Lauren Jorgensen is a 31-year-old woman from Long Island in New York and is a mother to a two-year-old son, Weston. The kid is a picky eater and only eats selected food items.

The mother humorously calls her son, “a little McDonald’s junkie” after she treated him to a Happy Meal at the fast-food chain once.

From that day on, he refused any other type of meal other than McDonald’s. This led the mother to come up with a genius hack to get her toddler to eat some home-cooked food without realizing it is not McDonald’s.

Lauren revealed that her toddler was slowly becoming choosier with his meals over time. She shared in a Facebook group that Weston was a fabulous eater. There was not anything he would not try. But slowly as he aged as a toddler it became a daily struggle. She tried each day to continue introducing new foods or foods he used to like into his diet.

She had gotten a lot of tips online on how to sneak in veggies, dress up food into cute shapes and smiley faces yet, the little lad refused to eat. Upon asking other parents she came to the conclusion that it was quite a common problem among toddlers.

She said, “I mourned the loss of nugget freedom I once had and hatched a plan. The McDonalds Dupe! If the only way he would eat nuggets and a few apple slices were in that little red box that’s exactly what he would get. But little did he know he was going to get everything I already had at home.

She treated her boy with a Happy Meal again and kept the packaging in the cupboard so that when the next meal time arrives, she could cook something on her own at home and present it to the choosy toddler in McDonald’s packaging.

She occupied him with some cartoons on TV and cut the apples just like they do at McDonald’s and slid them into the bag.

She further said, “I blocked his view of the counter, added the cooked shop-bought fries and nuggets to their respective red boxes.”

She then captured her toddler getting excited about his ‘fake meal’ and then shared it on TikTok.

She mentioned, “I knew there would be some mums out there that would understand this success and added my video to a mum’s group I am a member of on Facebook. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and they sure are right. Mums know the struggle so it’s nice to band together and encourage each other in difficult stages!”

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