In this pandemic times, grocery delivery keeps us safe, and the essential workers are saving lives. That said, with the sheer volume of online orders, mishaps happen and the lack of availability sometimes results in some hilarious substitutions.
What I ordered
What I got
What I ordered
What I got
What I ordered
What I got
Not sure how that last one happened. They won’t take it back because of COVID.
So what have you shopped for lately?
Chopsticks! Hate the sound of metal clinking, so I’m trying to find some comfortable wooden pairs.
I got these off of Amazon – they’re sturdy, well made, and the wood is smooth. I chose the Maneki Neko ones but I’m sure they probably have other designs ????.
Would help if I posted the link, wouldn’t it… ????????♀️
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0128UU2N4/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_i_2sWKFbMYWJQG1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
My at home chopsticks are some lacquered ones I’ve had forever, and a few hand painted pairs I’ve gotten as gifts over the years.
But I picked up these for my use when I’m at work or out and about, maybe fifteen years ago, and they’ve been great.
https://www.rei.com/product/129701/snow-peak-wabuki-chopsticks
Yes! I’ve been using these for 15+ years. I absolutely love them!
Masks and mask lanyards. How many masks can a six-year-old lose? The limits have not yet been reached.
Masks are to COVID what mittens are to winter.
I installed a key holder rack right by the door with enough hooks for everyone (although masks do touch if you’re worried about cross contamination. In most of those cases it goes in a laundry pile or the garage). It’s been really helpful for keeping them corralled and reducing losses.
Put a string through them just like mittens around your neck !
am already doing the key holder by the door, but with no youngsters running around me (much), I never would have thought of lanyards. And yes, I ordered some to try out 🙂 Thanks for the tip.
Love this blog for Ilona’s posts, Gordon’s ripostes and the Horde’s tips 🙂
We have 3 coat racks filled with masks for everyone. We have a separate bag in the laundry room for washing them. My kids still have in person school 5 days a week and gym every other day. And the daughter has eczema so she has to change masks at least 4 times a day, my other two after gym or heavy sweating.
But its not the 6 year old that loses masks. Its the 14 and 17 yr old. Ive told them any more masks lost and I will start charging them, these things are not as cheap as they think.
wait what is this microwave sugar pumpkin recipe you speak of?
(I’m sure you knew it was coming, but I really want to know! There’s a sugar pumpkin sitting on my kitchen table right now that can totally fit in the microwave 😛 )
I slice mine in half and cook them on medium high for about 5 min depending on the size. In the centre of each you can put a little water or butter to help with the cooking. Once they’re done, fill each half with a filling. Quick and easy: baked beans or creamed corn. They are also great with minced meat dishes like chilli or Bolognese or some nice cous cous. Or with butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove etc.
I think some of the online orders at my local grocery store are filled by 16 year old clerks who don’t cook. That’s based on some of the kind of wackadoodle substitutions I’ve received (or failed to receive), like:
– ordered: 2 zucchini. received: 2 cucumbers.
– ordered: sun dried tomatoes. received: salad dressing.
– ordered: a pint of buttermilk. received: a gallon of buttermilk.
– ordered: 2 cans of X brand corn. They said there was no substitute for the corn.
– ordered: a carton of Y brand chocolate ice cream. They said there was no substitute chocolate ice cream.
I like to imagine a kid doing his best to figure out what I want, and then making these choices. It is kind of charming to me.
Zan if it is anything like how Walmart does substitutions they are suggested by the operating system that is used to pick the items. One of the best ones I’ve seen this week on the Walmart Associates Facebook page was to substitute a red bell pepper for a dozen roses.
Wow, the red pepper for roses substitution! That’s pretty funny! Are they just messing with us?
Walmart has by far been the simplest and most accurate here. And Kroger has been pretty accurate, although less popular items tend to be “out of stock” — which usually isn’t true; if I park and go in the store the items will be on the shelves, but the rep I guess just couldn’t find it.
It’s our small, super-local chain that I want to support but their curbside order picking is the grocery roulette that gives me the beets-for-leeks kind of surprises.
HEY! They both have 2 ‘e’s in the middle! What more could you want?
