A cost-conscious cook has served up her own version of a McDonald's classic breakfast for four people - spending less than £8.
Ex-chef Mel Philips-Peters, 27, cooked up four sausage, bacon and cheese muffins, two hash browns and orange juice at home in 10 minutes.
She paid only £7.45 for all the ingredients - compared to paying about £16 for a similar serving at the fast-food chain.
Stay-at-home mum Mrs Philips-Peters, shared her money-savvy tips on a Facebook group called Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK, where the post received more than 500 likes and dozen of comments.
She told a national newspaper: "We fancied McDonald's breakfast but find it's never filling and can be costly if you want two meals each...so we decided to do our own."
She suggested her husband, 27, a civil servant, that they should by a pack of hash browns for £1 and 'do our own Maccies, save a lot of money and still have leftovers'.
The DIY McDonald's included flattened pork meatballs to get both the taste and texture of the fast food chain's iconic sausage patties, MirrorOnline reports.
Mrs Philips-Peters claimed her Morrisons-version breakfast is also a healthier option - almost 100 calories less than the McDonald's breakfast deal.
And it seems other mums have made their makeshift McDonald's breakfast as they shared their thrifty ideas in the comments.
Paula Atkinson said: "Every Sunday in my house, egg AkMuffin with has browns."
'Emily Schofield' shared her tips: "I've been doing this for years...if you break an egg into a cup and put in the microwave for a few seconds it comes out round for the muffins like theirs as well."
One suggested: "Asda do sausage patties for £2.30 for 6."
