Sad, I know but... I have just bought the 'eat in for £10 for 2' at M&S

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and it actually came out as quite a bargain...

2 large sea bass fillets
roast veggies
2 jam sponge puddings
bottle of red plonk

enjoy it!

We did the same in Waitrose yesterday, but with the Indian

4 veggie samosas
2 curries
1 large pilau rice
pack of 4 Cobra

All for £10.

Do normally make them from scratch but wanted something quick, it was lovely.

Was the curry nice? I quite like the M&S veggie curry and dahl when I can't be bothered to make it.

I did see a 2 eat for £9 in Tesco but it dodn't look very nice at all. In fact every time I have bought someting ready made from Tesco I say 'never again!'.

Hold on - 4 beers too! Veggie curries? Oh well, that's tomorrow night's dinner sorted out!

Sad, why

It's great value...

Sad that I feel the need to broadcast to the nation!
Yes, I saw whole chickens there too.

We had the chicken tikka massala, and I did enjoy it.

Never tastes as good as home made, but what does?

Oh I am so jealous wish there was an M&S here - you lucky lucky people

I love M&S food, it's gone from being a treat to being a Monday night habit as DH has to drive past one! I look forward to Monday night dinner

What's sad about that? Sad would be if you got frozen faggots and mushy peas from the local 247, when you really wanted a posh dinner! It's not sad food you now it's m and s food...so enjoy

Dh said the sea bass was lovely, and the red ine seemed good to me (not great on knowing wine!)

Sea bass was lovely and the roast veg were very nice too.

MY DP got the Mother's Day meal for four last weekend and it was luuvverly.

They were doing the whole chickens yesterday - unfortunately had just got one from Sainsburys. We had:

King Prawn Linguine
Garlic ciabatta
2 chocolate sponge pudding (which I didn't eat but DH and DS did).
A bottle of white wine which was very drinkable

First time I have ever done this and thought it was nice for a once a month treat - much cheaper than going out.

I've got one of those whole chickens - does anyone have a suggestion on how to make it more special than just a plain roasted chicken? Do you stuff a lemon up its bum or cover it with herbs or something?

Also got:
parmentier potatoes (don't know what that is precisely)
cheese selection
bottle of pink plonk

Trillian - I put a quartered lemon inside with some thyme, then cover skin with olive oil (you could use butter but I have a dd who is allergic to dairy) and then a good spinkle of salt, pepper and paprika.

I got one from M&S yesterday - the chicken alone would have been £8.50, so that is what we will have on Sunday!

Wow you got a bigger chicken than me - I tought I was dong well with my would-have-been-£7.70 chicken!

Thanks for the tip, I wouldn't have thought of paprika but now you mention it it sounds good.

Parmentier potatoes are just cubed potatoes with butter and herbs. I made my own a few weeks ago and they were much nicer then M&S's.

We had the family roast promo last weekend for Mother's day and it was fab.

Lamb roast, a huge portion of braised red cabbage, the berry jelly and a bottle of red for £15.

DH and I were saying we need to do the £10 deal more often.