Attractions of fastfood, and its not the menu !

With most of us now into healthy lifestyle, fast-food stores probably need to compete with each other to get a steady flow customers.

I have not been minded to buy fast food for my kids for quite some time now. I get a good feeling out of saving on things which are not on top of my priority lists. But the advertisements on the billboards menu thingy at the entrance of the drive-ins attract my 6 going into 7 year old kid when her daddy drove by for HIS burgers.

How do I tell my DH not to tempt her and starve himself a little longer, and drive around a little further down the road, park his car, and go get some noodles at the nearest kopitiam instead?

Last month at Mc Donald, she was clamouring for the 12 Dancing Princesses and the Polly Dollies. These are some of the Mc. D's toys.

Strawberry Shortcakes & friends


The 12 dancing princesses


At Burger King, it was the Polly Dolly’s accessories last month and this month, the Groovy Chic dollies.

I find myself going past the drive in every alternate Tuesday or Thursday after Kimberly’s Enopi or Ballet classes to get her fast-food for dinner so we could get her the “cool” toys (her expression of them), instead of driving straight home and cook.

It doesn’t help that Kimberly’s favorite hobby is collecting dolls. She also collects bracelets, tea sets, music boxes and hair accessories and I swear she also collect shoes. But her all time favorite collection has to be her collection of dolls.

She has collections of My Little Pony, Barbie, Kelly (Barbie’s little sister, no less) Polly Dollies, Winx, together with their accessories.

These are some of her collection

Barbies


Winx


Polly Dolly


Kelly


My Little Pony


She also collects bags of these characters and rotates using them every now and then.

Her favourite fairy bags


Sometimes I wondered whether I was giving in to Kimberly’s whims or giving in my lazy ways, evading cooking dinner for the family.

Fortunately, the toys rotate only twice a month and I could keep Kimberly at bay, buying fast food only twice a month. Well, okay, 4 times a months, that average out to be once weekly, if you count Mc Donald and Burger King having “dollies kiddy meal toys” together at the same period.

Who am I to deny her, when I myself have collections of Barbie dolls and smurf and smurfettes when I was younger, to which I have kept in good condition until she was born. Unfortunately, the maid let Kimberly broke all the Barbies’ arms when Kimberly was 2 or 3 years old and couldn’t take those clothes off. The then maid made no attempt to assist her. Sigh... maids, but I won’t go into that.

Sometimes, i resolved to be more frugal and tell myself i wont be buying ANYMORE dolls for her. But whenever i see her delight, my heart melt and i gave in...once again... and tell myself, okay,just this once. Now who am i kidding?


So, anyhow, shall we parents of little girls adjourn to the nearest fast food spot? They have Madame Alexander’s at Mc D….