The Burger Generation

One of our favourite restaurants here is MacDonalds. I don't know why kids love it so much but as a parent, if your kids like it, you like it. But over here in Australia, I'm beginning to genuinely like going to MacDonalds. Besides the playground in their premises which serves as a motivational tool for me to encourage KK to eat faster, more importantly, their food is easy for kids to consume and quite tasty. Both Hubby and I agree that the MacDonalds in Australia serve superb burgers. Their buns are so soft and the beef patties, made from local ingredients, are not as tough and taste better. Even KK can tell the difference.

The service and ambience are pretty much standard but over here, the good thing is, you can park right outside the restaurant and they are not so crowded. So you can sit down to a nice hot meal in a matter of minutes from parking your car.

Recently, even XX is initiated and has started to like burgers. He started off eating the french fries. Then one day we fed him the fillet-o-fish and he ate more than half. The next day, we bought him a cheeseburger and he ate three-quarters of it. He's officially 20 months today and still refuses chunky particles in his porridge but somehow, he can grind on that combined bread, cheese and beef patty easily. I made a beef burger with cheese today that's probably at least 1 inch tall and XX ate half of it easily.

Though XX is increasing his variety of food, he is at the same time getting more choosey about what he eats. I would say he loves bread most. He turns his nose to rice and honestly, he doesn't really fancy porridge. Noodles, he's ok and that depends on what kind and how it is cooked. You can see the difference in enthusiasm levels. If it's bread, he'll come to you saying 'more, more' or 'bread, bread'. If his brother is 'Noodles King', I think this boy is a 'Bread King' in the making.

I'm perfectly fine with that. In fact the bread here are all very fresh, soft and tasty, I'm beginning to like it alot too. Besides, I'm running out of ideas on what to cook for him since he's outgrowing porridge but not yet fully on adult's menu. Sandwiches, burgers are to me a substantial and nutritional meal.