To take DD 5 to McDonald's every other weekend?

Good news re different in the UK, thanks both

I think you’re mixing up the US and UK

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Quite.

The fries are made from (checks notes) oh yes, erm, potato and the ice cream is, well, ice cream.

Some people like to suck the joy out of everything.

@quincyquince

The only mistake you've made is to ask on here!!

Ignore your friend she's being a loon!!

Yes and you can say that about pretty much all food in US

McDonald’s USA ingredients are VERY different and much, much worse than McDonald’s uk ingredients. Our fries here are potatoes, oil & salt.

Why are people such wankers?

But it's just chips and ice-cream. What do you think is wrong with it?

That's because it's different in the US. It's not some kind of hidden agenda, they just use different recipes.

In the UK, they really do only have four ingredients.

I think we should be trying to reverse the idea that fast food forms a regular part of a normal diet, as opposed to an occasional and irregular way of eating, so I don't think children should be taken to McDonalds as part of a fortnightly routine.

I don't like McDonald's and so never really went when children were small but can't see the problem with chips and ice cream once a fortnight. Your friend is nuts.

possibly overinvested but I’m waiting for dd…

so I’ve just scrolled a bit further down google as it’s McDonald’s themselves who have probably paid a premium to bag all the top spots on google, but it gets a bit worse when they aren’t in control of what gets reported…

As a woman in my late 30s, I can confirm that getting a cheeseburger from Aspendos Kebab on the way home after swim club on a Thursday night with my mum & sister is a very happy memory. Ignore your friend. Xx

Don’t be so utterly ridiculous! “No way” to Chips once every two weeks?!? You’re just being contrary for attention.

Try having a DC with ASD who only eats chips, sliced carrots & chicken fillets every single day without fail, even though I never willingly gave said DC chips from the moment of birth! Tried it once at school and like many Autistic DC, was hooked on that one meal and stopped eating anything else from that moment forward. Then spent 5 years working with an NHS dietician who has tried & failed to get DC eating other things and has reassured me, in detail, around 400 times that what my DC is eating is more than meeting child’s nutritional requirements and is perfectly healthy.
DC’s GP regaled a story of a school friend of his whom only ever ate jam sandwiches. Not just for school lunches but every meal. He’s now a rugby player for rugby union and is 6’3. Dr said “Most people don’t realise that the majority of food these days is fortified, even things you’d never imagine. It’s overconsumption that’s the biggest issue”.

Just imagine if I came onto MN and said “Is it ok for my child to eat chips every day?” People like you would have a field day. When the reality is, it’s really not that bad! Ffs the poor Victorians living in the slums, ate bread & butter for the majority of their meals and this was long before fortified bread & butter. Can you even imagine….
If anything, demonising treats is going to set up more bad habits with regards to food, than allowing them in moderation!

Good grief of course that’s OK. Anyone even asking the question is not the problem. McDonald’s could serve raw organic broccoli and some people would still find a reason to judge you because they just prefer judging people and feeling superior.

Which is barely anything in the grand scheme of things.

I just get really sick of people acting like McDonald's is some kind of Frankenfood - it might be in the US but in the UK it's literally just...food. It's fine.

Of course it’s ok to take your daughter to McDonalds a couple of times a month!

I just looked up the same thing @faerietales!

not quite as bad as my uneducated guess - but I think if you saw 14% of the weight of a bag of chips in rape seed oil form (so the worst one) I wonder how many tablespoons that is? 2?

I'll accept that chips and ice cream aren't the greatest food for a 5yo, but the idea that they're somehow worse than other chips and icecream because they're from McDs is ridiculous. I can't see any harm in a once a fortnight treat.

It's once a fortnight. It's a small portion of chips. It's after swimming.

Of course it's all right.

I wish I'd done stuff like this with my mum when I was growing up. Instead we had a mum who banged on about diets and calories and "bad" foods all the time, and yes, my sibling and I did both get eating disorders.

They are 100% just potatoes cooked in oil..

Here are the ingredients:

Ingredients: Potatoes, Non-Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed), Dextrose (predominantly added at beginning of the potato season).
Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Salt is added after cooking.

And the percentages

Which shows they're 86% potato and 14% oil. Not exactly awful.

They chuck salt all over the chips once out of the fryer.

I think go if you want - but don’t pretend that any ‘food’ you get from there has any nutritional value whatsoever. It doesn’t. Which is fine occasionally.

Ignore your friend. Sounds like a really nice weekend treat your dd will always have fond memories of.