I’m pleased with Walmart’s curbside delivery. The first order, I was surprised to find 2 cartons of lactose free milk in addition to the milk I ordered. No charge was made, soI just kept the extra milk as they don’t accept returns.
Apart from that bonus glitch, they had to substitute items on my last 2 orders. I was notified in advance, given the option of saying yea or nay. In one case, the substitute was a more expensive item and was charged the lower price. In my last order, the substitute was a less expensive item and I was charged less.
The orders have all been ready within the time frame, and I received a text notification that it was ready. I arrive at the beginning of the time frame so my groceries don’t have to wait on me and am rereading sweep of the blade on my phone as I wait for the order is ready text. No fuss, mask free and stress free experience.
+1 on Kroger. I don’t allow them to do subs anymore. Like you, I just park and go in the store to find what they couldn’t. I figured it’s still less time in the store than if I shopped the entire list.
Their reasoning in substituting red bell peppers is that if you stick them on a skewer and they make a pretty bouquet?
Not sure actually. The joke on our Facebook page was they were both organic.
Zan – this is hilarious. I often have to identify fruits and vegetables to teenaged cashiers… and sometimes, the curious teenager will ask what they are, how you cook them and what they taste like. It can be charming.
I have to help my younger co-workers with the exotic fruits and vegetables at my store. I’m not from Northern Indiana where I live and am well acquainted with the Hispanic and Asian fruits and vegetables that have them pulling their hair out just trying to identify them. Like the Jicama that one of them was trying to find this afternoon as I walked through produce at lunch and the department worker was no help. I actually taught both of them a lesson about them.
The sweet potatoes are not a problem, slice, blanch and freeze. Do the about the same with the pumpkin. Cut, microwave, scoop and freeze.
But I am not sure what to do with the drain sticks. No matter how long you marinate them they are not going to be tender.
Trade you for my eight bags of onions I got rather then the one Bermuda I ordered.
(Yep, Cut, blanch and freeze).
If you cook the sticks in the oven long enough, they’ll get pretty tender…you could even say they melt in your mouth. Can’t do much about the taste though…maybe the right marinade?
Bless your sense of humor–all of you! I’m with you in spirit on cut, blanch, freeze. But my big garden has put freezer space at a premium. The sweets can go in a cupboard and will be just fine for months. The large pumpkin likely won’t taste very good. I’d say, woo, hoo! an extra jack-o-lantern. The onions also do fine for a long time in a cupboard–if they’re a storage onion. If not, cut, blanch, freeze indeed! I too am stumped about the drain sticks, but at least they don’t take refrigerator space.
That’s what I was thinking. It’s probably not a sugar pumpkin, but just a decorative one…
The pumpkin will be ok for quite a long time sitting in cool room. Maybe pantry? Ilona, please remember, how they make pumpkin in russia. So can some. In slightly sweet marinade with cinnamon. Goes well with meat dishes. And was a treat during my soviet childhood
or lots and lots of French Onion soup!! which is what i did with the extra onions. after a while i started adding small meatballs to the soup and roasting them together in the oven for a while, yummy!
I thought you were going to say you received way more packaged onion soup mix than you ordered, which happened to me. I thought I was ordering 2 pkgs and received 2 cartons of them from Amazon. Lots of meatloaf and over steak in our future.
Labor Day weekend:
What I ordered:
5 cobs of corn for the grill
What I got:
5 large bags of frozen corn
corn chowder, or ham and corn chowder, or clam chowder with lots of corn in it too! or corn bread, the possibilities are endless! i’m on a soup kick these days.
The last one was too funny but at least drain sticks are useful.
I just bought a new phone. I have a 2009 Samsung flip phone Love it. However it has to be retired. The power button is stuvpck. Like a turtle it decided to go into its shell and not come out. Can’t turn it on/off anymore.
So I did a ton of research. Found a 2019 Nokia phone online at Walmart that I liked. 4G LTE, dual SIM card, unlocked, global etc. Bought it, it arrived and I opened the box. The instructions are in Thai only. Okay …. then the plug for the charger is a European plug with a US adapter. Then I try to find a carrier – no USA carrier is compatible with this model. European only apparently. So back it will go and I’ll be out the restocking fee. Will try my luck with a Moto G7 Play from Best Buy now. I hate technology – or at least shopping for it ????
