M&S CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR ONE 2025 Review

Well, how are we all doing out there? I hope you're all spot on as always. Now, it's that time of the year, isn't it? It's Christmas is coming. We've just had Bonfire Night. So, I've been shopping to M&S and and got a Christmas dinner. Come and have a look what I got. Now, I've reviewed this probably 3 years on the run. Um, and I thought I'd review it again because it's a new year and let's see what's different. So, it's an M&S food meal for one roast turkey. Um, it says it was new, but it they bring out every year for Christmas, obviously. British turkey with a golden Yorkshire pudding, veg, and festive trimmings. Um, 35 minutes in the oven, freezable, serves one. Well, if you want it for Christmas, you're going to have to freeze it cuz it's used by the 11th. Um, so we got a little traffic light system for the serving suggestion. And there is the serving suggestion. So, yeah, the price now for the last two years it's been six quid. Now they've put it up this year by 50. So it's £6.50. All right. So we'll just get stuck stuck straight in and we'll have a look. That's what you get. That's what you get for your £6.50. You get stuffing, two pigs in blankets, a little Yorkshire pudding, three roast potatoes, peas, carrots, um, and you get turkey in there. Look. Um, and obviously, uh, gravy. So we'll have a look at this. 455 grams with a GB sticker. We've got some nutrition there in detail. If you want to have a look at that and pause it, go ahead. Got some spiel. I'll read it out. Roast potatoes, slices of roast turkey and gravy, carrots, peas, cooked sausages wrapped in streaky bacon, Yorkshire pudding, and pork stuffing. So, it looks and appears to be exactly the same as last year. So, the price is different. It's gone up. So, you do it in the oven. Needs cooking. Yeah, I would recommend that. And it says it's contains alcohol. So oven from chilled is 35 minutes, exactly the same as last year. There is a procedure that I will try in a day or two. So there's the ingredients. We've got allergens of milk, wheat flour, uh egg in there. Yeah, that's what you get. You get roast potatoes 26%. You get um turkey breast 17% um turkey breast being 98%. You get carrots 12%, peas 9%. Um, and you get obviously you get streaky bacon 6%, pork 80%. Yeah, that's what you get. So, you get some spiel as well there if you want to how however you are spending Christmas this year. We are so glad you ch Yeah. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Yeah. Right. It should have me Father Christmas set on, shouldn't I? Let's get it in the old oven. So, there is a procedure. Um, what I'll do, I'll I'll I'll run you through it sort of as we go. So, these go on here. The roast potatoes. There they are. Yeah, it's what you get. There's your roast potatoes. So, they go on there. Now, that is hot. That's why I've got it raised up. Go in the oven for 15 minutes. So, the spuds had 15 minutes. What you to do now, you're to put the Yorkshire pudding to one side. You to put the stuffing pigs in blankets on the plate. And then you to pierce the film lid several times over the turkey and the peas and carrots. And then that goes on. And it all goes in now for 15 minutes. So with five minutes to go, you to put the Yorkshire pudding on. And you don't have to, but I'm just warming my plate up. We got 5 minutes left. It's done. So let's get it out. The seal peel test. Let's have a look. Oh yeah, the seal peel test passed with flying colors. So, I'm going to plate it up now. So, there's your roast potatoes. I like them a bit more done than that. I suppose you could always take them out if you want and do them longer or put them in from the beginning longer. There's your little stuffing ball. That is very little as well, isn't it? Two little, very little pigs in blankets with your Yorkshire pudding. Yeah, it's very sorrowful, isn't it? It really is. I do feel for people at Christmas. I'm going to need something to get them out like um I'll get it now. So, yeah, I'm not going to touch that cuz it's red hot. I've got this here. I'll get I'll get it out. I'll I hope you can see okay over there. I think you can. I'll try and get out the best I can. We've got a few escapees here. You won't get far. You won't get far. Right. I will get them all out. Trust me. And I'm just going to pour the gravy on. There you go. Got the peas on. Very bitty. Very, very bitty. Put that to one side. And uh I'll show you. So there we are. That's what you get for £6.50. Yeah. Tell me what you think in the comments, please. So, there's your there's your turkey. So, you get one bit there, and this bit's all falling apart. These plates are quite big. