McDonalds 'cheapest, most nutritious and bountiful food' ?

At 390 calories, 23 grams of protein, 7-percent of the daily value of fiber, 20-percent of daily calcium and 19 grams of fat.

Those are good numbers, you add a salad to that and you have a great meal that will fill you up and keep you moving.

Of course everyone can choose what they want to eat and not be judged for it but I really can't see how eating this type of food would be of any benefit to me. I prefer to make my own hamburger if I would eat one. I like real food not chemically enhanced food that I don't trust.

Well yes.. if you only look at the calories.. and then assume the person is counting their calories. Also if you dont give a crap about, you know, nutrition.

Eating healthy food does not need to cost so much.. you just need to be smart about it... which I guess they assume "poor" people cant be? :huh:

ETA: I could live of a bag of nuts every day.. that would be fine in calories, and they have healthy fats! And cost pr calorie is fairly low too.

It IS more expensive in some parts of the country (US) to eat healthier things. I've noticed when I lived in NH, it was much more expensive than here in NC. I can see how someone in the south can have no issues eating healthier for less, but in New England, it's costly, especially in the winter.

Despite being an article in the New York Post (but I have read only the article linked, not the ariginal one) , I think it's absolutely stupid what it says.
Firstly, I don't know in UK, but in most European countries (Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Switzerlanad) Mc Donalds isn't cheap at all and I suppose that that article could be valid only for US.
Second, it makes no sense consider totallly organic-super expensive-only from farmers-food as the only possible alternative to macdonald. It's absolutely not true in Europe and, for what I know, even in the United States.
Third, of course mcdonald offers nutrients that we actually need at very affordable prices, but cheesburgers also contain things we don't need at all (too much sugar, saturated fat). Assuming a diet of 1500 calories (4 double cheese) in which we eat only double cheeseburgers, we actually eat 46,2% of fats (too too much), 28,2% of carbohydrates (too few), 25,6% of proteines (too much, considering that is only from meat). Moreover, tha article considers positive that a double cheese covers our fiber needs for 7% but 7x 4 (number of cheesburger in a 1500 kcal diet) is 28%...And what about vitamines?

In conclusion, I think that a cheeseburger occasionally do not kill you, but to pretend that it's a healthy meal seems to me pretty busive.

Who is saying eat McDonalds for three meals a day?

I ate McDonalds for the first time since Christmas Eve a few weeks ago after a boozey Friday. Not only did it not fill me up or satisfy my hunger, it also made me feel significantly worse.

People who say McDonalds is cheaper than making a healthy and filling meal are simply a) lying to themselves b) too lazy.

You can make a crap ton of Soup for example for way under £5. That with some bread or whatever is a perfectable acceptable and cheap meal that will last.

McDonald's cheap? XD It really isn't.
Last time we had a McDonalds (3 of us, and it was a while ago now, last year sometime) it was nearly £20. For 3 people.

I can cook a far more nutritious and delicious tuna steak dinner for us for half that.

And just "no" anyway. McDonald's is not nutritious. Its fine for a treat every now and then if you like it, but that's about all.

And if you live in your car? If you live in a place with no stove or oven or refrigerator? Don't forget that to cook in bulk, you still need to go to the store (more time than going through the drive-thru), bring food home, cook it and wait for it to cook, then have space to store it if you're going to cook more than one meal at a time.

Am I saying it's impossible? No, absolutely not, so you don't need to respond with stories about how you make it work. But (assuming you pass a McDonald's on the way home) it *does* take more time and more equipment to make 400 calories of nutritious food than to buy a one dollar McDouble.

McDonalds and nutritious do not belong in the same sentence. <-- Except this sentence...

Sometimes, probably less than once a month, my daughter and I may be out shopping. Before we do our grocery shopping (the last thing before we go home), if it's about lunchtime, we'll stop and have a McDonalds.

Those of you who sneer at us obviously have no idea how nice it is to occasionally eat something that you haven't had to prepare yourself, cook yourself and clear up after yourself. Maybe you do know how nice it is to do that but you can obviously afford to eat at a more nutritious restaurant. It is the ONLY time I get to do this. Even when we go on holiday it is always a self-catering holiday and I have to shop/prepare/cook and clear up after every meal.

McDonalds has it's place. I wouldn't feed my family on it every day but once in a while, for a treat, it's OK.

I completely agree. And I would eat about anything that I didn't have to prepare--some days I get so tired of cooking! I don't think that we should blame fast food for our issues, I think that we just need to be more careful with our food choices in general..

McDonalds and nutritious do not belong in the same sentence. <-- Except this sentence...

clever!