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Have you ever blended at MacDonalds for your baby?

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Octothechildherder · 09/02/2008 20:31

Not me BTW!!!

A friend was asked what she was feeding her ds - she told them he was eating what they ate - the HV asked for more detail as they had found a mum was blending MacDonalds down to feed her dc!

Very scary!

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NoBiggy · 09/02/2008 20:39

No I haven't. That's not to say that my DDs don't have takeaways or eat out with us. If I was in the habit of going to McD's they would have had some, I'm sure. Probably not blended, mind you.

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Octothechildherder · 09/02/2008 20:41

I don't eat out with my kids as they are a nightmare out. I would;t give my 10 month old MacDonalds though.

Maybe they should have a blender in store for their littlest customers! Right next to the ketchup dispenser and straws!

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Lulumama · 09/02/2008 20:44

no, i did BLW, no need to blend

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Octothechildherder · 09/02/2008 20:47

Setting Lulu denial aside - it is the PERFECT BLW meal - ready cooked, easily digestable, soft finger food AND they wouldn't care if they threw it on the floor as most of the customers do it anyway (you dirty beggars)

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onepieceoflollipop · 09/02/2008 20:49

I've heard this story (or a version of it anyway) not sure if it is one of those urban myths - sadly I suspect that some people might do it. The version I heard - years ago - was that the baby was fed blended Mcfood, plus other unsuitable choices. Sadly there were other issues as well and eventually the child was removed from the parents.

I occasionally have given dd McDonalds food about 3 times a year roughly, after the age of 3 years so no need to blend at that stage.

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Octothechildherder · 09/02/2008 20:50

Thats okay though OPOP

I think you're right though - likely ot be an urban myth and the HV was trying to scare my friend!

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NoBiggy · 09/02/2008 20:52

HVs recommend "family foods", maybe they should check what that is...

Remember some years ago, a young couple followed that advice and their baby died of an excess of salt. Family foods for them were mainly instant mash, gravy and ready brek.

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Octothechildherder · 09/02/2008 20:56

Most of us were brought up on mash and gravy, formula, pink ponge and custard.

If everything they tell us now were true - the lot of us would be dead or suffering from irreversible bowel conditions.

(Sound just like my own mother!)

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Octothechildherder · 09/02/2008 20:57

sponge

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whomovedmychocolate · 09/02/2008 20:57

McDonalds serve food?

onepieceoflollipop · 09/02/2008 20:57

What I didn't say was that I have Mcfood a little more often than that myself.

Please don't report my post - don't suppose Mcdonalds is on the approved list of Mumsnet suppliers...

pukkapatch · 09/02/2008 20:59

no, but when ds1 was just over a year old, we used to take them to mcd, and let them eat the chips and maybe a chicken nugget. at the time, ti didnt seem too bad an idea.

i'd kill my sister if she did that to my nephew now.

onepieceoflollipop · 09/02/2008 20:59

Octo did you not have cheap sausages as well like us? (sorry if you are vegetarian). Oh and spaghetti hoops - they used to be a vegetable remember!

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Octothechildherder · 10/02/2008 07:49

Basically anything that would go in a deep fat fryer or boiled to death!

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seeker · 10/02/2008 08:04

I remember being in a motorway service station with my two when they were 5 and about 10 months. I was feeding ds home made organic vegetarian pasta and sauce I had brought with me and he was alternating spoonfuls of that with bites of the Macdonalds chips he had in each hand. Now that's what I call a balanced diet! I woud have had an attack of the vapours if anyone had suggested that PFB went within smwlling distance of McDonalds at that age!

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