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So, let's um let's try it. I feel like I should have me Christmas hat on now. Yeah. But we're not putting our decorations up. It's too early. But these are in our supermarket, so we have to review them. And I do ask you, I do thank you for watching as well. I really do. And I thought I'd sit at the table and eat it rather than standing up. Right. I'm going to get I'm going to get I'm going to get straight into the to the turkey first to see what that's like. These plates are quite big, so it makes it it look like it's spread out. That gravy is lovely. The turkey is It's quite, how can I say? Not rubbery, but it's it's Yeah, it's I did it in the oven. I'm going to try it again. M. That was a bit better. It It's just as if it's got like a rubbery sort of a a texture to it, but that second bit was a bit better. I'm going to try a pigging blanket with a bit of sausage. It's very very small, aren't they? I mean, yeah. I mean, you know, they're just on there just just like a little as an extra, aren't they? I don't know if my microphone's picking far too much up. I What I'll do I'll do a test and I'll just put it I'll put it over there and we'll see what it's like now. So, I'm going to try a roast potato. The roast potatoes been had 40 minutes, but they are very, very pale. I like them very very crisp. I'll bring it back. That was hot. That roast potato was red hot. Goodness me. Mind you, me plate is is hot as well. The gravy is lovely. It is. I'm going to try a bit of stuffing now. Few carrots, few peas, and a bit of turkey. It's pretty much all them. Yorkshire pudding's gone a bit soggy. M. It's um It is quite nice. You know, the turkey is not turkeyy's not the best. Let's try this Yorkshire pudding. It's gone all soft and now limp. I like them a bit crisp on the on the upper edges like you know not being not fussy but you know 50 odd years old so I do know I do know what I like with a roast dinner. We're we're all the same. You can you you suppose you could put it in the air fryer if you want that Yorkshire pudding instead of putting in the oven. Stick it in there for 3 minutes. It'll get it really crispy. It's a Yorkshire pudding. Yeah, I'm going to try a bit more of this. I'm going to try the other side of the turkey. See what this is like. Yeah, it's just similar similar really. It's just like it's quite I don't want to say rubbery, but it's quite similar to rubbery. I'll be honest. I have to be honest. It is. It is. It, you know, um it's all right, though. It's not, you know, it's definitely edible, that's for sure. I mean, it's turkey. It's, you know, yeah, it's it's it's it's lackluster. Let's be honest. It really is. It's I mean, it it's luxury. M&S. I class it as luxury. You might not, but I do. It's not I enjoyed the one last year and the year before and the year before. This one, I did it exactly the same in the oven. exactly the same. It's just It's just not doing it for me. It's not It's not doing it for me now. I I don't know. I don't know why. It's just not It's just not doing it for me. The gravy is tasty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can reflect on it as, you know, a meal for one at Christmas, you know, being on your own at Christmas. For me looking at it, uh, you know, I I do feel for people who are on their own at Christmas, of course, but having done these videos, I've had loads of comments from people, well, who are on their own, and they say they actually like being on their own, and I get that as well. I really do, you know, but there are there are people out there who are on their own, and, you know, I do feel sorry for them. I can't help it. I'd feel sorry for people who are on their own. It's not as good as I was expecting. Thought it might have been a lot tastier. That's probably I did it as per instruction. If you want to do it differently, cook it yourself differently, pimp it up, then you know what to do. It is obviously edible. So, marks out 10. For this one, I'm going to give it a I'm going to give it a six and a half. Six and a half. So, take care out there. All the best. Keep your recommendations coming in and I'll get back to you on the next one.