and animal source) and artificial flavors, chicken broth, citric acid, spice extractive, gum arabic, lactic acid, chicken fat. Battered and breaded with: bleached wheat flour, water, wheat flour, food starch-modified, wheat gluten, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), salt, spices, garlic powder, dried onion, dried garlic, maltodextrin, onion powder, citric acid, natural (plant source) and artificial flavors, lactic acid, yellow corn flower, extractives of paprika and turmeric (color).
Or make them yourself Amanda' recipe includes. chicken breasts, salt, parsley flakes, oregano, onion powder, pepper, eggs beaten, flour, salt, canola oil.
The fewer the ingredients, the better when you are purchasing foods. We want to make SAFE choices for our kids, and teach them to do the same!
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