Sentences with phrase «meal toys»

This is what the happy meal toy bans were about.

Stop blaming low - fat chocolate milk, kids meal toys and chicken nuggets for problems.

You can even bring in your own Happy Meal toys to be appraised.

So about our diet... Trade your box meal, supersize soda and Happy Meal toy for real food!

Now New York City will soon be considering its own Happy Meal toy ban.

i don't recall happy meal toys as a preschooler, yet i got hooked on mcD in my day.

I can see it now - going out to eat with my husband and feeling confident going to a place that did not advertise kid meal toys in the window...:)

One thing I have done in the past is put old McDonald Happy Meal toys into a basket and if they went on the potty they could play with one.

The agency was recognized for its work on Happy Meal toy production infrastructure and transitioning to becoming the sole production agency, moves it says helped cut costs significantly while maintaining quality and safety standards.

In the back of my closet I have two rather large plastic totes filled to the brim with kids meal toys like the ones above.

Moreover, whereas in the past parents could purchase the Happy Meal toy apart from a meal, the SF Weekly blog reports that this option will no longer be available — now parents must purchase the still - unhealthy meal to placate toy - collecting kids.

though honestly we have since discovered that you can buy happy meal toys separately and have a chocolate milk and still get to play on the nasty indoor playground... the kids are happy!

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is threatening to sue McDonald's on the grounds that the use of Happy Meals toys lures children into consuming unhealthful food.

The most amazing this is the indepth justification you can get if you ask why the free Happy Meal meal toy from 2 years ago stays while the new Car Set goes....

A happy meal toy proved to be a good luck charm for this health physics & diagnostic sciences professor in her NASA endeavors.

Nintendo also made a much better effort on marketing, striking the first deal since the early 90's with McDonalds for Happy Meal toys featuring Mario and the gang, as well as holding lots of live events and publicising them with the help of their partners, independent media sites and increased television advertising.

Curve has done plenty to change up the gameplay formula without taking away from the core experience made famous in the original Stealth Inc, so grab a friend and get ready to be challenged mentally and physically as you try to save the world's Happy Meal toy testing clones from the brutal corporate entity that has enslaved them for our pleasure.

GPUs are highly complex machines — we're not playing with Happy Meal toys here.

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I continue to feel ambivalence about the strategy of going after the Happy Meal toy as a means of combatting childhood obesity, a strategy that has been adopted via ordinance in San Francisco, as reported here a few weeks ago.

Where had she learned it was okay to want every McDonald's Happy Meal toy in a series?

Our government has far bigger fish to fry then worrying whether or not MacDonalds is giving kids meal toys for unhealthy food.

Growing up I accumulated an embarrassing number of free kids meal toys from fast food joints, most of which I still have because I'm about three dozen dead cats away from being featured on Hoarders.

Ask anyone who grew up eating McDonald's and they can instantly tell you what the most coveted Happy Meal toy of their generation was.

For the first time since the 1990s, Nintendo (nintendo) is teaming up with McDonald's (mcd) to turn their iconic video game characters into Happy Meal toys.

Many of the hottest collectibles of the 20th Century, including Hummel figurines, Depression glass, Roseville pottery, comic books, baseball cards, lunchboxes, vintage denim, Happy Meal toys, and, of course, Beanie Babies, are worth just a fraction of their former values in the 21st Century.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that advocates healthier restaurant food for children, last year sued McDonald's to stop it from using Happy Meal toys to lure children into its restaurants.

We're gonna go pick up the rest at the movie theater in a few minutes, and while I'm sure they'll have had a great time, they also won't have a couple of cheap happy meal toys, so who's the real winners?

All of a sudden the stuffed bear at the back of the cupboard that they hadn't looked at since birth became THE favourite possession...... along with the countless, pointless happy meal toys, the unopened 1000 piece hot wheels contraption from 3 Christmases past.....

Me neither, but apparently it exists and collectors are still clamoring for the set of Wendy's kids meal toys they made to promote it.

* Flip flops * Hard candy * bouncy ball * comb * crayons * paper / coloring book * playing cards * travel sized game * book * toiletries * small stuffed animal * socks * unopened happy meal toy * play dough * small puzzle * chalk and a mini chalkboard * animal figurines * small musical instruments * finger puppets * pencil case * stickers * stamps and stamp pad

Fasten your seatbelt, because if you can't be the bad guy with regard to food choices when your kids are young enough to care about Happy Meal toys, you are going to be in a world of hurt when your kids reach their teens and need for you to say no to them from time to time.

(These measures are commonly referred to as «Happy Meal toy bans,» even though they affect all restaurants, not just McDonald's.)

i loath junk food marketing directed at kids and happy meal toys are the most insidious.

Some of the puppets were nicely made and some were Happy Meal toys.

And, of course, McDonald's is steadfastly refusing to ditch the Happy Meal toy, a source of much concern among some children's health advocates.

For toddlers / preschoolers: have some new little toys (horded Happy Meal toys are great) to introduce at intervals.

They nag their parents because they want burgers and fries, as well as the Happy Meal toys you use to entice young children.

If you're a parent, you know what I'm talking about: the Happy Meal toys, the rings, -LSB-...]

For example, when McDonald's says that it has «made great strides to reduce the amount of material used in our Happy Meal toys,» I would love to have seen some concrete examples.

I wasn't familiar with McDonalds environmental initiatives, so I checked out their blog, and left a comment suggesting McDonalds could do even more for the environment by introducing organic Happy Meal selections and eco-friendly Happy Meal toys.

Think of the huge environmental impact McDonalds could make by greening the Happy Meal and replacing the Cheap Plastic Crap Happy Meal toys with an eco-friendly alternative toy!

You know what I'm talking about: the Happy Meal toys, the rings, tops, balls and other -LSB-...]

Critics hammered McDonald's executives not only for offering unhealthful menu items but also for marketing fast food to kids with its Ronald McDonald character and Happy Meal toys, all while the company boasts of eight straight years of sales growth despite a deep economic recession.

The group, which seeks class - action status for its case, is asking California to ban all marketing of Happy Meal toys.

I agree with most of what Robin Farella had to say about the lawsuit against McDonald's to ban Happy Meal toys (Voice of the People, Jan. 3).

Fill Ziploc bags with a variety of tiny children's toys that you're looking to dump (think Happy Meal toys, bouncy balls, etc.).

Clear out the obvious losers, such as outgrown clothing, toys that haven't been used in months, ripped books, used - up pens, and Happy Meal toys, placing them in the appropriate group.

So last month, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest announced it was filing a class action lawsuit to stop McDonald's from using Happy Meal toys to market to children, the fierce and ugly backlash against the mother of two who was brave enough to attach her name to the case was predictable.