New M&S food store - must buys

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Very excited that a new M&S food store has opened up where I live. What are your must buys? I'm going to create a wish list shopping list to start working my way through.

Truffle Gouda. My husband loves it!

Yum, thanks everyone....fairly lengthy shopping list off the back of this 😊

Cornish cruncher cheddar
(I think I’m hungry now!)

Chocolate covered bourbons.

Oh yes 😋

The bags of tortilla chips, pretzels etc are brilliant for lunch boxes to change them up a bit, the subs and rolls are also good to jazz up sambos
Cheese tasters are the BEST
Deli coleslaw
Lasagne and cabonara very good
I love M&s tomato's, just seem to taste better than anywhere else.
The cupboard staples - rice, beans, soups, herbs etc are often similar prices to elsewhere and often taste better

£8 ramen meal deal.(part of stir fry deal but other sauces are horrid)
avocados
sourdough loaf
Cox apples
Veg gyozas and sweetcorn fritters
Fish-very good
gastropub cottage pie
gf coffee and walnut cake
dark milk chocolate
potatoes-all their fresh produce is good

Mexican Layered Dip
Spaghetti Carbonara
Iced Spiced Buns
Lasagne Ravioli
Madagascan clotted cream

As pp said - all of it. You won't have any trouble finding tempting food to buy and it's very easy to be tempted.

Still, my Sparks card awarded me a free packet of Percy Pigs today so I'm happy.

Their fresh Raspberry Lemonade is very nice!

Poke bowls x

The first on your list used to be called Waldorf salad

My recommendation is the bags of flavoured frozen butter portions. I love the chilli and lime one, so handy for livening up things like fish. Garlic and herb also a great staple.

I'm gluten free and can eat very little dairy so appreciate the very small range of convenience food that I can buy there. In the free from range, the spring rolls, breaded chicken fillets and spag bol are all lovely and in the main range, the tempura chicken that is GF, anyway is absolutely lush.

Also love their ground coffee. The columbian, Kenyan and the single origin Ethiopian Microlot are my favourites. I like a smooth rather than a punchy coffee.

Also love their copper pot vodka.

They do a lovely salsa dip for around a quid in with the cooking ingredients.

Much nicer and cheaper than the Doritos stuff

@Nellieinthebarn I completely forgot the baked beans! Really good.

What is this Mexican layered dip that so many mention? I'm putting it on my list for Sunday.

This is amazing

Are Sparks cards worth having ? I thought they gave someone free shopping (basically rare) and didn't deduct money but then again I don't have a clue as lost mine so never really tried it!)

I am a huge fan of the fruit and find it reliably better quality.
I buy the super seeded bread ever since a friend told me about it (makes excellent toast).
this week we discovered such amazing outdoor pork with Parma ham wrapped round and herb butter - sorry I can't remember its actually name but it was phenomenal.
i agree the spiced iced buns are amazing - so soft and good.

i could go on...!

The chimichurri (sp?) sauce is great - also in the cooking ingredients.

And we get through a lot of their oven chips.

I also buy most of my fruit and veg, fresh and frozen, there. Much nicer than most supermarkets, including Waitrose.

A thread like this made me discover their custard choux buns and chocolate covered custard creams. I'm wondering if there's other custard based things I should be eating...

Those Cherry yogurts in the glass pots - yum. But … the Lidl ones are also v v good.

Italian Style Slow Cooked Ragu - cook sort of as per instructions but top with par boiled sliced potatoes like a hot pot. Serve with Cavolo Nero

Cheese scones from the bakery - very nice toasted and buttered. Makes a cheeky lunch with cream cheese - that extremely named one

The sparks savings aren't great but are useful if you shop there regularly. We have one very close nd do a £100 shop there every week so DH took out the credit card and we get loads back from that.

Oh and the cheeses br as fin the bakery

Pink lady apple juice
Garlic bread like an actual loaf of bread
Posh dogs
👌

Extremely chocolatey milk, dark and white chocolate biscuits. As good as having a box of chocs.

The gold tea bags are really good!