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

[Anonymous]

“Poison” lol. I’m not a fan either, but once in a while will not harm your child. Clearly you just can’t permit her out in the wild.

[Anonymous]

Your kid can order salads and fruit at the fine institutions, OP. You’re ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

This has to be a joke

[Anonymous]

So is a McDonald's salad okay or is that also poison? I'm happy to get one of those (no dressing of course) for your daughter while my kid enjoys her Happy Meal.

[Anonymous]

I’m so depressed

[Anonymous]

It’s not real guys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you are real, I am dying to know how old your kids is. People this controlling generally do not allow sleepovers at a young age but I would love to know how old your kid is.

The child is 18 years old. Sike no. I can’t believe a parent that allows no fast food, no exceptions, would allow a sleep over with nonfamily members.

The “child” is an adult who is going to never talk to you in a few years.

[Anonymous]

This can be expected of free childcare, the other boundary they like to overstep is screen time. If you are that strict about food, it is not fair to dump that on another family. Keep your kid at home.

[Anonymous]

Op needs to McChill the eff out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you react to this?

We do not do fast food. We don’t judge others, but that poison is not allowed in our house. We do not want our children developing a taste for it and these parents knew that.

Our daughter is friends and teammates with their daughter and stayed with them overnight last weekend. When we picked our daughter up, the first thing she asks is if we can go to Chick fil A or McDonald’s on the way home. She revealed they ate fast food twice while she was with them. And now she is already craving it.

My husband was furious and immediately called the girl’s parents. We could tell by their tone that they were basically mocking us and claimed we were overreacting. We are convinced they intentionally did this to undermine us and now our daughter has a “taste” for poisonous food.

You make it sounds like they shot your child up w heroine and made them smoke crack cocaine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is a McDonald's salad okay or is that also poison? I'm happy to get one of those (no dressing of course) for your daughter while my kid enjoys her Happy Meal.

Why the hell would you eat a salad without dressing? Much less TELL US you eat a salad without dressing. Are you stupid or something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They "know" as in you made an offhand remark about it once? Or directly discussed with them that if they take her you don't want her to eat fast food? If they directly agreed and then did it anyway, they are wrong, but guessing thats not what happened.

Hello, I published this thread. We have known this family for about a year and take turns carpooling, etc. We don’t use the poison term with them but we make it very clear we simply do not “do” fast food. No exceptions. When their daughter is with us we give her good healthy often organic food. When we dropped our daughter off on Friday we emphasized no fast food. We were nice about it but firm.

Your daughter is going to revolt against you one day in a spectacular way. Lol!

Just wait....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

You all crazy. How did your daughter not know to keep her mouth shut? How did she feel about you calling the other parents?
Keep your kid at home.

[Anonymous]

OP I don’t think you’re a troll and I would be as disappointed as you were - two fast food meals in one weekend?

Fast food was around when I was a kid in the 70s, but we ate it very, very rarely. When I began eating it much more regularly in college/law school, along with a lot of ultra processed convenience foods, I lost my good health and began a journey to regain it which continues to this day - I’m early 50s.

I left the practice of law and have spent the last several years as a caregiver. I’m currently caregiving for a woman in her early 70s who is normal weight but has dementia and cannot be left alone.

Her diet - and her longtime partner’s, same age range - is easily 90% ultra processed and fast foods. There is no point talking to them about it, people addicted to these foods don’t want to hear it - as most of the replies in this thread attest.

But as I help her to toilet and complete the basic activities of daily living which her brain can no longer manage at only 70, it sure motivates me to eat my beans and leafy greens and fruit and no sugar granola and nuts etc. I don’t want to end up like her, and more and more research is showing us that Alzheimer’s and related dementias are essentially T3 diabetes. They are on the rise because most Americans are eating 60-70% of their calories in the form of poisonous fast and other ultra processed foods.

You are right to want to teach your kids a better way of living. Talk to your child about having those foods only as a very occasional ‘treat’ (they actually taste pretty gross if you eat a healthy diet regularly) and why eating them all the time is a very bad idea. It isn’t just about the waistline, it’s about brain health.