Feeding my DD's friend this.......

[trickyricki]

Earlier today I took my DD and her friend into town. Her mum told me she was a very fussy eater and would only eat plain pasta and doesn't like processed food. After about an hour they were both complaining of being hungry and the choice of eating places were either starbucks or Mcdonalds. I didn't fancy spending £3.75 on a sandwich fr each of us so we went to Mcdonalds.

My DD's friend was so excited because she'd never had MCDONALDS before i gave her the option of fish fingers and carrot sticks but she wanted cheese burger, chips and a fruit shoot like my DD. She enjoyed it so much she finished off my DD's burger that she left.

I did consider phoning her mum to check it was ok but she's one of those pushy parents who'd cause a fuss. Also I've never seen a child so excited about going to Mcdonalds and for me to tell her she couldn't have it would have made me seemed even more cruel.

AIBU?

No different to a cheesy Pannini and crisps in an "upmarket" cafe imo

Awww bless her, she probably thought it was the best food ever!

We do love a good old maccie ds here, only problem is that it seems to fill us up for about 10 mins, then the kids are raiding the fridge!

Have you told the mother or has the child mentioned it ?

I'll assume this isn't a wind up for now, but I'd throttle you if you fed that shit to my child and probably take yours to the local crack den for it's first taste of cocaine next time I got my hands on yours

I don't even ask what the boy has eaten, I figure if I trust them enough to leave him with them then they are perfectly capable of feeding him.

Having said that DS loathes Maccas the little freak, hates it, we can't even walk past the place without him bitching about the smell.

Which is annoying because sometimes a cheeseburger is the only solution.

I wouldn't fancy spending £3.75 per sandwich either . Wheres Greggs when you need one!

Wouldn't bother me, unless i'd actually said not McDs, which I would never do Like how she finished your DDs burger. Kinda thing I would do. Well, I order cheeseburger meal for Tom and order seperate cheeseburger for me, knowing full well that Tom will only eat his chips

YANBU. As you said, it wasn't like there was much of an option, and you did go in expecting the child herself to be the problem.

Honestly, if the mum didn't want her precious DD eating processed food she should have just owned up. The fact that she didn't and put the 'blame' on the child for being fussy suggests that either she used to be fussier than she is now and her mum just hasn't taken her anywhere since to find out, or that she knows she's being unreasonable herself and is writing a getout clause (albeit a poorly thought out one!) to cover her tracks.

She really has no comeback.. In fact, you should have told her, quite cheerfully, that it appears her daughter isn't anything like the awkward, fussy eater you had half-expected. Why, do you know, we were a bit stuck for places to eat, and I wound up in Macdonalds, thinking 'at least she could have a salad or some carrots etc.,' and she had a burger and chips! Dinners will be easier in your house from now on...

Or am I just unspeakably rotten?

sometimes...
i dont want an overpriced, [and, deliciously unhealthy!] starbucks sandwich.
sometimes...
i dont want a yummy sandwich from our local family owned sandwich shop.
sometimes...
i dont want to go home and get something 'healthy'
sometimes all you need is a big fat cheeseburger and chips. its like kiddy crack.

yep, im looking out for a thread from this mother later!

YABU, I want a cheeseburger now .

She didn't tell you not to go there so she can't complain. If you deprive a child completely of something, surely that will make them want it even more, then when they are old enough they will eat it all the time as they were never allowed to before.

I'm guessing she isn't going to like it though if she stopped her DD going to a Pizza Hut party, OTT IMHO. If she does say anything, just say it was that or Starbucks and you didn't want to pay silly money for something that probably has just a much salt etc in.

Well she didn't make any specifications as to what she should/not eat, and I guess that when she is with you, she eats what she is given.

BUT, you do seem bizarrely pleased with yourself and smug that you fed her a mcdonalds. I mean, yes, the mum said she was fussy, but is it an achievement to feed children salty shit food? You want to do it, do it, but why so pleased about it?

Trickyricki's on good form tonight, no?