McDonalds McWrap

jonnythan

Where do I get healthy food for so cheap? $1.67 for a lb of strawberries? $2.98 for a lb of 96% ground beef... $3.95 for a gallon of 100% orange juice... really? The unsalted cashews I buy here are $15 a tub!

Low income/distressed areas will likely have food prices that low. Those are pretty much half price compared to what we get here >_>

Also that chicken breast ingredient list isn't that scary. It looks like a chicken breast + seasoning. You people don't use seasoning?

the McWrap Chicken is actually:

Chicken Breast: Chicken breast fillet with rib meat, water, seasoning (rice starch, salt, sugar, yeast extract, canola oil, onion powder, maltodextrin, chicken skin, paprika, flavor, sunflower oil, chicken, garlic powder, chicken fat, spices), sodium phosphates.

Prepared with Liquid Margarine: Liquid soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, mono-and diglycerides, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), artificial flavor, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene (color).

is the chicken itself worse than anything you get in the grocery store? no. but do you cook your chicken in trans fat liquid margarine?

They cook it on a grill that has a little bit of the liquid margarine spread on it as a nonstick coating. It's not deep fried in the stuff.

And that's the grilled one only. It ends up having less than half a gram of trans fat. Big deal.

The crispy chicken fillet does not use the liquid margarine since it's fried and not cooked on a grill. The oil they use does not contain partially hydrogenated oils:
Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane
added as an antifoaming agent.

CoachReddy

Sometimes, as a coach, not even I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.

OMG I've spawned my own anti-me! I'm honored that someone is wasting their time and energy to do this. That's amazing.

shellbatronic

Mmmm, anti-foaming agent.

pumpkinspice84

McDonalds isn't very good.. We just ate their on Saturday for lunch the first time in a very long time and it tasted awful! Waste of calories. We rarely ever eat out as it is. I prefer making my own food. I agree that it is cheaper to make your own food than to go to fast food places. Anyone that thinks other wise isn't shopping right. I don't think McDonalds is killing people. I think people that eat it and crap like that on a regular basics are killing themselves. We make choices of what we put in our bodies.

magerum

Here's the ingredient list for a typical bottle of Ken's marinade:

Water, Sugar, Vinegar (Distilled, Red Wine), Brown Sugar, Salt, Tomato Paste, Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor, Vegetable Oil (Soybean Oil and/or Canola Oil), Lime Juice Concentrate, Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Wheat, Salt), Spices, Honey, Contains 2% or Less of Modified Food Starch, Grapefruit Juice Concentrate, Garlic (Dried), Lemon Juice Concentrate, Onion (Dried), Caramel Color, Hydrolyzed Corn and Soy Protein, Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavor, Polysorbate 80, Mono And Diglycerides, Molasses, Carotenal (Color), Egg Yolk, Corn Syrup, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate and Calcium Disodium EDTA as Preservatives, Tamarind.

Look at all that stuff! Holy cow. I imagine if you put a little bit of that on your grilled chicken, suddenly it has 30+ ingredients and is positively deadly, just like a McWrap!

still no added trans fats like your McWrap.

No trans fat in the grilled McWrap and a whopping .5g in the fried.

CoachReddy

Here's the ingredient list for a typical bottle of Ken's marinade:

Water, Sugar, Vinegar (Distilled, Red Wine), Brown Sugar, Salt, Tomato Paste, Natural Mesquite Smoke Flavor, Vegetable Oil (Soybean Oil and/or Canola Oil), Lime Juice Concentrate, Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Wheat, Salt), Spices, Honey, Contains 2% or Less of Modified Food Starch, Grapefruit Juice Concentrate, Garlic (Dried), Lemon Juice Concentrate, Onion (Dried), Caramel Color, Hydrolyzed Corn and Soy Protein, Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavor, Polysorbate 80, Mono And Diglycerides, Molasses, Carotenal (Color), Egg Yolk, Corn Syrup, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate and Calcium Disodium EDTA as Preservatives, Tamarind.

Look at all that stuff! Holy cow. I imagine if you put a little bit of that on your grilled chicken, suddenly it has 30+ ingredients and is positively deadly, just like a McWrap!

still no added trans fats like your McWrap.

No trans fat in the grilled McWrap and a whopping .5g in the fried.

awww see here's the thing. 0g doesn't mean ZERO.

it means less than .5g

if there are partially hydrogenated fats in the ingredients, then the food contains trans fat.

pastryari

Tagging to read later when I have no life.




