To think I am not a bad parent if I allow my dc's to eat the occasional Happy Meal?

[FlappyTheBat]

Which is washed down by a FruitShoot, milk or water?

If you don't personally agree with children eating fast food, please don't make self righteous posts, after all you probably make parenting decisions that I would go at!

Each to their own, the world would be a very boring place if everyone was "perfect"!

I took my my dd to McD's for the first time, and made a big hoo-haa about it. She sat down, undid her burger, shook our her chips on to the paper, opened her tommy ketch and set about the chips expertly. I was , until I spoke to my mum, who under pressure, confessed that she had been taking her practically as soon as she could suck the ketchup off a chip.

LOL coppola.
I go every Friday. DS gets a big ice cream cone while I inhale a big mac meal (large of course)
Does anyone eat the gherkins????

I love gherkins and will happily eat any unwanted gherkins!

Flappy now needs a McD's tomorrow, sod the 6 week rule she has imposed!

I love the gerkins! I usually have a cheeseburger and eat right around the burger first and then eat the middle bit, with the gherkin. I get annoyed when there isn't one in there, lol.

Ah, well. There's my anti-gherkin theory out of the window.

I lurve the gerkin, I hgave tried to recreat it in home made burgers, but they just don't have enough time to go soggy enough

I only like McDs gherkins, lol. Ask for your burger without it, then you get a nice fresh one made (usually).

what, do you mean there are people who don't like the gherkins, MintChocAddict?

thinking of burger sustitutes

All these gherkin lovers. I'm astounded. . I thought everyone threw them in the lid of the big mac box.

I think I will ask for them without next time Bexie. All the more left for you gherkin fans!

what would happen if we stuck gherkins in the microwave for 10-15secs?

would they become soggy?

also, has anyone worked out what the BigMac sauce is?

Ha I am a proper middle-class organic-cook-everything-from-scratch type person and I was veggie for a while when I was a radical ranting young person. But DP likes MacDs etc and we occasionally go with DS and I don't really give a shit tbh. Not every day, I try to keep it to a few times a year but what the hell really.

(avoid the fruit shoots but that is another matter entirely - well at least the sugar free ones )

A friend of ours once lovingly recreated an entire maccy d's meal at home complete with homemade boxes

No. You're not. Not at all.

My dc have never had a McDonalds, or Burger King or KFC

They're too young to eat out without me, so only get taken to places I want to eat at. And IMO the burgers taste like shit

But is OP BU? No

I do wonder why people get all defensive about this issue though

Right! that's it! we're having a Maccy Ds when we go out.

And it is all your fault, the lot of ya

Especially YOU flappy

YANBU I don't get people who ban their kids from them. DDs friend was/is not allowed sweets, guess what she spends her lunch money on now? My kids have McDs occasionally and fruit shoots, no big deal at all for me.

I'm not getting defensive about it at all, just can't understand why people think it is such an awful thing to do!

If I was allowing my dd's to eat mc'ds several times a week, then yes, I would say that that was excessive.

have never eaten shit, so can't say whether or not notnowbernard's comment is true

MsUndastood enjoy your big tasty - not going to go today, dd1 very kindly poured an entire glass of fruit juice over my pale cream lounge carpet - looks like I've got a date with the Rug Doctor instead!

Nothing wrong with it at all!! I like you just from your OP "don't make any self righteous posts" Never mind what bored people have to say about where you choose to eat

What I meant by defensive is that folk tend to feel the need to justify why they are feeding their DC fast-food

I must confess to NOT eating shit, either. But it is how I imagine it to taste

I read Fast Food Nation a few years ago and cannot bring myself to eat in these places

But this is my personal choice and I wouldn't slate those who do

Haha flappy, I thought that this morning after realising the abruptness of my posts on another ladys AIBU!

YANBU.
We have been about 4 times to McDonalds and I can't quite see the difference between the kids meals there and what is served up at pretty much every other restaurant or pub across the country. Oh apart from the fact that McDonalds is much cheaper.

We don't go often because I don't much like the food, plus it is very salty, but inherently I can't see how its so much worse than anywhere else.

Please stand against the wall so we can stone you with lentils and crocs