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.

It's bleedin' M&S, not Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons!

I am doing this very thing right now

I’m pretty picky and that looks fine to me. But if you ordered steak you should have gotten steak. Asparagus is out of season but I understand wanting a green vegetable. The rosemary garnish does little to keep whole meal from looking one color. Other than that, not bad.

Ah! But WHO bought it?

I was under the impression that customers choose what they want to make up the meal from the various offerings, so if that's what you chose....🙄
That's how it works in Tesco, Waitrose etc

Those Dine-In meals have gone steadily downhill. I used to buy them every single time but they started using cheap ingredients and reducing options until there was nothing left for us. It's sad because I associate them with our early days of dating before I became proper cheffy !

I think this is a M&S marketing ploy 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah that's shit for £20.

Looks ok, I’d eat it but then I’m not massively fussy. My new bf is cooking for me, I’m quite excited I don’t have to cook the valentines meal

No you can't. You have to wait for it to shoot and the shoots to be the right size.
Late May into June - quite a short season. It's a member of the lily family, oddly enough. Professional gardener here.

As someone from a polish background. WTF?

We got one from Tesco today. £12 for main plus side, dessert and very good bottle of wine.

I can only see all the packaging. 😐

Why on earth is that main ‘horrendous’?

Yeah looks pretty basic for a special meal costing £20

Is cordon bleu chicken the same as poulet suisse? I mean, cordon bleu is a cookery school so it could mean anything really?

YANBU It looks uninspiring and not particularly special. The price is ok but if you don’t like it, that’s £20 lost.
My lazy valentines dinner ( to leave time for other things 😉) will be cold meats, & cheeses and a bottle of bubbles. No cooking and can be eaten in bed ❤️

Is cordon bleu chicken the same as poulet suisse? I mean, cordon bleu is a cookery school so it could mean anything really?

Its a long standing dish, just google it

The Morrisons one is lovely and cheaper!
We got prawn and scallop starter, beef wellington main with 2 sides, dessert and bottle of Prosecco for £15! I was really impressed!

I bought this! Looks lovely! Got beef wellington with 2 sides, starter and dessert with a bottle of Prosecco. When it went through the till it came up -£18.56, so it's a decent saving!

Just had the Croquilles De Jacques, rump steak with pepper sauce with potato Dauphinois and chocolate and orange brownie with Malbec wine. It was delicious. Re the greens, added green beans from
Sainsburys at the cost of £1.10. Completely restaurant standard, roughly worked it out and I think you’d pay minimum £80 in a restaurant for the same meal.

You get what you pay for; what did you pay £15 quid pay peanuts expect monkey nuts stop whinging if you’ve got deep pockets & short arms don’t shout about you tight arse! Maybe just cook a half decent meal for the person you care for!

From the picture, it looks pretty disgusting, loaded in saturated fat, salt and goodness knows what else.

Why did you but it ?

@Bideshi I by no means was meaning to sound like a avid asparagus grower, I never intended to grow Asparagus and was just commenting to the posters that said it cannot be grown here because i found google said the complete opposite and that it is grown here all the time. Also that it cannot be found here in February as i was saying i found it in Morrisons myself the other day so for sure can be found here. The only thing I did see on my basic search was the length of time it took to grow but didnt look into when it can be harvested which looking now says “In the third year, harvest spears from mid-April for six weeks”. So at least i now know 😅.

I also didnt know you just cut the tops off and it continues growing which left we with more questions tbh but i guess at least it continues on (i also dont know how lilly’s (Lillies?) work either.)