Best Value Meal Deal?

Cornucopia

Morrisons meal deal seems to have reduced to £2.50 near me.

SailorSam

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Li0nhead

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Best value meal deal is to make your own sandwich at home and buy crisps and cans in bulk.
If you worked it out you could get this for less than a pound per day.

Agreed...

You can get a loaf of bread on the £1 deals just about anywhere, so two/four slices should be less than 10p/20p. (i am guessing 20ish slices a loaf but could be wrong)
Cans of pop deals that work out at 25p per can.
A bar of chocolate/snack/pack of crisps on 4 for £1 deals= 25p
So far we are up to
Bread: 10p or 20p
drink: 25p
snack 25p
leaving either 30p or 40p for ingredients of the sandwich and your up to £1 for your home made meal deal.
Which seems nearly doable even though i would have thought the main ingredients of a ok home sandwich would be 50p/60p. So i think the home meal deal is £1.20/£1.30.

Still that does not take into account the costs of your house, a container, and 5 mins of your time etc but this presumes you would have a container anyway, you would have a house anyway, the time used would have been the same as going into the shop and buying it and the things you are using would be bought as part of your normal weekly shop.
Which over the period of a 5 day working week:
Normal £3 shop meal deal: £15
My hypothetical home made meal deal: £6.50
Saving: £8.50 a week.

You could save more by making really boring sandwiches or switching the snack for an apple or the pop for a flask of tea or even tap water.
You could spend a lot more too.
Or you could do the home made meal deal for 4 days a week and splash out once a week on a restaurant lunch deal that as long as its under £6.79 your still saving! Which would cover a Toby carvery meal for example for you one lunch a week(be a bit tight if you bought a drink though)

Cornucopia

Toby Carvery?

What about Crown Carvery at £4.29? (Mon-Sat)

Li0nhead

Cornucopia wrote: »

Toby Carvery?

What about Crown Carvery at £4.29? (Mon-Sat)

Hang on while i do a breakdown about having a home made carvery every lunchtime.....1 whole side of beef...oh dam bust already.

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mrloy

I'm just wondering about the meal deal sandwiches that include the crisps and drink for £3.49 or whatever.when short dated sometimes this price is crossed out and a substantially reduced price is shown.eg 99p. Do the shops still have to honour the meal deal that is printed on the sandwich pack...or is the price now only for the sanwich..and at what stage of reduction does this kick in

Cornucopia

I've had a similar problem with Morrison's recently.

The meal deal is annoyingly specifically for sandwiches, salads and wraps that are priced at £2 only - not above £2 is not unreasonable, but also not below £2, either, which is just daft.

What makes it worse is that the sandwiches are inevitably all mixed up on the shelves, so it's not obvious which are which. A very nice Customer Services person sorted out my last failed meal deal, and she let me keep my original £1.79 sandwich, too.

I believe some of the companies specify their meal deals as "£X.XX or less", so presumably there is some logic in the tills that can discount the deal price if the sum of the product prices is less than the meal deal price.

PasturesNew

In the £1 shops you could get 6 packets of crisps and 3 cans of (say) Pepsi and a sandwich = £3.... and you've still got 2 cans and 5 packs of crisps for the following day.

I've never bought a meal deal, I just get the cheapest sandwich a supermarket sells (usually £1) and I leave. The meal deals are too complex to understand and often something's not available (e.g. the actual drinks are elsewhere, not where you're standing) - and it's all too complex for me.