to think McDonalds is expensive?

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I mean great for a quick, cheap on-the-move treat .

But you get a tiny bit of meat with your burger and unless you stuff yourself with chips and ice-cream on top, are hungry 30 minutes later.

I've just made a delicious huge burger for lunch at home, with lovely seedy bun and big salad, probably for less than £1. [NoMrWhippyThough ]

YANBU, it's expensive. We took ds2 there for lunch at the weekend. DH and I didn't eat (only a cup of tea each), ds2 had a wrap, chips and a drink and it came to iirc something like £12.

That makes no sense; £12 is nearly three times the price of a wrap meal.

A medium wrap meal is £4.59, a large is £4.99 (and that's assuming you didn't get the wrap of the day which is £1 cheaper).

Even with the most expensive add-on drink, and if you were at a motorway services with slightly upped prices, it wouldn't come to anywhere near £12!

A double cheeseburger for £1.29 I think

A double cheeseburger is £1.49

Absolutely shocked and appalled by this thread. I can't believe the amount of mumsnetters who have even cast their eyes in the same direction as a McDonald's. Won't anyone think of the children!

I did this once, but the kids seized me by the arms, and frogmarched me to the hummus section of Marks and Spencer.

I don't think it's expensive at all. Like someone else said, where else could you get that amount for that little apart from cooking it yourself at home which applies to everything anyway...

Expensive? Where else can you get an adult sized burger, chips and drinks for £4?

My local pub, and it is brought to you on a plate and cleared afterwards.

The chippy does a special that is chicken or fish or sausage with chips for £2.50

Two things

Is it only me who thinks what kind of shit burger, bun and salad are you using at home to do it for under a £1? Would rather risk a McDonalds

2nd thing if stopping on the motorway at a Burger King you can get discount by either down loading the app or 20% off if in the AA.

As for Maccys it's relatively cheap and okay quality.

"the cheapest, most nutritious, and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history"

freakonomics.com/2013/03/21/the-most-bountiful-food-in-human-history/

The difference between McDonald's and very cheap independent takeaways that may also do a burger meal for less than a fiver is that the meat in McDonald's is reasonably decent quality, whereas you would be lucky if the burger place is giving you better than the cheapest value burger from the local cash and carry.

Agree that the wrap and tea combo would have been nowhere near £12, probably about half that.

BadLad sounds like you had a near miss there! At least your kids seem to have some self respect!

Blimey your chippy is cheap nobettername just the fish and chips would be 16 quid round here.

Shiny, the advantages of being "up north". They're good quality fish and chips too (our saturday night ritual is chip shop fish and chips).

I would screen-shot their menu to prove the prices, but it might out me.

NoBetterName Your fish and chippy might be cheap, but so is McDonald's. As I explained in my previous post, if you actually ordered what you said you ordered, there's not a chance in hell it even came close to £12.

It's not a tiny bit of meat at all. A quarter pounder is......a quarter pound of meat. Who needs more than that?

DH and I didn't eat (only a cup of tea each), ds2 had a wrap, chips and a drink and it came to iirc something like £12

You do not recall correctly. A wrap meal is 4 pounds 79 and a tea is is 99 pence.

This thread is batshit.

YABU because McDonalds hash browns are the only foods to be taken in the event of a hangover and are, frankly, better than any of the sex I've ever had.

You do not recall correctly. A wrap meal is 4 pounds 79 and a tea is is 99 pence.

A medium wrap meal is £4.59 at my restaurant, so 20p cheaper.

While prices do vary between McDonalds, it's never usually more than 50p and couldn't possibly have been anywhere near the £12 NoBetterName thinks it was.

not pricey here but 5 of us went in France recently - nothing fancy just 1 happy meal, 4 burger meals - 43 Euros

You would have had to have had add ons or premium meals to reach 43 euros, but even so that is only 38 pounds to feed 5 people. How is that expensive?

existentialmoment, dh paid so I was just going by the info he told me. Not being a regular in McDonalds I don't memorise the prices.

Even £6.77 is still a lot for a single "meal" plus two cups of tea.

Lol at the idea of paying 12 for one meal in macdonalds

Your dh pocketed a fiver!

Even £6.77 is still a lot for a single "meal" plus two cups of tea

How is it a lot for a meal for one and inc 3 drinks? It is almost nothing. In most places you wouldn't get the 3 drinks for that price.

NoBetterName No, it's not at all a lot. The meal is cheap and good quality, and the tea is only 99p!

existentialmoment and WhatToDoAboutThis2017, do you work for the McDonalds PR department by any chance? You are awfully familar with their pricing structure and very defensive of them.

If I compare £6.77 for a single meal plus two cups of tea with the price at my local chippy for more food than 4 of us can eat, or with the fact that many local pubs around here will offer two adult meals for £10 on a weekday lunchtime, or the fact that ds2 can have three courses at Zizzi's for £6.75 and is an awful lot healthier (and can cater for his allergies better than McDonalds), then yes, I think for the quality of the product offered, £6.77 is a lot of money (and the tea is tasteless btw).

Oh, but we did go to one a couple of years ago where we got a free plaster from someone's finger in the fries. There's a reason we try to avoid going.

I have google. And, you know, a hold on reality.

Just because you can buy even cheaper food does not mean that it is expensive. It just means you live somewhere with very cheap food. I dread to think what your local chippy is serving you if you think 6 pounds is expensive, and I wouldn't feed those 2 for a tenner Wetherspoons meals to my cat.