Running along the lines of last week’s app of the week, Good Food Near You is a great app for those who are attempting to lead a healthier lifestyle. Good Food Near You is a simple yet extremely useful application for people who want to eat healthy but are sometimes too busy to cook for themselves. It is estimated that approximately 25% of Americans eat fast food every day. Those Americans are consuming about 200 calories more daily than Americans who do not eat out. But as we all know, life gets busy and fast food is so much easier than remember to pack a lunch to work or to put the effort into cooking a meal.
Enter, Good Food Near You. This handy little application auto-detects your location (with the option to manually set your location if you desire) and provides you with a list of restaurants in your immediate area sorted by distance. The list can also be sorted by lowest fat. Tap on a restaurant you’re interested in and it will give you a list of menu items sorted by lowest fat, calories or carbs. Tap on an item you’re interested in and you will be able to see all of the nutrition facts for that item. In addition to the menu items you are provided with contact and location information and a link to a map. I have found that the GPS can be a little off sometimes (locating me about 45 mins away from my actual location) but that may be due to my phone as opposed to the actual application.
Overall, this application has proven to be very helpful when I’m traveling as well as in my everyday life. Along with the iphone application Good Food Near You has an equally easy to use web application. Simple and intuitive, this application will help you stay on track with your diet when you don’t have the option of preparing your own meal. Add this application to your arsenal of tools to help meet your weight loss goals.
