Best dollar menu hack I stumbled on last Tuesday at Taco Bell

So I was at Taco Bell last Tuesday with like $4 in my pocket and saw they had the $1.59 burritos on the value menu. I ordered two of those and asked for a side of rice for 50 cents. Split both burritos open, added the rice, and basically got two full sized meals for under $4. Totally filled me up and tasted way better than the usual tiny tacos. Anyone else got a trick like this to stretch out the cheap menu items?

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beth_butler754mo ago

Hell yeah, that's genius. I do the same thing at Del Taco with their 99-cent bean and cheese burritos, just dump a packet of their green sauce in there and it's a whole different meal.

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hugog434mo ago

Oh man, that's a solid move with the rice, I've done something similar at Taco Bell where I ordered those little $1 chicken roller things and asked for a side of their creamy jalapeno sauce (costs like 30 cents extra) then just dipped em like crazy and it felt like I was eating something fancier for way less. Also tried the "add beans to a cheesy roll up" trick from some online thread once, costs like 40 cents extra and turns that tiny thing into a proper fat burrito that actually fills you up for a couple bucks total. The key I've learned is just asking for the cheap add-ons like rice, beans, or sauce (they barely charge for those) and suddenly you're not eating a sad little snack but an actual meal. It's wild how the fast food places make the base items cheap but then profit off the extras (but you can flip that by using their own cheap sides against them). Your rice trick is definitely going in my mental playbook for next time I'm broke and hungry.

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