Enjoy an easy meal for kids when you order a Happy Meal® with options like a Hamburger or Chicken McNuggets®, complete with kids fries, apple slices, choice of beverage, and a Happy Meal toy!

With more than 38,000 McDonald's restaurants all over the world, it may not be surprising to learn that the fast food giant sells about a billion (with a "b") Happy Meals a year to toy-fixated children (about 2.7 million per day).

Happy Meals Package - Item Lists and their Price

McDonald's happy meal consists of a hamburger happy meal, and a 4 or 6-piece McNuggets meal typically costs between $4 – $9, depending on the location.

1979. The Happy Meal was born! The box had a circus theme and came with fries, cookies, a soft drink, and a toy.

Bob Bernstein The concept was eventually brought to the attention of McDonald's management in Chicago. The company gave the development of the product to Bob Bernstein, who then came up with the idea for the Happy Meal.

In India, the Happy Meal was introduced in 1997 which featured Mowgli and his gang from “The Jungle Book”. Like the rest of the world, the popularity of Happy Meal toys amongst both kids and adults has only increased over the years in India.

The Happy Meal contains a main item (a hamburger, cheeseburger or small serving of Chicken McNuggets), a side item (French fries, apple slices, a Go-Gurt tube or a salad in some areas) and a drink (milk, juice or a soft drink).

You can get a free Happy Meal at McDonald's with a $5 purchase on Wednesdays.

Bernstein and his team tapped illustrators from around the country to make the boxes stand out. The meal's name was an offshoot of a 1960s McDonald's jingle, in which it called itself the “happy place.” “It's such a happy place / Hap, hap, hap, happy place,” it went.

McDonald's introduced its Happy Meal in the US in 1979. Since then, the children's meal and toys have become a staple for the giant fast-food brand. Over the years, McDonald's has worked to provide healthier options for kids by reducing calories, saturated fat, and sugar in Happy Meals.

In 1977, the Happy Meal, which came with a regular-size burger, fries, Keebler cookies, a soda and a Cracker Jack surprise toy, launched only in McDonald's franchise stores in Kansas City, Denver and Phoenix as a promotional item.