Everything else is coming as ordered, thank goodness ????
I have a Motorola G7 and like it. I’ve had it for over a year with no problems. I bought it on prime day for $200 brand new.
I have the Moto g(7) Power and love it. Broke first one, went out and got another one. (Not meant to have a car roll over it, who woulda thought?)
Glad to hear you two like your G7 phones. Thanks for letting me know. ????
Blackberry forever: best smart phone 🙂
Love that real keyboard.
Drain sticks are useful.
Stay well everyone!
Thank you again to Ilona and Gordon for wonderful writing!
I snorted with laughter when I saw the last one!
I’ve been doing a lot of keto baking lately, so have been stocking up on eggs, butter, almond flour, and different Swerve sweeteners.
Back in March or April, I picked up my grocery order (all contactless, I pop the hood and wait inside my car while they load the groceries) and almost cried when I discovered that they were out of rotisserie chicken and butter. At the time, it was hard to get a pick-up time slot so I knew it would be another 10 to 14 days before I’d be able to try to get those items. Sadly, I’m not exaggerating.
I’m happy to report orders can now be filled with 24 hours again.
Haha once we asked for 3 prices of ginger and they gave us 3 lbs of ginger.
Worked out well in the end though, made some delicious ginger recipes
I keep receiving ginger with my Misfits Market box. What are some good ginger recipes?
Soups are great, coconut and carrot and ginger soup. Work used to have a delicious Caribbean coconut and ginger soup in the canteen.
Hmm I eat it a lot so would prob throw some into any recipe I was cooking.
Could try pickled for a Japanese twist or even sweet …wonder how easy it would be to make ginger beer (uk here, different flavour to the American ginger ale).
That does remind me that I meant to buy a big jar of vinegar to pickle the beetroot I accidentally grew in my wild flower patch (a seed dump of various stashed seeds, in the spring into a cleared patch that I wanted to grow a mini wildflower meadow in).
Ginger is great in stir fry. Here is one of my favorite. It’s vegan but you can sub beef for seitan – the sauce is yummy.
https://yupitsvegan.com/mongolian-seitan-vegan-beef/
Yes, you can put Ginger in Asian Food and it is delicious, but I don’t know why you would want to do that when you could make gingerbread. If you Google it you can find the gingerbread recipe that uses black pepper, fresh grated ginger, and stout beer. It is to die for! With lemon sauce and real whipped cream…mmm
Ginger is really good in a lemon ginger tea sweetened with honey. I also like making a “green and ginger” smoothie similar to Jamba Juice’s. Or grate the ginger and add it to a balsamic vinegar reduction and serve with chicken or vanilla ice cream.
Another thing to try is spicy ginger syrup.
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipes/13163-spicy-ginger-syrup
Ginger Shot (Immune system booster) – very easy to make.
You take approximately 200g ginger,
rinse under faucet,
slice it up and dump in pot.
Add about 2 L water and maybe 2-3 tablespoons of sugar. (you really don’t need much).
Bring to boil, and let it simmer for about 20 minutes.
Turn off the heat, but leave everything in the pot overnight.
Next morning, drain and fill cleaned bottles with the Ginger Shot.
It’ll keep about 2-3 weeks in refrigerator.
Ginger is vital in chai. Mmmm. Fresh chai, where you control how sweer you make it. Warm and cozy in chilly days.
You could make a basic paste for curries, half ginger, half garlic, fried in ghee.
When I have extra I take off the skin, dice to 1/4 inch cubes or so and the Freeze them in a baggie I suck the air out of. Then use the ginger for shakes or just about anything.
It does freeze pretty well. I simply give it a good scrub, leaving the skin on, make sure it’s completely dry and tick it in a ziploc bag in the freezer. You can peel it too if you prefer. It can then be grated when frozen – I use a zester – and used in recipes. It makes great tea with a bit of lemon and honey, particularly beneficial during cold and flu season or to help settle an icky tummy. The only downside of freezing it is that it can be a bit mushy when it thaws completely, so it’s better to chop or grate it while it’s still a bit frozen.
