Meal deals

[chocolateorangeinhaler]

AIBU here?

So the meal without the water was about £4.80. With the water in the meal deal it was £3.99. I don't want the water as I have a bottle that I refill. So I'll give it to a colleague. But are we not supposed to be consuming less single use plastic ? How can a meal deal that promotes dumping plastic be morally correct.

Yes I do get some people will want a drink with their lunch.

Agree with you OP. Personally I’d like ”meal deals” banned on the grounds of encouraging people to eat crisps etc they didn’t really want because it’s cheaper than just buying the sandwich. At very least the water should be “free” rather than actually be paid to take it.

But I’d actually like all multibuy deals for food (supermarkets and restaurants) ended on grounds of waste and encouraging gluttony, so I might be unusual!

Why would you dump and not recycle

Yeah it's be good if you could choose another 'side' rather than a drink

There is an awful lot of packaging in a meal deal, full stop. It's hardly an environmentally friendly way to have lunch.

(it's possible to reuse plastic water bottles anyway)

Did you ask your colleague for the two thirds drunk bottle back so you could take a picture?

I’ve always thought this. I’d like the option to swap the drink for another snack.

@girlmom21

Did you ask your colleague for the two thirds drunk bottle back so you could take a picture?

Oops. Sorry that was yesterday's bottle that I haven't drunk. Hence why I didn't want to take another but economically is made sense to me to do so.

@chocolateorangeinhaler fair enough

I find the meal deals quite good as I feel like it encourages me to have more like what is a normal sized meal... instead of discovering what I was having was only 250 calories for lunch (the prawn sandwich plus water). But I do think the pricing is very odd. And no, we shouldn't be encouraging people to have what they don't want/need just to get a lower price.

One thing I find frustrating as well is that the larger bottles of water (1 litre, 2 litre) can often be cheaper than the 500ml bottles of water, which makes no sense.

I also find it frustrating when there are only 'grab bags' instead of normal sized bags of crisps. Sizes seem to be odd recently. The chocolate bars seem to be shrinking to the point people will end up buying the larger/double style ones, which defeats the point.