McDonald's: I ate everything on the new January menu - which items are the best?

Yesterday (January 4) marked the launch of the new McDonald's menu.

Old favourites such as the stakehouse stack and Cadbury Caramel McFlurry have made their triumphant return to the fast food chain's list of sweet and savoury delights.

In the interest of consumer advice (and getting a free lunch) I arranged with the McDonald's press office to try every new item on the menu.

This means my lunch consisted of a steakhouse stack burger, a fajita chicken wrap, a sharebox (thank you!) of garlic cheese bites and a Cadbury Caramel McFlurry. As a health specialist, I decided not to count calories on this occasion...

My order arrived right around 1pm, delivered to my door, and I tucked in with ferocious enthusiasm. The first thing I wanted to try was the garlic cheese bites, especially since I had at least a dozen in the box.

These garlic cheese bites are a tad smaller than cheese bites that have previously graced the menu - but there are far more in a box. You can genuinely taste the garlic, which both surprised and impressed me, as my own cooking would be a vampire's worst nightmare.

After this, I gave the fajita chicken wrap a go. This wrap has both a creamy fajita sauce and a tomato salsa inside, which combine for an absolutely sensational flavour. With onions, cheese and shredded lettuce inside too, this wrap was the highlight of my lunch.

Next, I tried the steakhouse stack, which is made with two beef patties, a slice of cheddar cheese, crispy onions, red onions and lettuce served with a black peppercorn sauce. The beef patties tasted great, and the peppercorn sauce added a depth of flavour to the burger. I'll definitely be ordering this one again.

Finally, for dessert I ploughed through the Cadbury Caramel McFlurry. I was grateful to McDonald's for packing so much caramel sauce into this - if every McFlurry comes out like this, we're in for a real treat with this new menu.

From my personal tastes, my favourite new menu addition is the fajita chicken wrap, then the steakhouse stack, the Cadbury Caramel McFlurry and finally the garlic cheese bites.