I ordered a vacuum cleaner online. What I received was 24 cans of pinto beans for burrito filling. I still can’t stop laughing about it.
Was this from a grocery store???? What retailer did this? Hahahaha this is the funniest one yet!
This is hilarious. We must know more. What brand were you ordering? What brand of beans did you receive? How can one confuse these two items???
Sorry, guys, it was Amazon, which went to a different provider who then subcontracted it out to someone else to fulfill. It was just too funny not to share. And they were Goya Pinto beans with pork burrito filling. AND in the end they made me send them back. LOL!
That last item is too much!! LOL!!!
Early on when I was ordering for delivery, I was so impressed by how my orders came out just as I requested. Once I even had the person filling my order call me to ask if certain substitutions were acceptable.
They are hard working folks doing the best they can. 🙂
I ordered 10 pounds of potatoes, got 10 small quarter sized potatoes that a person could eat in one meal.
You can plant the sweet potatoes and harvest the leaves for stirfry 🙂
You can plant a whole sweet potato??? And eat the leaves?? Are they bitter? Wow, today I learned.
Not bitter at all. You can even use it raw for salad. Slight sliminess. But we only eat the young leaves.
I have small children. Lots of them. I LOVE GROCERY PICKUP AND DELIVERY!!! I mean, I cannot speak enough about how it has changed my life that I’m not having to drag littles in a store weekly. I feel like a blessed princess. Obviously, it sucks that so much of the grocery improvements in our rural area are bc of a pandemic. So thankful for my grocery workers!!
That said, I get strange subs all the time. Like they were out of hot dog buns, so they gave me brioche rolls.
I ordered curry and got poultry seasoning.
Missing: Bag of lemons
Added: Angus steaks
Me: ???
Everything else switched out is usually because they can’t find the brand/flavor/scent, so I look at online grocery orders as not guaranteed that I’ll get exactly what I ordered and just expect to try new things. Usually not too bad.
I ordered half a kilo of short cut bacon and got 5 kilos (it came in a box).
I ordered a bag of small brown onions and they were all the size of big oranges.
The best however was the order that never came at all. Our supermarket takes a photo of your delivery sitting outside your front door to prove delivery and they sent me the photo to prove my order had been delivered and I pointed out it wasn’t my front door.
Oh wow! Similar story about a mis-delivery. BFF texts me to ask if I have my birthday present. Nope, not there.
Can you please check, she asks, delivery person says delivered to porch and sent photo.
I ask to see photo – it’s not my porch. BUT I can tell it’s my neighbor’s. But, not on her porch either.
Neighbour comes out, hears my story, goes back in to check her deliveries for the day. Nope.
I show photo to neighbor’s spouse – bingo! They recognized photo as being near their trash cans.
There, in top of their trash can, was my package. And: It was trash pickup day. I was lucky there!
I do a lot of curb side pickup. Recently one of my orders was broken into two parts with one part going to a store in another state (500 miles away).
Everthing had been ordered and paid for at the same time but for some reason part of the order was received by my usual store in South Carolina and the rest was received by a store in Maryland.
Ordered baby formula once and got a box of four baby mush packets. I still ponder the train of thought on that one. At least mush packets keep forever so they made a nice starter stash for three months later when my little one was old enough for them!
Those drain sticks are super handy! Especially if you have long hair. They’ve saved me many a call to the plumber. Not sure how that translated from chicken though…
Yes! I actually ordered some drain sticks as my hair is getting long.
I ordered 2 units of grapes. I thought it would be maybe 4 lbs. It was 2 large bags of grapes.
I wish the contactless pickup orders were just all in brown paper bags or other recyclable packaging. I am not a huge fan of the silver disposable cooler bags they tend to use for anything chilled and produce. It can’t be recycled.
I agree. But I reuse the silver bubble bags for packing items to be shipped. Maybe an online seller in your neighborhood could use them?
Great idea! I still have some bubble wrap but plenty of items to list on eBay. I was thinking of recycling the bags as gift wrap and using some nice reusable ribbon and it is well suited for transit packing since most things will get shipped or dropped off.
