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?

Life is too short to have water with burger and chips

This is ds1's drink of choice. Won't entertain the idea of having anything else. (Sometimes has one of the bottles of milk though.)

Ok how about this then?

My son sits at PS4 every day after school but only eats organic, low sugar, fat free, free range, high fibre, multi grain, low salt, gluten free, lactose free STUFF. Would this be better?

We had stew (find the left over meat from sunday roast) with beef suet dumplings and creamed mashed potatoes once a week as my mum couldn't afford to feed us much and this filled us up. Much more fat, salt and baddies than a MacDonalds surely?

I think my point has been made. Take your horse and burger it!

I think you don't even know what your point was, and you read the thread wrong.

Horse burgers are lovely actually. Not available in McD's though.

BloodWorries yes! I really don't see the appeal of McDonalds chips

Very confused how this has gone completely the other way to a thread on wholemeal toast and honey??

Agree , everything in moderation ( if possible !!) .

Very confused how this has gone completely the other way to a thread on wholemeal toast and honey??

why confused? There are obviously different people on this thread that one, how is that confusing?

Very confused how this has gone completely the other way to a thread on wholemeal toast and honey??

Let me guess, lots of posts going on about carbs on carbs on sugar with an extra side of diabetes and obesity chucked in?

I'm on both threads. My point stays the same. Don't label food as "bad" and "good", eat everything in moderation and crack on with the Mcdonald's and honey on toast.

Happy meals are healthier than the majority of the kids packed lunches I see at school. You can have fish fingers, carrot sticks and milk if you want to my kids actually choose that sometimes but there's nothing wrong with a burger and fries once a week.

I'm not competitive at all. Actually I had a lovely ration of grease just yesterday. And last weekend I made steak and chips. So anyone who worries that I nobly gnaw on a raw carrot while wringing my hands about bad eating really needn't worry.

I'd love a horse burger if I could find one, although a steak would be nicer.

But as for the McD's is Great! Let's all Have Some! It's Really Good Food! It's Made with Patriotic Beef and Spuds! Look at Us, We have Healthy Approaches to Food because We Love McD's - do me a favour. The McD's PR department must love this. It's grease, salt and fizz. Go ahead and enjoy it by all means but don't pat yourself on the back so hard that you need to see the chiropractor after you've finished your chips.

Don't worry OP! I used to get very excited about chips and a blue slush puppy after swimming and was a beanpole as a child! Plus, check out what the pros eat:

Michael Phelps 2008 olympic breakfast:
Three fried egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise
Two cups of coffee
One five-egg omelette
One bowl of grain
Three slices of French toast
Three chocolate chip pancakes.

Worra

You're on Mumsnet. Where a skinny 2 year old will have 3 sausages, a whole can of beans, five jacket potatoes and an entire tray of flapjack as mid morning snack.

Fair point Binary

I could have put this away when I was doing dance every day. I could hardly keep the weight on, TBH. I don't think it's a problem if the rest of the week is balanced (although he would probably train even better if he resisted fast food!)

But as for the McD's is Great! Let's all Have Some! It's Really Good Food! It's Made with Patriotic Beef and Spuds! Look at Us, We have Healthy Approaches to Food because We Love McD's - do me a favour. The McD's PR department must love this. It's grease, salt and fizz. Go ahead and enjoy it by all means but don't pat yourself on the back so hard that you need to see the chiropractor after you've finished your chips.

Are you ok? Maybe have a fizzy drink to calm down and sort your blood sugar.

No one is saying any of that. The question was is it ok once a week, and the answers are typically "yes" with people simply pointing out that as a meal it's no worse than most of what people eat, especially when away from home.

Admitting to having steak and chips last week as an example of how you eat junk the same as the rest of us is probably tells us enough about the choices you make with food to know you won't be in MCds very often. No need to make out its terrible food though because it really isn't, in exactly the same way it isn't brilliant healthy food either. It's just food, with no requirement to be labelled good or bad.

But as for the McD's is Great! Let's all Have Some! It's Really Good Food! It's Made with Patriotic Beef and Spuds! Look at Us, We have Healthy Approaches to Food because We Love McD's - do me a favour

You're still really confused. You are just making up things that no-one said and then rebutting them. You're having an argument with yourself.

Are you quite alright?

Sharing food together as a family is not just about the nutritional quality of the meal.

It's about far far more than that

*Worra

You're on Mumsnet. Where a skinny 2 year old will have 3 sausages, a whole can of beans, five jacket potatoes and an entire tray of flapjack as mid morning snack*

Yeah but you're also on MN where a chicken lasts all week and the adults share a chicken leg for Sunday lunch. Go figure

But as for the McD's is Great! Let's all Have Some! It's Really Good Food! It's Made with Patriotic Beef and Spuds! Look at Us, We have Healthy Approaches to Food because We Love McD's - do me a favour. The McD's PR department must love this. It's grease, salt and fizz. Go ahead and enjoy it by all means but don't pat yourself on the back so hard that you need to see the chiropractor after you'vefinished your chips

Ummm what thread are you reading? If you've actually read this one you will see people aren't saying it's super organic health food but that it's 1 meal out of a weeks diet and is no worse than fish fingers & chips, pizza or ham sandwich/piece of cake in a lunch box

Your just trying to have an argument with yourself. I guess some people really can start a fight in an empty room.......

It's food. There is better food and there is much, much worse. Don't worry about it.

BOOP true true. Magical Chicken that feed hollow children.

Good old MN, never fails to entertain

A happy meal is more than enough for a nine year old

0010001 I didn't mean that it isn't real food, I simply meant that mine would be starving if they'd not had a meal after school, then done a few hours of training and then had a burger. Mine want their dinner first before training and then would also be claiming to be starving after training. I'd therefore view it as a top up and would be perfectly relaxed about it.

DSs are 10 and 12 and DS1 in particular is always hungry. They are both very active and skinny.

I'm confused newt.

Are you just saying that because of your timings the kids eat before training and then might have something after. Assuming time/logistics are no issue. Would you consider a meal from McDonald's (let's say Big Mac, chips, and orange juice) a proper meal to have before training and then (say) beans on toast as a top up post-training?

Or are you saying that McDonald's wouldn't constitute a proper meal at all?