Even McDonald’s is expensive now

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I remember it being an ok price back in the day

It was Dh’s birthday the other day and he requested Mcds for after work (crap 😂but what he asked for)
For two adult meals and a happy meal for our Dd, it was just over €25 (we’re not in the U.K.)
I mean wtf, looked at Burger King and the meals were just under €10 each, that’s almost €30
for takeaway junk 🤷🏻‍♀️
When will this end, it’s getting beyond a joke, food shop is so so expensive now too

Has no one thought to mention @DonnaBanana and her SIX hash browns? LEGEND 👏

I think they rely on you just ordering without looking at the prices. My son always gets the Wrap Of The Day and customises it to remove bacon, sauce or whatever and get the uncoated chicken. He gets a Tropicana with it and it's about £3, which seems reasonable.

I prefer a Tesco meal deal (sushi, Innocent smoothie, Tony's salted caramel bar). Now those are good value.

Totally! Ten pounds a meal nearly! Ridiculous.

I had this exact thought last night. Took the kids last night after swimming for what I thought would be a quick/cheap takeaway. Was nearly 20 minutes waiting and it was £18 for 3 happy meals and an adults meal. It wasn't a massive amount of food - neither the 8 year old nor I felt particularly full.

Our local posh burger place is great but it's £15+ for burger and chips. We have cut way down how much we get. Probably twice a year now, 5 years ago we got one once a month.

The minimum wage is going up to £11.44 at the start of next month, which is obviously a good thing for people doing service jobs, but it will inevitably cause another spike in food price inflation as corporates protect their profits by passing on the costs to their customers.

Lol at the caps 😂

I always get the wrap of the day for £1.99! Delicious.

I work in a drive thou but not on the drive thou (I'm in the dining area)

Not that I've ever heard-i do know where I work are meant to,but nobody bothers

I'd keep my mouth shut and reuse it!lol

Not heard of a change using onions,but I will ask on Sat (I'm off until then)

This may not be a bad thing, if it means those of us who can, will now cook more.
Junk should be a treat.

Now if only they’d work on the price of good, healthy food. Until then, £1 a scoop (not even a pound anymore), here I come.

Yaay 6 hash browns 😃. Yeah they are the only breakfast item I will eat from there and I refuse to pay that. I buy the fake ones from Aldi and put them in the air fryer, almost as good. Supermarket/boots meal deals instead when out and about.

Always keep the receipt as you get a code to put into this site:
McFood for thoughts
Mac and medium fries for £2.99!!

I feel ancient just typing this but, leaving aside any considerations of quality, when I was a child/teen in the 90s my family definitely didn't consider McD's cheap food.

I agree. My sons were born in the 90s and would nag and nag for a 'happy' meal. They were not cheap, especially compared to the same food cooked at home.
Even in the 80s I never saw McDonald's as cheap, you could get a meal at a local cafe for a lot less.

Me too, I don't mean to sound really depressing but I can't hardly think of anything than is better than it was 10-15 years ago!

We used to get a Deliveroo takeaway a few times a month, but after a particularly disastrous meal from a nice burger restaurant that you pay, effectively, restaurant prices for but turned up stone cold and inedible, we had a rethink.

We'd probably spend £100 a month on takeaways. Instead of that, I now get Hellofresh 3 weeks out of 4. It costs between £35 and £45 a week, but we get three meals for that, rather than just one. Yes, we're spending more than we did on takeaways, but we're getting at least 3 times the amount of meals and cutting down the main shopping bills too.

I like cooking, so doing dinner on a Saturday rather than a takeaway doesn't bother me, and the convenience of having freshly cooked food with a variety of recipes is much better than the takeaways we used to have.

On the McDonald's front, my usual go to is a large chicken select meal, which is £6.99. The happy meals are £3.79, so two adult meals and a happy meal would be £17.77 here, so about €20.79, so it does looks particularly more expensive where you are OP.

Maccys have been godawful since they moved to holding food in the humidifiers. The kids will still go but only if nothing better is available. The Happy Meal toys are tat these days too.

I'd much rather make burgers at home. £20 all in and it's burgers and all the trimmings for 4. Winner.

Where are some of you? I’m in London and a hash brown is £1.99 and medium fries £2.19, £1.49 was when they were “cheap”! No McDonald’s isn’t affordable for me anymore.

It seems McDonald's charges different prices in different parts of the country? Hash browns are "only" £1.49 up here but I have read they cost £1.89 and £1.99 elsewhere. Starbucks does this as well. Isn't the point of a chain that you get predictable prices??

Have you ever found anything that is as good as McDonald's sausage? Normal sausages just don't cut it when you get used to those round burgery type ones.

I think all the supermarkets do sausage patties and I’m sure Richmond do them as well. You could also use sausage meat to make them if you want to add herbs or spices or onions or anything to them.

For two adult meals and a happy meal for our Dd, it was just over €25 (we’re not in the U.K.)

What's the point of talking about the cost of something without saying where you bought it? Affordability is about average income as well price.

€25 has a different value in say Switzerland than in Portugal.

@DonnaBanana Aldi do them and most supermarkets in the freezer section, usually called sausage or breakfast patties
I make them at home a lot

Burgers do not travel well as a takeaway item at all. I would never get them on Deliveroo or whatever and expect them to be anywhere near the standard of being served to you freshly cooked in a restaurant. Certain items just don’t lend themselves to takeaways at all, no matter how nice the restaurant might be.

I have obviously had the odd hungover Maccas delivery but would always keep it simple with a cheeseburger and fries. Never would order from five guys or any gourmet burger place and expect them to withstand the delivery process.

But it’s not just the food you are paying for. You are paying for decent wages for the staff, the rent of the premises and the energy they use.

If you sign up to the McDonald's app you can get some discount vouchers from time to time. You also get reward points that you can use to buy food later on. We often save those up for a mini mcflurry when we're out and about.

If you like McD's foods (I do, I also love healthy food- life is about balance), then Aldi have some pretty good dupe items in the freezer section. We buy the sausage patties to make 'MumMuffins' and DS said the chicken nuggets were nearly as good as Macca's ones.

It was never cheap in the past, and why should food be cheap in the first place? If you look at the statistics we are paying less of our income as a percentage for food than ever before. That has to say something about the quality of what we are eating and how it is produced.