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Fast Food Nutrition Lesson
Objective: Use the Internet and spreadsheets to find calories and fat in a typical fast food meal and compare with
different restaurants.
A. Decide which 2 fast food restaurants you would like to visit. Use the web addresses below, copy and paste the
web address into your internet search engine.
McDonald's: http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.index1.html
Burger King: http://www.bk.com/
Wendy's: http://www.wendys.com/the_menu/nut_frame.html
Other: http://nutritiondata.self.com/
(This site allows you to search many fast food restaurant sites.)
B. Once you have decided on a Fast Food Restaurant. Plan a meal plan a meal with a sandwich, salad or other
main dish, a side dish (French fries, etc), a drink, and a dessert.
For each item on your menu, record the
Total calories
The calories from fat
Total fat
Sodium
C. Take your meal you planned with the nutrition information you got and put it on a spreadsheet
as shown. Open up Microsoft Office and click on Excel.
McDonalds
Crispy Chicken Ranch BLT
Medium French Fries
Medium Diet coke
Fruit and Yogurt Parfait
Calories
Carbs
580
380
0
160
Total Fat
62
48
0
31
Sodium
23
19
0
2
1400
270
30
85
*Just for your information a healthy way of eating is consuming about 2000 or fewer calories in one day. Your daily Total Fat
intake should be less than 65g and your daily Sodium should be less than 2,400g.
D. You will need to do step B, C, and E for both restaurant meals.
one from Burger King and one from McDonald’s.
For example
E. After you have recorded your meal and nutrition information in your spreadsheet you will then be able to use
the information to make a graph.
1. You will need to highlight/select all your information
2. Then click on insert at the top of your toolbar.
3. Click on Chart
4. Click on Column for your chart type
5. Last Click on Finish
1600
1400
1200
Crispy Chicken Ranch
BLT
1000
Medium French Fries
800
Medium Diet coke
600
Fruit and Yogurt Parfait
400
200
0
Calories
Carbs
By: Mrs ASHFAQ
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Total Fat
Sodium