LIDL’S copycat McDonald’s chicken nuggets are back and they’re more than half the price of the fastfood chain’s.
The nuggs are part of the supermarket’s limited edition flavour of the USA range, which landed in shops on Thursday.
There are 12 chicken bites per 300g box and they even come with two dips, similar to the ones served at McDonald’s, curry and sweet and sour.
At £1.69 a box, they’re cheaper than the snacks from McDonald’s too.
While prices vary depending on the branch, a box of six McNuggets costs £3.19, while nine pieces of chicken will set you back £3.39, according to Burgerlad.
To get the same amount of nuggets you’d need to buy two boxes of six from McDonald’s, which works out £6.98 in total, or 58p per chicken piece.
At Lidl, it works out at just 14p per nugget, up to four times cheaper than at McDonald’s.
Of course, they’re not really like-for-like products, even though they come in similar packaging.
You’ll have to cook the Lidl nuggs yourself as they’re frozen, something you don’t have to do when you order from McDonald’s.
And we’ve not tried them ourselves so we can’t say whether they actually taste the same either.
But they’ve got bargain hunters excited on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook page, where one person wrote: “These taste better than McDonald’s.
“I was very surprised and so were the family. Will definitely buy again.”
