OMG!!! How can i resist!

winkle1

oh god, the food is lovely in there. i love the moroccon style houmous and teh count on us desserts... yummy.

the_other_mce

try thinking of this "this isn't just food -this is EXPENSIVE food that I can probably make at home quite cheaply" !
Might just give you the will power to walk past most of the time.
And maybe treat yourself to an M&S meal once or twice a week........

lil_me

A one opened near me (was Iceland so that miffed me a bit) anyway I am banned by my DP from even walking through the door, if we're out at the shops toether he walks nearest the door to stop me going in if I try.


True point and makes me rethink - when my sister worked at a meat place they labelled ASDA smart price one day, and the same stuff with M&S the day after. Only difference was the price per kilo!

melaniec_2

The food may well be very nice but most of it is ready meals. I'd much rather make it at home, know what is going into it and have 4 portions for the price of one.

Nice for the occasional treat but to eat from them all time, no thanks. The first thing everyone tells you when you start at head office is you'll put a stone on and they aren't wrong!

If you can afford to spend the extra 20% you're on the wrong board!

Older_but_not_wiser_2

sophiesmum wrote:

Ah Marks and Spencers food .... how does the advert go " It's not just food, it's..........."try,..... processed in a factory, pumped full of additives, preservatives, flavourings and colours and prettily packaged to make consumers think they are getting something special.

Make your own nicer than any of the prepackaged stuff,imho.:rolleyes:

sophiesmum

One of my wifes friends works as a food technologist, designing and implementing new ranges for companies, including M&S, and she sometimes uses us as testers for their new ranges, and I can tell you this for nothing - consumers aren't just thinking they are getting something special, they are getting something special.

tiff

I dont think their food is that great, and I have made my own houmous, salsa, guacomole etc and imho it tastes much better. Dont get me wrong, I do like some of their food, their tartare sauce is the best I've tasted. We have an M&S food opened up recently, I took one walk round (after having been to Lidl!) and walked back out again. Everything is sooo overpriced!

tinkerbell212

Little L, seeing they are around the corner from you, get a saturday job there. Will get you some money towards your debt and a discount for buying the food!!
The food is great though, I do buy it sometimes when it is on offer..

sophiesmum_2

Marks and spencers food may be a cut above some supermarket ranges - I don't dispute that but even their ready meals/processed food is no substitute for local,organic crops and free range meat, wild fish etc.
Here are a few quotes from M&S food information website. Not disputing that they do a lot to monitor quality of their foods, all supermarkets do and have to by law, but reading between the lines these are a few things I picked up from their own info.

"The piglets spend their first few weeks outside with their mothers until weaning, when they're transferred to barn housing with straw bedding.-no free range pork here then!! barn housed piglets who never see the light of day, just fattened until they are slaughtered.Compare this to The essex pig company - real free range and rare breed pigs, farmed by traditional husbandry.Worth every penny for the animals to have a life where they can be outside and snout about in the woods,fields.



"Most wild fish stocks are fished to their limits, so using fish farms helps us meet year round customer demand." Some fish farms have that many fish in a small space that they rub all their scales off rubbing against each other.

"We currently use about 150 additives in our foods - far less than the number legally approved for use." How many additives do you add to your meals when you cook from scratch at home??

I am not an animal rights crusader, or a vegatarian just someone who is interested in the food I eat and its origins.
Just a few points to think about.
sophiesmum

lynzpower

PUt it this way, it was doing things like food shopping in M&S that got me in debt in the first place.

there are a couple of things that ARE good value for money, and the quality over other supermarkets to a certain degree is to do with how quickly from factory to store it gets here and high quality product control. Read the great own brand hunt tho in shop but dont drop- eye opener.

Foxs make biscuits for M&S and someone bought a posh m&S coffee dried and it had an asda foil lid.

I wont be seduced into buying things I cant afford

BlueSkyDay

I buy some things at M&S for the quality AND the price. I was buying submarine rolls at Tesco until I realised that the sub rolls at M&S were bigger, taster better, and were the same price. Until then I had always thought M&S meant more expensive! M&S fair trade coffee is cheaper than similar quality branded coffee - and better for my conscience.

The trouble is resisting the temptation to buy the other goodies

Blue