Oh, who am I kidding. *starts reading thread*

neanderthin

Mmmm, anti-foaming agent.

Not to mention the canola, corn and soy oils all have trans fats in them from the deodorizing process from refining.

CoachRIDICULOUS

Sometimes, as a coach, not even I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.

OMG I've spawned my own anti-me! I'm honored that someone is wasting their time and energy to do this. That's amazing.

Stupidity spreads at alarming speeds. It's like a bubonic plague.

DID YOU KNOW THAT The bacteria that cause plague (Yersinia pestis) are found throughout certain parts of the world, most commonly in rats, but occasionally in other wild animals, such as prairie dogs. Transmission of bubonic plague from these infected animals generally occurs in one of four ways:

Inhaling infected droplets
Direct contact with infected tissue or bodily fluids
Bites from infected fleas.
Or spreading FALSE information on the INTERWEBS.

amyoliver85

lambchoplewis, you're shopping at the wrong stores. I have conveniently found a way to cut my grocery bill in half without using coupons. My husband and I used to spend over $140 per WEEK on groceries. I started planning our menus around the ads for the grocery stores and making sure that we were focused on wholly cooked meal and little processed food. Even with meat in the mix, our grocery bills are typically under $70 per week now. I also make sure that if I am going to Walmart I check other ads for things that are cheaper than at Walmart and make them ad match. I watch Hispanic market ads for my town and go to those stores. For example, at Walmart yesterday I would have paid $19.92+tax for 4 pineapples ($2.98 each) and 8 avocados ($1 each). Instead I went to a local Hispanic market and picked up the same items for $5.94+tax.

I know that you also said that you have a gaggle of kids, but this is the issue in America, right? I grew up in a family with a Mom who was a restaurant manager and then a food services manager, and a Dad who was in the military and gone all the time. So I was raised on fast food. And it's been a terrible habit to break. But in all honesty, if you put in a little bit of effort cooking at home with healthy ingredients is way way cheaper than eating fast food. And better for you, too. Plus I usually get several days of leftovers out of my meals as well. I am, of course, serving only myself and my husband, but he eats as much as 4 kids.

jonnythan

Oh no, less than half a gram of trans fat in my dinner! Gods be good.

karrielynn80

This is accurate - first realize you are paying for 4 meals from bk - that will be good no longer than it takes the air to hit the buns & get stale. The healthy food has several servings of multiple items.

This makes me echo the above comment of someone who said Americans are fat b/c they choose to be (in most cases) & brings me to another point - serving size / moderation matters - many americans could loose weight (even while eating out) if they would split a meal - b/c 9x outta 10, the fast food or resturant meal is [at least] dbl the serving size. or if they simply chose NOT to eat out everyday. i am all for healthy eating (fresher = btr, imo) BUT i'm not going to say i don't eat out. i just don't care to "supersize" my waistline, so i don't supersize my meal. i think the obesity of america can be summed up in the character issues we have developed & as a result passed down to our children; laziness & no self control. plain & simple.

carrieous

Well I WAS going to have a McWrap but now after 2 comments it makes you poop I think i will opt out :laugh: I need food to stay with me as long as possible if I wanted a laxative I would take a laxative :laugh:

seriously. I usually have an iron stomach but that night- omg i thought it might be my last

LilynEdensmom

Personal responsibility has to come into play at some point, unless you want the gov't holding your hand and controlling every single move we make...People have a choice to eat or not eat there. You would have to be living under a rock to believe that the food is good for you or even healthy, calories are printed on the menu board and you can ask for a nutrient hand out (at my store they are one the back of the tray liners as well)

But on a side note where can you find lean hamburger for under 3$...I'm lucky when I find it for around 4.50

beckymlong

Unfortunately advertising and marketing is a great big con, they tell you things are good natural healthy diet when in midst cases if you look further into it its not quite true, people get sucked in by ads particularly if they are convenient or suit the person, I'm sure we have all been there. The key is to increase awareness do people truly know what they are consuming. Now in the UK most supermarkets are lifting the ban on gm meat and what the animals are being fed on without having to advertise it. Its a scary thought! If we can't access this information it puts us in a worse position!

