I opened my browser this morning which goes directly to the att.net news page and there’s an article that grabs my attention. It’s called “Restaurant kids’ meals loaded with calories”. My first reaction was well DUH. Far as I know McDonald’s and Burger King have never once gotten on national television or anywhere else for that matter and claimed to serve healthy food. lol
I continued to read the article, which for the health of my blood pressure I probably should not have done. One sentence caught my attention, “Parents want to feed their children healthy meals, but America’s chain restaurants are setting parents up to fail,” Are you kidding me? Are they seriously going to blame the restaurant?? If parents want to feed their children healthy meals, then go to the grocery buy some chicken and sprinkle some nice seasoning on it and slide it in the oven or on the grill, then go to the produce or freezer section and pick out some nice veggies and fix those. I have never once seen the workers of McDonald’s forcing parents to feed their children hamburgers and fries. I know the Burger King King is annoying and I hate their commercials, but I’ve never seen him force feed a burger to anyone.
Then I see this line: CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan said in a statement. “McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, and other chains are conditioning kids to expect burgers, fried chicken, pizza, French fries, macaroni and cheese, and soda in various combination at almost every lunch and dinner.” Wow, when did those fast food places start breaking into our homes and putting that food on the table?? I think Margo G. Wootan needs to pull her head of her hind end and realize that it’s parents conditioning their children to eat junk. They get off work and stop at the nearest place and buy whatever is easiest.
Stop blaming the restaurants and put the blame where it belongs. Parents have become so engrossed in earning the mighty dollar that they don’t care about what’s important! Growing up we may have not lived in a big fancy house, we didn’t have a fancy car and we sure didn’t have mp3 players, cell phones for every member of the house, including the dog, and we didn’t wear fancy clothes, but when I got ready for school in the morning, there was my mom putting breakfast on the table and she was there to kiss me good bye and tell me she loved me and when I came in the door in the afternoon, there she was asking me how my day was and I knew at 5:00pm supper would be on the table. Eatting at a fast food restaurant was a treat we seldom got and it made that treat very special.
Margo G. Wootan, wake up and smell the coffee and I don’t mean starbucks!