I accidentally cancelled my big Christmas food shop order that was due to be delivered later today ...

[bizzey]

I mean ..that's it 😂..
I have put laughing face ...but a few hours ago ...I was not laughing!

Due to be delivered later today.
I was adding bits and realised that it was coming to the " wrong" address .

It was meant to be going straight to DM's house but it was coming to my address instead ..

I wanted to change the address...and somehow clicked something " wrong "

So now ...
I have woken up with a jolt and realised what a mammoth task I have ahead of me today!!!!

Sainsbury's opens at 6am .

Will the shelves be stocked up at that time ?

DH is in hospital with pneumonia. I'm sitting in bed, contemplating whether I need to take the cat to the emergency vets to see if he's got a blocked bladder after keeping me awake all night with scratching (£3000 last month for this!) and I have my shop coming today. I was so tired when I was doing it that I'm not sure what it was like before substitutions, so goodness knows what it will be like after!!

Good luck, but my local Aldi was no busier than usual at mid day yesterday, you might be surprised. Got 99% of what we need, the only thing I couldn't find was cauliflower!

@PigInADuvet I'm on there! Most corgis are greedy and intelligent but this one is neither. He's got social intelligence though, and of course is very very good looking. His Pembroke sister is much more typical.

Good luck everyone that’s shopping today!! Altho strangely I’d rather be doing that than going to work today if I’m honest and I do enjoy my job!!! 😅

We found town and the shops strangely quiet yesterday. I did our shop up lidl around 2pm and it was less busy and more stocked than my usual Sunday shop. Even taking the children to the clubs, the roads were strangely quiet.

Good luck op, it might nit be as bad as you think.

If it helps you wouldnt have been able to change the address it was being delivered to after booking it so you might have ended up cancelling anyway. Good luck!

2-3 taxi loads worth of food? It's what the baby Jesus would have wanted.

Have you never done a shop for more than a day or two? It's pretty common practice to shop for a week or more in one go.

Or learned to read? OP said she'd get a taxi but thought she'd have to do a few trips because it might be too much waiting for the taxi driver for the loading and unloading. Not that she was going to fill a taxi several times over.

@bizzey

Ok Bizzey you got this as you sharpen your elbows to fight for the last items of food!

@bizzey can't you order a people carrier type taxi?

@Lougle I hope you plough through it.

When I used to host to big Christmases, (and work up to the end), I used to find the supermarket was pretty empty at 7am, the car park filling when I left at 8am.

I used to get quite a lot in the run up and the meat was usually stashed in the freezer.

We went to Sainsbury's trsterday and the shelves were heaving. Loads of turkeys left and other Christmas foods.

There is national guinness rationing
you may be out of luck

Brew Dogs sout is really good. And Guinness Porter, yellow label in the glass bottles is still really easy to get.

@bizzey Does your Sainsbury do 'chop shop'? Mine does and is available now.

Yes, but who wants to spend the rest of the hols in and out of the supermarket? One shop, get it done, then relax please.

You never know might not be too bad - I’ve just had my Asda receipt for my huge shop and only 4 subs which I’m amazed by.
Only disappointment is they’ve subbed my mince pies for cadburys chocolate rolls but the kids will be thrilled 🤣

I really feel for you OP! Hopefully your shop goes ok. You might see some nice extras in store which you wouldn’t otherwise have got!

If you have 10 people staying at / visiting your home from 4pm Christmas eve until 10.30 on the 27th then you need an absolutely enormous amount of 'meal' food, breakfast stuff, nibbles, alcohol, cake etc etc. If you're not eating until 3ish on Christmas day then a bigger breakfast is wise. If you're eating at 12.30ish on Christmas day then evening options will need to be offered.Two sausage rolls and a pickled onion won't cover it. That's why people buy huge amounts. Surely you know this.

Just got back from my 6.30am trip to Tesco. It was not too bad shopper wise but the aisles were full of the trolleys doing the online shopping.

It’s a trip to the supermarket. Yes, inconvenient and likely busy but not insurmountable. Every year there are threads on here, spreading panic and upset about not being able to buy Xmas Dinner ingredients. I’ve never read a thread where people say this actually happened, rather the opposite, where people end up with loads of last minute markdowns…

Tesco subbed my celebrations for …… Roses 😳

That's as may be but fresh food doesn't last and needs to be bought close enough to Christmas/Boxing Day to last until 27th at least if you have guests. HTH.

I'd be well happy about that

I went to M&S yesterday and they had plenty of everything. I always do my shopping last minute and manage to get everything no problem.

Trying to cancel these things on purpose is amazingly difficult and you managed it accidentally. How super unfortunate.

A couple of years ago we were away in Cornwall for Christmas. No car with us. Had ordered a Tesco delivery in the 23rd, but I managed to deliver it to the wrong house. Had to get in the bus to the nearest Tesco at the crack of dawn. Got pretty much everything, to discover there were no taxis to be had. A local saw me sitting with a mound of shopping took pity and gave me a lift