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

I’m afraid I think the problem there is not that m snd s aren’t nicer: it’s that ready meals aren’t really very nice. They are emergency food. But the raw ingredients st m and s are definitely nicer- and it’s not placebo as I wouldn’t say this of Waitrose own brand.

I think the raw ingredients are generally better from a good farm shop/butchere/fishmongers though. And often cheaper.

But yeah, I’ve never had a nice ready meal from anywhere.

Yes I’d agree with that. To me it sits somewhere between the other supermarkets and a decent farm shop. The tricky thing with farm shops I find is they do some things incredibly well and others less so. So our local has fabulous celeriac but the aubergines are seedy and rubbery. The beef is great but the chicken really fatty.

Why so sour and unpleasant? I’ve been one of the people flying the flag for m and s in the face of many ridiculing you for being “ had.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/processed-foods-health-what-to-know

Survey shows UPF eaters on same nutritional value diet as non UPF eaters ate 500 calories more per day.

You're probably just enjoying your food more OP and it's satisfying your cravings meaning you're not wanting to eat when you're not hungry.

Yep, my mum worked in a factory that made cakes for supermarkets and each one had distinct production runs. The difference is obvious when I'm buying cakes for Ds2 to take his medicine with. He needs dairy free due to lactose intolerance rather than allergy and some of those cakes that seem to be ubiquitous with identical packaging and appearance will have no dairy ingredients from, say, Sainsbury's and Waitrose but contain skimmed milk powder or whey powder at, say, Tesco and Asda.

That goes without saying but you need to have access to those things and time to visit them. We have a wonderful farm shop nearby but, if you don't have a car, it's a 30 minute walk up a single track lane from a village served by 2 buses an hour so you would need to carve out a whole morning or afternoon to reach it. And it's not open in the evening.

Yeah I know. Was literally just making a comment about comparable quality.

Equally, my nearest M&S food is 40 mins away.

Well yes, so we all do what works best for us.

Ooh you can tell, definitely. Much better food. Try the whipped butters, that'll stop the under eating problem!

It wasn’t a discussion about where to shop though, it was a discussion about relative food quality.

And?

Sighs… my point being that you replied that not everyone has access to farm shops etc, and that ‘everyone does what’s right for them’. That was entirely irrelevant to the my point. We were talking about the comparable quality of different places to buy food, not attempting to influence where people shop, nor criticising anyone’s shopping habits.
I have no idea what shopping establishments MN posters have in their immediate vicinity. I don’t care. None of it is relevant to a post I made about where I think sells the best quality meat.

You're being quite snippy for someone who doesn't care though. Why tell me off for something so bloody trivial?

I didn’t tell you off 😂. I just replied saying ‘we were discussing food quality, not where to shop’ and you kept going, so I continued to clarify my point!
Anyway, this is really really dull so I’ll leave it there.

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