Re: Schools started - suggest me what is good for snack for kids, what type of Lunch should I keep?


"-L." <idontmind@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Stephanie wrote:
>> We eat out at McD's sometimes. I certainly don't maintain that there is a
>> single thing about it that is healthy. And that is Ok with me.
>
> Thank you! For once someone who is up-front about it. I resect that
> stance so much more than pretending "it won't hurt you".
>

I do believe that every once in a while it won't hurt you. I don't beleive
that having a piece of cake on your birthday, in the big scheme of things,
is going to hurt you.

>> And while I
>> do beleive that we should register our displeasure with a business'
>> practices by withholding our dough, this is not one that sings Big Issue
>> for
>> me. The only marketing my kids see is what they see when they are there.
>> Or
>> the golden arches as we drive past. Often when we drive past my kids will
>> say, lets eat at McDonalds. And most of the time I say, not tonight, we
>> are
>> going home. But all of us can use a decadent treat now and then.
>
> Do they not watch TV?
>

No.

> Just curious. McD's ads are everywhere on the tube - even on PBS and
> Disney.
>

They watch the tube some at the grandparents, but we don't get stations. I
am not sure how concerned I would be if they *did* see a bunch of
advertising though. DH and I are the ones who decide what's for dinner. They
can pester me tohave nothing but Kraft Mac 'n' Cheese and McDonalds 'till
the cows come home.

> -L.
>


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