M&S Super Soya

Squeaksoutloud

Has anyone tried out the new vegetarian range from M&S? I wonder if any of them are vegan...would love to find out the ingredients! Anyone know already?!

http://health.marksandspencer.com/our-health-ranges/super-soya

'If you're vegetarian, or just looking to cut down on the amount of meat you eat, you'll love our delicious new Super Soya range. We've spent nearly a year developing these meals and ingredients to make sure they taste as great as you'd expect - and of course they have no artificial flavourings or unnecessary additives. There are three tasty main meals to choose from: Super Soya Lasagne, Super Soya Cottage Pie and Super Soya Strips in Black Bean Sauce with Rice. You'll find Super Soya Mince and Super Soya Strips, too, which are ideal for cooking up your own favourite recipes.
The range uses soya as protein, which is a great substitute for meat protein as it provides all the essential amino acids that your body needs. It's also low in fat and can help to reduce cholesterol if you include around 25g a day in your diet.
For further information about Soya please click here.
Our Super Soya range sits alongside our Lovely Vegetables range, which we launched earlier this year, giving vegetarians and those who choose not to each much meat lots of fantastic choice.'

sweet-rasmus

I have never heard of the range. I hope it's not a UK only thing.

biZrb

Heres the M&S vegan list, can only see Meat Free Soya Mince on it that could be from that Super Soya range.

http://health.marksandspencer.com/uploads/pdfs/vegan.pdf

Weyhey

Saw the range in Jervis/Mary Street branch, it looks good. Not all products were vegan though, some were vegetarian which is a shame.

The Super Soya and Lovely Vegetables range looked delicious but i haven't tried any yet. I was a bit baffled as to why they are on a different aisle completely from the normal vegetarian range (which seems to be getting smaller and smaller each year).

Aoifums

The chunks/giant pieces look really nice. But the entire range has egg in it

PurpleFistMixer

I've had the black bean one a couple times now, was pretty good! I'm just a sucker for black bean sauce though... They're particularly cheap in M&S on Grafton Street atm as a "new product" sort of deal, which I, as a student, appreciate.

spiralbound

Aoifums wrote: »

The chunks/giant pieces look really nice. But the entire range has egg in it

The mince doesn't have egg in it. I had some last night in a bolognese-y sauce, it was great.

Aoifums

spiralbound wrote: »

The mince doesn't have egg in it. I had some last night in a bolognese-y sauce, it was great.

Nice! Where did you buy it? The M&S on Grafton St only seemed to have the chunks, the pie, the lasagne and the one with black bean sauce.

Scarinae

I'm going to check these out next time I'm in one of the larger M&S shops, I loved cottage pie before I was veggie

g_moriarty

Just what we need, a new "vegetarian" range of products containing eggs.

spiralbound

Aoifums wrote: »

Nice! Where did you buy it? The M&S on Grafton St only seemed to have the chunks, the pie, the lasagne and the one with black bean sauce.

I got it on grafton st - maybe they had just run out?

Aoifums

g_moriarty wrote: »

Just what we need, a new "vegetarian" range of products containing eggs.

It's still vegetarian if it contains eggs. There is no need to look down on a product containing eggs or those who eat it.

spiralbound wrote: »

I got it on grafton st - maybe they had just run out?

Hopefully. Or I'm blind!

PurpleFistMixer

Aoifums wrote: »

It's still vegetarian if it contains eggs. There is no need to look down on a product containing eggs or those who eat it.

Technically ovo vegetarian, if one wants to be pedantic I suppose.

Tar.Aldarion

Haven't had any of these yet, can't wait to try!

spiralbound

Aoifums wrote: »

Hopefully. Or I'm blind!

I popped in yesterday and they had it, just to the right of the strips

Aoifums

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Technically ovo vegetarian, if one wants to be pedantic I suppose.

Still vegetarian!

sweet-rasmus

Perhaps it's the view-point of using free-range eggs that might concern some vegetarians? Not all meat-substitutes would use free-range.

PurpleFistMixer

Aoifums wrote: »

Still vegetarian!

Depends on your definition of vegetarian - some people consider "true" vegetarianism to actually be veganism, and what we normally call vegetarianism to be ovo-lacto vegetarianism. But yeah, pedantics.

g_moriarty

sweet-rasmus wrote: »

Perhaps it's the view-point of using free-range eggs that might concern some vegetarians? Not all meat-substitutes would use free-range.

Free range or not, the egg industry is still as horrific as any meat industry. Even companies who sell free range eggs still shred newborn male chicks at birth because they are surplus to requirements. I believe debeaking, and other cruel procedures are also carried out to free range chickens. They are slaughtered exactly the same as non-free range chickens too (hung by their legs, head sliced off, bled to death, scalded in boiling water, etc). How anyone can call themselves vegetarian and consume eggs is baffling.

schemingbohemia

g_moriarty wrote: »

Free range or not, the egg industry is still as horrific as any meat industry. Even companies who sell free range eggs still shred newborn male chicks at birth because they are surplus to requirements. I believe debeaking, and other cruel procedures are also carried out to free range chickens. They are slaughtered exactly the same as non-free range chickens too (hung by their legs, head sliced off, bled to death, scalded in boiling water, etc). How anyone can call themselves vegetarian and consume eggs is baffling.

so basically only vegans are pure enough for you? that's your view, mine is that every little helps.

i thought this was a thread for discussing a particular product, maybe i mis-read it because of my innate cruelty and delusion in calling myself a vegetarian when I eat eggs and dairy products.

g_moriarty

schemingbohemia wrote: »

so basically only vegans are pure enough for you? that's your view, mine is that every little helps.

i thought this was a thread for discussing a particular product, maybe i mis-read it because of my innate cruelty and delusion in calling myself a vegetarian when I eat eggs and dairy products.

Where did I say "pure enough" ? Jeez, everything I said was true. And yes, whether it's a popular opinion or not (that doesn't concern me) the fact is that participating in the purchase and consumption of eggs whether free-range or not is funding and encouraging cruelty to chickens.

PurpleFistMixer

Super Soya range is no longer on offer in M&S on Grafton Street, so I'll only be having it on special occasions now. : (

sweet-rasmus

Alright, enough off topic posts. Back to Super Soya discussion, or start a new thread.

sweet-rasmus

MissRetro

Does anyone know if they stock this range in M&S Cork?

fillefatale

To be honest it looks sort of bland and is quite expensive, I wouldn't be particularly tempted to buy it.