Can you really feed a family of four with the M&S Easter £20 dine in deal?

A slap-up three course meal from Marks and Spencer for fiver a a head sounds like the ideal Easter treat. This week the chain has launched a £20 meal-deal made up of a roasting main, three sides and a dessert, so WalesOnline reporter Cathy Owens tried it out to see if it would feed a family of four.

We used to be big fans of the £10 deal, where you would get a main, two sides and a bottle of wine. It was dine in for two, but there was usually a roast chicken included so it was a deal worth picking up for the four of us.

But as the boys grew, and their appetites expanded at alarming rates, it was not really enough. But this new deal is advertised as being enough to feed a family of four, but would there really be enough for two adults and two teenagers? We put it to the test.

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With grocery bills on the rise, families are always looking out for ways to save, and this definitely seems to be good value for money. At the tills, the checkout staff said that meat alone would have cost £15, and the savings on the whole deal were between £10 and £12.

Meat choices include a roast chicken, slow-cooked lamb shoulder and beef rump, while amongst the sides are beef dripping Yorkshire puddings, braised red cabbage or stuffing.

I knew that everyone would agree on the beef rump, although the lamb looked tempting too, and the chicken was a good size. For the sides I bought the honey glazed carrots, the braised red cabbage and a portion of pigs in blankets because the beef did not look very big. For pudding, I hovered between the key lime cheesecake and the apple pie. The apple pie won the day as it is a firm favourite with everyone, and looked like the