Friday, August 22, 2008

Apples vs. Fries

Kids are SO unpredictable at times....

My kids LOVE fruit. We eat tons of bananas, apples, grapes, cantelope. You name it we eat it. They love veggies too! Corn, carrots, broccoli. But like any kids, they willingly eat at McDonald's any chance they get. They love their nuggets, fries, and chocolate millk. For years that's been our standard order for the kids....not burgers, not plain milk, no changes.

Imagine my surprise when about 2 weeks ago we went to McD's with Daddy, and he pointed out to them the picture of apple dippers that you can get with your Happy Meal. Yes, my kids love fruit, but seriously, what kid would CHOOSE apples over fries. Apparently, my kids would. EVERY TIME! We've been about 3 times since then (yikes, that's a lot in a short time!) and they don't want anything to do with fries, they want the apples. They don't even steal my fries!!! How cool is this!!!

3 comments:

Greg said...

Wow, forward this story on to MickeyD's HQ, I bet their marketing team would love to hear that somewhere there are kids that are choosing the apples.

Jen said...

Ben likes dipping his apples, chicken nuggets, and MY fries into the caramel sauce and licking it off. He'll polish off the caramel.. take a sip of his milk.. and say "ahh done"

i can't complain though since the kid eats edamame and hummus at home.

misstj said...

see...i still have to hold out on the dipping sauce until nuggets are done or they would NEVER eat them! kids...