What should I buy in M&S Foodhall?

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Brand new M&S foodhall has opened near me.. very excited! What should I buy?

They do extra cream bourbons and custard creams ...

Three for eight pound on deli.
Family size cheese quiche.
Bbq or Chinese chicken wings/ drumsticks.
Ham etc
Loads of things to choose from.
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Fresh Scotish Scampi.
Fresh beef burgers.
Calcanon.
Fresh onion rings.
Coated mushrooms.
Easy peelers large satsumas.
Coleslaw.
Potato salad.

Bananas
Mini cucumbers
Mini hot cross buns
Any of their pastries
Yum yum doughnut things (don't know the name)
Colin the caterpillar individual mousses
Mini Colin the caterpillar cakes
Poke bowls
Belgian curl wafers

The marinated rotisserie chicken (the one you cook in the bag)

Three deli items for £8, my personal favourites being:

• Green nocellara olives
• Marinated artichokes
• calamari
• goats cheese bell peppers
• sweet potato falafels
• Any of the quiches

The signature sourdough

Any of the fancy dips, they do a yoghurt and labneh one that's really nice.

The kiln smoked salmon fillets - so delicious (£17 for a bag of 5 though so look out for yellow stickers)

The butternut squash and sage filled pasta

The fruit is always really nice, rarely get a bad bunch of grapes or dry oranges in M&S

I also don't think the food is particularly expensive. It's fine for basics like lentils, rice and pasta too. The cleaning products are crap though.

The lemon & lime marmalade is perfect and their own brand jaffa cakes are delicious. Oh, and the single serve profiterole dessert!!

Tinned rice pudding
Not as nice as home made but lovely
Chocolate covered bourbons, hog roast mini sausage rolls pats UPF filled stomach

Er, everything? Surely! Nom nom 🤤

I don't know if it's been mentioned but their cheeseboard approx £8 is lovely

All this talk about dips… Full range of dips aren’t available in Ireland anymore (and loads of other stuff. Thanks, Brexit). I have to buy the salad bowls to get even a tiny Bang Bang Sauce hit. The Labneh Yoghurt is really nice, but it’s no Herby Feta Dip… And now I have to hear about this amazing Caesar Dip (and Indian Dip!). I’m not even going to look, they won’t be there!

As well as excitement there is much consternation that there are no customer toilets.

M&S Gold tea bags! Soooo fresh & good.

Coronation sauce, buttermilk ranch dressing, their pistachio nougat and the hazelnut creme.

Depends!
What kind of things do you like?
I'm personally loving the Plant Kitchen vegan range.
Do amazing pizzas and battered "cauliflower popcorn chicken."
The glass bottles of rose lemonade are also lovely

Their washing machine descaler/cleaner smells divine.

@NoseNothing That’s encouraging! I bought that for the first time today as I had £2 off household/cleaning in my Thursday Sparks coupons.

@GoodAfternoonGoodEveningAndGoodnight

Is the cauliflower popcorn thing frozen? It sounds divine.

Nibbly and lunchy bits - bang bang chicken with its dip, just add ham chunks, Katsu crisps, Greek salad, cheese scones from bakery, chocolate ginger biscuits, shortbread squares

Desserts - Greek yogurt with cherry in the bottom, choc ganache pots

Good stuff - lemon pepper smoked salmon, Rosa verde salad leaves

Don't buy - tomato salsa (skin on toms too chewy), hummus (too rich), raspberries (don’t keep as long as sell buy date)

Do they do nice jams? The selection in Aldi didn't tempt me earlier.

Noooooo! I was so looking forward to trying that Caesar dip 😩

No, it's chilled - takes about 10 to 15 minutes in the oven

I’m placemarking…my new
work place is a 3 minute walk from an M&S foodhall 😁

Yes! Their raspberry seedless preserve is heaven and I won’t buy any other jam now. So intense!

The things we buy on repeat are weekend brunch type food; the select farms outdoor bred dry cured unsmoked back bacon rashers, the frozen ready to bake croissants, the sourdough bread from the bakery, wafer thin turkey slices and smooth brussels paté.

As a pp said for basics they are often cheaper than the big four - butter, mature cheddar, no frill cereals etc.

They do good luxuries too though. My current favourite luxury is tiramisu gelato. So rich and thick it is heavenly. And at a fiver a tub it's about the same price as Ben & jerry but a million times nicer.

Percy pigs
Classic dip selection
BBQ chicken wings