What is your supermarket lunch ‘meal deal’ combination?

[beverleybass]

I have ploughman’s sandwich, steak McCoys and a sprite (Tesco)

Love this as lots of people I work with treat themselves to one now when in the office once a week. Everyone happy as bored of home food. I am.trying to be good. If I do have one it's always chicken and stuffing or at Christmas the Christmas turkey sandwich. I have plain crisps and a diet coke. As someone said you might as well go for expensive sandwich.

Tesco meal deal has even gone up to £3.50! It's been £3 since I was in school. That's how I know life is ending🤣

Haha yes, I couldn't believe we got to page 6 without someone mentioning they are £3.50 (although still £3 if you have a club card I think)

Tescos Chicken and honey mustard pasta salad, chicken satay sticks/pineapple or squares if they have them and fizzy water or a fanta for DS.

Morrison's medium salad from salad bar. Scotch egg. Innocent green machine. They don't really advertise the salad bar being part of the meal deal but it is and really nice

Tuna and cumcumber sandwich, walkers ready salted crisps and water or coke depending on how I’m feeling.

Falafel wrap, popcorn and a smoothie, I can’t actually drink the smoothies, but I feel cheated getting a cheaper drink, so I’ll have water from my bottle and give the smoothie to my husband or son.

I can’t believe there are people who are saying that the meal deal lasts them 2 lunches

Mine is the chicken & bacon sandwich, Diet Coke and chocolate brownie from Morrisons.

[quote jelly79]@Plumbmonster seriously? A sandwich / crisp / drink!?? [/quote]
A M&S chicken and stuffing sandwich is 490 calories, a chicken, bacon and salad one is 680. An average packet of crisps is 130 + so yes a bought sandwich/crisp/drink is a very high calorie daily lunch option for anyone.

I would only do it occasionally because it’s too calorific, plus I struggle with bought sandwiches containing too much mayonnaise or even multiple condiments anyway. M&S chicken and stuffing is my go to, and ready salted crisps. Water as I don’t like fizzy drinks.

@Bookaholic73

I can’t believe there are people who are saying that the meal deal lasts them 2 lunches

Mine is the chicken & bacon sandwich, Diet Coke and chocolate brownie from Morrisons.

This is MN, competitive undereating is an olympic sport, I’m sure a lot of them would fit in well on pro-ana sites.

I wouldn't think of it as a treat tbh. My homemade lunch is always nicer than a pre-packaged sandwich. I suppose it's a treat in the sense of treating yourself to avoiding the effort of making your own. A freshly made sandwich in a nice café I'd consider a treat, but not a supermarket ready-made sandwich.

Vegetarian sushi
Small pack of crisps
Diet Coke

There is no way that a standard pack of sandwiches or a wrap does more than one lunch.

This is MN, competitive undereating is an olympic sport, I’m sure a lot of them would fit in well on pro-ana sites.

Exactly. I'm sure a lot of threads involving food, weight or the size of models are a magnet for all the people with ED on here. As a former anorexic , Im sure I could have wasted hours reading the "what have you eaten today" threads if they'd been around 25 years ago. I don't look at them now as I worry I would start comparing my self (unfavourably) to other people.

A M&S chicken and stuffing sandwich is 490 calories, a chicken, bacon and salad one is 680. An average packet of crisps is 130 + so yes a bought sandwich/crisp/drink is a very high calorie daily lunch option for anyone.

You've chosen 2 very high calories sandwiches though. There are plenty around 300-400 in most meal deals I have seen. Although I often have a sandwich and kitkat which is approx 250 kcal

@Bookaholic73

I can’t believe there are people who are saying that the meal deal lasts them 2 lunches

Mine is the chicken & bacon sandwich, Diet Coke and chocolate brownie from Morrisons.

I’m the one saying it does me 2 lunches @Simonjt & @PurpleDaisies. It’s certainly not competitive under eating but I wouldn’t be eating a packet of crisps every day.

Sometimes it’s breakfast and lunch.
It depends what you buy.

You wouldn’t be able to make a single meal deal do two lunches without adding other stuff though, @grasping? If I’ve understood, you’re saying that you’d have the sandwiches one day and the crisps the next. Unless you’re just having crisps for lunch, that’s a bit different to what you seemed to be implying earlier.

@PurpleDaisies

You wouldn’t be able to make a single meal deal do two lunches without adding other stuff though, *@grasping*? If I’ve understood, you’re saying that you’d have the sandwiches one day and the crisps the next. Unless you’re just having crisps for lunch, that’s a bit different to what you seemed to be implying earlier.

I don’t have crisps.

I have a wrap, innocent (berry protein or invigorate) and either an eat natural bar or small pack of sushi.

So the wrap for lunch one day then the smoothie and bar/sushi the next for either breakfast or lunch.

……. or half the wrap and the bar/sushi one lunch and the other half and the smoothie the next.

Some people don't eat breakfast. So a full meal deal at lunch is perfectly suitable. With all its "many" calories.

Wensleydale and carrot chutney sandwich
Prawn cocktail crisps
Diet coke/lemon and lime water depending on my mood - M and S

I don't really eat bread so this is a once every so often treat

A eat natural bar is a tiny lunch. So is a small pack of sushi is about 100cals.

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

Some people don't eat breakfast. So a full meal deal at lunch is perfectly suitable. With all its "many" calories.

Yes. It depends what else you’re eating and doing throughout the day.

Oh, and I don't normally have breakfast either so don't worry about the calories

I remember back in the day when my kids were toddlers, I used to work weekends in retail, money was tight but every Saturday I’d make sure I had £2.89 for a boots meal deal! All day breakfast sandwich, coke and a strawberry shapers bar. Amazing!

If I go now it’s the coop, hoisin duck wrap, chicken satay side and a Pepsi max.

I’m hungry now 😂

Tesco roast veg pesto wrap (amazing) or asda salad cream and tomato sandwich, pot of pineapple and bottle of water.

Tesco sandwiches are rubbish so I never buy them anymore. I actually got a meal deal on Saturday from Sainsbury’s for the first time in ages, and I got a chicken and bacon sandwich, a fruit box of apple, strawberries and grapes, and an innocent smoothie. The sandwich is usually always the same, but the drink and dessert is usually different.