Parents we are “friends” with fed our daughter fast food. Twice.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, your behavior is going to cost your daughter friendships. Word will get around that you guys are nuts and invites for your daughter will dry up. Not worth it to deal with you.

Anti fast food is really not an uncommon dieting restriction in UMC and highly educated parenting circles. But maybe it causes social issues in whatever proletariat orbit you’re steeping in.

NP. This comment just screams “I grew up LMC”

Taking your kids to McDonald’s screams family history of diabetes, heart disease & cancer, plus ignorance and child neglect.

I used to take my DD to McDonald's as a treat, after her PT sessions. She would work hard and it was painful, and this was a way to make the experience more pleasant for her. She's a middle schooler now and eats mostly healthy foods with occasional indulgences, same as when she was a kid. Except, no one is telling her how to eat, she makes good choices.

Wonder what OP (assuming not a troll) will do, when it turns out that they serve pizza and cake at practically every birthday party. Maybe her kid will not be invited, or she will forbid her from going. Or pack her a kale salad to eat at the party.

Are you people really this dull or are you coping and rationalizing because your family regularly consumes garbage? There is nothing wrong with good fresh homemade pizza made with organic ingredients and olive oil. And there is nothing wrong with a good homemade cake made with organic flour and butter. Once-in-a-while organic treats are not the same as the exhaustive list of chemical, preservative, GMO, and antibiotic-filled garbage found in the average fast food meal.

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A single McDonald's cheeseburger has "an ingredient list with 50-plus questionable items."

https://www.thankyourbody.com/mcdonalds-hamburger/

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious as to what people do who travel without ever buying fast food.

There are organic grocery stores everywhere, PP.

So when you’re on the highway, you leave the highway, drive into the nearest town, and attempt to locate an “organic grocery store” that may or may not be there? (They do not exist everywhere, contrary to your opinion).

You realize you’ve added an hour at least to your trip. Normal people either pack their own food or just bite the bullet and get a burger at the rest stop. Once in a while it’s not going to hurt you.

Plan ahead and pack food. Sweetgreen wil do in a pinch. Starbucks spinach feta wraps or some egg white egg bites in an emergency.

I don’t consider anything from Starbucks to be much better than McDonalds. It’s all heavily processed.

You haven't been to Starbucks lately, have you? Plenty of healthy options there. I got hardboiled eggs, apple, a little cheese and almonds, for example.

This is not proprietary Starbucks food. If you’re overpaying for eggs and apples by purchasing them there, you’re a damn fool.

OMG, you are dense. 1) no one is talking about price. We are discussing whether the food is healthy. 2) OF COURSE I'm overpaying. However, when I'm on a road trip somewhere I'll happily pay for it instead of some other crap.

If you’re just going to buy unprocessed food, why not just pack it? Lazy and dumb is no way to go through life.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious as to what people do who travel without ever buying fast food.

There are organic grocery stores everywhere, PP.

So when you’re on the highway, you leave the highway, drive into the nearest town, and attempt to locate an “organic grocery store” that may or may not be there? (They do not exist everywhere, contrary to your opinion).

You realize you’ve added an hour at least to your trip. Normal people either pack their own food or just bite the bullet and get a burger at the rest stop. Once in a while it’s not going to hurt you.

Plan ahead and pack food. Sweetgreen wil do in a pinch. Starbucks spinach feta wraps or some egg white egg bites in an emergency.

I don’t consider anything from Starbucks to be much better than McDonalds. It’s all heavily processed.

You haven't been to Starbucks lately, have you? Plenty of healthy options there. I got hardboiled eggs, apple, a little cheese and almonds, for example.

This is not proprietary Starbucks food. If you’re overpaying for eggs and apples by purchasing them there, you’re a damn fool.

OMG, you are dense. 1) no one is talking about price. We are discussing whether the food is healthy. 2) OF COURSE I'm overpaying. However, when I'm on a road trip somewhere I'll happily pay for it instead of some other crap.

If you’re just going to buy unprocessed food, why not just pack it? Lazy and dumb is no way to go through life.

Because I feel like it. Any other super smart questions?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, your behavior is going to cost your daughter friendships. Word will get around that you guys are nuts and invites for your daughter will dry up. Not worth it to deal with you.

Anti fast food is really not an uncommon dieting restriction in UMC and highly educated parenting circles. But maybe it causes social issues in whatever proletariat orbit you’re steeping in.

NP. This comment just screams “I grew up LMC”

Taking your kids to McDonald’s screams family history of diabetes, heart disease & cancer, plus ignorance and child neglect.

I used to take my DD to McDonald's as a treat, after her PT sessions. She would work hard and it was painful, and this was a way to make the experience more pleasant for her. She's a middle schooler now and eats mostly healthy foods with occasional indulgences, same as when she was a kid. Except, no one is telling her how to eat, she makes good choices.

