My children have had maccas, and the worst thing about it for me is the guilt of what others think of me as a mum, despite it not being a regular thing and usually only when we are hungry and miles from home plus too skint to go somewhere healthier.
I feel the same way!

My kids think Maccas is the greatest treat on earth - DH and I think it is awful and we usually don't eat when we take our kids there.

We actually go to Maccas often (once every 2 - 3 weeks) mainly for the indoor airconditioned playground. We also go fortnightly to the museum, the library, the indoor playcentre and the aquarium (thank goodness for year passes) for the airconditioned indoor playgrounds. We live in a very hot place where outdoor playgrounds are too hot to use for 6 months of the year - they burn themselves just by touching it and DS1 has ezcema triggered by the humidity. We do buy them HP (even my 15 month old get her own - we used to have them share but it causes so many fights) - with chips and a cheeseburger and we throw most of it away because they don't eat it. The lure of the playground is too great

I worry about other people thinking I am a terrible parent for taking them to Maccas but then I feel like a terrible parent when my kids don't get a chance to climb and run and we keep them cooped up inside all day because going out with extreme UV indexes is also incredibly dangerous. We also keep them up late, well past the time they should be in bed, just because we are desperate to let them run and kick a ball and the only time we can do that here is after dark. Finding that balance is really difficult and no matter how we do it, someone will think we are doing it wrong.

I think each to their own. Those families giving their kids maccas and HJ probably have their own reasons for doing it.