£195 for a beef wellington!

[Blueskybird]

Just that really, are supermarkets now taking the absolute Micky?? I know I don’t have to buy it. I know no one is forcing me to. But seriously how can they actually think it’s ok to demand that price for a Beef wellington that serves 6. Granted it’s in the celebrity chef Christmas range and I’m well aware that we all have different budgets and I absolutely expect to pay for quality but come on, that’s a scandalous price. AIBU to think we have lost the plot with food pricing or would you pay it?

Sorry, but I very much doubt the Sainsburys fillet which you posted about after I asked the question is anywhere near the same quality as the one in the M&S wellington. I buy from Sainsburys most of the year and their meat is distinctly average. When I pop to my local M&S, even their ordinary every day range is so much better than Sainsburys highest quality one.

"...but you will be getting the biggest central cut so maybe £60/£75 of meat."

No, you're getting 670g of meat. Beef fillet is around £40 per kg retail so you're looking at around £28 of meat.

At the risk of whipping up another storm, I like it as part of a celebratory sort of meal, or dinner party, with many courses as there’s no need to serve potatoes or Yorkshire puddings, as one would with rib of beef. The pastry plays that role, and the whole course is just a little lighter :)

I could have guessed it’d have that twat’s name on it

Don't buy it. If people don't buy it, they won't sell it. Everyone is responding as if there's some law that says you have to buy this stuff but you don't. You can make a beef wellington yourself! This goes for all the unnecessary crap that people fork out for at Xmas; it's like mass hysteria.

I can't find it on the website. Guess you've all ordered them.

This thread has reminded me that ds wanted beef Wellington last year. Mind you I'm not spending that much. Dh will cremate it and serves 6 always makes me laugh.

Yes, exactly! It’s there for those that want it. And, I’d put money on it selling out so the slightly bitter posts about them all being reduced are pie (or wellington…) in the sky :)

Lol. I was just thinking I don't like Beef, mushrooms or Tom Kerridge, so my £195 is safe!

The price of meat has gone through the roof. About 20 years ago I bought beef fillet from Asda to make my own beef Wellington and it was the best part of £40.

Plus the cost of the rest of the meal, veg, potatoes, stuffing etc and desserts. I’m glad I have simple tastes. Couldn’t begin to justify this even if I was a millionaire

The beef will be expensive, £100's a bit much though, but at least if you buy it from an excellent butcher you know you're more likely to get good beef, not just OK beef. It's actually not hard to make if you're feeling brave and much easier to cook than a roast beef joint.

I despair every time i walk nto a supermarket now, dont know how folk are coping x

I agree OP. What a disgusting rip off. There are children starving. And, M&S pretends to be ethical. Makes me sick to my socialist stomach 🤮

I bet it will be sold out.

cooking it yourself will always by better rather than a ready version

You don't know my cooking

Sadly, M&S meals - particularly the high end ones (I forget the name of the range) - are almost invariably better than my offerings.

Not talking beef wellington, but also find their expensive tastier offerings cheaper to buy than to make as they use so many bloody ingredients and herbs and what have you that it would cost me a fortune to buy and make

It will. I'll shoot in on Christmas Eve and see if there are any left!

Plenty of people. The M&S core base of affluent shoppers, the people who can’t afford or can’t be bothered with Fortnum and Masons and other high end places. I really don’t think that most of the meat eating middle class types with plenty of disposable income who think nothing of dropping hundreds if not more on M&S Christmas food every year will have any qualms about buying this. As others have said, these prices, the recipe and the partnership with TK will have been planned for months with market research and PR teams etc. They will be confident it won’t flop. Threads like this help!

I’m bemused by the storm this has caused on social media tbh. It’s a reasonable price. It’s beef wellington. For 6!!!!

" paying rock bottom prices and then ramping that price up to sell it and pocket the profit, I think that's wrong"
Isn't that what most retailers in the UK do!?

Because people aren’t going out to restaurants as much, supermarkets have added ranges that try to rival restaurant food but those ranges are expensive. It’s the supermarkets trying to capitalise on a change in our behaviour. I think it’s ok so long as they have their usual ranges too.

There won't be. This is food to order.

You could make that comment about absolutely everything that’s not the cheapest possible essential, though.

I won’t personally be buying this, but some of the comments on this thread about starving children / Gaza are ridiculous.