How many takeaways a week do your kids have?

[summersbysea]

My ex spoils them rotten each time they visit him. My children are 5 and 7 and now after school keep asking me for takeaways!
They refuse to cook food I've made and will ask for kebabs, chips, Macdonald's blimin big Mac !
He's got them addicted and I feel it will make them really unhealthy.
Right now both aren't overweight but If they carry this on into teens this can't be good for their health and also their wallet.
I have to keep forking out and costs me a fortune.

You see I can't get on board with tbe idea that it's treat food either. Call a spade a spade Mc Donalds is cheap, tasty and unhealthy and we should try not to have it too often.

It's neither diguststing, a real treat or perhaps most bizzarely " not food".

0 take aways on a regular basis.

We eat out for special occasions and in holidays, sometimes go out for ice cream/dessert after having meal at home.

Take aways are extremely rare for us. Sometimes maybe catching up with friends and we all make an impromptu decision to stay a bit longer and order but that is pretty much in.

If children don't eat what has been made, they have a boring alternative or go to bed without. Just like if they don't eat the meal school have provided, no-one makes them an alternative and they wait until they get home. Never had an issue with this, you have a major parenting issue, not a take away one

How many a week? Are you kidding?

I don't have takeaways more than once every couple of months if I've been paid.

You have to stick to your guns. You need to get comfortable with the nagging and whining but it will eventually stop when they realise it doesn’t work - they do it because clearly it works as you give in to their demands.