How often do you eat at McDonalds?

[TumblingTower]

Just interested. I think DH visits too often with the kids, he would take them even more if it wasn’t for me asking him not to.

For context he takes them once a fortnight, he would take them once or twice in a week if it wasn’t for me putting my foot down.

It annoys me as I do 90% of the parenting (he works away often) and I feel I can’t give them a lazy tea as they’re already having enough crap.

I know I’ll be criticised for that and not too interested - just wonder what other people do?

I love a McDonald's and we get ones most weeks post match with the kids. It's cheap and cheerful and if it saves me doing the dishes or thinking about making dinner then that's good enough for me! I don't smoke nor drink so it's my little piece of poison 👌

Couple times a year maybe
The kids a few times more but even they think it's pretty crap

Could just eat one of their hot apple pies!

Never.

Took DD once because she wanted to try it but she hated it.

We do take her for smoothie / hot choc and cake at local independent cafes, but that’s a weekend treat not instead of a meal

Twice a month usually.

3yo ds goes to a footie club on a Monday evening and after a busy day at work and then not getting home til after 8 the last thing I can be arsed doing is cooking.
So it's Mcds usually, or leftovers if I have enough from Sunday!

It's years since I've been to a McDonald's, I don't really like them. DH takes DD1 and her football teammate if they've had a particularly good or bad game but that's only a few times a year. My preferred takeaway is fish and chips.

My DH wasn't allowed any fast food or anything with sugar or salt when he was young until teens. He's eaten McD's once and said it tasted like s**t....never eaten it since.

I think I once bought a coffee at a service station one around 2009.

I “consume” McDonald’s every single day in the form of a cup of tea after walking my dog. So technically not eating, although I do admit to occasionally having pancakes!

Never really. Used to be about once a week then I stopped eating meat for about six months and by then I didn't want it anymore.

Now I never ever feel like it. I've gone right off it.

Mine get it once a week, my son has autism and it’s one of his safe foods, he’d happily eat it every other day if I let him

Doing it right now

Never...,...

At least once a week after daughters sports class, quite often twice.
We are all slim,healthy and active and have an otherwise healthy , balanced diet with lots of fresh fruit and veg, and homemade meals.

Now 2 or 3 times a year.
When kids were young once every 2/3 weeks as a treat. They don’t live at home anymore and probably eat it at least once a week unless ‘shredding’

Twice in 1984
Not since.

Every week but we share a happy meal between the four of us and substitute the chips for salad. I also remove the batter from the nuggets just to make it extra healthy. Some times if it's a special occasion we will have ketchup...

Maybe once every 3-4 months.
We do eat takeaway burgers more often but from a quality wanky place that makes their own buns etc.

Oh god, please don't beat yourself up over it - even once a week is 1/21 meals. It's really not the end of the world.

Maybe once a year when travelling... out of convenience/lack of other options.

Fish and chips (or breast of chicken) cannot be beat, particularly if you have a good local chippy (ours is top notch). Get that at least once a week.

The chips in McDonalds are fine but no match for the thicker ones you get from a chippy. Do love a Big Mac though.

Never go there.

I'm having to laugh at myself here because DS went on a school trip today and they had a McDs, won another meal with the Monopoly and won another meal off the back of that one. He managed to try 3 different meals and 3 different drinks. He declared it, "not as bad as you'd think".

That's still a huge amount though. No one should be eating that fatty, salty junk every week.

I like a McDonalds but two or three times a year is plenty. Not 52 times or more.