Thanks!
ordered Tylonal Day/Night Cold relief, got generic Aleve, at least the were the same size
Oh and once they left my 75 dollar order on the side walk of an empty office building 10 blocks away, it was near a University, so you know how that worked out
I ordered eggs and berries recently and the delivery person broke every single egg in the same bag as the cartons of berries. That was a fun bag to open.
Chandra that wasn’t the delivery person’s complete fault. That is probably how they received the bag to bring it to you since the delivery person doesn’t pick the order.
And believe me when I say people these days do not know how to bag groceries. I’m a cashier at Walmart myself and there will be days when I have a line into our softlines (clothing) department and the other cashiers will have maybe 2 people in line. That is simply because I know HOW to bag things right and even if they do they won’t.
I appreciate how Walmart’s curbside service labels the bags needing special treatment with labels like FRAGILE or FROZEN. I think that helps avoid messes like mashed eggs & berries.
I was a grocery cashier back in the day, and our training included videos on how to bag items appropriately. Poor bagging drives me nuts, and I still unload my cart onto the belt in the order items should be bagged and reloaded into the cart. It helps but doesn’t overcome a truly clueless bagger.
I’m not surprised customers prefer your checkout line.
I unload my cart in the order I want them bagged also. Most bagging is just common sense like not putting something heavy on a loaf of bread, for example… but I make it less likely to happen by putting bread, buns, etc., on the conveyor belt last and it has worked well for me. Once in a while I will make a request like bagging fresh dill separate since it has a strong smell/flavor and I do not want it affecting other items… I learned that long ago the hard way.
I bag everything with a strong odor separately from all other items. I won’t put cleaning chemicals with food and don’t put bug killers with anything even cleaning chemicals. Cold goes with cold, hot with hot, and warm shelf items are sorted by what they are. Meaning cans go with cans, boxes with boxes, and fragile items go together. I’ve had managers ask why I’m so careful and I just point out most of our older and elderly customers want to know my schedule so they can plan shopping around me being there.
It really bothers me when the cashier puts fresh produce with frozen especially lettuce. I try to keep them separate, but sometimes they still reach for something not even close to have enough in the bag.
Thank you for being so thoughtful!
I do the same: order of go.
What gets me is raw chicken, etc. getting dumped on top of the immediately edible (fruit, cookies, etc.). At that point, I politely but firmly insist on a replacement.
And this was at Whole Foods, where stuff is expensive… I think it was reasonable to expect a decent level of carefulness re food safety …
Raw meat and eggs should go separately. Ditto for cleaning chemicals.
I’ve gotten to the point that as I shop, I put the items in reusable bags and then just put the bag on the belt. I keep an empty one for the cashier to fill as they scan everything.
And it might not even have been the packer — when we shop in person, I ALWAYS open and check the cartons of eggs, and sometimes have to go through quite a few before finding one with 6 unbroken, uncracked eggs. That’s first: 6 eggs, then: in good shape. If the packers aren’t doing that, you’ll end up with orders like yours.
Thank you for the great laugh! The poor pickers have no idea how to buy groceries for me. Out of a 30 item order, 10 were “out of stock” (they weren’t, because I went to the store the next day and bought them), 5 were subbed out with things that I didn’t want/couldn’t eat. Substitutions for my orders have included a 1# jicama ordered – 5# jicama arrived, cress ordered – raddicho arrived, delicata ordered – spaghetti squash arrived. But none of that compares to chicken thighs being swapped out for drain cleaners.
LOL well we didn’t have those kind of mishaps but we had substitutions if they didn’t have a certain item, which they were upfront about during the ordering process. Like instead of sending us frozen peas, we’d get frozen green beans. Or instead of Lactaid milk, they’d send us the store brand non-lactose milk.
On the plus side you can make a million sweet potato pies. Or just give some to your neighbors. We gave our cleaning lady some apples after I came back with a million apples from apple picking in the Catskills. She was thrilled!
Ohhh my. I have 1 pound of yeast. Almost 400 Rice Krispy treats. Ordered 3 bunches of carrots and ended up with 3 carrots.
I accidently double ordered the same Costco order 2 hours apart. Oops.
