Has anyone ever ordered their Christmas Dinner from M&S?

I have to admit we succumbed to an M&S Christmas a few years ago and haven't looked back! Mum has 3 days of it, a full house of people coming and going on Christmas Eve, half the family on Christmas Day for lunch / early dinner, everyone on Christmas Day for an evening thing and then everyone on Boxing day - loads of adults plus a load of kids and it's her Birthday on Christmas Day too so it's all just too much to do everything from scratch. It wouldn't be so bad if she kept it simple but she insists on 3 x types of meat, 3 x types of spuds and so on - mountains of food and it's hell even with the help of M&S ?

It doesn't save on cooking time as everything we order is raw rather than just in need of pre-heating but it cuts out almost all of the prep work and most importantly a lot of washing up (Mum doesn't have a dishwasher for some odd reason) and means we get to eat and then spend time together rather than one load (the men and kids) go off into the lounge for them time whilst us females do all the washing up.

Quality wise it's pretty good but then can you really go wrong with M&S?!

Waitrose are pretty good too, especially for evening food and joints of meat, their veg isn't as nice IMO.

H are I are having lunch at home this year before joining the rest of my family for dinner and we're planning to go it alone rather than rely on M&S but in truth I can see an order coming on as I just can't be bothered.

Not personally but I have friends who have done this for a while and love it although they have commented on the que to collect it all but they figure that they'd que even longer in the supermarket.

I'd recommend it, no fuss whatsoever, we did it our first christmas alone together, do book though so you get what you want

Step grandma does it every year, she doesn't do cooking, they have security guarding the turkeys!

I don't know what I'd do without M&S for Christmas dinner! We have ordered ours from them for at least 10 years and have got it down to a fine art.

We arrange the collection for as early as possible in the morning on Christmas Eve and we've never had to queue at all.

I've already placed my order for this year. Yum!