Macdonalds, shocking

In my opinion no one in their right mind thinks that Macdonalds is a healthy option, despite their attempt to seem healthy of late.

So just a few days into the diet I was not impressed when my youngest girl insisted that she wanted her birthday meal to be a Macdonalds, sadly she showed us this by drawing the big M logo in the air. Come back those days 10 years ago when, as new parents-to-be we insisted that no kid of ours would ever set foot in the above mentioned eating establishment.

Nearly a decade later I am ashamed to admit that there have even been a handful of days when one or more of the kids have had two Macdonalds meals in one day ( generally when they have been to a party or with other people, but none the less, how embarrassing.  Off we headed to Caitlin's chosen destination, and I immediately started to look at the calories of the various options to find one with a reasonably low count.

I was shocked to find that my other halves favourite, the Big Tasty was a monster on the piling on the pounds front. Don't quote me, but the burger alone was well over 800 calories, add chips and a fizzy drink to that, then you must be using up a huge chunk of the daily guidance.

I opted for a Big Mac and dumped the middle bit of bread. I don't expect myself to be perfect, at times I know that all I can aim for is going for the best of a bad bunch. I have to be fair and say, all credit to Maccy Ds that they do post the calorie count so very clearly, it really does help. But I wonder how they can possibly get so much fat into the Big Tasty. Do they roll the burger and bap in the stuff, then inject more fat, then add butter as the dressing, finally topped off by a brushing of ghee?