to let DS have a McDonald's each week?

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DS is a swimmer and swims with a squad that's 45 mins away. He starts training at 6:30 and comes out at 8 (pm btw) and it's very convenient for this day. He is healthy and slim and on all the other days has a good, balanced diet.

Is this seriously so bad?

This thread just just proves people on the internet talk bollocks about stuff they know nothing about.

They use proper 100% beef cuts to make their own mince.

The chicken is chicken breast.

It's like talking to idiots who still think Skodas are shit because they say in one in 1987.

Most of you slagging the place off cook worse food for your kids at home.

I do this once a week and also take DS's onesie and/or PJs and get him ready for bed. We arrive home at 6pm he's fed and ready for bed and my slow cooker is usually just finishing off whatever DH and I are having

I'm someone with happy childhood McDs memories.

We went to one in Florida when we went to Disneyworld, I'd never had anything like it before. We didn't have a McDs in Leeds back then, just Wimpy which was served on a plate by a waitress

Then when I used to be taken to visit my grandparents in Barking in the school hols, we used to swing past McDs on the way

And THEN when they finally opened on in Leeds, very considerately in November, i asked to go there for my birthday

I love a chicken nugget happy meal with a double cheesburger. If you have it with diet coke it removes the calories, everyone knows that

I don't understand why, with all the food that's available, you would, on a regular basis choose to give him shit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Supersize Me show it did have mildly addictive qualities, which mean developing the habit of having one a week isn't a great routine to get into. NRFT but are all his mates from swimming doing it too? Harder to do healthy alternative if that's the case but maybe at least compromise and only do MD every other week or so?

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I've just read that McDonalds dropped using Heinz in 2013"

I also had a very rare MD as a child when we went to London. But that wasn't every week. You can argue that as per their new adverts their 'cuts of meat' are fantastic quality, but it's pretty impossible to have the prices they have when corners aren't being cut in processing, in animal welfare (which, yes, does effect even the least empathetic consumer because it means the animals are full of antibiotics and stress hormones). So, yeah, it's shit.

As kids we had a chippy tea every Sat night after swimming. No maccadees then. As long as you and kids eat well 80% of the time - that seems to work for me.
Although after swimming it is a great time for them to eat loads of good stuff because they are a sooooo hungry. But that is not alwaya practical after a bust day and swimming is at 6

araiwa, better get walking and eating then

Just because you are 7 stone and 5 feet 4 or swim regularly, doesnt mean you are healthy, plenty of unseen fat to worry about. More dangerous than visible fat.If its so amazingly healthy, how can they make it so cheaply?

Carouselfish They have the biggest market share and buy in bulk, hence the prices.

One of my fondest memories of childhood is going to Saturday morning orchestra training for two hours, coming out at 12 and going for a McDonalds (newly opened) with my mum.

The smell of the tomato sauce and the gherkin takes me back; although the recipe has definitely changed since 1990!

its so amazingly healthy, how can they make it so cheaply?

I don't think anyone has claimed it's amazingly healthy.

What people have said is that they use high quality whole cuts of meat and that having McDonalds once a week isn't a problem.

(And as mentioned above, they are the biggest market share and buy in bulk so are able to get discount prices.)

We like to call McDonalds 'the Scottish restaurant', like Macbeth is 'the Scottish play' . It's like it's bad luck to even say the name.😋

When a car pulled alongside dd and me a few years back and asked where the McDs was in our town, I said 'there isn't one, thankfully'. Dd gleefullly recounts this in her best Hyancinth Bucket accent every time people are talking about fast food to prove that I'm a food fascist.😭

I'm not a Ronald fan as you may have gathered, but the food at McDs is probably no worse than any other global fast food brand. In general I'd rather spend money locally on food.

I like feeling well, and for me feeling good and performing well at my sport means eating well. Our older dcs are old enough to earn their own money to spend as they like but they don't seem to want to spend it on fast food chains.

And yes, I know that I'm a smug-middle class-virtue signalling-neurotic-snob.

But at least I have insight.

When did was about 7 she said to me ,I know why they have bins outside Macdonald's, it so they can throw their food in it😂.My DSiL works there whilst he's at uni, and after all he's told me I wouldn't feed a child there. Although he gets to eat there when on duty

Yes McD is not possibly not ideal. Also not really comparable to fish and chips from days gone by (i.e reasonably unprocessed and additive free) It is all relative. If you eat a 100% organic diet but live in the centre of a big city then you might be absorbing more toxins than others. He is active and eats an otherwise balanced diet. As previous posters have said there are less unhealthy options too such as fruit bags and milk. Maybe mix it up a bit and enjoy.

WhatToDo just as a matter of interest can Happy Meals be bought without the toy, and if so is it any cheaper? I feel like too much of a tightwad to ask IRL

My friend's daughter usually has the McTat off me, but she's not really into Minions...

The best ever was a few years go when they had mini games, I've just retrieved the mini Guess Who from the attic and trying to teach my four year old it. Wish they'd do that one again!

You don't have to take the toy but no, it's not cheaper, as the toy is a free gift, its the food you are paying for.

Just because you are 7 stone and 5 feet 4 or swim regularly, doesnt mean you are healthy, plenty of unseen fat to worry about. More dangerous than visible fat.If its so amazingly healthy, how can they make it so cheaply?*

Oh FFS

No one is saying it's incredibly healthy, but so far not a single poster has come up with any actual evidence that it's any worse than fish and chips, cheese sandwich, lasagna, steak pie from the supermarket etc.

Just a load of people forming some snobby opinion and then eating an M&S pasta salad with more fat, salt and sugar in it.

I don't understand why, with all the food that's available, you would, on a regular basis choose to give him shit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Supersize Me show it did have mildly addictive qualities, which mean developing the habit of having one a week isn't a great routine to get into

It's not shit, its just food, and yes you are wrong. Chicken nuggets do not have addictive properties, its not fucking crack.

BTW, American McD's is entirely different from European ones, so please stop referencing documentaries made in the States.

YANBU I love McDonalds. My children don't like it sadly, so never really get to eat it. I also don't think McD is any worse than the average Starbucks meal

WhatToDo just as a matter of interest can Happy Meals be bought without the toy, and if so is it any cheaper? I feel like too much of a tightwad to ask IRL

You can ask for it without the toy, but it won't be any cheaper! There isn't a button on the till for it, I'm afraid, and while we do small fries separately, we don't do four nuggets, only six.

So 6 nuggets (£2.89) + small fries (0.89) = £3.78, and a happy meal is £2.69... so you really are getting a good deal even without the toy!

Is the American version really different? Bigger, I suppose?

Not just bigger. Their food standards and laws are completely different and many of the products bear little relation to the European menus.

When I take my children to McDonalds I order 3 happy meals one with nuggets and then two with burgers. My dd doesn't like the burgers at McDonalds but she will eat nuggets. I enjoy a Big Mac meal but at the moment I am on a change of eating not diet plan. Unfortunately it wasn't McDonalds that made me fat.