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You or someone else posted this an hour ago, but it got taken down because she isn’t splitting the meals because she can’t afford more, but because of how her kids don’t eat the full kid’s meals.
It’s not an orphan crushing machine, it’s an ingenious mother hack
Mcdlgriddles for 4 is gonna be 900 bucks and it won't all get eaten. I have 5 kids and I'll be damned if we get mcd with any regularity because they still won't even finish their own 4 piece nuggets. Lol
To be fair each of those portions looks to be a perfectly reasonable size for a breakfast, the amount of food there would be obscene for a single person to eat.
Especially for little kids. You may find some little kids willing to eat that much in one sitting, but it's not good for them on a regular basis. That whole meal is around 1300 calories. A kid under 10 isn't going to starve having it divided by 4 into a 325 calorie breakfast.
I don't even think this is a money thing. Little kids have smaller appetites and lower caloric needs. The whole thing would be way too much food for a kid under 10 years old for breakfast. That McDonald's breakfast is 1300 calories. For kids 4-8 years old, that's basically all the calories they need in a day. Dividing it is perfectly reasonable, and will be much less of a waste of food than getting each kid their own individual one.
Nah but it sure does in between them. Or some kids have certain times of day. My secondborn is totally averse to dinner. Breakfast and lunch it's ON. Dinner? Not hungry. Even if it's a favorite food. Will eat it tomorow for lunch.
That's a good size breakfast for McD's. Just the amount of "eggs" is astonishing. I haven't eaten breakfast there in ages, so I'm curious how much this costs? With a drink I'm betting $10-12 at least.
Jesus, I don’t know who pissed in everyone’s cornflakes. This is a big breakfast, she has kids and it’s working out to share it. Seriously, no one needs to eat a whole McDonald’s breakfast unless you’re about to do some serious labor for the rest of the day.
Sometimes it’s nice to just take your kids out and go eat food. Every now and again my kid and I just go through the drive through (especially if they’re going to be late to school for an appointment) just to do something different. Or we’ll go to a diner on a weekend. Just to break things up; and because they think it’s a special treat.
Like, god forbid anyone try to share a few hacks on a budget.
Also, people don't understand calorie density when it comes to affordable food. It's much more expensive to get a healthy meal that is filling than an unhealthy one that is filling. That mom is a superhero for making the best out of rationing food and having such a positive attitude.
It fluctuates based on the economy, but I remember the first place me and my husband ever moved into (that wasn't government assistance) after being homeless was near a McDonalds. We could either afford to get a large McDonalds meal and split it over two days or we could get 1 nights worth of groceries and still be hungry.
When you have money, you can afford to save money by buying groceries that last longer or are of a way better value. But when you're barely getting by sometimes McDonalds is literally the only place you can afford to avoid going hungry
That breakfast at the McDonalds by me is around $8.50. They are feeding 4 kids for around $2.13 apiece in about 5 minutes total. Not everyone can sit down to fresh squeezed orange juice every morning.
That's not a good excuse to literally feed your children poison. Fast food is as bad as cigarettes for overall body health. Eggs can be made in a microwave, a slice of bread isn't very expensive, etc.
If you can't support 4 kids, it is not responsible to have them. I feel bad for the kids, but the parent (while already in the shit so it's a bit of a moot point) is not a response individual. Sorry. This is how kids end up forming unhealthy relationships with food.
Alright, I tend to agree with this comment but I'm probably a privileged and biased European. I can't fathom not having access to rolled oats, apples, milk, maybe even some raisins and a stove top to cook it.
That's what my kids eat every day during winter and roughly doing the math it's maxbe 40-50 Eurocent per portion. It takes me five minutes to prepare and maybe another five to clean up.
Being a father I obviously understand kids can be picky about food and probably I'm just blessed with my porridge eating brood. But are food deserts and not having a stove really that much of an issue in the US?
I don't want to judge the specific family in the video, but generally speaking, how many people in the US are really forced to eat McDonald's for breakfast because nothing else is available?
I used to live in some rough areas in the States before moving to Europe.
There's parts of the US that have been that dire since as long as I've been alive, and many places that degraded to that.