Wonder what OP (assuming not a troll) will do, when it turns out that they serve pizza and cake at practically every birthday party. Maybe her kid will not be invited, or she will forbid her from going. Or pack her a kale salad to eat at the party.

Are you people really this dull or are you coping and rationalizing because your family regularly consumes garbage? There is nothing wrong with good fresh homemade pizza made with organic ingredients and olive oil. And there is nothing wrong with a good homemade cake made with organic flour and butter. Once-in-a-while organic treats are not the same as the exhaustive list of chemical, preservative, GMO, and antibiotic-filled garbage found in the average fast food meal.

Do you even have children, or been to any kiddie birthday parties? The vast majority of people aren't doing "homemade pizza made with organic ingredients and olive oil" or "homemade cake made with organic flour and butter". They order this stuff, usually from Pizza Hut or Domino's or others of their ilk. Who the eff is making home made pizza and cake for twenty 7 year olds? Not to mention, a lot of venues don't allow outside food, and will provide whatever they normally serve. It's a fact of life that if you have an elementary aged kid who is invited to birthday parties, they'll be eating a bunch of junk food.

My middle school child and her friends do make pizza at home sometimes, but that's when you have like 5-6 kids that are capable of doing the work themselves.

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I shower once a day unless I got really dirty or sweaty working outside. I can't imagine doing it at 6:00 and then again at 9:00 if all you did was eat dinner and hang out. Yes. this is 100% OCD.

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oppps wrong thread

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Anonymous wrote:I hope you’re a troll. If you’re going to let your daughter out of your presence you cannot control every bit of food that she eats while you’re separated.

Plus 1

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So in this thread there is a streaming ad for KFC.
So appropriate and ironic!😆

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think you need to worry about ever getting an invite to anything with these people again. You solved your own problem.

This. You've sufficiently burned this bridge. Your kid is never getting invited back again. You've solved your own problem.

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Anonymous wrote:From a food poisoning veteran who has more than enough globally adventurous eating under her belt, McD's hot foods are some of the safest things you can eat when traveling or on the go. They do not undercook anything, overcooked more like. It's also pretty consistent from country to country.

Wow, you travel internationally and choose to eat McDonald’s in foreign countries??

There are countless safe places to eat in any developed country and also developing countries. Sure, avoid street food if you are risk averse - but one needn’t resort to McDonald’s!

What a waste of opportunity to eat McDonald’s while traveling abroad.

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OP, you do not get to control how other families eat or treat children in their care.

You have two options. First, you either never leave your child/children in the care of others who do not agree with your rules. Second, you teach your child about "house rules", e.g. these are the rules that are in place for our house. And they have to follow the rules of the other parent/guardian's house when they are in the care of those parents.

If you cannot relax your rigidity to allow your child to follow the house rules of someone else's house, the you need to go back to option one. And then your child is never left in the care of that other family again because they don't adhere to the same rigid rules that you do.

But you don't get to control the other parents and you don't get to insist that the other parents follow your rules.

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Anonymous wrote:From a food poisoning veteran who has more than enough globally adventurous eating under her belt, McD's hot foods are some of the safest things you can eat when traveling or on the go. They do not undercook anything, overcooked more like. It's also pretty consistent from country to country.

Wow, you travel internationally and choose to eat McDonald’s in foreign countries??

There are countless safe places to eat in any developed country and also developing countries. Sure, avoid street food if you are risk averse - but one needn’t resort to McDonald’s!

What a waste of opportunity to eat McDonald’s while traveling abroad.

Not PP but there are most certainly countries (India comes to mind) where I would choose McDonalds over most other places.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I think you deserve a break today. Others may not agree with your stance, but I'm loving it. It's easy to get good food, fast. You just start with better ingredients, and make sure they're always fresh, never frozen.

If you look at it as BOTH sides wanting what's best for growing kids, whether that's quality time or quality food, then it's not really a conflict at all -- where's the beef? Granted, some PPs think that you should defer to the hosting family about food rules when your child is a guest, but I think you should stay strong and have it your way. You rule!

There’s nothing wrong with frozen vegetables. It’s canned ones that have fewer nutrients.

Sometimes frozen is quite a bit more nutrient rich - frozen vegetables and fruits are flash frozen within hours of being picked ripe. Fresh produce in most large grocery stores has traveled for days to get to market. The only time fresh produce is actually as fresh as frozen is when you buy it from a farm stand in front of the farm where they picked it that day, or yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:From a food poisoning veteran who has more than enough globally adventurous eating under her belt, McD's hot foods are some of the safest things you can eat when traveling or on the go. They do not undercook anything, overcooked more like. It's also pretty consistent from country to country.

Wow, you travel internationally and choose to eat McDonald’s in foreign countries??

There are countless safe places to eat in any developed country and also developing countries. Sure, avoid street food if you are risk averse - but one needn’t resort to McDonald’s!

What a waste of opportunity to eat McDonald’s while traveling abroad.

McDonald's makes good food outside the US, unlike inside the US.