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How amazing!! You folks get your groceries delivered???? That is so
1950's to us. No, this is 2000+ deliveries. The 1950 style deliveries had died out by the late 50s early 60s. Year 2000+ deliveries are the result of internet shopping with most of the big supermarkets having on-line sites where most items that are in store can be ordered from the comfort of one's armchair. Happened a few summers ago and we were 4 days without the above. The village where I was living in 1987 went fifteen days without electricity after our pet hurricane which caused significant to many areas in the south east of England. Roads were blocked in my area for weeks although the road to the nearby town was very quickly cleared unlike that to the next village which was impassable for a long time. -- Mike Heather wrote: 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 ... 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 |
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OOPS!! Can you see my red face?? LOL.
I have never thought of ordering online and suppose I would if I broke a leg or some such. Ron does all the shopping anyway. He's getting pretty good at it and enjoys getting out to talk to the "fish lady" and the "veggie guy" and so on. Gawd........retirement is not so hot when the highlight of your social week is talking to the "fish lady"!! (G) Cheers........your backwoods cousin, lol. "Mike M" wrote in message ... How amazing!! You folks get your groceries delivered???? That is so 1950's to us. No, this is 2000+ deliveries. The 1950 style deliveries had died out by the late 50s early 60s. Year 2000+ deliveries are the result of internet shopping with most of the big supermarkets having on-line sites where most items that are in store can be ordered from the comfort of one's armchair. Happened a few summers ago and we were 4 days without the above. The village where I was living in 1987 went fifteen days without electricity after our pet hurricane which caused significant to many areas in the south east of England. Roads were blocked in my area for weeks although the road to the nearby town was very quickly cleared unlike that to the next village which was impassable for a long time. -- Mike Heather wrote: 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 |
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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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 |
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The fish lady comes round here in a van. Used to be 'Tim the Fish' (like
Ivor the Engine) but now his daughter does it, who actually I quite fancy, even if she does smell of fish! Mrs Fish Person is, I think, the correct address in this day and age. See the link in the post responding to Harry's. Though they probably don't deliver to you...yet. "Heather" wrote in message ... OOPS!! Can you see my red face?? LOL. I have never thought of ordering online and suppose I would if I broke a leg or some such. Ron does all the shopping anyway. He's getting pretty good at it and enjoys getting out to talk to the "fish lady" and the "veggie guy" and so on. Gawd........retirement is not so hot when the highlight of your social week is talking to the "fish lady"!! (G) Cheers........your backwoods cousin, lol. "Mike M" wrote in message ... How amazing!! You folks get your groceries delivered???? That is so 1950's to us. No, this is 2000+ deliveries. The 1950 style deliveries had died out by the late 50s early 60s. Year 2000+ deliveries are the result of internet shopping with most of the big supermarkets having on-line sites where most items that are in store can be ordered from the comfort of one's armchair. Happened a few summers ago and we were 4 days without the above. The village where I was living in 1987 went fifteen days without electricity after our pet hurricane which caused significant to many areas in the south east of England. Roads were blocked in my area for weeks although the road to the nearby town was very quickly cleared unlike that to the next village which was impassable for a long time. -- Mike Heather wrote: 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 |
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"Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message ... 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. Insanely revealing, but interesting all around, "Lewis". To your health and your girlfriend's and your cat's. Harry, aka 'Winnie the Poo'. "webster72n" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 |
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Insanely revealing What, you mean about the garlic? Dai's brother "webster72n" wrote in message ... "Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message ... 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. Insanely revealing, but interesting all around, "Lewis". To your health and your girlfriend's and your cat's. Harry, aka 'Winnie the Poo'. "webster72n" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 |
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"Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message ... 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! If you truly cook all of those things, I do have a spare room here. You probably have Sir Michael (the gourmand) absolutely drooling!! XX Figgs |
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UK from space, all snow covered
As Figgs says (or meant to say), Yum, yum!
-- Mike Dai Artichoke-Lewis wrote: 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. |
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