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.

Well it's cheap. M&S steak before Xmas were £8 each. They were lush though.

It's just icky unromantic to choose a meal like this for your loved one. I've always either cooked or booked a meal out funds permitting.

It looks relentlessly beige, I'd have expected a meal to include vegetables.

There is no law says you can’t add them.

Substitution or boyfriend not making the choices you would have?

It’s fine. Not what I would choose - but fine.

That's amore

Looks fine to me. If you wanted steak, just buy it rather than the meal.

The wine is £10 so the rest for £10 I think is good value.

What constitutes a Valentine's Day meal? Normal food in pink packaging?

The Waitrose £20 Valentines meal looks better. I've gone for cheese souffles, steaks with sage butter, potato gratin, Raspberry Panna Cotta & a bottle pre-mixed espresso martini (4 glasses). Not necessarily the best offered, but the options that are gluten free.

Price of all outside of deal is £37 - the cocktail is £16 alone.

No-one actually ever pays £10 for a bottle of basic prosecco, do they? Surely not.

It's on offer so often that you just get it when it's £2 off, 2 for £16, 25% off when you buy 6 bottles, etc etc.

If you don't want it you can always return it.

A chicken escalope is exactly what I'd expect if I asked for an escalope.

yeah it looks a bit depressing to me - where are the vegetables?! Whoever is cooking could get an ok wine for about £7 and make a much nicer and more romantic dinner costing about £13 if they cooked it properly rather than buying a ready meal.

M&S meal deals come with 1 side. If you choose a potato option, you need to add your own veg. It's not rocket science. 🤪

I chose
Duck parfait
Cod with peppers
Cheesy green veg
Lemon cheesecake
Pink fizz

Meal looks nice but I'd rather something chocolate based and indulgent for dessert. I also wouldn't like the starter! Main looks nice though!

It’s a meal deal, you buy your own extra sides. Steak, escalopes and asparagus is weird, what sort of escalope?

Why people think food should be dirt cheap is beyond me.

I always choose something like dauphinoise potatoes or cauliflower cheese that's more time consuming to make and has more value as we normally have something like broccoli in anyway.

But I don't necessarily get a defined meal or eat all the things together anyway. I just pick what I like the look of and often combine it with other things we have in.

Sometimes <whisper> it is possible to serve a meal without any vegetables at all.

Love all the faux misunderstanding about the 'escalope'. It's a big posh chicken nugget FFS.

the confusion is because she's got the posh chicken nugget and she's saying she doesn't want that, she wants steak and escalope.

Add some veg and it would be lovely.

You likely get a choice of sides so whoever chose has picked the potatoes . My sister had the sirloin steak option last night and said it was the nicest steak they’ve had for a long time .

@BarbaraofSeville It’s not faux misunderstanding about what an escalope is.
It’s why the Op was expecting it in a meal deal when they requested steak. You only get one main a meal deal.
So it’s a spelling error, probably meant scallops as in a starter. That’s what people are debating

I agree OP. I looked at their dine in meal and was not impressed. Other stores have much nicer options.