Do you buy meal deals from the big supermarkets?

No, unfortunately having the curse of gluten intolerance means you miss out on meal deals and your food is generally more expensive. I really cook/ bake much of my own.

No, because I don't need the crisps and chocolate..... I may want them, but I don't need them!

No, too much sugar and carbs for me

When I was working I bought like this couple times a week

I never seem to want the various constituents of a 'meal deal'. I'd rather just have the sandwich or roll that I fancy. I don't like fizzy drinks anyway and would never have bought one.

I sometimes buy them for DS from Tesco. Sandwich, crisps and drink. They also do the deal if you buy pasta salad.

Jane10 you can choose fruit juice or water.

Yes, although I dither making my choices and just end up buying what I like rather than the foods in the deal. Then the faff of having to pay at those self service tills. M&S is my favourite, I often use it on Paddington Station.

I usually opt for water, that doesn't come in a can.

I rarely buy sandwiches out now, but when I did, I never bought the meal deals for the simple reason that they all include crisps and sweets, neither of which I particularly like and on the odd occasion when fruit is included it is almost tasteless shrivelled apples, brown bananas and oranges with skins that are impossible to peel, even if you have a knife.

Yes me too. I only want a sandwich or roll. I can make my own drinks or turn on the tap for water.
I feel these meal deals lead people to have crisps and sweet things they'd be better off without.

No, never bought meal deals. I get the impression that they are offloading the unhealthy stuff that wedon't reall need.

I'm sure there are foodie companies that offer healthy meal deals as an alternative, but no doubt at an exorbitant price. Our daughter works in the city and uses Boots for salad and fruit meal deals.

I’m too mean and too particular to buy sandwiches.
Yesterday morning I packed a picnic lunch for our journey to visit our daughter.
Delicious cheese and pickle sandwiches in bakery bread, I always feel really smug when I see the horrid looking sandwiches and realise how much I have saved.

I buy the sandwich deal from tesco in the summer months and also the greggs deal. Both good value and you can get water at tesco if you prefer or juice at greggs. I buy the tesco 'dine in' as well. For £10 I think it is a good buy.

I used to use Boots when I was working. They have a little packet of apples and grapes or raw carrots instead of crisps/sweets if you choose.

I may have occasionally bought sandwich, crisps and a drink at a service station when travelling. Normally, I would always make my own sandwich and take my own drink in a container (not buy one). Always have done.
I think plastic drink bottles are the worst thing ever invented for the environment. We managed before without them. And aluminium cans are no better because it is very costly to the environment to make them.
Pack your own lunch and drink!

I bought a plastic pot of ready prepared fruit from Asda once. It looked lovely but tasted overwhelmingly of plastic.

I used to get the Boots ones on my way to work. They did options other than crisps - you could get fruit instead - and if you got there early there were options other than sandwiches, too (and I got Advantage points )

They are really handy now and than infoman, we buy them occasionally when having a day out, very good value, I don’t get ‘holier than thou’ about sugar, chocolate etc, and not guilty about not making my own delicious sandwiches once in a while , each to their own makes the world go round.

Yes, I do, I think they are terrific value.
I don’t get the sandwich, snacks ones but the meal deals.
We usually cook from scratch but occasionally it just seems easy.
I am one of those annoying people who read the ingredient list so I am a bit picky. If they are too full of ingredients that I don’t recognise I don’t buy.

Yes, when we’re travelling. They’re good value, and I’m never going to beat myself up about having a bag of crisps or a bar of chocolate. You can hardly make your own meal for a return journey, can you?

Yes.
I'm going to buy one tomorrow on my way to work.