Foolish supermarket purchase

KerryS that is my favourite post! The solitary sausage !

Banana cake as well as bread is really nice.

I thought I was ordering one kilo of Brussels from Sainsbury’s!

Best accidental online order was my friend. Shewas always ditzy which we loved about her, and she happily admitted it, but never more so than the day she ran round to me crying with laughter.
It was the early days of Ebay, and she had decided on getting a lovely lamp for her bedroom.
She said she had found a real bargain, for £1.50, and she couldn't wait, better than charity shops she exclaimed!
Until it turned up and it was for a dolls house.
She hadn't bothered reading the print, had bought it so fast before anyone else snapped up her 'find of the century!'
It almost killed me when she bought it down the Legion in her purse a week later...I was crying!!

Not a supermarket but a well known auction site; my friend ordered a beautiful hand made chest of drawers. She couldn’t believe how inexpensive it was, only £50.
She excitedly waited in for the delivery to be handed a very small box by the courier- it was for a doll’s house!
She has it artful displayed! ??
(The dimensions were clearly stated in the listing ??‍♀️)

Cross posted with Maggie May - same friend??!!

When I let my 2ic do the end of year order he ordered 300 exercise books, not realising he'd ordered 300 packs of 20! Luckily the company took therm back.

My daughter ordered 8 mushrooms (the large ones for stuffing). When her delivery came the delivery driver asked her if she really wanted 8 packs of mushrooms!

Beanie654321

Bananas make a wonderful ice cream. Banana cookies are lovely and chewy. Xx

Oooo Beanie, recipe please?

Remind me not to do online deliveries Goodness knows how many fillet steaks I'd end up with.

It was in a newspaper not long ago that M&S were going to begin a delivery service----oh I hope so because I'd have no qualms about that. They'd be rushed off their feet !

As others have said, the substitutions can be quite amusing. In fact, if something goes out of stock between your first making the order and then deciding to add to it, you are shown 'suggested' alternatives (on Tesco's site, anyway).

A few weeks back, I had initially put flour in my trolley. A few days later it was out of stock and the suggested substitution was a packet of lemon cake mix. Of all the thousands of things that I might have wanted to make with the flour, why did it pick that one? Of course, if I had actually been planning to use it for a lemon cake, I would have wondered how on earth they had known, and if my tablet was bugged!

I ordered online for myself and a couple of neighbours who both have dogs and were shopping for the month. The delivery driver was a bit nervous as obviously though I was hiding a pack of dogs somewhere in my house!

At wrk I ordered a ball of string from our central stationery store for our office. I was expecting something the size of a satsuma but it was the size of a football! We couldn’t stop laughing!

My best (worst) ever and I apologise if you have heard this before was several Christmases ago when I put together a huge Ocado order well in advance to be delivered on the 23rd
At some point I decided I wanted to add things to it so I went onto the site to “Edit” my order and could not find it anywhere I panicked because there was no way I could do a big pre-Christmas shop on my own and we were going to be 14 or more on the day. There were no more delivery slots available before Christmas so I thought I would just try Waitrose and to my huge relief there was a slot for something like the 22nd so I put together virtually the same order as I had for Ocado, and relaxed
On the Sunday before Christmas, my Waitrose order arrived,
Good
Blow me, the next day there was a ring at the door and the Ocado man was there with my original order!
I could have opened my own shop with all the mince pies double cream, smoked salmon, brandy butter, potatoes, alcohol, soft drinks, Brussels, carrots, satsumas, cranberries, eggs, croissants etc etc etc.
Fortunately it was a cold Christmas so the veggies could all go into big plastic boxes in the garage and I had two fridges and two freezers, but even so, we were eating “Festive Fare” until the end of January!

Real tonic, this post! maggic s solitary sprout reminds me of the time I made a similar mistake - it was for Christmas lunch, we all love sprouts, so I cooked our one, scattered a few almonds (fished out of a bag of mixed nuts) over and served it up with a flourish and much ceremony. That Xmas is always referred to as The Christmas of the Sprout.
And then the single sausage? I wonder if the picker got a mental image of a little stooped over penshner carefully counting out her pension to pay for her shopping (I may be over-thinking this, cos this mythical penshner has iron grey hair scraped back into a bun, steel rimmed glasses and a floral pinny. Poor love's got varicose veins too..)

@ MawB

Alishka - it wouldn't have been so bad, but we had 5 kids and the order was a very big one, as 5 teenagers eat an awful lot, so I have no idea what may have been going through their mind with the solitary sausage!! Ha ha!
And substitutions?!!!! Last Xmas I ordered 6 tubs of ready made turkey gravy as there's a lot of us and I'm dreadful at gravy, but they substituted it with 6 of the largest Chicken Bisto granules. That, I thought, was overkill, but luckily you don't have to accept substitutes, so I returned 4!
When the kids still lived at home, my husband offered to go shopping for a couple of things we were out of, including carrots, and when he came back he gave me a bag with 2 carrots inside!! 'Well, that's enough for one child, what about the rest of us?', I said!!! I learnt that day, always to give him exact instructions!

Make ice cream. One tin condensed milk, one carton of double cream (similar quantity to the condensed milk) Whip the 2 together then ad mashed banana and mix. Pour into a carton and freeze. No need to take of the freezer and stir. The last batch I made was with a jar of home made marmalade. The next batch will have a jar of my homemade apricot jam. The flavouring can be almost anything that you want. You can also substitute the condensed milk for the version that is cooked and salty. It looks caramelised in the jar.

Mauriherb. Now we know where all the toilet rolls went! ?

Ordering groceries online gets me in a real tizwaz.
I suppose when wandering around with a trolley in the olden days, you could see exactly what you had picked up.

I nearly cancelled last week's order by mistake instead of adding to it.

I've made icecream like that, Dinahmo but not added flavourings, just vanilla essence.
Next time I'll try that.

Don’t feel alone. On my first Sainsbury delivery I ordered 4kilos of bananas instead of four bananas - lots of banana bread and happy neighbours!

Never will l shop on line. I simply do not trust myself, but as to the bananas......
Put them dry and unpeeled onto a grill pan.
Grill them until the skin turns black (doesn't take long), turn them over and grill the other side.
Place them on a shallow bowl and slit their bellies open, then pour in some Banana Liqueur, onto the hot banana.
Followed by a good application of fresh cream into the open skin, and if you really want to go for it, a dollop of ice cream on the side.
Eat with a dessert spoon, and start planning your diet immediately..... ?

Make a v shaped groove along the length of the banana. Put chocolate buttons along the length. Wrap in foil and bake or put on the barbecue. i love these but my OH detests bananas so can't be bothered making them just for me. I'll eat my homemade ice cream instead.

Loving the banana recipes!