Mother’s Day food ideas: from gifting to dinner recipes

Show Mum some extra appreciation with a day full of thoughtful gifts, delicious food and unforgettable memories. This year, Mother’s Day is on Sunday 15 March. While this isn’t the only day to celebrate your mum or the mother figure in your life, it’s a perfect excuse to show her a little extra love. Get inspired with our Mother’s Day recipes, from brunch to dinner, plus the best treats to spoil her with and plenty of ideas for ways to spend the day.

Sweet treats she’ll love

From something chocolatey to a cheeky tipple, these thoughtful gifts are made to spoil Mum on Mother’s Day.

• All Butter Lemon Shortbread Rounds – Make mum's teatime extra special with these expertly baked biscuits, blending buttery, melt-in-the-mouth shortbread with the vibrant zing of candied lemon peel for a deliciously moreish flavour.

• Collection Marc de Champagne Truffles – decadent Belgian milk chocolate truffles, delicately flavoured with Marc de Champagne and finished with a dusting of pink sugar.

• Collection Choc Full of Love – a quintet of milk, dark, and white chocolates, each luxuriously filled and decorated, and all crafted with smooth, creamy chocolate.

• Choc Marks Love You Bar - It combines creamy milk chocolate with whole hazelnuts, juicy raisins and moreish almond brittle, wrapped in a colourful sleeve.

• Bucks Fizz – Start her day off the right way with a glass of sparkling white wine and orange juice, blended to create a refreshingly light sip.

Cooking from scratch, made easy

If you’re planning a home-cooked celebration, our easy recipes help you create something special without spending all day in the kitchen.

• Giant leek and cauliflower vol au vents – straight from Tom Kerridge's kitchen to yours. Create these crisp, ready-made puff pastry filled with buttery cauliflower and leeks in a creamy cheese sauce.

• A classic roast chicken – a timeless centrepiece, elevated with sweet roasted grapes and golden shallots.

• Beef stroganoff pie – an indulgent treat filled with supremely tender, slow-cooked beef stroganoff and served with creamy greens.

• Cream of mushroom risotto – a comforting veggie option with soft mushrooms and punchy mature cheddar.

• Classic Victoria sponge – fluffy sponge layered with rich buttercream and fruity jam to finish on a sweet note.

Spoil Mum without the splurge by cooking up some easy yet impressive recipes. Our Remarksable Value range in the Foodhall is a great place to start when it comes to stocking up on staples for Mother's Day – think flour, eggs and butter for baking, seasonal veggies for Sunday roast and store cupboard ingredients, all at brilliant-value everyday prices with M&S quality.

Try these affordable recipe ideas:

• Afternoon tea: Treat Mum to some zesty lemon bars or a batch of carrot cake scones with an irresistible cream cheese glaze.

• Breakfast in bed: How about a giant Dutch baby pancake, loaded with spiced apples and pears? Or, if Mum prefers savoury, whip up some cheesy spring onion potato cakes with fried eggs, or giant cheesy breakfast scones.

• Lunch: Make a classic roast dinner with this wallet-friendly recipe, or serve an impressive but affordable mushroom and cheddar soufflé.

• Dessert: Use frozen berries to make this crowd-pleasing self-saucing berry sponge pudding – just add lashings of custard. Or how about a zingy citrus loaf cake with a cuppa?

Chosen by Senior Wine Buyer, Joseph Arthur

For gifting Our Champagne Delacourt Medium Dry Rosé is bubbly, elegant and made to impress. Expect notes of red cherry and pomegranate with a gentle hint of brioche. It comes wrapped in a cute pink sleeve with gold details — perfect for gifting before you’ve even popped the cork.

For afternoon tea Crisp, delicate and dry, Classics Provence Rosé is bursting with strawberry and redcurrant flavours. It pairs well with sandwiches, scones and sweet treats.

For Mother’s Day brunch Classics Beaujolais Villages is fruity, silky and slightly lower in alcohol – ideal for relaxed daytime sipping. Serve lightly chilled with brunch favourites like baked eggs, mushrooms or chicken dishes.

For the Sunday roast Our Classics Valpolicella Ripasso is rich and warming, with layers of dark cherry, ripe plum and spice. Oak-aged and full-bodied, it’s a brilliant partner to a roast dinner with all the trimmings.