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And so the Christmas food shop substitution start…

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Iwishiwasasilentnight · 18/12/2023 07:05

Anyone want to shares there’s? I have a few but the that upsets me is swapping 4 pizzas for 2. Come on Tesco do I not feed the adults or not feed the children?

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GMsAWinner · 19/12/2023 10:47

MrsSkylerWhite - fair enough, I appreciate some are disabled, elderly or live in countryside without transport so that can't be easy. Just saying it works for me and overcomes substitutes people really don't want.

MrsSkylerWhite · 19/12/2023 10:51

GMsAWinner · Today 10:47
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MrsSkylerWhite - fair enough, I appreciate some are disabled, elderly or live in countryside without transport so that can't be easy. Just saying it works for me and overcomes substitutes people really don't want.

Oh I prefer it too but you’d think there’d be a better system for people without choice.

Fish food flakes 😁

Newsenmum · 19/12/2023 10:59

Not particularly Christmassy but normal milk swapped for… chocolate milk.

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LE987 · 19/12/2023 10:59

I ordered 2 large chickens from Asda the other day to feed a bunch of us for Sunday dinner, they sent 1 really fancy small chicken that cost the same amount as 2 standard large chickens, absolute joke 😂

Newsenmum · 19/12/2023 11:00

MrsSkylerWhite · 19/12/2023 10:22

YABU. One pizza should suffice for a family of 4.

Always one 😂

Sartre · 19/12/2023 11:12

We’re staying in a really remote part of South Wales for Christmas so have a Tesco shop arriving on Saturday and I’m praying there’s no major subs.

MalibuBetty · 19/12/2023 11:16

Last year I ordered a tube of those JusRol pain au chocolats and it was substituted for... one fresh chicken kiev from the deli counter with the next days date on it 😳

TheDogsMother · 19/12/2023 11:16

I'm going very close to the wire as my delivery is coming on Christmas Eve. It's just the two of us though so if we get a random chocolate cake or pizza it probably doesn't matter !

TheDogsMother · 19/12/2023 11:19

The funniest one I heard of was from one of the Sainsburys delivery drivers. Someone had ordered a kettle and it was substituted with a toaster !

drspouse · 19/12/2023 11:21

Mine is coming Friday night, anything missing will be replaced with an early visit to Lidl (for bog standard/daily food) followed by Booths (for anything fancy) early Saturday morning.
DH is picking up the turkey crown and pigs in blankets on Sat morning also - must remember to clear the fridge before then!

drspouse · 19/12/2023 11:22

Now you're all giving me ideas runs to add ready bake pains au chocolat to order

BitchImTheSecretIngredient · 19/12/2023 11:25

@MrsSkylerWhite they are automatically suggested but the picker can choose their own too

moose62 · 19/12/2023 11:28

Probably the best substitution I have had from sainsburys recently... was tenderstem broccoli substituted with Bourbon biscuits.

No idea why....and then they didn't deliver the biscuits.

narniabusiness · 19/12/2023 11:35

BitchImTheSecretIngredient · 19/12/2023 11:25

@MrsSkylerWhite they are automatically suggested but the picker can choose their own too

And the picker could be, as I’ve found out from my children’s friends, an 18 year old who’s never done a supermarket shop or cooked anything that isn’t a ready meal. In these circumstances I can understand how the baby oil was subbed for the lube as a previous poster said, although some of the others were bizzare. Also these youngsters are picking your shopping during a shift that starts at 4 in the morning so they are very tired and have 15 mins to do your whole shop, so perhaps they are tempted to pick the first thing they see.

Vitriolinsanity · 19/12/2023 11:37

singingirl · 19/12/2023 10:28

My funniest sub was being given shampoo in place of smoked salmon. Seriously even the delivery driver was laughing 😂😂. Never had one since that was quite so bizarre…

I once got two bottles of F25 instead of the F50 I had ordered.