For 2 weeks, the store apparently was out of leeks (for a home-made soup recipe). But the search function gave me great alternative choices in Poise and Always Discrete Bladder Leak pads. Grocery ordering run by spell check?
Once Leeks returned to stock, the other options disappeared.
This week I got mini wontons instead of dumplings, french vanilla ice cream instead of caramel praline, cold pressed virgin coconut oil instead of just coconut oil, onion paratha instead of plain paratha, and scallions instead of shallots.
So you are basically ordering a grab bag which might have a similar object of the same color in it.
You don’t need a saw for the pumpkin. Just bake it in the oven at 350F for an hour or so, until it starts to collapse. Take it out and let it cool enough to handle. The skin will peel off easily and the meat will be delicious! Use it for soup, as a side dish, and of course for pies. Good stuff!
Exercise equipment…for my dog. Most recently, 12″ cones with holes in them for cavalettis.
Too funny! I usually only do the Publix instacart. The nice thing is that they have to actually scan the items to check them off and then the substitutions are sent to you for approval prior to their check out. The downside is having to keep an eye on the phone for the approvals but I’ve really loved it. Purchases recently have been to build up the hurricane supplies so I’ve probably ensured no hurricanes for another 16 years with the fans,batteries, and portable battery chargers I’ve bought.
We’ve had some weird substitutes in the past so now tick the no substitutes box.
My parents in law do some gardening and they always grow huge pumpkins. When I try to slice it in pieces with my biggest knife and it’s still half the size of the pumpkin I’m always thinking about Kate and her sword. I imagine myself pulling a sword out of its sheath in my kitchen and easily cutting that stupid vegetables in handy pieces. It doesn’t help me with the pumpkin but it makes me smile.
I do kendo! I tried to cut up a huge pumpkin with my sword! It was a very humbling experience, plus cleaning. I realized that if I was ever walking down the street wearing my sword and was attacked by a large pumpkin, I should run.
What you need for that is a cavalry saber.
I have seen the First Cavalry Division horse platoon do a demo of old-fashioned saber work on pumpkins and watermelons. In pairs, at a full gallop, there were no misses.
It was vegetable carnage.
The precision was impressive. The sounds were a bit disturbing. The splash was, um, wide, though I doubt you’d want to cook any of the resultant pieces.
A nice heavy cavalry saber, sharpened. Your pumpkin wouldn’t have a chance.
That’s so hallarious, I don’t do grocery shopping online can’t get a delivery slot this side of Christmas. So I’m out at the crack of dawn on a Sunday to get my shopping done.
I gave up on online groceries (specifically Instacart) when I realized that the orders I received bore little resemblance to the orders I placed. Because I was tipping a percentage of the order, the shopper was motivated to make sure there was no decrease in the order size. This is how you end up with the world’s largest watermelon, tomato paste subbed for salsa, any meat of the appropriate weight substituted for the one I ordered… and *no* usable combination of ingredients without going out to shop myself. This defeated the purpose. When I complained, I got credit toward my next order— which was not happening because I hadn’t saved a trip and had a bunch of things I didn’t want but somehow had to find a way to use. Anyway, I hope your experience is better, but giant pumpkin and three bags of sweet potatoes suggests it may not be.
I laughed when I read this. I can sooo relate. Since we don’t have a car we do our bulk shopping online so someone else has to deliver it. Since I’m in Portugal this often involves a fair amount of time looking up words to ensure what I think I’m buying is what I’m actually buying. I could turn on Google’s English translation feature, but that sometimes makes for hilarious results. I need the language practice anyway.
I usually end up with far less of something than what I wanted. One banana vs. a bunch (I have to order in kilograms so that requires the quick mental math to convert to 2.2 pounds and a rough guess at how much something might weigh per item). My guestimates are usually way off so I’ll get one lonely sweet potato or two apples instead of enough for a pie. It’s always an adventure.
I have yet to receive anything like those stick things though.
Hi Jana,
I always used the 2 lbs to 1 kilo. It wasn’t exact, but the math was easy. If I wanted about a pound, I’d order 1/2 kilo. Hope this helps!
I like your drain stick! I never saw that in France, I wish I could have found one when I need to unclog my drain, instead of the metal contraption that ended up with a desperate call to the plumber.