2FatToRun

Where do I get healthy food for so cheap? $1.67 for a lb of strawberries? $2.98 for a lb of 96% ground beef... $3.95 for a gallon of 100% orange juice... really? The unsalted cashews I buy here are $15 a tub!

Low income/distressed areas will likely have food prices that low. Those are pretty much half price compared to what we get here >_>

Also that chicken breast ingredient list isn't that scary. It looks like a chicken breast + seasoning. You people don't use seasoning?

the McWrap Chicken is actually:

Chicken Breast: Chicken breast fillet with rib meat, water, seasoning (rice starch, salt, sugar, yeast extract, canola oil, onion powder, maltodextrin, chicken skin, paprika, flavor, sunflower oil, chicken, garlic powder, chicken fat, spices), sodium phosphates.

Prepared with Liquid Margarine: Liquid soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, mono-and diglycerides, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), artificial flavor, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene (color).

is the chicken itself worse than anything you get in the grocery store? no. but do you cook your chicken in trans fat liquid margarine?

They cook it on a grill that has a little bit of the liquid margarine spread on it as a nonstick coating. It's not deep fried in the stuff.

And that's the grilled one only. It ends up having less than half a gram of trans fat. Big deal.

The crispy chicken fillet does not use the liquid margarine since it's fried and not cooked on a grill. The oil they use does not contain partially hydrogenated oils:
Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane
added as an antifoaming agent.

Actually I worked at McDonalds and unless they changed things.............when we made the grilled chicken we had a specific tool that you set the chicken on the grill and this tool sat around it. You season it and cover it and poor water into the little cup on the top of the lid. Never added any sprays or butter. When cleaning the grills we didnt use chemicals we used vinegar at nights and water throughout the day unless it really needed a vinegar cleaning.

odusgolp

pontiacblk

the sodium is ridiculous in this wrap! 20 ingredients for chicken ??? sounds like something i dont want in my body. this is the way they kill people and make money doing it. the people pay to be unhealthy

jonnythan

Actually I worked at McDonalds and unless they changed things.............when we made the grilled chicken we had a specific tool that you set the chicken on the grill and this tool sat around it. You season it and cover it and poor water into the little cup on the top of the lid. Never added any sprays or butter. When cleaning the grills we didnt use chemicals we used vinegar at nights and water throughout the day unless it really needed a vinegar cleaning.

Sounds deadly.

jonnythan

the sodium is ridiculous in this wrap! 20 ingredients for chicken ??? sounds like something i dont want in my body. this is the way they kill people and make money doing it. the people pay to be unhealthy

Too bad your diary is closed. I could no doubt easily pick items you've eaten in the past few days that have way more ingredients.

1223345

I think a lot of fast food is cheaper per calorie, but since we don't generally want that many calories anyway it's a false economy.

I saw these images going around tumbler and I was super skeptical because some of their veg and meat seemed really cheap. So I actually sat and went through all the calculations using the UK supermarket Tesco. Right enough, the UK food was more expensive- but so was the burger king. I worked out this meal at something around £22 for the BK and £19 for the Tesco shopping (sadly I don't have the picture on this computer to show you!). Only difference is it was frozen minced beef- not the best quality- because I really had no idea what that sausage-looking package of beef was like. But you could spend that £3 difference on better beef and you're still eating a lot healthier for the money.

I think I'll take my chances with McDonald's or BK ground beef before I eat that concoction fake burger crap.

Those prices are not realistic. On fact, maybe when I come home from the store later I will post the real prices on my own stores shelves. I wish someone would update that picture if it is going to circulating.

Do you live by a 99 Cents super store? My boyfriend and I purchased enough perfectly good groceries ( veggies, bread, cheese, eggs, milk, fruits; meats were purchased elsewhere) to feed four people for a little less than a month for less than forty dollars. I've only ever seen these stores in the western part of the country but you could check other dollar store types. The selections are quite basic but if you wanted more selection, use the savings to buy other options elsewhere.

sorry, but a 99 cent bag of woody broccoli stems is just not something my family will eat. But the point is, this picture is not about shopping at some bottom of the barrel store. It is supposed to be a comparison between fast food and fresh food. The comparison how ever is terrible. The meal you would make from the grocery food is wacky. They should fix this if they want to make a real point.

