The gearbox died on the mister’s car in Denmark. Hilarity ensues, especially when the gearbox of the *tow truck* also died when taking the car away…
We’re back home and safe and holidayed out for a bit, but we do need to eat. I’ve done a stop-gap shop at the mini-Tesco outside our flat but we do really need a proper food shop. So I’m trying to shop for food without seeing it. This is baffling me.
- What on *earth* do we eat? I can pin down the basics (milk, bread, eggs) and a few meals we tend to make (beef/chicken stir fry, nombanara, pie and gravy) but I’m just stumped. I’m sitting with half my cookbooks round me wondering why this is so easy when you can actually see the food.
- Rolphus has a dairy allergy. Apart from waitrose.com there is *no* easy way of selecting “no cow juice yo” for sections of the food store. Surely we should be taking advantage of the magic database and allow the user to automatically eliminate certain items?
- How on earth do you know everything isn’t going to turn up with a use-by date of tomorrow? In the supermarket itself we’re usually fairly canny with this and go to the back to pick the items to make sure we can get 7 days out of the shop… there’s no way of doing this online. And most of these vendors have a “minimum order amount”, so ordering every few days isn’t possible for a couple.
- Why do most of sites require my email address *to* *see* *the* *prices*? Tesco already have this signed up as uselessbastards@leymoo.com in some petty attempt to make myself feel better. I figured I’d have a look, trying to be fair and all. Not bothering with Asda though. Surely people only shop there when they have no choice? It’s not as if it’s cheaper, and the food is awful, and their idea of making something “premium” is adding a ton of sugar and cream and not bothering the check the taste.
- I still feel nervous ordering something such as a beef shoulder, steak or lamb without knowing the quality of the batch. Maybe that’s the scabby housing-estate part of me, or something.
Has anyone managed to get over this? Or does everyone just order and hope?
