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.

Just don’t bother with Valentines day and save your money. Seeing all that marked up cheap rubbish in the shops and M&S with their pink label dinners makes you realise how ridiculous it is. All the pre made meals always taste like chemicals. You could make a much nice meal for £20 including a bottle of wine/fizz or if you don’t want to cook order a takeaway?

That looks... awful. If you can't return it, freeze it for some sort of emergency.

You have chicken escalopes.

Like a Birdseye meal. YANBU.

Are you pissed off with M and S or your husband?

I am confused-did this get substituted in your delivery @Dawbie or did you send partner to shops with shopping list and he came back with this?

Whichever reason it looks vile!

Maybe they couldn't find the right chips to pair with the steak...?

Had a nosey, out of interest and this is the menu.

As others have suggested, assuming you wanted scallops as a starter, rather than escalopes you got as a main?

Why won't anyone think of the Perfect Pairings??

I think it looks good but if you don’t like it you don’t like it

You've got all the unexciting options there - the worst of almost every option 😂! There wasn't much left in our local M&S when I was there yesterday so we went for the Morrisons one instead: camembert share and tear bread, beef wellington, dauphinoise potatoes, mixed green vegetables and caramel profiteroles for £15.

😁

If you buy a 'cheap' meal, you get a cheap meal...

Urgh excuse my terrible punctuation. Very tired.

It's disgusting.

A bunch of murdered animals.

A Valentine's Day massacre indeed.

Do you mean you were expecting a steak starter and chicken escalopes?

Presumably that’s why the Op wanted steak and asparagus. Just the basic (but expensive) fresh options.
Instead she’s got a processed breaded chicken and cheap potatoes.

Rubbish

I think Morrisons have the best value meal. TWO sides, starter, main, pudding and fizz for £15.

I wouldn't expect anything more from M&S. A local to me butcher posted this deal this morning. I would pick that over the M&S deal even though you don't get any plonk and it's supporting a local business.

Oh no not CHEMICALS

It’s £20 worth of food a drink that Prosecco is £10 on its own, the only problem with the meal is it could do with some sort of veg.

I’m not sure what the concern is here - is it that you wanted steak but got chicken? Or that you wanted a focus on quality in the main course and you got cheaper stuff with a starter, pudding and wine that you didn’t want?

If steak, asparagus and escalopes (scalloped potatoes?) weren’t available I think cordon blue chicken and rosemary roasted potatoes is a reasonable substitution. I’d be disappointed at the lack of veg as I like my veg. I’m also not keen on most fizz so that wouldn’t make me super happy, but I can see why pink fizz for a Valentine’s meal would be chosen by someone who didn’t know that.

If it was someone who’s supposed to know and love you who went shopping and they picked a bunch of things you didn’t like, I can understand your disappointment. But I think it’s generally a reasonable Valentine’s meal for the money.

The Tesco deal is good this year. Side, main, dessert and a bottle for £12. But one of the bottles included is a £10 bottle of Prosecco, so the side, main and dessert are only £2.

We usually do the m&s meal for £20 for vd

think it was slightly more last year but bed. £20 for least 10yrs

need to know was it oh or delivery @Dawbie

Those supermarket steaks always look grim 😩

I think it looks disgusting. Steak from the butcher, salad and a bottle of red costs less than that and would be much nicer.

Steaks are around £7 each in my butcher for 225g, wine what £7+ then the salad.

Where are you shopping that it would be cheaper?!