What am I meant to drink now?

Joking apart, if you want a few food and drink bits delivered to you, deliveroo will deliver an order from your nearest M&S. There is a small selection, so not everything they sell. You can get free delivery for the first 14 days. Just google it, and all the stuff comes up...

Sainsbury's order was a disaster, apart from the substitutions and no bottled water, the bottles of milk had obviously not been sealed properly and had leaked onto every item of food. All paper and cardboard was saturated and you know what milk smells like after an hour or two.
I didn't even try for toilet rolls, pasta or rice thank goodness.

Makes me wonder about my delivery on Saturday. I have only had one inappropriate substitute. Atora suet instead of yeast.

There’s no excuse for supermarkets to run out of ‘essentials’. They knew about problems from the last lockdown, and should have been prepared for this one. I had no problems with Waitrose last time so don’t expect problems this time.

Got a Sainsbury's delivery tomorrow. Daren't check it - there are several bottles of wine on it! We like their house wines. Did a subscription with a company but too expensive for us as we do like a glass most nights.

woodmouse First time I've seen someone with similar name.

I use click and collect. Both Sainsbury's and Tesco have upgraded at no extra cost when they don't have something. You have to tick substitutions are ok and then you have the choice to refuse them when you collect or get delivered.

cabbie 21
That’ll keep you going.

lol thank you for the laugh!

That nice Irish shopkeeper Mr O’ Cado delivered a lovely bottle of Laphroaig last night - I’d try him next time.

I always get my delivery from Tesco. Just once during lockdown, they substituted Tena pads and sent me mouthwash instead. It certainly got me laughing, when the delivery driver told me, he was young and asked what Tena pads were. When I told him lady things he was a bit speechless, bless him.

Waitrose have 25% off wine at the moment

Seems like there are advantages to not having home deliveries available here. We can still do our own picking.

I ordered a beer 6-pack which they substituted for a 15-pack, same price. Should I complain? ?

May I suggest ( for those of you with a local store) that you contact your local Co-op. Our local branches have a home delivery service. You ring up the store, speak to a real person and give them your order. This includes alcohol. They pick the order, ring you back and take payment over the phone. They should tell you if they are out of anything so no nasty surprises. They will also deliver.

Drink Gin

Try M&S Earl Grey with a dash of edible lavender oil - reviving and much better than any wine/alcohol.

Oh dear! We are going to pick up our first Sainsburys click and collect order tomorrow.
I was not offered the 'no substitution' choice so I am now dreading what I will be given!

BTW - we only have Sainsburys Red Label tea bags - I hope they haven't run out of them?

Lol and yet again, the only one here who hates wine, think its horrible...and the more expensive it is, the worse it tastes lol. And I went and won a years worth of free wine a few years back too!
No, give me a bottle of advocaat for snowballs or whisky to make an irish coffee, and I'm your gal lol. Caramel rum is also lovely in me coffee!
ooh and best substitute for my daughter was when she had ordered some workbooks or, writing pads, for school, and got sanitary pads.
Not that easy to write on apparently....lol

The best place for tea and coffee is J Atkinson of China Street, Lancaster. They do mail order but if you can get to the shop that is an amazing experience. The basic Lancaster Blend, which <cough> has to beat anything from beyond the Pennines, is £7.50 for 250g which is more than PG Tips but this is quality! Alternatively they will do you Silver Needles, a white tea, for £12.00. For 50g. That's £240 a kilo.

For wine what you need is the Wine Society. It's a members club not a subscription service so you have to pay a membership fee, £40 I think, to join but once you're in you get half of that back of your first order and there are no obligations to buy a whole case, or even at all. The Society's Prosecco at £9.50 a bottle? They don't mind if you just order one bottle. A nice bottle of Domaine Denis Mortet Mazis Chambertin GC 2015 to go with the turkey? a snip at £595!

On the other hand, Aldi do a lovely Crémant du Jura, as good as any prosecco.

There is no point suggesting places with 'good' wine. My wine of choice is Sainsbury's own Reisling at £5.25 a bottle. It fairly sweet. They have substituted it previously for the next one up, as it were, but I find that too dry. That's why I ask for no subs.

My DH makes his own wine from the fruit we ( I) have grown in the garden. Only trouble is it won’t be ready for 12 months as it has to “mature”

I could not get my usual PG Tips so bought PG Tips gold, a little dearer but only works out an extra couple of pounds a month. I will not go back to the ordinary one now, what a difference.

Makes me wonder about other brands that I have stuck to for years assuming I like those best.

Nice one C21 .?

I'm glad my Tesco Christmas wine stock arrived safely yesterday

Back in the first lockdown, when I was only having one delivery a fortnight, I was badly caught out one time when not a drop of the milk I had ordered was available (I was freezing half the milk so it would last the two weeks), and even though I allow substitutions, they brought no alternative!
Very fortunately, DS1 was able to get some for us and leave it at our door.

Are you not offered substitutes? You don’t have to accept them.
I breathed a sigh of relief this morning when my Ocado order arrived with no missing items and no substitutes. I wonder how long that will last?

MaggieMay69 - You aren't the only one who has no interest in wine. The only way I drink it is with lemonade. I just don't get what people see in it. My favourite drinks are Whisky and Diet Coke or Southern Comfort and Lemonade.........but to be honest I have no idea when I last had an alcoholic drink. Maybe 22 July on my daughter's birthday!