To take DD 5 to McDonald's every other weekend?

[quincyquince]

She's gluten free, so has a portion of small chips and either a small mcflurry or orange juice or sauce with the chips.

We go after swimming.

This is ok, right? My friend thinks it's awful that she goes twice a month. But it's not like she's having the processed bread and cheese and stuff all the time?

Agreed. Fast food is addictive and there are plenty other places that cater for GF these days.

McDonalds ingredients in the UK are fine, if not super healthy. It sounds nice to me.

Food is about more than nutrition. My memories of some of the very un-nutritious stuff I ate as a child are very dear to me!

You'll ruin people's ability to be snobby if you carry on posting things like that

What is it that's addictive then? The potatoes or the oil?

My only concern would be that it’s not much of a dinner for a growing child. A small portion of Maccies fries is fuck all. If it’s a snack and not a main meal, then it’s fine.

We go out for lunch most Saturdays after swimming and take it in turns to choose where we go for lunch. Even when it's not McDonalds, she orders chicken nuggets or fish fingers and chips from wherever else we go. 😂

I worked there for a while at 16-17 on Saturdays and got a free meal whilst I was working. I was a size 6 and perfectly healthy.

Everything is fine in moderation.

@lyricalwindmills My thoughts exactly 😂😂😂

People are so bloody weird about food 😂 We live in a small seaside town and I was running errands with DS (4yo) a few weeks ago having a lovely day and he asked completely out of the blue if we could go to the ice cream parlour for a big ice cream sundae. It’s something we never do - it’s usually heaving with tourists tbh 🫠😂 so off we toddled and I let him pick us a stupidly big sundae for us to share. MIL phoned while we were there as she had popped by the house and we weren’t in. You should have heard the outrage 😳 I was feeding him ice cream……on a TUESDAY?! 😳😱 She’s still harping on about the fact that she can’t believe I took him for a “weekend treat” during the week and that I’m setting him up for a lifetime of bad habits 😂 people are wild!

@quincyquince I’m sure your DD loves the little fun day you guys have 😊

Where would you take a 5yo for casual gluten free food that is less processed than the offer from MCDonalds?

To be fair I do a lot of cooking from scratch and eat in a lot of nice restaurants (plus the occasional Maccies), about 70% of my media intake is probably cooking programs or YouTube chef tutorials, it’s an open secret that posher places have more salt in their food. Its how they trick you into paying more for their much “tastier” food…

Exactly

Op drop this joy-sucking judgemental frenemy seriously 😟

It's a treat twice a month FFS. I personally prefer healthy homecooked meals because I'm a vegetarian but I still take my kids to MCD or for a pizza every once in a while because they like it. My mum was a health addict (home made sour dough, garden vegetables etc etc) and I still remember how good white toasted bread with butter tasted at friend's house. As soon as I started having some money on my own I binged on crisps, sweets, chocolat : everything that was "forbidden" at home.

I think it's best for our children if we can have a relaxed approach to food and focus on variety.

My Dad always bought me a packet of Skips from the vending machine after swimming. If I ever eat prawn cocktail Skips now, I get a faint smell of chlorine.

What is the drama with giving your kids a McDonald's? Mine have had it twice in a week before now 🤣 full meals too. Bad mum.

And before anyone starts, all my kids are a healthy weight and all play sports to high level so very fit 😁 their happy meals and big macs haven't hurt them, quite clearly.

I doubt it. There are loads of things I ate as a child that I don’t eat now. I used to have fruit or yoghurt after a meal and a proper pudding every Sunday. I never bother with that now and haven’t since I left home.

YABU to be friends with a judgemental busybody of a person like that. Sounds absolutely draining and certainly not good friend material.

I agree with this not everything needs to be nutritional all the time!

Meaning tons of sugar and butter? Very healthy.

Less processed? A McFlurry?

Ingredients: EITHER: Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK, Sugar, Cream (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring.
OR: Allergen Ingredient: Reconstituted Skimmed MILK, Cream (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Sugar, Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK Powder, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring.

Galaxy Chocolate Sauce

Ingredients: Milk Chocolate (36%) (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Skimmed MILK Powder, Cocoa Mass, Vegetable Fat (Palm), Lactose (MILK), Whey Powder (MILK), MILK Fat, Whey Solids (MILK), Emulsifier (SOYA Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring), Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sweetened Condensed MILK (MILK), Sugar), Water, Thickener (Modified Starch).

Galaxy Chocolate Drops

Ingredients: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK Powder, Cocoa Mass, Lactose (from Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Vegetable Fat (Palm), Whey Powder (from Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Allergen Ingredient: MILK Fat, Emulsifier (Allergen Ingredient: SOYA Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavour.

My kids have a takeaway twice a week sometimes depending on our schedules! I’m a single parent and sometimes it just makes life easier! Your friend is a judgemental twat!

you can laugh react to my post all you like love, you’ve answered your own question - it’s both. They’re an addictive combination when processed like this, more you have the more you want.

I think it's fine, it's a nice treat for your daughter. Your friend is batty, it's not as if it is the little girl's staple diet. Honestly, some people.

Don't worry. I'm a coeliac. When out and about, M and S do GF sandwiches and wraps. Boots do GF sushi Nd I think they sell GF sandwiches. Most restaurants offer GF food. It's fine!

We go every week and the kids get a full meal and fizzy pop so she'd have a field day with me