Anyone tried the McDonald's McPlant?

[Legodout]

Interested in anyone's views before I try at the weekend! I am a big fan of fake-meat burgers (the only category of fake meat I think is indistinguishable from/superior to the original) and usually have Linda McCartney's or Co-Ops own brand, so looking forward to trying this!

On a side note, anyone have a good fake-meat sausage recommendations? None I've tried have hit the mark.

Thanks!

@Youngatheart00

God that’s a lot of ingredients!! I do wonder how/why these processed vegan alternatives are being badged as healthy/virtuous when in many cases they are MORE over processed than the alternative

I don't think fast food plant based is healthy or virtuous, its just not made of dead animal (however probably isn't vegetarian either, but I'm OK with that)

Why anyone would want to eat such horribly ultra-processed food is beyond me.

I feel like an idiot now. I honestly thought you were being helpful BIWI, rather than trying to piss on people's fries chips.

Oh well.

OK - to make the point further - here are the ingredients for an equivalent quarterpounder beef patty:

Quarter Beef Patty
100% Pure Beef.
No additives, fillers, binders, preservatives or flavour enhancers. Just pure forequarter and flank. A little salt and pepper is added to season after cooking.

If you want to be vegan, it's your prerogative, obviously. But I wonder how many people realise just how processed these foods are?

@Moonmelodies
Cracking idea

If anyone knows how to make Kare Buruso Ramen Wagamama style, I’d love to hear it.

If you want to be vegan, it's your prerogative, obviously. But I wonder how many people realise just how processed these foods are?

It's an occasional fast food treat, why would they care?

Re veggie sausages, I had the Heck ones for the first time yesterday and loved them. Pan fried as per the recommendation on the packet.

mousey yes the Vivera stuff is good

daydream see Burger King

@BIWI

OK - to make the point further - here are the ingredients for an equivalent quarterpounder beef patty:

Quarter Beef Patty
100% Pure Beef.
No additives, fillers, binders, preservatives or flavour enhancers. Just pure forequarter and flank. A little salt and pepper is added to season after cooking.

If you want to be vegan, it's your prerogative, obviously. But I wonder how many people realise just how processed these foods are?

I'd be amazed if someone didn't know how processed a McDonald's was.

@BIWI

OK - to make the point further - here are the ingredients for an equivalent quarterpounder beef patty:

Quarter Beef Patty
100% Pure Beef.
No additives, fillers, binders, preservatives or flavour enhancers. Just pure forequarter and flank. A little salt and pepper is added to season after cooking.

If you want to be vegan, it's your prerogative, obviously. But I wonder how many people realise just how processed these foods are?

Do you think people are idiots?

I don’t think anyone eats at McDonalds for a healthy option or eats any sort of fake anything, thinking it’s all natural ingredients.

I really enjoyed it - I’m well aware it’s processed food - I’m not going to have it daily and it’s nice to have something other than the truly dismal veggie deluxe thing when my kids want Mc Donald’s

Got to love a McDonald's thread on Mumsnet, always the same

On shopping trips years ago the youths in my family liked me to take them through the drive thru in McDonald’s and as a vegetarian and my daughter a vegan we would have to suffer not being able to eat anything or not much as the options available to us were limited.

At least now there are some vegetarian/vegan alternatives in these drive thru/restaurants.

I even had a halloumi burger from Burger King that was quite nice!

@BIWI

OK - to make the point further - here are the ingredients for an equivalent quarterpounder beef patty:

Quarter Beef Patty
100% Pure Beef.
No additives, fillers, binders, preservatives or flavour enhancers. Just pure forequarter and flank. A little salt and pepper is added to season after cooking.

If you want to be vegan, it's your prerogative, obviously. But I wonder how many people realise just how processed these foods are?

Tell you what the plant based hasn't got.... dead animal.

Honestly what patronising crap.

We can all read, thank you very much. You aren't the only one.

The actual burger bit tasted fine but the bread roll is really cheap and with the salad etc , it's all slidey and mushy - hard to eat. Took me straight back to the 1980's and not in a good way. McDonald's have waited too long to do this and Vegetarians/Vegans have long had much better alternatives from independent burger chains and even pubs. I vote it's a miss - hot mush in a cheap bun.

I haven’t but my son said it’s nice, I always worry they will mix these things up as my local McDonald’s isn’t very good with following orders so I would worry it was meat 😂

@ineedsun

I think when no one asks and you do it anyway because you want to make a point, that’s not obliging.

If you don’t want to eat it, don’t eat it.

It's useful to me. I know there's no point in even considering it now. And I wouldn't have been on this thread if I hadn't been interested in the first place.

Havilland have the BK plant based whopper with halloumi...

Upgrade the bun and would be 10 x better!

Do you remember about 15 years ago tgey did a quorn one in mcdonalds?

I went vegan because killing animals makes me feel really sad, no other reason.
I now eat really really healthily - loads and loads of veg, whole foods 95% of the time. But I am happy I have options if I want a dirty treat!
Tries the mcplant in October and really liked it 😄 this thread is making me really want another one..:

I'm an avid meat eater and I thought the mcplant tasted like meat which is brilliant , I would buy it again though not regularly

I don’t care how processed it is. I would a thousand times rather eat processed crap than a dead animal. Who probably had a shit life.
It’s delicious @Legodout, hope you enjoy it.

I like it. However if I had a choice of McDonalds or Wagamama, I'd still choose Wagamama.

I was going to try it but now I've seen the list of processed crap I won't.

I'll stick to my beef burger if I'm eating in there