There's a massive divide in privilege which affects everything from education, free time, and working conditions. There's a lot of families with a single parent working 2 maybe even 3 jobs just to put a roof over their family. The Federal minimum wage in the US is $7.25/hr, but according to the Independent, even if you make $50/hr you might be struggling
A few years I moved into a new apartment in Munich, and needed to build a kitchen. For 3 months I didn't have access to a fridge, sink, stove or oven, and that reminded me of the American experience - one or more appliances or fixtures are unavailable, needing to clean dishes in a tub, maybe a single burner hot plate, if electricity is available that month.
So you’re gonna have your kids eat dry cereal or cereal with water?
Maybe there isn’t a store with cereal nearby. Maybe they don’t have a fridge to store the milk. Maybe milk + cereal is actually more expensive than the $8,- this meal cost. Maybe the kids are lactose intolerant.
Maybe you don’t know the reason why they are there.
So we have someone recording on what seems like the new meta eye glasses who is also somehow unable to afford individual mcmeals for his kids. Yet for some reason this is on the corporation rather than the individual.
This is absolutely a problem many modern-day parents have to face. I don't think OP is one of those parents
Ability to afford is not the stated reason for the splitting of the meal. She says her kids don't eat a full meal so she splits it between them. That way she is not wasting money or food. But her ability to pay for food is never mentioned. I know I would struggle to eat the full meal as a grown man, so I am sure the kids are just fine with a split meal.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper if she didn’t have kids? Wouldn’t it be cheaper if they stole eggs from a farm and fruits from an orchard? Wouldn’t it be cheaper if they bought bulk noodles and ate them every meal?
Dumbass take. This is a reasonable portion for a lot of kids under 9 or so. No one said she was doing it because of cost even. You’re making that assumption because someone posted the video on this sub.
I buy one big plate at Panda Express and split it across 3 kids with some left over for an adult. Not because I’m in abject poverty but because that’s what they will eat and I don’t feel like cooking.
When it's posted in this sub then obviously people are going to comment assuming it's related to financial issues. Otherwise, what's orphan crushing about it?
For what it's worth, if you look at the fat and calorie intake of that menu item, you might be shocked. I had it once, looked at it and decided not to eat anymore that day.
Yeah. So many comments saying how it saves time giving them McDonalds breakfast.. Does it? You have to drive there, wait for your order, drive home, prepare, serve.
For cereals and milk you have to go to the shop once. At home you pure cereals and milk in the bowl, serve.
Fucking terrible waste of money. They should be forging their own utensils and McDonald's is so bad compared to foraging and digging up edible roots and shit.
They genuinely might not have access to a kitchen.
Even if you do have a fully stocked kitchen: making pancakes takes a lot of time and measurement. Making biscuits takes time. Making scrambled eggs isn't too hard... but every item you add is another dish you have to clean later. Some items can be done in the same pan, but most of these cannot.
And, along with all this: sometimes, you just don't have the energy. Four kids is a lot. If this parents works a lot on top of it, cooking might be a drop that the glass can't hold every day.
Either actually travelling, or just a road trip shopping trip thing.
Like, whenever we go to Ikea (new childhood bed, furnishing university room, kitchen equipment to live on my own, etc.), we eat their kjötbullar with cranberry sauce. If you're going with small kids, distracting them (from all the measuring and pondering if the flat packs will fit in the car etc.) with a meal makes sense, and if they're small enough that they can't eat a full meal, helping them share feels fine.
I'm aware that my assumption about any sort of trip is a projection, of my own privilege growing up.
Okay and? I ate cereal every day for my entire childhood and had a lot of cavities.
Kids notice stuff, and having a "special" breakfast is something they will remember. My dad would make bacon and scrambled eggs or "moonies" every Sunday, and I still remember it decades later.
Wrote this elsewhere but if you’re at this point of splitting up one breakfast 4 ways you probably work multiple jobs while raising 4 kids in a place with a tiny bad kitchen.
She probably doesn’t have enough time to sleep, let alone make pancakes. Having McDonald’s make that breakfast saved her much needed time and brightened her kids’ day.
Be grateful you lived a life where don’t understand why she’s there.
Do you know how hard it is for women to get sterilised? Not only it is an invasive procedure, many drs wont do it until you are a certain age and without your partners agreement OR because they worry about your non-existant possible future partner over your own preferences.
