Death by M&S Ready Meals

[BluSky5]

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?

It’s just so unbearably tedious as well.

I still can’t really believe anyone would actually be so lacking in critical substance as to think that having - shock horror! - a pie, and a few other extra tasty, extra salty ready meals over a week or two, might actually, gasp, make them ill and gasp, more likely to... die!

Come to think of it, I’m not sure about this thread...

Oh well. I’m going to enjoy the sunshine! 🌻 And treat myself to a big piece of apple pie made with all butter pastry, with, oh my god, plenty of added sugar (in fact we took the sugar content down by quite a bit since we don’t like it too sweet, but why let that ruin a good story, eh!).

I've made a baked cheesecake today. Chocolate digestive base, full fat everything, chocolate M&Ms and buttons to decorate. I'm a goner for sure.

Well keep going lovely people, this thread is going perfectly!
Oh, I’m so pleased that Boris has decided to turn his attention to the obesity problem in this country as is in the news today. I’m looking forward to tasty pies that are lower in all the crap that’s for sale at the moment. Obviously not for breakfast though! Sorry corona brain getting to me a bit.

@BluSky5 You're alive!!!!!

Did you eat the pie? Did the pie try to kill you in your sleep?

So many questions!

you won't get pies that are lower in calories, fat or salt. IT IS A PIE.

eat more veg. Learn about stir-fry etc etc.

hope you feel better soon. Drama Llama excused due to illness.

Just stop eating pies, op. Don't wait for Boris to decree all future pies must be healthy, this is not a possibility.

Tasty pies with no fall salt or fat.

Mmmmm.

The pastry in particular will be delicious

I’m looking forward to tasty pies that are lower in all the crap that’s for sale at the moment.

It's hardly going to be tasty without the salt and fat that horrifies you so much. They're what gives it flavour. Besides it's a pie. It isn't supposed to be health food.

I’m looking forward to tasty pies that are lower in all the crap that’s for sale at the moment

That’s just setting yourself up for disappointment.

Have a salad.

Well the pie is in the oven! We’re having it with green beans and broccoli. I can cope with that as a one off...

Mencken... I can do a stir fry no problem. I’m quite happy to cook from scratch usually, just that with being unsell and isolating it wasn’t possible.

*unwell! ...and thank you mencken, feeling a lot better.

Let us know if you survive, OP. I'm very concerned for you.

If manufacturers were encouraged/forced by the government to make lower calorie 'healthier' ready meals like pies, we can look forward to a load of smaller, unappetising products full of unrecognisable ingredients of dubious origin. Like they've done with soft drinks.

So if you want to eat/drink well most of the time, but occasionally have something more indulgent, you won't be able to because that choice will have been taken away from you.

I can cope with that as a one off...

All the very best OP, I do hope you get through it h

I’m looking forward to tasty pies that are lower in all the crap that’s for sale at the moment

That’s an oxymoron, the butter in the pastry isn’t “crap”, neither is the salt, they’re what make it delicious.

You should be on commission for M&S OP, as this thread made me choose them for my shop this week, largely so I could buy the steak pie!

Well so long as the ready meal situation continues I’m sure there will always be a job for me on a coronary care or covid ward if the newspaper article on the ‘Boris Declares War on Fat’ is anything to go by.

www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/doctor-note-obesity-risk-factor-coronavirus-200406065716658.html

Well my bmi is 23 and my blood pressure on the low side. No other health issues. I’m very partial to an M&S steak pie, am I allowed one?

Or do I have to eat your gross-sounding low salt, sugar, fat option?

What did you eat yesterday, op, I thought you'd only bought pies?

The thing is though Laurie, a bit less fat sugar and salt may help the people who aren’t in the fortunate position that you find yourself in.

Those people presumably wouldn’t buy M&S steak pies. I hate the prevalent attitude that if I don’t want it, nobody else can have it either.

It wont make you ill. Add lots of veg. Unless your eating nothing else for over a week I would worry. But not for emergency recovery cant be arsed to cook for five days.

Unless you have high blood pressure and or obese in which case I would try eat à simple home cooked meal every other day inbetween.

It's fine. It's a emergency not a lifestyle choice

a bit less fat sugar and salt may help the people who aren’t in the fortunate position that you find yourself in.

Surely that’s for them to decide though.

What are you suggesting anyway? Revamping all unhealthy food? Or just pies?

“What are you suggesting anyway? Revamping all unhealthy food? Or just pies?”

Revamping it all if I had it my way 😁.
Lockdown on sugar, lockdown on salt, lockdown on fat.

Boris might want to add that to his list of fancy slogans in English Welsh Gaelic etc, but just not French.

Lockdown on sugar, lockdown on salt, lockdown on fat

In what grounds though?

Fat isn’t the enemy any more.

The jury is very much out on salt being problematic for the majority.

If you’re targeting sugar, a savoury pie is the least of your worries.