McDonald’s To Fill Happy Meals With What Kids Really Want: Books About Healthy Eating

10/10/13

I have two young nieces, and every year for Christmas they plead, “Dear Uncle Chrisso (yes, they call me that; shut up), don’t buy us toys or clothing! We crave illustrated books about the virtues of eating healthy!!” Well, McDonald’s has just made my holiday shopping a lot easier, as it plans to pack those kinds of books into future Happy Meal offerings.

AdAge reports that, for two weeks starting Nov. 1, McDonald’s will be putting four different books, each detailing all the reasons you should eat anywhere other than McDonald’s but presumably without saying so, inside Happy Meals.

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