M&S a bit overrated?
lem ramsay
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I remember buying a few weeks ago some chinese from them, the egg fried rice and sweet and sour battered chicken; I didn't mind it but my boyfriend said the chicken had a fishy taste and the rice was nothing to write home about (I thought it looked a bit mushy).
I had been persuaded to try their chinese range as I had read on here how their chinese ready meals are so similar to chinese takeaways and better than the ones you find in Asda and so on. My boyfriend doesn't even really like it when I attempt to cook chinese myself, he still prefers the takeaways, same with doner kebab.
The other day I popped into M&S here in Colchester and I got chicken thighs, angus beef burgers and beef minute steaks since they are 3 for £10.
I have cooked the burgers and thighs so far and my boyfriend said the burgers weren't that great... I thought being angus beef they would surely taste better than, say, frozen burgers but he wasn't impressed. I am not as fussy as him and found them good, just like any other burger I had had before (told you I am not fussy
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Mind you, he did eat them but that has left me thinking Marks and Spencer are not all that maybe.
I don't usually shop there as they are expensive for our budget but I thought this time I would treat us to better quality products.
I had been persuaded to try their chinese range as I had read on here how their chinese ready meals are so similar to chinese takeaways and better than the ones you find in Asda and so on. My boyfriend doesn't even really like it when I attempt to cook chinese myself, he still prefers the takeaways, same with doner kebab.
The other day I popped into M&S here in Colchester and I got chicken thighs, angus beef burgers and beef minute steaks since they are 3 for £10.
I have cooked the burgers and thighs so far and my boyfriend said the burgers weren't that great... I thought being angus beef they would surely taste better than, say, frozen burgers but he wasn't impressed. I am not as fussy as him and found them good, just like any other burger I had had before (told you I am not fussy
).Mind you, he did eat them but that has left me thinking Marks and Spencer are not all that maybe.
I don't usually shop there as they are expensive for our budget but I thought this time I would treat us to better quality products.
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If you want good quality then I suggest you try Waitrose. Better than M&S & around the same prices.
Its not hard to cook their meals fresh.
They used to be obviously different (of better quality), today I'm not so sure they are at all.
I made it sound as though he moaned about them, but he told me those things when I specifically asked him how he found them, he did eat everything and always thanks me for preparing his meals, whether ready-made or cooked from scratch (as I do 90% of the time).
I couldn't demand he shops and cooks as those two activities are the ones he hates the most and he works and I stay at home
Yes, I don't wanna pay that much just for a microwave dinner... I buy one very rarely anyway and in Asda as it's close to my house.
Saying that I do like their ready-made salads, and 2 for £3 isn't bad for weekday lunch.
I had noticed the ready meals quality going downhill a while ago and the most notable thing was their pre cooked chinese chicken wings which my mum used to love and was one of the few slightly spicier things she could manage (she had inflammation of the stomach) and that was her treat to get those for dinner, they changed them and she couldn't eat them anymore so kind of stopped buying much from there after that.
My only essentials from M&S when I want a treat I think are their seeded rolls, chocolate teacakes and some of their chocolate range and Percy Pigs.
As mentioned above they do sometimes have problems with overstocking, I was in yesterday and they had 3 entire cabinets full of Eve's puddings reduced to £1 as they had to be used by yesterday and aren't freezable - there must have been over 200 of them....
The tills are terrible, at least half of the self service tills are usually out of action and the staff seem to in no hurry at all even if there are huge queues