Is Fast Food Still Food?

Holy Cow, shifting away from fast food has been a 2-year long struggle for me already, but giving up egg and dairy without giving up fast food entirely - is that even possible??  Yes, as a matter of fact, it is possible.  Some facts:

McDonald's®

• The english muffin does not have egg or dairy in it.  Neither does the sausage.  The american cheese... well, that's stretching it a little... but I can eat a sausage McMuffin without suffering food side affects.
• Coffee with cream & sugar?  No.  Amazingly, McDonald's uses a real creamer, not a non-dairy creamer.  Ixnay on the offeecay.  This leads to another astonishing food fact - non-dairy creamer contains powdered milk.  So it's actually a dairy creamer.  Try Silk® creamer instead.
• French fries are potatoes, right?  Mostly right.  McD's french fries have milk in them.

McDonald's PDF ingredients list

Wendy's®

• French fries made only of potatoes!
• Baked potatoes made only of potatoes! (skip the sour cream)
• Chili made only of chili ingredients that do not include egg or dairy.  (skip the cheese)
• A side salad with romaine lettuce, carrots and tomatoes. (Italian dressing is ok at Wendy's, but not everywhere.)
• Wendy's web site is a little more difficult to navigate, but it is still possible to find the right information.

Wendy's Java Ingredients Finder

Taco Bell®

• Taco Bell has good nutrition/allergen information available on their web site.  I can eat tacos, preferably without the cheese.  Not unexpectedly, most menu items are out.

Taco Bell Allergen Info

Sonic®

•  Yess! Tater tots!
• Not much else, though.  Sonic has incomplete information available.  "* Bread: Sonic does not have a single bread formulation. Sonic purchases from local bakeries and ingredients and allergens may vary."

Sonic PDF Ingredients list

Q'Doba®

• The pork is safe.  The chicken, steak, shredded beef, ground beef and chorizo all contain milk.  Oh yeah, weird food fact - "milk" often means "butter".
• Rice is rice.
• The salsas are all safe, as is the guacamole.

Q'Doba PDF Ingredients list

I don't need to exist on fast food alone.  I do need to know that at the end of one of my grueling weeks I have an option or two about food.  I can be satisfied with that.