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?

I hate macdonalds but I can't see a.problem. as long as it's not supervise soda or.milkshakes.
There's a big enough range of wraps and subs that it's not all those sugary buns now.

My only major gripe with mcds is kids should have a blooming happy meal till secondary Age. If you watch super size me it shows originally a happy meal was about the size of an adults meal and it really bugs me when I see young kids having the big grown up meals. I took a load of 8 year olds as a birthday treat and they were right fed up to have a happy meal the greedy tykes (and are all a bit podgy a few years later) sorry portion control is a bit of a thing to me (work related have to constantly talk to parents about it)

Atenco I presume you mean eating at Mcdonald's every day? Because I've eaten plenty of McDonald's throughout my life and I'm in no way obese.

Atenco I presume you mean eating at Mcdonald's every day? Because I've eaten plenty of McDonald's throughout my life and I'm in no way obese.

I used to take my DD2 and her friend to swimming lessons every Friday and on the way home they had a Macdonalds. They loved it and saw it very much as an end of week treat. Both have grown up to be tall slim healthy young adults.

We weren't allowed McDs growing up (1980s) but probably as it was full of rubbish then. I do remember mum getting us custard tarts or doughnuts on a Saturday lunch time and about once a month we had a take away, either fish & chips or curry. The childminder gave us jelly tots too!

Nowadays McDs is much better nutritionally and has better ingredients as others have said. Probably better than standard supermarket burgers & chicken nuggets from the freezer section.

Got for it.

I don't trust the bloody stuff. Of my dd's friends at school, only she and another friend didn't eat at McDonalds and didn't become obese (and I mean obese) as adults.

There are plenty of people who eat McDonald's and aren't/don't become obese.

If you're into anecdotes I can tell you about my friend who was banned from eating McDonald's as a child which made it so intriguing that when she was old enough to go herself she went everyday and put shed loads of weight on.

Eating an occasional take away in an otherwise healthy diet is absolutely fine.

My DD is a swimmer too and trains 5 times a week and shock horror she had KFC last night. She eats a balanced diet the rest of the week so I really don't see an issue with it. Sometimes it's just the easiest thing to do to grab fast food, we might ring the changes with a subway salad but only if this is her preference at that time, I would be quite happy for her to have a Mc Donald's if that was what she fancied

I normally take my son once a week after a sport he does for 2 hrs on a weds night. We don't get back til gone 7.30pm and we drive past McDonald's on the way home. He normally has a happy meal but increasingly a 'normal' meal - he's 9. He's underweight for his height despite eating a huge amount generally (just his build according to the GP) and I get comments all the time about how thin he is. It's not that I cannot see the harm - there is no harm as part of a varied diet. People are totally crazy.

We don't eat at McDs, but that's because we don't like the food. We do have other takeaways, fish n chips, Chinese, Indian etc. We used to have one meal a week like this after DD had done 2 hours of gymnastics and it was too late to cook.

I prefer that sort of consumption of 'bad' food, rather than those that use McDs as a 'treat'. IME those children who only have junk as a special treat (it's your birthday, lets go to McDs, well done on your report lets go to McDs) are better able to regulate themselves as they get older. Same with sweets/snacks etc.

Bloody Morgan Spurlock has got a lot to answer for. He only made that film because his vegan girlfriend asked him to.

Go for it, OP. And have more confidence in your parenting!

Everyday then I would judge you, once a week is fine.

People who completely ban junk as opposed to encouraging moderation / healthy choices are setting their kids up for a struggle later on.

My favourite memories of my childhood was going to the wimpy bar once a week after school and having a cheese burger and a kickerbocker glory! Just do it, but make sure they know it's a treat and keep it fun

What you are doing here is giving your child their eating habits for the future. You are saying a takeaway once is a normal healthy diet. Personally I disagree. He might be thin and active now, but can you say that when he's an adult?

I'm not a miserable twat, but I think once a week is too much and sets him up with a 'normal' that isn't great. I think it's best to be a bit prurient with our kids diets so when they relax from those guidelines (as we do as we get older and away from parental influence), they remain healthy. They also know where ideal is when they too have to feed their own children.

It's fine IMO. I had a burger king after swimming every Friday evening. I'd try and save it until I got home so I could watch Roseanne while I ate it.

Jeez, don't be asking about Maccy D's on here, people went into enough of a meltdown over the thought of honey on toast for breakfast yesterday!
Of course it's ok as a once a week treat if they're eating healthily the rest of the time.
Half of its not as bad as you think anyway - if we get one, they like the organic bottles of milk as a drink, and the Happy meals have chicken wraps which they usually have. Throw in some bags of carrot sticks as well if you have any guilt to appease
(which you shouldn't, there's nothing wrong with it)

People who completely ban junk as opposed to encouraging moderation / healthy choices are setting their kids up for a struggle later on

Completely agree with this.

I had strict parents who didn't allow fun food like McDonald's and all that happened was, when I earnt my own money or got pocket money I could spend in town, I gouged on rubbish food.

Teaching kids that a once a week treat is fine is better than never allowing something and it becoming overly interesting later in life because you've felt deprived.

Of course McDonalds once a week is fine!

People are insane about food on here. If EVERYONE had 1in7 of main meals as 'less desirable food/not kale' we'd all be as healthy as possible as a nation.

Healthier than all the other nations.

The problem for health is that we overconsume EVERY day, eat junky food EVERY day and that half the diet amongst the poorer sections of society is nutritionally deficient.

One in 7? For fucks sake that would be perfect.

Go for it. Mmm, medium chicken select meal with smoky BBQ sauce and tea, please.

Obviously you need to go once a week. Otherwise you miss out on a happy meal toy.
I guess you could miss a week if it's something really annoying like those nerf thingies

I'd love to know what all these 'healthy' mothers are feeding their kids for every meal, every day of the week.

I think they'd be very surprised that the lovely chicken salad with dressing they think is oh so good is much much higher in saturated fat and sugars than a happy meal 🙄

Does he have a proper lunch or just a sandwich?

What on earth do you mean by this? A sandwich IS a proper lunch. Literally millions of people have sandwiches for lunch, every single day

There are some seriously uneducated people in this world if they think a takeaway once a week leads to obesity. It takes a LOT more than that to become overweight, bad eating habits and huge portions every day for a long time.

I never knew you could ask for unsalted fries!

Yep, you can, but it's a pain in the arse for us.