is m&s food thar much higher quality that it affects appetite

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Recently for first time did a m&s shop and I've eaten half what I normally eat as I seem to be full for longer after eating the same meals I woukd normally eat and I barely even have much of an appetite. Could this really be Down to higher quality and fresher food and less chemicals making me require and desire less food

What were the ingredients? are you talking ready meals? did they have more protein than your usual, that can fill you up.

I suppose it depends what you're buying. The quality of some ingredients are never as poor as the cheapest budget supermarket items.

Things like bread from M&S are higher quality.

Unlikely! M&S food is not all organic/free range etc, so would have similar chemicals to other foods. With that logic, then surely home cooked from scratch you'd eat even less?

Depending what you've eaten, I found some M&S meals have far more fat than other brands, so its more likely that the higher fat content has made you feel fuller, quicker.

Both ready meals and freshly cooked dinners, including chicken, meat, rice and vegetables

It's just food, wouldn't say it's any better quality than any other supermarket tbh! Especially ready meals

Even today I had just 2 small chicken tenders from m&s for lunch no breakfast and I'm not even eating any dinner as I just have no appetite

I think it's more likely that you're coming down with something. We get a lot of M&S food and I don't find it remarkably different in quality to other supermarkets.

Their ready meals are incredibly rich and full of salt and sugar ime.

It’s just normal food 🤷🏻‍♀️

Would say with 100% confidence your lack of appetite is entirely unrelated to the coincidental switch to M&S food. 2 chicken tenders at lunch shouldn't fill even a toddler up so much that they then weren't hungry for their evening meal. I'd keep an eye on it if o were you, continued loss of appetite needs investigation.

I wouldn't call M&S food fresher or higher quality. I thought it was fairly average until I bought a pack of diced steak that reeked of wet dog when I opened it. Haven't shopped in their food hall since.

Doubt it, some of the food is exactly the same as budget supermarkets, just has different packaging. You ask anyone that works in that kind of industry and they will confirm that.
However, I do think there is something psychological going on. I think what you are experiencing is confirmation bias. You are aware that M&S food is different to other food, so you are looking for something to confirm what you are thinking, resulting in you thinking it fills you more when it might not!

I strongly doubt it, either you are under the weather or it's psychological

We don’t really buy ready meals except the soups but we buy lots of their other food ( chicken, fish, fruit and veg especially) and I really can’t understand why other people think the quality isn’t higher. To me it tastes infinitely better - and it isn’t just placebo effect of the higher price as I don’t find this with Waitrose at all. Those chicken mini fillets are lovely - very little to trim off at all. In theory being less fatty should make them less filling so I can’t help on that front but agree the quality and flavours are much better.

I mean I've got a bag of the merry munch and I definitely haven't stopped eating that

Surely you’d eat more if it was good quality? We’ve only got Aldi, Lidl and a Co-op and I haven’t been able to face buying meat from Aldi or Lidl because the last lot of chicken I got was disgusting and had to be thrown away.

The fresh food tends to come from the same place e.g. potatoes will all come from the same field but the prettiest/most uniform will all go to Waitrose, then m&S, then Sainsbury's down to Asda, Aldi etc. With meat the cheaper just gets more water added to bulk it up. So basically all the same stuff. Not sure about ready meals but there's no way quality is such a difference that 2 chicken tenders is a full day of food. Just a coincidence and you're not hungry today.

You can see the food isn’t the same . The salmon has much less of that white fat. The clementines and satsumas are actually juicy not dry like many others. The watermelon isn’t dark red and floury inside and full of seeds. It just isn’t the same.

It really is. I stayed with a friend who had a freezer full and kept going on about the value . I had to sit on my tongue so hard it stretched and trailed behind me for weeks afterwards.

This!

“ This is not just food. This is M and S food.” Haven’t you heard the ads?

@Calliopespa yes I totally agree, some of it isn't the same. The fruit and veg tastes far fresher when compared to budget supermarkets for example and some of their other foods are devine.
However the OP might have eaten something that could have been the same, like organic chicken for example but still might have thought it tasted better/was different.

It’s better quality than some other places, not as good as others. It certainly isn’t different enough that 2 chicken goujons would fill someone up for the day!