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What’s your go-to meal deal selection?

69 replies

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 14/01/2026 16:14

For me, I LOVE the chicken club sandwich from Tesco, I usually try and pair it with a fruit pot (either Pink Lady apple slices, or pineapple chunks) and an apple juice if they have it, or Pepsi Max Cherry, or Dr Pepper.

I don’t get them often, I last had one a couple of weeks ago and before that, it was months ago! Although in the summer of 2024 I got a bit addicted to the chicken club and had 2-3 meal deals a week for about 2 months until one day I couldn’t stomach even the thought of it! But I like them again now, although not like the other year.

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Queenage · 14/01/2026 16:19

Cheese and onion sarnie, ready salted crisps and one of those trip drinks. Only get one very rarely on special occasions though

MrsWalker2025 · 14/01/2026 18:18

Prawn mayo sandwich, fruit pot and a coke

k2showerscene · 14/01/2026 18:21

Sushi, sushi snack or pomegranate and a Tropicana orange juice. Last time I had a sandwich it was years ago and I think it was a chicken and stuffing or chicken and bacon? A packet of salt and vinegar McCoys and a Diet Coke.

PhantomAfternoonTea · 14/01/2026 18:29

Chicken and bacon caesar wrap, apple juice and salt and vinegar crisps.

TigerRag · 14/01/2026 18:31

Hoisin duck wrap. I may have 2 mini cheese and red onion chutney rolls or pineapple and cheese chunks and a coke zero

Teenagerantruns · 14/01/2026 18:34

The most expensive sandwich l can find😂.
Ready sales crisps and diet coke or iced coffee.

BarbaraKirksKaftan · 14/01/2026 19:57

BLT, cheese and onion Walkers crisps and Ribena.

Bebobarn · 14/01/2026 20:03

Main: Cheese and onion sandwich [edited]
Snack: olive pot or hula hoops
Drink: Biggest water

Fluffinghell75 · 14/01/2026 20:06

BLT or I love the prawn salad they do in CoOp, ready salted crisps and a Trip or an Ice coffe

CoffeePleaseBlack · 14/01/2026 20:06

I love a chicken salad

Nincompoo · 14/01/2026 20:07

Duck and hoisin wrap, plain hula hoops and coconut water

JustAboutMuddlingThrough · 14/01/2026 20:13

Spicy prawn rolls, chicken satay things, pay extra for those but it still brings it under a fiver. Then hoola hoops or prawn cocktail crisps and a monster energy drink.

HoseGoblin · 14/01/2026 20:20

Southern fried chicken wrap, star bar or Doritos depending on whether I'm feeling sweet or savoury, apple juice or iced coffee depending on whether I'm in a good mood or tired and raging.

Lightuptheroom · 14/01/2026 20:21

Chicken and bacon sandwich or ham and tomato roll, quavers or wotsits, pepsi Max (Morrisons meal deal )
Meatball marinara, lindt chocolate, pepsi max (Tesco) will also use the salad bar in Morrisons. Used to do it a lot as office had no canteen but now WFH 5 days a week most weeks

hahagogomomo · 14/01/2026 20:25

The duck poke bowl from Waitrose with fruit or veggie sushi depending on how hungry I am and a smoothie

Moonflower12 · 14/01/2026 21:01

Deli meat roll, 2 boiled eggs and a Diet Coke.

Mokel · 14/01/2026 22:00

It depends on how hungry I am, time of year etc. I usually go for some different veggie sandwich/wrap. If not chicken. Then some supermarkets have Danish pastry/croissant as a side and a smoothie.

There is one shop (One Stop?) that sells long chicken kebabs as their side. Very spicy and delicious

notthedressiwanted · 14/01/2026 22:03

Cheese &onion sandwich, beef hula hoops and a diet coke mmmmm

Mokel · 14/01/2026 22:07

I remember about 20 years ago when I worked in a call centre on a weekend- canteen was closed but there was a Boots in the shopping centre next door. My colleagues and I used to compete who had saved the most from their meal deal.

I usually won it. As Boots used to do jacket potatoes with cheesy beans, veggie chilli, beef chilli and something with bacon. Had a microwave to use. Plus those days Boots sold 1 litre bottles of orange and apple juice. Plus some of the sides were those Trek or similar flapjack bars.

Needmorelego · 14/01/2026 22:09

Tesco - the bacon sandwich.
Sainsbury's - the mozzarella and pesto (?) wrap - which many branches never have 🙁
M+S/Boots - Ploughman's Sandwich.
With Pepsi Max or Coke Zero and until recently cheese and onion crisps but am trying to cut down on crisps so getting the yoghurt pouch instead.

TroysMammy · 14/01/2026 22:10

The most expensive sandwich. The most expensive snack. The most expensive drink. I like to get my monies worth.

ladygindiva · 14/01/2026 22:15

Coop salmon poke bowl and a millionaire slice and a innocent mango smoothie

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 14/01/2026 22:34

Ham and cheese sub, or a chicken and bacon club, or a sausage bacon and egg triple.

Salt and Vinegar Discos grab bag

Mars Duo

Full fat coke.

Diabetic me misses the Tesco meal deal so much

BillieWiper · 14/01/2026 23:15

Like the egg and bacon sandwich. Then a smoothie for maximum money saving. Innocent etc rather than the concentrate ones.
The snack I'm not that bothered with but found they do a mini chicken tikka or spicy bean ginsters as a snack.

The worst would be a cheese and ham sandwich, a diet coke and boiled eggs! So I like egg in a sandwich but not just naked on their own?!

Kibble19 · 14/01/2026 23:22

Surprised nobody’s commented that they never eat meal deals because of the appalling salt and fat content.

Anyway, it’s the southern fried chicken wrap or sushi, McCoys salt & vinegar and a Diet Irn Bru for me.

I always see those lonely looking boiled eggs in the Tesco fridge and wonder what heathen is choosing those.