To be frustrated at meal deal selections?

[Yohannsd]

In the Meal Deal sections. Went to four shops today and none had a plain cheese sandwich (not even any price labels so assume they don't sell them) but a variety of cheese and pickle, cheese and onion, triple cheese etc.

FFS I just want a plain cheese sandwich!

Every supermarket meal deal section has plain cheese?

But YABU for choosing such a boring meal deal

Did you go to a very small supermarket ?

I’ve worked the meal deal section of a big supermarket which definitely stocks plain cheese.

I guess there isn't much of a market for dry bread and cheese 😂 on the plus side, it's pretty easy to make your own!

Surely triple cheese is just plain cheese, albeit three types?

Do you not play the best value meal deal game? Massive sandwich, best snack and most expensive drink.

Rare to find just plain cheese imo, they always seem to have something else in there as well.

What is even the point of paying anyone money to make you a plain cheese sandwich? YABU for having such terrible taste in sandwiches.

I agree op,and any cheese tends to have mayo or be on not white bread. Tesco DO do one, at least they do by me

Yanbu. Most sandwiches have some sort of condiment in.. mayo usually!

It is tricker to find the "just cheese" or "just ham" ones.

I presume it's more like one cheese and pickle, one cheese and onion, and a cheese ploughman's or cheese and tomato in a three sandwich pack.

It's for my child!

And I could make it myself which I do but when we're out and about and not home for lunch unintentionally it would be quite nice to be able to buy one in a supermarket!

Tesco:

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/302707889

YABU to waste a meal deal with a cheese sandwich. Do you also get still water and ready salted crisps? Sickening.

Probably because most people won’t want to pay shop prices for a plain sandwich and they’d have lots left over .

This strike me as possibly being like the apocryphal story where somebody goes into a shop repeatedly to ask if they stock a particular item and is always told 'No, there's no demand for it'. Sounds as if the plain cheese sandwiches sell out very early, hence there are none left when OP looks for one.

(Personally, I always do what a PP has described and look for the most expensive items I could pick, so I can kid myself I've got real bargain, even though without the meal deal I wouldn't have bought more than a sandwich.)

It's for my fussy toddler who will refuse to eat anything else. I DO pack a lunch for him if I know we'll be out but sometimes that's not always possible

Oh I do! But the plain cheese sandwich is for DS🤣

There wasn't a price label for any at the Tesco Express I went to today

Yeah it’s not a meal deal thing, it’s a packaged sandwich thing. Hardly anywhere does plain sandwiches like that. Pret A Manger is the only one I know that reliably has that sort of thing (or maybe it’s cheese and ham I’m not sure but it’s def kid friendly) and sometimes there’ll be a super cheap option but it’s really rare. So annoying.

Luckily ours got into egg mayo quite early on, and once we inadvertently let them have all day breakfast and there was no looking back.

Funnily, I was going to say look at children's section instead. I think M&S has one?

If the Tesco has a cafe they sell kid’s meal deals. They are sometimes on offer e.g. £1 for a sandwich/drink/snacks and fruit.

Couldn’t you just buy a baguette and some cheese. Pretty sure you can get mini cheeses. I have to admit I buy a meal deal every day I work ( too lazy to prep) my biggest saving is £6 😆 am I the massive meal deal winner?

Oh God, that's fair enough. Mine went through a long, dull, cheese sandwich phase too. Every day, for approximately 3,967 years he had to have a cheese sandwich for lunch. He would eat anything for "snack" though. Will yours? So : whatever you pick up for lunch, broken into bits along with a snack he likes and tell him the whole thing is "snack".

Well be bloody grateful, I don't eat cheese or mayo and I can never find anything. Oh actually I can occasionally find a wrap.