Not sure how you went from chicken thighs to that though…
Ahh life is a mystery…
Thanks for the chuckle!
Heard via friends… When online shopping was first available to all, a father had ordered Matey. It’s a kids bubble bath formula that comes in a bottle shaped like a sailor. I used it in the 80s as a kid, still seeing it everywhere here in the UK. Instead, they got … ADULT LUBE! ????????????????
The first two i can understand, but the third i don´t know
You might want to feed the extra sweet potatoes to your dogs. They microwave quick and my dog loves them. Also good for dogs with food allergies.
Have you seen this classic? https://littera-abactor.livejournal.com/7748.html
Polo wraps for our new equine family member, Halloween face masks, and a pretty lanyard chain for my “little black face mask” to go with my “undead” mermaid costume… So far, it’s all been good! I have been finding these things on Etsy marketplace, which I really love.
[my town is not cancelling trick or treating, but they have guidelines about doing so safely, like putting the candy on a table or in goodie bags, and you wave from your porch etc…we are trying to be festive as much as possible]
Oh, those drain sticks will be fine – just marinate over night in soy and garlic, then pan fry for seven minutes on high heat. Once desired doneness is achieved, set aside until cooled, slide into the bin, wash the pan out, and order pizza.
I can’t do online ordering. I eat mostly fresh produce, and my brain can’t handle the thought of someone else choosing it. Plus, I’ve seen them selecting orders and there’s no hesitation in their game – is that apple bruised? Does it look floury? Have flat spots? They don’t look, they don’t care. It’s not their apple.
If I have to put on a mask and lurk around the supermarket like I’m surrounded by hangry plague-ridden zombies, then I will. Because it’s my apple and I care.
Husband ordered multivitamins and received a 6-bottle case (32 oz ea) of green food coloring, haha. Keep it, they said. (Friend who helps at a summer camp was able to take it to the mess hall, hope the kids had some fun with it). It was 2018, our eye-popping mega-warehouse campus in Baltimore had opened, amazed that mix-ups like this are not a regular thing.
Too bad about the chicken, but those clogged drain sticks work well! Better for the environment than Drain-o and no waiting for the slow drain to clear, or for the plumber to call back. Plus, no skunk or fox raids on delivery… 🙂
Love the drain sticks switch, ????
I think there’s even a website for this, where people post their most ridiculous substitutions in grocery orders! Last time I got Rubicon sparkling mango juice instead of coconut milk. Why?? Who decided this was a worthy substitute?
Food is far too important to be ordered and have someone else choose it for me. Just be careful about not touching things in the stores, wash your hands carefully when you get home, and use that sanitizer you carry with you at every turn. Wear your mask to keep things away from your own face. Watch the people near you to be sure they don’t get too close, and if they do, back away until they move on.
Chemo has left me with zero immune system, but this is a virus, and it will die without a host within 3 days. Be aware, be cautious, but know the facts about things. When you get home, wash your fresh vegetables, re-wrap your frozen foods, and keep washing your hands. I have watched pickers at Walmart go through the store with a cart filled with bins they’re dropping things into, and if it goes in the wrong bin, so what? That is, by the way, how you get drain cleaners instead of chicken thighs. Someone somewhere has a clogged drain they are trying to figure out how to clean with chicken thighs. If you don’t really care what you get, go ahead and play the online order roulette. When you need something specific, go buy it yourself. And always remember that food pantries will take anything you got and can’t use.
Needed batteries and bananas [cause forgot to order them the first time around]. But because they have a minimum ordering limit, I filled the rest of the cart with pringles. So, two batteries, two bananas, and 25 cans of pringles.
Pretty sure they thought we were nuts lol.
Hey Pringles don’t go bad! Makes sense ????
That is hilarious! I’ve only adventured with having food from restaurants delivered to me. I almost had my food delivered to another restaurant I ordered from before…that would have been interesting. duh! But I live around the corner from the grocery store and Target so I haven’t had that experience. It would be like sending my 16 year old son, who still wants me to do everything for him, shopping…now that’s an idea. Thanks for sharing!
We have been doing in store grocery shopping, but now I want to try delivery just to get some crazy substitutes!