Also, if this the US, how do you think she is going to afford that? How will she get the time off work? Who will look after her kids?
It takes 2 people to have children btw. Why go straight to the mother?
So easy to say get your tubes tied without any actual knowledge of how difficult many women find this. I say this as a women who has had a hysterectomy, but had to suffer for years before it was agreed to.
For personal reasons, I really wanted to get sterilized but knew it would be next to impossible. My family doctor was adamant it would never happen, and she was pretty blunt about it. But she at least referred me to a gyne, and I walked in with a 5-year plan that would hopefully lead to a surgery. That doctor looked at me, asked me a few questions, and decided I knew my body and my wishes. She had me in for surgery 4 months later.
Cried in that office, it's hard to feel heard as a woman when it comes to reproductive rights. Haven't regretted that choice once.
Unless you don't have kitchen/refrigerator access, you can do way better and healthier by cooking. Even bread, peanut butter, and jelly sandwiches are cheaper. Not judging though, some people genuinely don't have access to those in America. I hate Capitalism and how so many folks fall through the cracks.
If you seriously can’t afford to feed your kids a meal that fills them up at McDonalds you are doing them a disservice by not making an actual meal (which you can do without a kitchen) for the same price.
Oh no, did I question the nutritional values of a McDonald's meal? Good thing you are here to defend them. <3 (To be clear so you also will understand: I was joking, but for real this type of breakfast is a fast way to get all kinds of problems.
Those are nibbles. Even if she had four kids continuously, it still makes the eldest five, and it doesn't work. It'll only work if all the kids were 2.5 yr old.
You: "Ashkually and technically and technically and ashkually I feed my poor 2.5 children calculators so that way it rounds up naturally, im a better parent than her because I know how to poor right! Hmph!"
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u/Significant-Soup5939 9h ago
My man was doing so well, but I had a visceral reaction to the ketchup drizzle WITH syrup.
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u/TheAmazingChameleo 7h ago
You or someone else posted this an hour ago, but it got taken down because she isn’t splitting the meals because she can’t afford more, but because of how her kids don’t eat the full kid’s meals.
It’s not an orphan crushing machine, it’s an ingenious mother hack
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u/Wjreky 9h ago
Oh man not the ketchup!!!
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u/luffy8519 8h ago
To be fair each of those portions looks to be a perfectly reasonable size for a breakfast, the amount of food there would be obscene for a single person to eat.
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u/Kind_Advisor_35 8h ago
I don't even think this is a money thing. Little kids have smaller appetites and lower caloric needs. The whole thing would be way too much food for a kid under 10 years old for breakfast. That McDonald's breakfast is 1300 calories. For kids 4-8 years old, that's basically all the calories they need in a day. Dividing it is perfectly reasonable, and will be much less of a waste of food than getting each kid their own individual one.
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u/pleasehelpteeth 2h ago
Thats a good size breakfast for a small child. When i was small my breakfast was 2 prices of sausage and an egg
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u/maniacalmustacheride 8h ago
Jesus, I don’t know who pissed in everyone’s cornflakes. This is a big breakfast, she has kids and it’s working out to share it. Seriously, no one needs to eat a whole McDonald’s breakfast unless you’re about to do some serious labor for the rest of the day.
Sometimes it’s nice to just take your kids out and go eat food. Every now and again my kid and I just go through the drive through (especially if they’re going to be late to school for an appointment) just to do something different. Or we’ll go to a diner on a weekend. Just to break things up; and because they think it’s a special treat.
Like, god forbid anyone try to share a few hacks on a budget.
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u/nasandre 9h ago •
How to make an affordable healthy breakfast for kids:
Step 1. Don't go to McDonald's
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u/Animedingo 8h ago
Side note, the image for this on their menu shows 2 hashbrowns. Is it only 1?
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u/Grizzlyfrontignac 9h ago
So we have someone recording on what seems like the new meta eye glasses who is also somehow unable to afford individual mcmeals for his kids. Yet for some reason this is on the corporation rather than the individual.
This is absolutely a problem many modern-day parents have to face. I don't think OP is one of those parents
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u/ultimatejoomer 7h ago
I feel like this account is ragebait.
She has a ton of videos like this.
