Foolish supermarket purchase

Luckily I haven't made huge mistakes but my DIL received a garlic bulb instead of oranges on one of her orders. I do not get chance to check my orders as the delivery driver usually puts the bags on the doorstep and is gone. A couple of weeks ago I had two bags left which were not mine. Someone was short of yoghurts, almond milk, bread and some veg. I tried to ring but no one came back for them.

Thank you for all the ideas of what to do with excess bananas.

sorry pressed too soon-didn't cook up---!

I think some of the "substitute" stories are the best.
One of my friends ordered mushrooms but they obviously ran out because they sent her instead those chewy marshmallow-y mushroom shaped sweets.--didn't cook up very well for the omelette though.

Midgey that reminds me of my sandwiches my mother used to make me for my school pack lunch, mashed banana sandwiches. Yuk. I used to swap with my friend that had fish paste sandwiches.

I mistakenly ordered a HUGE sack of dog food for working dogs for my little chihuahua and yorkie.
They love it by the way! ?

I ordered cat litter tray liners but what arrived was a pack of ladies panty liners!

A few weeks ago I ordered cooking oil but did not check the amount and a 2 litre bottle arrived. It will not need to be replaced for a very long time.

I bought a "bargain" bar of chocolate but it was so thin no wonder it was so cheap.

My supermarket will not take back any items not wanted at present so I must be extra careful. Bargain prices usually mean tiny objects.

I had to use delivered shopping a few years ago when I broke some bones in my foot & was in plaster for 6 weeks so no driving.
I hated online shopping. The delivery man was delightful
& insisted on bringing it all into the kitchen for me but I never got exactly what I had ordered. It made me laugh what they thought were good 'swops'. Now if I had got Gin instead of Jif I might have been converted!
Mind you I am may be odd as I actually love doing the weekly shop.

Spiced banana chutney.
???

if you notice your mistake when tescos deliver you can hand back to your driver for a credit..... (I don't know about other stores)

I did the same thing with carrots on my first online shop - thought I had ordered a bag and got just one carrot.
Did you know you can freeze bananas? They are lovely dipped in chocolate first and if you put them on a stick, you can eat them like a freeze pop or ice lolly!
Or freeze them and use later on for more banana cake in the winter when a bit of summer sunshine will be welcome . Tescos have a recipe on their website for banana cake made with frozen bananas in their skins!

When the bananas are ripe and sweet, chop them into pieces and freeze. You can then whizz them up and no kidding, it’s just like banana ice cream but fewer calories.

I find my mistakes, quite similar to those mentioned above,
are made because I am so darn nervous in placing the order in time..

nerves!!! slow down!

This, to me, is the funniest Gransnet we've had certainly since I have joined and has made me laugh so much. The only wrong delivery I had was when Cif was called Jif. I ordered 2 Jifs, over the phone, and got 2 bottles of GIN!! Did I keep them?...well that is my secret!

You must have seen them when they were delivered . You can give them to the delivery man back for a refund.

When this happens, I nip round the local food bank and donate any extras. So far, we've received 4 bags of apples, a whole box of individually wrapped packs of biscuits and some posh conserve, together with several random items, all of which went to the food bank.

I once ordered a swiss roll, 24 arrived, another time the store checked with me as to whether I really wanted 99 bunches of bananas! At the start of lockdown, when only 2 of anything was allowed, I thought it meant packs of things, so ordered 4 carrots, but was only allowed 2!

I don’t have the recipe but you can make Banana jam which needs about 2lbs of bananas.

Glad I'm not the only one who gets online orders wrong. I thought I'd ordered 1 bunch of bananas but I got 1 banana! And somehow I ordered 2 huge bags of carrots. Gave one bag away.
I'm more careful now

Slice the bananas and freeze in single portions - you can eat from the freezer, just like ice cream!

janeainsworth

Fry your bananas in butter & then add rum

Alternatively, leave in their 'jackets', slit them open, pour in some rum and a teaspoon of brown sugar.
Bake in the oven, eat with a teaspoon!

I ordered 4 parsnips - a normal amount but each one would have fed a family of 6.

Bottles of Sauvignon Blanc were 4 for the price of 3.
However, I failed to notice the size or price - each bottle was a glass full.

A friend thought she ordered 7 bananas, but 7 bunches arrived. The driver greeted her with the question, “Do you have a monkey living here?” He took 6 bunches back.

Grandmasu you've really made me laugh with the leeks tale

Glad that others have done the same MamaCaz....I don’t feel as bad about it now.?

lemongrove

GrandmaSue I think many people have made mistakes with online shopping also there’s the fact that you can’t see sizes easily, recently I ordered a pack of flour and also some hairspray, and when they arrived they were tiny !

I have done that too, with exactly the same items, and unfortunately it was when doing my mum's online shop, not my own.
Worse still was the bottle of whiskey (only put in the trolley to make the order up to Morrison's minimum spend of £40), as I had failed to notice that its very low price was due to its equally dainty size!

You can have banana sandwiches! Nothing more delicious whether you could mash or just slice. ? Yum!