From the Kids Meal to No Meal
April 26, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Family, Parenting
Have ya’ll ever noticed the price of a kid’s meal compared to an adults’s meal at a restaurant? They can be very steep, but something we’ve discovered is they don’t offer much. Our 8-year-old daughter is a carnivore, mind you she wan’t always, in fact she use to be a vegitarian. Recently she found out that she LOVES ribs but they never off that. Instead they offer hamburger, cheeseburger, corndogs, nuggest and the occasional mac n cheese. This doesn’t satisfy her.
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Tonight we decide we will no longer order her a meal at all, instead we’ll opt for the extra plate. Yep, she gets to eat a plate. Okay not really so no nasty emails. See daddy likes the ribs too but can’t eat a full rack, so he can now order the full rack and she can eat half and he can eat half. Sounds reasonable right? Imagine our shock when we ordered this today and the waiter questioned if we forgot a child. Ummm, no we know we have four kids. One still eats off mom’s plate and the other has moved up to daddy’s plate. When we ordered the full rack and later ordered another they were even more shocked. Course so were we, she finished off her half stack and was still hungry. So looks like she’s moved from kids meal, no meal to adult meal. Man taking her out is going to become expensive. Have you experienced this?
My kids are older teens now, but yes, we went from the kids meals, to buying sides off the adult menu and to the adult meal. It’s amazing how expensive it gets when they ditch the kids meals, but you can encourage better choices and maybe they’ll try new and different things.
this just shocked me, the girl can definitely eat Ribs. Course ribs are one of those expensive meals and not on a kids menu. They really don’t have much I noticed for kids these days, more of the same old stuff that gets boring.
I really need to start having them eat off of my meal. In addition to saving money, it would also help drag them away from mac & cheese and other traditional kid meals.
I like being able to share the healthier items knowing they will eat them. For instance my 2-year-old won’t eat half the kids stuff so I make sure my sides are things he eats. I always know to order a small plate and then take from mine and my husband’s plate. I eat fish so I rarely put it on his plate but he eats stuff like pasta and other meats. I order the mashed potatoes/french fries or veggies. Plus he seems to eat more this way.
This Stinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!