to not have DD keep ordering McDelivery every day?

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DD is 17 and has a job, so it is her money but all she has done this summer hols is order McDonald's to the house. What happened to McDonald's being cheap? Her orders are always £15 odd and she still eats breakfast and dinner with that. I just think it's unhealthy and the biggest waste of money. Would it be unreasonable to say she can't keep ordering it to the house?

First thing I thought of was Super Size Me. Definitely worth a watch. If she's not repulsed by her ' diet ' after watching that there's no hope.

To the multiple posters recommending Super Size Me, the documentary has been widely debunked now since the results have never been able to be replicated and Morgan Spurlock admitted to being a lifelong alcoholic, which would account for his liver function tests. It probably has some use, but as we use far fewer additives and healthier ingredients in the UK, and the super size options are no longer available, it doesn't hold the weight that it used to.

I'm sure she'll get sick of ordering it in due course. Or if she really is ordering it every day, maybe point out that each month she'd be £300+ up if she didn't.

Actually a meal can be around £9 now. Add McFlurry and delivery and there's your £15

God if you’d posted “DD is asking for McDonald’s every day” replies would say to tell her to get a job if that’s what she wants to eat every day.

She has a job, earned the money fair and square. Leave her to it. She’ll have something else she wants to spend her money on soon enough.

I didn't know about the Supersize me documentary being debunked, but I do know that of my dd's primary school friends, the ones that went the McDonald's ended up morbidly obese and the ones that were not allowed McDonald's stayed slim and trim

That sounds like some serious MN bullshit

@GoodChat

I have been on mumsnet for years, but believe what you like.

When your son gets to 17 you'll realise that if he wants McDonald's he'll get it with or without your permission.

Good luck with that 🤣

I don’t know why the word trim makes me <boak> but it does. Anyway, this is just silly. You can be slim and eat poorly, you can be someone who eats McDonald’s and slim, you can eat McDonald’s and also eat a healthy diet. I do!

my teenage son eats more McDonald’s than I would like, he’s very sport and athletic, he’s muscular, lean, very fit, you’d think he was very trim but he will neck down 20 chicken nuggets a day or night.

I don't really agree with this. As someone who eats mcdonalds (and have all my life), I feel it is addictive and a really bad habit to get into seeing this kind of food as a 'treat'. Looking back, I wish my parents had clamped down a bit more or at least tried to discourage me when I was younger.

At 17 she can eat what she wants, but as a parent I would be trying to inform her about UPF's and what this could do to her health longer term. Once in a while is OK but every day will likely become a food addiction.

I totally agree - it's not healthy and is annoying.

@ZolaBudd The correct terminology is overweight. HTH

Tell your DD that in a six week period she has roughly spent £630 of her hard earned money on McD's... Then ask her what she could have bought with that money or how it would look in a savings book.
I started paying my mum board when I started work. I felt it was the right thing to do. She would have happily let me live rent free, but I didn't think that was fair. (Especially as she'd struggled with having very little money through my high school years).
As soon as DD started working, you should have put her board payment in place. It doesn't have to be a lot.
But as it stands, she probably has few financial responsibilies, so most of the wage she is earning is disposable in her eyes. And later down the line, she won't know the true value of money.
I wish I'd had a role model to learn from when I was young. Don't get me wrong, my mum wasn't wasteful, every penny counted and she didn't get into debt. But there was never any spare for treats. I spent years when I started working, spending any spare cash I had on "treats" to make up for missing out. And later on in life I could have kicked myself for some of the stuff I did and the shite I bought. You only realise when you're older sadly.

Thanks for popping back to let me know. I’ll save fat if I want to

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Your house is probably getting an awful reputation in the neighbourhood with the just eats van parked constantly outside it.

Create a more wholesome image by grinding your own flour in the front garden or stand in front of a window spinning pizza dough above your head in the air.

Hopefully the neighbours will then believe you are not one of those awful families that subsist solely on McDonalds.

@ZolaBudd Excellent! You do you and stay totally ignorant and offensive 🙄

It'll just be the novelty of having money and being able to get delivery. She will get over it.

Its a terrible habit, Does she keep fit

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