We bought 99 Cents store groceries when we were visiting my family in Cali and back here in Louisiana, we buy groceries from a locally sourced grocery store and my boyfriend couldn't tell the difference when everything was cooked. Heck, you can go to Target or Walmart and get some well priced groceries. Even if you want to argue that cheap groceries don't taste as good as pricier ones, they're still healthier foods at a low cost and the main point was cost wasn't it? People are arguing that eating junky fast food is cheaper than having nutritive foods and that argument in invalid since, as many have pointed out, you can get lots of groceries for cheap if you look.

Since when did I ever ask for shopping tips? I did not. I shop just fine for my family. The point I made and the point you miss is, the prices listed here are not what you actually pay anywhere. Who understands that? Oh never mind....... carry on!

I'm not sure why you are taking offense. The "shopping tips" weren't to you specifically-- they were for anyone who is looking for healthier foods at a lower cost. You might not care, others might be very happy to hear there are low cost, healthy options out there. And your point-- that groceries can not be found for that low of a price-- isn't missed, it's wrong as you can get very near those prices. Dinner at my house was chicken curry with rice and vegetables last night and calculating the cost of all the ingredients which we purchased from a locally sourced grocery and Target, it comes to $3.73 to feed each person so yes, those prices are doable.

I am not taking offense so much as I am reiterating my original and missed point.

marc_s_johnson

I eat McDonalds once a week (sometimes twice) and my weight has gone down not up and I've continued to lose weight, ok it's not healthy but neither is breathing in the air outside.

CoachRIDICULOUS

<insert condescending message here>

karrielynn80

Personal responsibility has to come into play at some point, unless you want the gov't holding your hand and controlling every single move we make...People have a choice to eat or not eat there. You would have to be living under a rock to believe that the food is good for you or even healthy, calories are printed on the menu board and you can ask for a nutrient hand out (at my store they are one the back of the tray liners as well)

But on a side note where can you find lean hamburger for under 3$...I'm lucky when I find it for around 4.50

I got ground turkey 98/15, last wk @ wmart for 1.99/lb - comp'd a local market ad, i rarely buy beef (just cuz i prefer turkey)

2FatToRun

I eat McDonalds once a week (sometimes twice) and my weight has gone down not up and I've continued to lose weight, ok it's not healthy but neither is breathing in the air outside.

"Applauds" That means all those ppl that bash McDonalds because they eat all organic and 100% clean should stop breathing :laugh: Unless they have some magic wand that makes the air they breathe around them totally clean :laugh:

marc_s_johnson

I eat McDonalds once a week (sometimes twice) and my weight has gone down not up and I've continued to lose weight, ok it's not healthy but neither is breathing in the air outside.

"Applauds" That means all those ppl that bash McDonalds because they eat all organic and 100% clean should stop breathing :laugh: Unless they have some magic wand that makes the air they breathe around them totally clean :laugh:

I guess those people are the ones that wear 'Michael Jackson' surgical masks and wear rubber gloves where there's 'people eveywhere'

2FatToRun

the sodium is ridiculous in this wrap! 20 ingredients for chicken ??? sounds like something i dont want in my body. this is the way they kill people and make money doing it. the people pay to be unhealthy

:laugh: All this time I was trying to figure out how to off someone, who knew I could hand them a McWrap and get the same results! :laugh:

Zombriana

It's not half bad.I like the sweet chili one. And to be honest just before these came out, I was wishing they had a bigger version of their snack wraps. Well.. tada! I don't see why people need to bash fast food places, they aren't going to go away. Fast food fits in a lot of folks lifestyles and that's just the way it is.Besides, they're just trying to provide better choices for people on the go. Better than burgers or fried stuff, or nuggets or whatever.
And 18 of those 20 ingredients in the chicken are seasonigs.
The other 10 or so are whatever they cook it with.

marc_s_johnson

ha, if they ever made a Scream 5 Ghostface could run around feading people McD Wraps and create carnage everywhere.

1223345

And to address the "oh no! it's deadly" smartassery, It's not that anyone is saying these chemicals are deadly, but just bad for your health. It is not good to keep this kind of garbage flowing through our bodies. Fast food every once in a while, and fast food several times a week are not the same thing. Moderation never killed anyone. As far as the one who mentioned the symptoms of MS, this is true. While the chemicals are not causing MS, they do cause MS- like symptoms. That should tell how great the garbage is. Judging by some of the attitude around here, that crap will also make a person right cranky.