$1.19 McDonald's Sausage Egg McMuffin

[jnw]

We rarely eat these McDonald's Sausage Egg McMuffin's or any fast food.  We maybe eat these sandwiches a couple times per year because it's just plain bad for you lol.  (Plus we cook 95% of our food at home, costing less and tasting better.)

We don't buy these from McDonald's with the eggs in them.  We buy the same thing without the egg.   Sausage w/ cheese McMuffin.   It costs $1.09 for this compared to the same thing with the egg which costs $3.49 each.   Can you believe they charge $2.50 for a single egg?  LOL.   

I had my BF pick up 5 @ $1.09, two for him, two for me and one for the dog.   While he was getting them, I put some butter in frying pan, cracked 5 whole eggs into the pan, popped the yolks and cooked them like a big pancake/omelette.. no scrambling.   I did the one handed pan flip thing -- with conviction as Julia Child says -- to flip it over; I'm pretty good at it and do it all the time for frittata's etc.   Anyways I used a mason jar lid ring (metal) as a "cookie cutter" and cut 5 eggs out of this egg pancake.  Turns out they are exactly the same size as McDonald's eggs in the McMuffin and taste identical to McDonald's in the sandwich.

So it came to like $6 instead of $17.50.  Savings of like $11.50.   (Eggs are about 10 cents a piece here.)

Just thought I'd share in case anyone ever gets the desire to eat an egg mcmuffin and don't mind cooking for couple minutes to supplement the sausage cheese mcmuffs.`

[jnw]

We actually got 4 eggs out of the 5 cut with the mason jar lid.  For the egg scraps: we chopped them up along with the dog's sandwich -- she don't mind at all :)

[BigEasyStache]

If you download the McD's app on your phone you can get a sausage/egg/cheese McMuffin everyday for $1.

Also, if you still decide to cook your own egg you can just use the mason jar lid in a non-stick skillet, lightly buttered and crack the egg directly into the lid.  Cook for a few minutes until it sets and then remove the lid and flip.

FWIW, I bought a silicon ring at Bed Bath and Beyond for a couple bucks that is exactly the size of the muffin and works great for a McMuffin egg.

[jnw]

If you download the McD's app on your phone you can get a sausage/egg/cheese McMuffin everyday for $1.

Also, if you still decide to cook your own egg you can just use the mason jar lid in a non-stick skillet, lightly buttered and crack the egg directly into the lid.  Cook for a few minutes until it sets and then remove the lid and flip.

FWIW, I bought a silicon ring at Bed Bath and Beyond for a couple bucks that is exactly the size of the muffin and works great for a McMuffin egg.

I've used silicon rings and other rings before. I have much better results doing the cookie cutter method personally :)  Plus I was makign it all at once, quickly for 5 sandwiches.. I also don't like specialty use items taking up space in kitchen if I can avoid it.

It's cool about that app, didn't now that!

[HenryDavid]

Stare Ted my working life at McDonald’s.
Stopped eating there right then. 
Or at other fat food chains.

[jnw]

Hah, I think Warren Buffet would approve of this hack :P  He eats this sandwich several times per week.   On bad market days he'll buy two of these sausage & cheese and put them together.. I've done the same actually.. giving my dog the extra extra halves of muffin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FGa6N7fb8

[Louisville]

Stare Ted my working life at McDonald’s.
Stopped eating there right then. 
Or at other fat food chains.

Is this...haiku?