No matter how healthy or refined we would like our diets to be, life is busy, and it’s pretty much inevitable that a trip to the closest fast food mecca will occur. Just because you succumbed to the easy, greasy goodness of the drive thru doesn’t mean you need to pair your meal with a 64-ounce, sugar-laden monster of a beverage. Go home, sit down at a table (don’t worry, the coffee table counts) and instead class up your fast food with a glass of wine.

Click through the slideshow fore five fast food and wine pairing combos that can turn a value meal and an affordable bottle into a dinner that balances speed and civility.