Death by M&S Ready Meals

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Well I’ve been isolating at home with my teenagers as myself and my eldest have had Coronavirus. I realised that neither of us would be well enough to cook and the other teenager has mock exams.

As there were no supermarket delivery slots I decided to order some ready meals from M&S thinking it would be quality food and help us recover.

However I was really shocked at the salt sugar and fat content. We can’t possibly eat this. It will make us sick again. It cost a fortune. I realise it was probably a bit stupid of me at the time but I wasn’t well and wasn’t thinking properly. My mouth feels like sandpaper at the very thought of all that salt being poured into it. Am I being unreasonable?

Well this is my favourite “idiocy of the day” post for a while.

And this is why we have trouble with people using common sense.

They obviously don't have any.

@PolaDeVeboise I salt bacon.

I like to think I will be well-preserved as a result.

I had a colleague years ago who used to drone on and on at me about how I ate SO much salt. ‘Don’t you know how bad it is for you?’ This was on the basis that I had a salt cellar on my desk.

My response was that anyone who went out every hour on the hour for a cigarette was probably not in a position to criticise my health on the basis that I put salt on my jacket potatoes.

Plus coughing salt added to food is a drop in the ocean compared to processed food.

The daily recommended max is 6 g, which is a good teaspoon's worth. You probably put 'a good old sprinkle' on your baked potato, which in reality, was probably about half a gram or somesuch.

Lots of people are weirdly obsessed with salt content, despite there not really being any evidence of it being harmful to adults with normal blood pressure levels.

But those same people usually focus on the same 'villians' such as McDonalds and ready meals, but hardly ever mention similarly salty 'acceptable' foods, such as ham or cheese sandwiches or olives.

I get so fucked off with the salt police too. My blood pressure is very low. To the extent that I’m prone to fainting. In my case it’s probably beneficial.

I have no idea what my blood pressure is, and I'm a salt fiend. I'm assuming you'd get some warning that it was dangerously high before you actually dropped down dead?

This thread has been hilarious I am still smirking at the OP buying all-butter steak pies to eat for 3 meals a day - then fretting at the salt content. Comedy gold.

I once witnessed someone making a quiche sandwich. One clutched one's pearls, one can tell you.

I used to work in a bakery/sandwich shop that sold pasties but also fresh bread rolls etc. It wasn't called Greggs, but I think it was owned by them because some of the exact things sold by Greggs are still sold by them today and a lot of the bakery trays and sandwich fillings were Greggs branded.

Just about every day there was a customer who came in for the same order: a cornish pastie and a cheese and onion pastie each inserted into a buttered bread roll.

So maybe there are people who eat like that all the time. He was a postman IIRC, so he probably burnt off the calories if that was his daily lunch.

JesusInTheCabbageVan I like your thinking!

Since they reduced the salt in loads of makes of bacon it doesn't taste half as good and goes off really quickly.

Bacon used to keep for yonks.

One up for the sellers
One down for food waste and food enjoyment :(

It doesn’t necessarily make you a bad parent as it was clearly a mistake as you were ill. But to give supermarket ready meals to your DC is very irresponsible IMO. But you have checked the labels and not used them so no harm done. Suggest you donate to a food bank or similar
I don’t know where to start with this @ARosebyAnotherName ...
Having one less than optimally healthy meal in a blue moon does not ,ale you a bad parent even if its deliberate, for one.
Donate to a food bank...well, yes, much better than wasting, but look at your attitude. OP would be a bad parent for considering this meal deliberately, or feeding it to her family if bought in error. But those beings who use food banks, they aren’t like you, are they Rose? They can have unhealthy food which is so bad OP shouldn’t feed it to her precious DC. That is bloody offensive, not just ridiculous like the first part of your comment.
Jesus.

Lol at the idea it's irresponsible to give your teenaged children an m&s pie occasionally

I love Mumsnet!

Actually, that post about "Thank God you haven't sullied your children with that garbage, give it to the food bank instead" was really off
Wtf?

Yes agree.

This is too horrible for me, give it to the poor.

Very Victorian.

It doesn’t necessarily make you a bad parent as it was clearly a mistake as you were ill. But to give supermarket ready meals to your DC is very irresponsible IMO. But you have checked the labels and not used them so no harm done. Suggest you donate to a food bank or similar

WTAF?

Fuck me, this thread

I look forward to it featuring heavily on all the mumsnet pisstake sites.

I’m so desperate to for the OP to come back but I’m worried she ate three pies a day and now has The Common and can’t. Because let’s be honest, it may be M&S but that’s what she meant.

Oh do get a grip op and the ones who are berating her for giving her dc a ready meal. What a bunch of boring overly precious neurotic twats

LaurieMarlow
You took the words right out of my mouth.

As for the poster who thought it would be irresponsible to feed these meals to teenagers and suggested the OP donated them to a food bank; please have a word with yourself and get yourself a T shirt or a badge which identifies you as a dreadful snob so the rest of us can avoid you in real life.

It's 7am and I am craving an M&S pie, thanks op.

As for the poster who thought it would be irresponsible to feed these meals to teenagers and suggested the OP donated them to a food bank; please have a word with yourself and get yourself a T shirt or a badge which identifies you as a dreadful snob so the rest of us can avoid you in real life

It’s the 21st century version of “Let them eat cake”. Too unhealthy for my precious children but fine for those poor enough to need food banks. Also revealing that poster doesn’t donate to food banks or they’d know they don’t accept perishable food.

Also revealing that poster doesn’t donate to food banks or they’d know they don’t accept perishable food.

You beat me to it. That messed her snobby little bit of virtue signalling right up.