M&S have failed with their veggie Christmas food this year?

[MandSLetDown]

Nut roasts etc arrive in store only a few days before Christmas and sell out almost instantaneously. The very lovely store assistant said they could have sold at least 20 times the number they had in and she’s spoken to a lot of disappointed people.

Slim pickings for the rest of the its in the plant based Christmas range - literally only one or two single items on the shelf.

This is a huge M&S. Rest of store decently stocked. Staff working their socks off btw so no complaints there.

Why of why do M&S do this to themselves. It’s the same with size 12 or 14 jeans - never any available. Or the most common sizes in footwear.

The Cook nut roast is excellent (not vegan, though).

I'm also vegetarian and can't bear vegan food so it makes me hugely angry to get the two lumped together all the time. Vegan processed food is simply miserable.

They’re also not thinking like non meat eaters

We don’t want to rummage around meat sections
Its upsetting
I won’t even walk down a meat aisle or if I have to it’s eyes forward walk quick.

Come on M&S if you’re reading this have a bit of curtesy and common sense

My student shelf filling must have made its mark. Maybe there's a whole section on The Faerie Queen tucked away in there somewhere too. Not that it ever made as much of an impression as long life groceries.

M&S cause issues by reducing their free from section massively during the pre Christmas period. I can get any number of tins of shortbread or weird flavoured pretzels that I cant eat but no rice crispies or bread rolls. I think they just took the pee with prices this year too.

I feel your pain. There's wheat and barley in everything and a growing tendency for people to be quite nasty to/about those of us who have to be gluten free.

They are real wood.

If it’s not in the shops it’s because it doesn’t sell. Why not bake your own? Then it’s an easy shop. I don’t buy ready made anything!

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They're hoping to convince meat-eaters to switch to meat-free offerings on occassion which is why they are intergrating the ranges.

Have they said this ??

You are a real life heroine, @SusanChurchouse.

I think a lot of people don’t want the melting cheese centre as part of a roast dinner. Like all the veggie Wellingtons with cheese in the middle.

Eh? I thought ambient food was that that doesn’t need refrigerating or freezing eg pasta and tins.

It’s worth checking regular Christmas pudding as a lot of them are vegan by accident.

It does. Any food that can be kept at room temperature, so packets and tins etc is ambient. It doesn’t mean that it plays nice twinkly music like you get in a spa.

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Correct! Whilst that sounds absolutely delicious, I don’t want cheese in my main as we’re also having a very cheesy cauliflower cheese as a side.

Then they should dual locate. Not have a fully integrated range.

Absolutely incorrect! My husband bless him popped in again on the offchance today and the staff member said as soon as they get any in, they’re flying straight out.

Supported by many, many comments on this thread.

And I don’t want to bake my own, otherwise I would. It’s only me who is vegetarian (though other guests will eat the M&S one leftovers).

Think I’m going to send a link to this thread to their customer service

I thought the same op. Went into a huge one today expecting some options. No nut roasts to be seen....settled for a mushroom thing and a cauliflower cheese. I haven't even seen any actual nutroasts in any of the shops - they're always sold out

Apart from the M&S nut roast 😉

Did you get the two pack of the mushroom tart tartin @mcmuffin22? That’s what I’ve - reluctantly - settled for!

Actually scrub that, I think mine are onion!