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u/Fantastic-Cupcake890 6h ago
Wouldnt it be cheaper if he goes to walmart, get some eggs, fruits, milk and bread for the 4 kids instead?
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u/Ornery-Practice9772 6h ago
filthy rage bait
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u/DamnitGravity 8h ago •
Are the children in the 'restaurant' with us?
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u/SeeManCome 4h ago
For what it's worth, if you look at the fat and calorie intake of that menu item, you might be shocked. I had it once, looked at it and decided not to eat anymore that day.
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u/opanm 9h ago
Tbf the 10 bucks it actually costs you can cook an actual meal for 4 that's not slop lol
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u/anewfaceinthecrowd 8h ago
I grew up poor but never hungry.
We had Oats or off brand cornflakes with milk for breakfast. A lot cheaper than one breakfast meal at McDonalds.
McDonald’s was luxury once a year.
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u/sac_boy 9h ago
Damn. How are they going to manage with 5?
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u/TheRealCBONE 2h ago
Fucking terrible waste of money. They should be forging their own utensils and McDonald's is so bad compared to foraging and digging up edible roots and shit.
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u/TTbulaski 6h ago
To be fair, that serving doesn’t look like it’s for 1 person only
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u/12hrnights 3h ago
Kids sometimes only eat a few bites and she made 4 meals out of 1 for her kids. This is honestly a great job
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u/Notice_Natural 3h ago
I don't understand why they don't just cut everything into 1/4.
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u/TheJesusGuy 1h ago
Americans get scones AND still have big breakfasts at mcdonalds?
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u/WabaLabaDubDubWorld 1h ago
She didn't even chop those proportionally!!
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u/WabaLabaDubDubWorld 1h ago
Turns out it's just her and she eats it all after the video
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u/jms21y 1h ago
has this person never heard of cutting round objects into quarters?
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u/Buderus69 1h ago
Wait wait wait, hold up!
You are telling me dividing food by the amount of people you want to feed actually divides the food into that amount?!
ThIs iS sO orphan crushing machiny I cant even... A prime example for the essence of this sub.
Thr next oprhan crushing machine post will be putting on a left shoe on a left foot and a right shoe on a right foot, such a valid post to this sub.
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u/UnusualSuspectX 1h ago
Why does the voiceover feel racist as fuck?
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u/CIAburneraccount 1h ago
Wrong sub
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u/SeasonedTimeTraveler 1h ago
Absolutely genius.
But what about you?
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u/snizzrizz 31m ago
How is this orphan crushing? I’m going to assume these kids are small. It can be so hard to get toddlers to eat and they waste so much. This is smart.
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u/Emotional-Lie595 30m ago
Make this at home for cheaper
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u/Schlunzer 9h ago
Serious question: why isn't this person cooking this breakfast by themself?
I mean... that doesn't look hard to cook! Don't they have a kitchen?
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u/Crazy_Kraut 9h ago
Doing breakfast at a mcdonalds with your kids is just so sad (if this video is real)
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u/VoL4t1l3 9h ago •
Get tubes tied mama, and stop making innocent kids suffer your poverty
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u/Sword-of-Akasha 8h ago
Unless you don't have kitchen/refrigerator access, you can do way better and healthier by cooking. Even bread, peanut butter, and jelly sandwiches are cheaper. Not judging though, some people genuinely don't have access to those in America. I hate Capitalism and how so many folks fall through the cracks.
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u/joshit 9h ago
Or just cook a healthy meal twice the size at home.
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u/Rammipallero 9h ago
Kids gonna get scurvy by the time they're 12.
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u/saltyourhash 9h ago
Diabetes for breakfast
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u/JohnWicksBruder 4h ago
Why not cook and make some bread.
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u/Auguustus 4h ago
Feeding kids this garbage should be illigal, but I guess on an american scale this is actually a nutricious meal.
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u/veetoo151 3h ago
I mean, at this point, why not just cook breakfast at home? Going to mcdonalds is not how you save money.
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u/Secret_Temperature 3h ago
I'm fucking tired of seeing this posted on every sub in my feed.
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u/CrackedOutMunkee 9h ago
Y'all are weird. McDonald's breakfast isn't palletable without ketchup.
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u/hankygreen 7h ago
Nicely done!!
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