As much as I hate to admit it, I really like McDonald’s 2-for-$2 Sausage McMuffins with Egg, their $1 Menu Double Cheeseburgers, and heaven help me, their Hi-C Orange Drink that no other restaurants or fast food places carry. Their sweet tea and iced coffees are surprisingly good too. When I’m in a hurry, far from home, or stuck in between places, they’re the cheapest, fastest, and tastiest food around.
In my family, we make pasta w/ tomato sauce that feeds us for a dinner and the following lunch (at least) for about $4.00. (It’s a little hard to know exactly how to price the spices that go in there, but it can’t be more than ten cents worth or so. Maybe a quarter for the basil.)
I make a mean hot turkey and cheese sammich for about $1.50. Estimating weights, I’d guess this either meets or just beats your deal.
We make a pot of chili using two pounds of ground meat (for comparison, your double cheeseburger has two 1/9 lb patties) for about $10.
-FrL-
Some of you guys are missing the point. This is McDonalds food. You can’t recreate it in a kitchen. You just cannot get that same little weak boiled patty, the mushed up oily bun, the little teeny bits of soggy onion and the cheese that’s never put on squarely at home. You cannot make McDonalds fries at home.
Sometimes you want a burger, and sometimes you want McDonalds. And that’s when you go to McDonalds.
I also have to figure that the cost-per-meal breakdown of that head of lettuce doesn’t work out in my favor when ninety percent of it rots in my fridge.