Totally confused by M and S food.

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I'm on a break so an unfamiliar store. Also cooking facilities are basic. What confusion, so many offers and deals. When you look at the actual " food" it's grim. Processed, full of salt and not remotely healthy.

How things have changed.

Surely this highlights the cost of living crisis - everyone is buying dried rice and they’re running out while the expensive microwave sachets remain on the shelf?

I think they have loads of healthy stuff in there!

All I ever noticed healthwise at M and S is the fruit and vegetables are better quality

Get some of their superfood salad pots, hummus, nice cheese and bread. No cooking, tasty, job done. Oh, and wine 🍷

We love M&S food here. It isn't that difficult to understand - most of it just goes in the oven.

Even many of the ready meals in M&S don't use anything significantly different to what you would use yourself.

Ours has a good selection of fresh and frozen meat, fish, fruit, veg and dairy, oils and vinegars, rice and pasta. It's perfectly possible to completely avoid upf, if that is how you tick.

No, they hadn’t run out. There wasn’t a space. Just pouches of rice in countless flavours and trays of veetee microwave rice.

I’m also not sure what you were looking at, the range is pretty much the same wherever and the food is good quality, with a range from healthy to not healthy depending on what you fancy.

See I've been in a couple of "mini break" M&Ss lately and every time I come out thinking how wonderful it would be to have the money to shop there always for the lovely salads and the fresh fruit that's always perfect.

The salad is never brown and the chopped fruit is never soggy. It really is in a different class.

It makes Tesco look vile in comparison.

Really? I find this hard to believe my local Asda has catering size ones in the ethnic food section.

ASDAs are a mixed bunch. I recently visited one that was incredibly disorganised and had so many gaps on shelves filled with chocolate that I expected to find chocolate in the toothpaste aisle. 😂

Away where that the M&S food would be so different from every other M&S. Or is this your first visit to one of its stores?

Unless you're going to one of the convenience stores based at railway stations then they just sell regular food.
No different to any other supermarkets.
A loaf of bread is bread. A pint of milk is a pint of milk.
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Agreed haaaaate Asda

I was in yesterday. Yes there are ready meals and sweets and sweet treats but along side that fresh meat, fish, vegetables, salads, loads and loads of fruit. A bakery and a frozen section too. It’s just like any other supermarket but probably on a smaller scale.

New store,new layout, slightly fuddled.

Never mind.

Asda smells horrible

Mine doesn’t have an ethnic food section, although my family is ethnic. Twice over.

It’s a matter of reading the ingredients. The list on the pizza we had at the weekend in the deal read like a recipe. Not sure about the lasagne etc but bet M&S is better than most. I usually cook from scratch but have used M&S rice pouches. They contain rice, spices and a bit of sunflower oil ready in 2 mins in the microwave saves a pan when I am re heating home made frozen curry.

Quite. It's hardly confusing. Aren't all supermarkets like this? M&S sell fresh food too don't they? Vegetables, meat etc.

Where do you normally shop.what were you looking for exactly?

OK, they have those, but I was talking normal size packs, say 1 kg, not those 10kg or more jobs. I can’t be the only one who wouldn’t have room for those.

I'm always surprised by how gross and synthetic the M&S cold savoury snacks are - the picnic range full of promising-sounding chorizo empanadas and such. Always underwhelming.

Drama over supermarket seems a bit much. But “cutting out sugar” explains a lot

I love M&S chicken breasts. I find if I buy them anywhere else sometimes they’re rubbery and chewy, very hit and miss, but I’ve never had a bad one from M&S.

M&S food is delicious. The fruit and veg is better quality than any other supermarket, the salads are interesting and tasty, the ready to eat small packs of meat and fish (e.g. hot smoked salmon) are much better than anything similar in other supermarkets, and they also do lovely cakes and biscuits etc if that's what you fancy.

Not sure what 'actual food' you're looking at that's grim? I'm not keen on their pizzas and I don't generally eat ready meals, but otherwise everything is pretty good.