Who buys this stuff?

Queenie

Ex-Spendaholic wrote:

I am one of those mugs. :rotfl: M&S just has the power to suck me into buying a load of stuff that I could make myself cheaper for a fraction of the cost. However from today, it's all stopping. :j

Ooooh, have we converted you? :j :j :beer:

moggins

I must admit that I find grating cheese more and more difficult these days but the food processor is a wonderful gadget

emay

Working in a supermarket I see all kinds of strange foodstuff, but the best...Aunt Bessie's frozen gravy. NO REALLY...frozen gravy!!!!

aussielovell

oh my.....i didnt realise how guilty i was of this until reading the thread. I LOVE m&s. Although, didnt realise how stupid it is. It was always ease of use for me. Get a prepacked, ready just shove in the oven for half an hour meal along with the prepacked ready veg, frozen gravy etc. Did it tonight!!!!!

What a muppet. just finished my toffee pudding (not that great but £2.19 a pop!!!)

Never again

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well except if i NEED percy pigs

Becles

emay wrote:

Working in a supermarket I see all kinds of strange foodstuff, but the best...Aunt Bessie's frozen gravy. NO REALLY...frozen gravy!!!!

Bisto have ready made gravy in the chill cabinet too!

Aunt Bessies are already selling ready made pancake mix in the chillers, just to pour into your pan.

I remember going to a friends house for dinner who served ready made Yorkshire puddings. They were complaining they were skint due to just buying the house, so as an example I said she could have made Yorkshire puddings for a few pence. She disagreed and said it would cost a fortune buying "specialist ingredients". I said it was only flour, eggs and milk, but she complained about having to buy flour and eggs just to make puddings with

sadiedoll

'Specialist ingredients' - milk, eggs and flour........?????

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

gerretl

Queenie wrote:

Please don't forget that there are a number of people with arthritis and other disabilities which would make the task of something seemingly 'simple' as grating cheese a near impossible task :silenced:

Fully appreciated Queenie, in which case it should be on the NHS. What I'm saying is there are people who are perfectly capable of doing the physical work, but choose not to.

Queenie

Why should the tax payers pay to have grated cheese put on the NHS?????

Yes, there will always be people who are capable and choose not to - and that counts for far more than grating cheese!!!

*My* point was grated cheese may well have been put on the shelves to serve those who couldn't do it easily themselves and they shouldn't automatically be labelled with sweeping statements such as "laziest most stupid ... "

Not quite sure what "fukky" means, but it doesn't sound particularly er ... pleasant

nodwah

If you ever ate my OH's cooking you'd beat a path to M&S! He can burn a boiled egg

apprentice_tycoon

Queenie wrote:

Please don't forget that there are a number of people with arthritis and other disabilities which would make the task of something seemingly 'simple' as grating cheese a near impossible task :silenced:

This is a very good point.

I shop at M&S for a housebound elderly lady, not only is she housebound but she's pretty much confined to her living room and she uses oxygen from time to time through the day too.
She is adamant that she's not ready to go into a home and has home carers coming in 3 times a day to make her meals, they have to 'service' quite a few clients each mealtime and they can't wait for an oven to heat up for 10 or 15 minutes so all her meals are M&S microwave ready meals or quick cook things like fishcakes. Without these easy meals her choices would be greatly limited, having said that I still feel a little sheepish at the till with a trolley load of single portion ready meals!