When did you first give them fast food?

On our way back from Kinloch today, we stopped at Mickey D's and I caved and gave Em a chicken nugget. She LOVED it. DH, of course, pitched a fit about how we shouldn't give her fast food because it's so unhealthy, full of fat, salt and preservatives, etc. So what about the rest of you? When did you first give your pure and precious baby a taste of fast food? How often do you let them have it now?

And, I think this is another thing parents tell "fibs" about to make themselves look good in the competetive mothering stakes, lol!!

Edited to add also, I think we tell "fibs" as people can make you feel really bad about giving your kids "crap". I had a lady say something to me in the supermaket the other day for buying Blues clues dairy food yoghurt for Jake, that I should have been buying fruit yoghurt. I "nicely" pointed out that the blues clues had waaaaaaay less sugar than all the other dairy food, and fruit yoghurt (non diet) and that it wasn't her concern anyhow.

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i remember gabriel at 9 mths old having a mcd's chip, after i had sucked all the salt off...

mikey has had the chips with all the salt sucked off occasionally since about 11 months or so, he has also had the lettuce out of a big mac (minus the mayo) and a little piece of the meat pattie which he didn't like. he has also had subway which he loves....oh goodness i sound like such a bad mummy!

It just occurred to me that when I was pregnant with Em, I would eat one of those McD's deli roll sandwiches every single day for lunch until I hit about 5 months, after which I went off McD's and got obsessed with fruit. So it may just be in her genes to loooooove fast food (her mama sure loves it!).

I agree with the "everything in moderation" camp but I also don't think we should beat ourselves up if we have a busy week and end up giving them crap for dinner more than a few times. I'm glad I'm not in the minority, though, in giving my one-year-old fast food -- now I can go back to DH and tell him that I'm not the only one!

(Mmmmmmm, chicken nuggets...) 

we don't eat at Mcds, mainl;y cause the only reason we would go is the playground - and the one here in gisborne is a shell - and completely inappropriate and crap! Jake had his first "experience" courtesy of my dad. Lewis and I had decided "our child will never eat fast food" - of course this sanctimonious crap was before we actually had him and now I really believe that as long as that stuff is a 'sometimes" food rather than "everyday" - what the hey! We don"t eat a lot of processed food, but that is mainly because i'm at home, we are on a tight budget and I enjoy cooking.

I think Hannah first had McDs not long before her birthday. If we go out now and I don't have any food, I feel it is safest for her to have chips/fries than anything else (allergy wise). She has had mcdonalds maybe 3 times - mainly if we go away on holiday. We do have fish and chips every few weeks and she gobbles that up, but like everyone else has said its not everyday and we shouldn't feel bad about it.

Maya was about 9 mths old - believe it or not her dietitian told me it wouldn't do her any harm coz she "needed the extra fat" - she was in Starship and they still had a McD's in the hospital at that stage. I always asked them for chips without salt tho.

Now she has a Happy Meal with juice. Hard to say how often coz some weeks it seems she ends up having it 3 times in one week and yet other times it will be 2-3 months with no McD's. She prefers sushi which is a bit strange for a kid I think but I encourage it!

Ethan had mcD's from about 9 mnths. We had just arrived in Australia, it was late (plane delays etc) and we had a hour car trip ahead of us... He know now that it is only a treat food. We also do "home takeaways"!! like Subway (nice yummy homemade roll), McD's (nuggets and chippies from oven) And Fish and Chips (Again from the oven).

I figure that Takeaways are OK in moderation.

He just burns it all off anyways!!

Ummm... first time was probably about 10mths or so - chips without salt (either sucked off or requested as saltless). They started having it when we do from about the same age - which was when they stopped having pre-made baby foods. We don't have takeaways that often, and usually we get 2 or 3 "meals" and split them between the lot of us! Kids meals of all sorts are a real treat to our children.

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