No sign of wanting more than a Happy Meal here. My daughter last had one the week before her 9th birthday, as we were rushing to get from a matinee in London to get to a friend’s house for the Euro final.
Those details are relevant, as it means that she also had an ice cream in the interval of the show, and there were also snacks freely available during the football (although I don’t recall her particularly helping herself to them).
The last time that I remember buying her a Macdonalds before that was in a service station 9 months earlier, so she hadn’t had lots of junk food around the time of the meal (although I guess she wasn’t expending much energy stuck in the car for 5 hours). She seemed satiated then.
I think she’s been at least twice with friends between those two occasions and definitely had Happy Meals whenever she’s gone, and hasn’t been ravenous when she got home.
If it makes a difference, she also has milk as her drink in the Happy Meal. Milk’s quite filling, isn’t it?
As a side note, I’m interested to see the many posts saying that younger children have grown out of the toy. It’s all about the toy whenever she’s had a Macdonalds. In fact, the only reason we went to that service station in November rather than coming off to find a nice pub was because she wanted the Squishmallow toy!