Why?

First of all, when you eat out — depending on where you go — you don't have any over the ingredients, the calories, or the nutritional profile of what you eat.

Let's consider a sample meal: egg, cheese, and bacon on an English muffin or roll.

If you order this at a restaurant or at a fast-food place, you will probably get it on a white muffin, or on a white roll.

The bacon will most likely be the ordinary type, made of fatty pork and preserved with sodium nitrite. The cheese will usually be processed American. The egg will be standard battery-farm type. Oils are very often partially hydrogenated with trans-fats.

The whole thing will be overly fatty and high-glycemic, most likely with extra sugars snuck in here and there.

If you make this at home, you can use organic, free-range eggs, uncured, preservative-free, low-fat, or low-sodium bacon (or even turkey bacon), low-fat cheese, and a whole wheat muffin or bun.

You can control all these variables, and have a meal that is much more beneficial for you. It will satisfy your hunger far longer than the denatured, fat-filled version.

As an extra bonus, you will reap the pleasure of knowing that these little changes bestow significant health benefits for you over time.

It is obviously more work to make this at home, but with a little planning, not nearly as hard as you may think.

Preparation:

1. Toast muffin lightly.
2. Microwave bacon 1 minute (approx).
3. Cook egg (or egg sub) on sprayed pan until done.
4. Put egg on bun, add bacon, add slice of cheese.

Done!