Who buys this stuff?

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gerretl wrote:

Call me an inverted snob, but M and S has the biggest number of grated cheeses on the market. I hate shopping there. Its all too overpriced, and if you want tinned tomatoes, you have the choice of, well, one. I know they buy the best, but I always feel I am cajoled into buying something I don't really want. At least Tesco et al give the illusion of choice (Even if the houmous is made in the same place (according to the latest health scare))

You have a choice of 2 tinned tomatoes now - (organic and non-organic)
The organic ones are excellent, haven't tried the others. Anyway I would rather have the choice of 1 product and know it's good quality rather than a choice of 6 crappy ones or having to try all 6 to find out if any of them are decent.
I don't think everything in M&S is overpriced, items like pitta bread and houmous are only slightly more than Tesco etc but the M&S ones taste way nicer. They may be made in the same place, but the M&S ones clearly have the better recipe.

Gabriel-Ernest

I have to confess we've had a lot of ready meals and takeaways recently. We normally cook from scratch but as DW has a broken leg and can't stand, and as I'm working fulltime while managing all the food and housework, we're opting for things that make our life a little easier until we get back to normal. If I have the energy I'll cook from scratch but after a 10 hour working day, laundry, cleaning and looking after the cats, I'm really not up for cooking a full meal every night. It's hitting the budget quite hard but it is only temporary and at least it's given us some good recipe ideas for things to try from scratch.

thriftlady_2

ScoobieGirl wrote:

How about this

Why use a knife to cut a piece of bread when you can buy a gadget to do it for you.


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Thanks Scoobiegirl, I've been meaning to post this ever since I fell off my chair laughing at it last week.

The banana slicer is another one, in fact the majority of the stuff in the Lakeland catalogue is overpriced rubbish.

The human race's capacity for 'stuff' never ceases to amaze me. Makes me wonder what the starving people of the world would make of a soldier slicer or a ready meal.

Austin_Allegro

Here's my idea for overpriced supermarket convenience tat (M&S if you're listening feel free to use this idea).

'Wrapples'. (TM) Delicious slices of apple, pre-cored and skinned, with each slice tightly wrapped in space-age plastic to preserve the natural goodness of the fruit! RRP £2.99 each. The TV ad campaign could feature a popular 'rap' singer rapping about 'wrapples', possibly the fat boys from the Zafira campaign could be shown pestering their mother for them in the supermarket.

'Teazers' (TM). Teatime needn't be wasted time with new Teazers - ready prepared plastic cups filled with delicious tea (includes milk and sugar). Busy mums don't even need to waste time adding water! All you need to do is pop the cup in the microwave and hey presto - teatime is 'YOU' time! £4.99 each.

'Leave it to us' (TM) prepacked leaves. Do you love that autumnal smell of burning leaves but don't have time to sweep up the lawn? Then try the new 'leave it to us' ready-to-burn leaves. No sweeping up needed - just put them on the bonfire! Available in 5kg bulk packs priced £10.99.

'Who Wants Yesterday's Papers'.(TM). We do! Relive the events of yesterday or even as far back as last week with our collectors' copies. Prices start from just £10. They even come shrink wrapped to be preserved for posterity!

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Lakeland limited stands shoulder to shoulder with marks re quality of goods. I used to go to lakeland when they started making poly bags in a little upstairs room and it has grown and grown because it delivers what people want

I received a lakeland order today. Fantastic items and supreme customer service.

I frequent the lakeland shop every time I go into town

seraphina

Slightly OT but I do think that Lakeland has gone downhill lately. They used to sell useful things for the kitchen at a reasonable price but lately their catalogue is just full of weird gadgets and fancy foods, and their P&P is very steep.

tinkerbelluk

I must admit my FIL is housebound with MS and now only has very limited use of one hand. We've started buying all of his meals in M&S as not only are they good quality, there is a massive amount of choice and more importantly he still remains to have some level of independance as he can microwave his meals for himself.

I understand what people have said about the amount of things available is terrible but you also need to look at the other side, i.e. he gets plenty of variety and choice and it's not like he misses out on anything as he can still have a jacket pot or pancakes etc.

I think what with the backlash of eating ready meals these types of people are ultimately the ones who end up paying for it.

There - Rant over

Becles

Could you plate up meals for FIL? Just thinking it would be a change for him having home cooked meals, and cheaper too!

We used to have a various friends and family doing that for my Grandpa when he lost my Grandma, as he couldn't cook a thing!

He'd come to us for Sunday lunch, and Mam would always "accidentally" do too much, so she could plate him up a dinner to take home to warm up on Monday!

tinkerbelluk

Becles - In all honesty I wish I could but with me & DH working full time and I study part time it just wouldn't be possible.

I should point out that it's only me & DH in terms of family so it's a huge responsibility geting everything else sorted as well if you understand what I mean.

He also feels like he doesn't want to impose and in all honesty I don't think I could get by with plating up 14 meals a week for him.

Oh my god, I sound awful now don't I.