To think this ‘valentines’ m&s meal is rubbish?

[Dawbie]

Would you be disappointed with this as your valentines ‘cheap’ meal? When you ask for steak, asparagus and escalopes and come back with this instead 🙄think the main is horrendous.

That's the one!

@CherLloydbyCherLloyd No. The spelling mistake is just on the opening post. You don’t two mains do you? So clearly the Op meant a starter which has become “escalope” on the post.
They asked for steak and asparagus and got breaded chicken and potatoes.

Chicken hearts look quite cute

Mini blondes would like those 😂

Now that's just mean @Aquael

Teasing the op like that

@Dawbie come back

Tell us all

I don’t understand why anyone would want to eat asparagus in February. It will have more air miles than a minor royal. Wait untilJune and eat proper home grown asparagus .

1. What do you mean by a Valentines "cheap" meal?

2. Who did you ask, and who came back with it?

3. What are escalopes?

4. It all looks pretty tasty. (Apart from the pink prosecco, which wouldn't be my choice.) What's the issue?

Whoever supplied this to the OP is currently being turned into escalopes.

I’d not buy it or accept it in a delivery. I’d also think my partner couldn’t be arsed if that’s what they served up for me as a treat. Not my cup of tea at all.

Really? You really don't understand?🙄

Ooh, I thought viques won the thread with "more air miles than a minor royal" but I love this! Ooh, it's a tough competition 😂

No. Eat local, eat seasonal. It’s not hard.

Anyone else getting loads of Valentine's Day ads?

Ah but you didn't say that did you?

I agree it's not hard if you can be arsed but you said you did'nt understand why someone might fancy something that is out of season.

I thought the comment about airmiles was clear. As was my comment about wait until June for British asparagus. But I have learned my lesson, I will try to modify future posts to account for the hard of thinking.

Whilst you are at it you might want to reign in the virtue signalling in too.

Unless of course you are typing on a computer/phone made of homegrown spuds?

If so, do forgive me.

I had a look at it in M&S earlier - no where near as good value as previous years - previous years would get a small box of chocolates as well

There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to eat seasonal food.

Would be quite happy with all that, although it needs a side or two of veg. I always hate that Valentines meals are often steak, I don't eat beef.
If someone was to serve that for me, I'd be grateful, it's always lovely to have someone else cook. I hate cooking as much as I hate steak!

That's what I said. A little box of 4

I work in retail, part of my role is to look at what the market is doing.

Whether you agree or disagree, there are enough people that opt into these meal deals that make it 'an event.'

At Valentine's, people tend to 'trade up' - that may mean trading up from standard to luxury items or changing to a more upmarket retailer. M&S and Waitrose tend to overtrade on these events vs the market.

I have to say, I am somewhat underwhelmed by the M&S offering this year, they are usually on-point with this sort of stuff.

op, he went cheap. If you want a 3 course meal, which included steak and asparagus. and booze you’d spent a lot more than a tenner each.

The M&S Valentine's Day meal deal options includes steak. For the same price there was sirloin or rump steaks as a main.
I don't think there was asparagus as an option but there was other vegetables as a side if you chose it. We bought vegetables as an extra as chose the potatoes as a side too.

The wine alone is just under a tenner iirr, so the food is around £10 - 3 courses isn't bad for that.

M&S do run out of options though. Maybe all the steaks had gone?