Marks & Spencer to sell 75p jam sandwiches

itsnever2lateisit?

15/= for a sandwich?:eek:

Graham_Devon

Jasper27 wrote: »

I love peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches but I certainly wouldn't pay whatever M & S would charge for one! As other posts have pinted out M & S type food has it's time and place but far too many people have become used to eating like that all time at a considerable cost. They all need to get themselves over the Oldstyle board and learn to cook and shop more cost effectively.

Theres a place for everything.

I live on my own, work longish hours some weeks, have the house to clean up, work to do, a life to live. I don't neccesarily want to go home after working all day and start cooking from scratch, creating a heap of mess, and then having to tidy all of that up.

Add to that the fact I actually need to have bread in, so will often have to pop to the shops to get that and a 75p sandwich, even a £2 sandwich is worth paying, to keep my time doing other things I enjoy, even if thats posting on here while watching the TV, doing a bit of DIY etc.

I do make sandwiches for work a lot, but sometimes I just cannot be bothered. Especially as I tend to make them at night, which means leaving them in the fridge, then leaving them to get warm all day.

Come the weekend, and I'm quite happy, given the time to start cooking from scratch and often do, but the attitude of no one should be buying things like this, that its ridiculous etc is a bit holier than thou.

75p is cheaper than buying the bread etc, which, in my case, often goes mouldy or stale before I have eaten even a third of the loaf.

sportbeth

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Theres a place for everything.

I live on my own, work longish hours some weeks, have the house to clean up, work to do, a life to live. I don't neccesarily want to go home after working all day and start cooking from scratch, creating a heap of mess, and then having to tidy all of that up.

Add to that the fact I actually need to have bread in, so will often have to pop to the shops to get that and a 75p sandwich, even a £2 sandwich is worth paying, to keep my time doing other things I enjoy, even if thats posting on here while watching the TV, doing a bit of DIY etc.

I do make sandwiches for work a lot, but sometimes I just cannot be bothered. Especially as I tend to make them at night, which means leaving them in the fridge, then leaving them to get warm all day.

Come the weekend, and I'm quite happy, given the time to start cooking from scratch and often do, but the attitude of no one should be buying things like this, that its ridiculous etc is a bit holier than thou.

75p is cheaper than buying the bread etc, which, in my case, often goes mouldy or stale before I have eaten even a third of the loaf.

Hear hear! I go out at 7am, come home at 7pm. Two nights a week i fit the gym in during the evening, the others by the time I've changed out of a suit, washed up, eaten and cooked dinner its 9pm. I'm then in bed by 10 after an hours telly.

Hubby and I spend relatively little on food, less than £40 a week between us and I'm blown if I'm going to spend another ten minutes on my feet making sarnies.

I also like the choice that buying lunch offers me. Today it was an M&S pasta salad, bag of crisps and a bowl of (wait for it) ready prepared fruit! It was all delicious and cost me about £5. Some people have to go with convenience and enjoy it some of the time. Fair play to M&S for offering me a cheap option one day a week!

chewmylegoff

M&S already have a whole load of cheap, simple sarnies. they have a cheese and onion one for £1 and a ham one for £1.30. this is hardly news.

wharty

When i was a boy i used to live in a village called Barnton near Northwich, and all through my childhood the older generation used to refer to Barnton as Jam Town. Why you may ask? well because during the 1st and 2nd world wars when rationing was the norm, Jam buttys were a very popular source of food. This was the time when you would walk at the side of the road and pick blackberrys and rasberrys, or grow them in your allotment(Allotments came to fruition because of the wars). Now we are in a recession we decide to keep wasting money on stupid things like jam buttys and bottled water, instead of saving money in the current climate.
You can get good bread makers now for £70 or £80 so you have a nice fresh loaf waiting for you when you get home from work, and guess what, most of them can make jam too. Its an outlay at the start but worth it in the long run.
Saving for something and appreciating it, has long been forgotten with the majority of people these days, so is it any wonder we find ourselves in a recession when everything we buy is bought with money we dont have or dont need to spend.
Hope i got my point over.

treliac

baileysbattlebus wrote: »

Don't forget though

This isn't any ordinary strawberry jam. it's double fruit, extra strawberry, naturally sweet M&S strawberry jam.......................(can't quite convey the nauseating, psuedo seductive voice, some how)

Always sounds like she's got a cold, to me!

baileysbattlebus

treliac wrote: »

Always sounds like she's got a cold, to me!

You're probably right - I must listen a bit more closely next time - the M&S ads really get on my nerves - at home I wouldn't use the word nerves.........

brightonman123

but remember folks, this isnt just a jam sandwich.

its an M&S jam sandwich.:rotfl:

PasturesNew

I have a friend who travels daily from her house within a 60 mile radius (it used to be 120 miles) as a trainer. She has in the boot of her car a box full of snack foods, like snack bars, cereal bars and individual cartons of fruit juice, just in case she gets caught short as her days/breaks/journey delays are unpredictable. They're just always in there so wherever she is, she can grab something out of the boot instantly.

vivatifosi

Sod it you lot. I've got to go and buy a jar of Tiptree's tonight to sort the craving you've given me.