I used to go to the supermarket across town on my 140 mph production racer
motorbike (back when that was *fast*) and bring home a couple of shopping
bags full of groceries on it. Then my girlfriend moved in with me and she
used to carry them on the back (which was so funny!). Later I used
backpacks. I still walk to the supermarket and carry a backpack's worth
home, for the exercise, but have been shopping online off and on for close
to a decade now.

However - as you might reasonably guess, what with my general posting
history - I am *very* particular. Probably about everything but especially
about food; and with the biker sensibility regarding being ripped off. So
basically if the food was crap I wouldn't be buying it - and that applies to
nutritional content as well as to more traditional quality.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp

Sainsbury's do annoy the hell out of me at times. Their site seems to be
maintained by someone who changes the layout every few weeks as though we go
there for entertainment and the point of the site is to show how they 'get'
IT. And some weeks ago they dropped Baked In-Store Harvest Grain farmhouse
loaves, though they are still available in the actual stores! You'd think
they were charged for the site a rate dependent on the number of items on
offer.

It's bloody well snowing again!

Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for (well,
after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing. In fact I
think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got fan-tailed prawns
from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from Tesco, actually. Sainsbury's
do the Chilean mussels too, but they're half the price in Tesco. And they do
a very nice Rustic Multigrain baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to have.
Or there's a spaghetti dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli
flakes and pine nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts. The
linguini uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh chives.
Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains garlic).
The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and actually I have
quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to the shops some time in
the week and get the rest.

That is a tasty wine!

An online grocery shopping tip for anyone who's interested. Order deliveries
for around mid-week. At the weekends the shoppers are likely to be students
or other relatively inexperienced types. It is less important if you select
'no substitutes' (That is, if they don't have what you want, they'll give
you something similar. Now, if I wanted something else I'd have ordered it
in the first place. If they don't have what I want I'll either do without or
get what I do want, elsewhere; though 99% of the time they have everything
these days anyway); but substitutes or not you're still more likely to get
what you want - such as a fresher bag of spuds, say, from a shopper who does
it every day.



"webster72n" wrote in message
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Interesting to hear (read) all these personal, yet otherwise public
stories.
Of course we could 'order' our groceries or any other items and have them
delivered as well, here in the States or any other place, I presume.
Only personally I prefer to see what I am getting, most of the time.
Especially with the food being 'contaminated' with all kinds of chemicals
as so-called preservatives or other deadly 'invaders' and to top it off
'eradiated', meaning they are nutritionally 'dead'.
Yet in your case, Joan, you don't have much of a choice, if any.
And that's a pity, I must say.
On the other hand you may have special protection and I certainly hope so.
The best to You and All,

Harry.


"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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I like to see what I'm buying on certain things, which is why I do a
Friday top up shop but that's only for a few things and I have that
delivered g well it's a bit hard trying to carry shopping and use a
walking stick and all on a bus g

The big shop though, tins and frozen don't need to be specially picked
and the shopper always goes for the best date and you're told if it's not
got such a good date as they'd like, you can send it back if you don't
want it and get your money refunded.

I would struggle here without electricity, the village doesn't have mains
gas, I have to heat light and cook with electric, well the heating is oil
but it needs the electric to make it work.
The only problem with using the fire is that it's only heating one room,
all that mess for one room, and I'm mainly down the other end in my
office on the computer so wouldn't get any benefit g

Not sunny here today it's been snowing for most of it g
--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher

"Heather" wrote in message
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How amazing!! You folks get your groceries delivered???? That is so
1950's to us. Mind you, I would be quite happy not to have to go out in
minus 20C weather. We have piped in natural gas for the furnace, so
other than a major explosion somewhere, no problems for heat.

If the hydro (electricity) went down, we would have NO water, furnace or
lights. Happened a few summers ago and we were 4 days without the
above. I think not having hydro was worse than water.........at least I
could buy bottled stuff.

Oh, and can't use our fireplace because in 22 years we have never had a
chimney sweep clean it out and won't use it until we do. 3 doors down
had a fire in the walls caused by the creosote buildup and the idiots
didn't have any insurance. It is MANDATORY if one has a mortgage, so
not sure how they got around that one. As no one seems to be working in
that family, I can only assume they are on Social Assistance (PC word
for welfare).

I could go online and order groceries to be delivered, but somehow just
can't do it. I want to see what I am buying!!

Sunny, but cold here........Heather