On Sunday Sainsbury's subbed the electronic Habitat diffuser for a bottle of Morning Coffee diffuser oil. It'd already been opened and was the colour of old piss.

FlamingoQueen · 19/12/2023 11:45

On a positive note - a few years ago we had our Christmas subs, we had about 3 packs of really expensive smoked salmon, I’d ordered one pack of reasonably priced smoked salmon. They’d put a few extra things in, but not enough to have been someone else’s shopping! It was really weird, but lovely. I didn’t realise until the driver had gone!

Peasand · 19/12/2023 11:48

Gluten free profiteroles instead of gluten free rolls, I liked that one.

SonicAllanKey · 19/12/2023 11:48

Asking why I bother with online…because we’re away and not due back until after lunchtime Xmas day. Cutting it fine! Normally I’d just go out around midnight and get it all in when the shops are dead!

Snugglemonkey · 19/12/2023 11:58

shearwater2 · 19/12/2023 06:55

Yeah, I gave some website feedback to Sainsbury's on this recently - they don't make many substitutions but have often goofed in only giving me half of the original item, which defeats the entire object of the convenience of it. They have been better since then.

It's a big position of trust I've put them in with a delivery on Christmas Eve, but they have been reliable enough so far.

I didn't used to get much food delivered at all as it used to be unreliable whoever I tried, so many subsitutions and missing items.

I remember ordering from Waitrose Entertaining for my dad's wake - they merrily announced that morning that they wouldn't be supplying half the sandwiches. Luckily we had enough of everything but it was a stress I really didn't need, when it was something I'd done to make things as easy as possible.

I tried ordering from Morrisons on Amazon once. Spent loads of time building up the basket, 103 items. When the time came to organise the delivery (as weirdly you can only do it a day in advance or so rather than a regular slot in advance which is shit anyway) they had none of the items available. Not a single one. Alexa still reminds me I have 103 items in my trolley from time to time, but I doubt they will be going anywhere soon. What a croc.

When I had a nasty case of covid and was stuck in the house rurally with a small child, I placed a morrisons order on amazon. We had no milk, bread etc and I wanted things like pizza I could cook easily as I really struggled with dizziness. They said it would be in the morning, then delayed it all day until cancelling at 9pm. I still have not forgiven them!

autienotnaughty · 19/12/2023 12:09

Asda are cheeky and will give you less for the same money. So if I order 1kg Asda coffee they will substitute for 500g kenco for same price. It's not the same!!!

I once got a cucumber substitute for a lettuce. There was already a cucumber in the order. So two cucumber to make a salad 😂

I've had beer substituted to no alcohol beer before 😮

Bookworm1111 · 19/12/2023 12:57

MrsSkylerWhite · 19/12/2023 10:32

Was going to add “with a massive salad” but really didn’t think it was necessary!

I thought that was only with fish and chips? 😂

I always love the Christmas substitution threads. Shampoo in place of salmon has to be the winner!

wineandmaltesershappyme · 19/12/2023 13:06

Anxiously waiting on my Christmas delivery Thursday afternoon and hoping to god the turkey arrives and with a good use by date! At least if anything is missing i can go out Thur night/Fri to try and track down.
Not hosted using online delivery before so not used to this, just didn't fancy dragging the 7yr old round the shops.....

Ohmylovejune · 19/12/2023 13:19

Many years ago for my Christmas delivery Tesco gave me grapes as a substitution for potatoes!

I've given up with Christmas deliveries now. Not only the fight for a slot but then the need to go shopping anyway as stuff was always missing.

Lunde · 19/12/2023 13:31

There was a great one last year where someone had ordered fresh lemon grass and got lemon grass shampoo 😂

lemmein · 19/12/2023 13:43

One Christmas they subbed a cabbage for a sprout....one sprout 😐

I order Christmas dinner from M&S now, I can't be doing with the stress and hate shopping - plus it's all done for me so I can look like an amazing cook when I've done fuck all really!