To ask you to tell me your ridiculous supermarket home delivery substitutions?

[midori1999]

Maybe it serves me right for using Asda...

My grocery shopping came this morning and after a disaster with substitutions last time I checked the list thoroughly this time. (this is only the second time I've ordered from them).

I asked for a Medium sliced white loaf and I got a thick sliced wholemeal loaf. I had to keep it really as I had virtually no bread left.

Then when the driver had gone I realised that the 'dr. Oetker regal ice' (as written on the list) that was the substitution for 'asda ready to roll white icing' was in fact chocolate flavoured/coloured icing.

Fair enough, Asda refunded me right away and have said that they will speak to the person responsible in order to try and improve the service, but surely anyone with a tiny bit of sense would realise these two substitutions are nothing like the product ordered?!

A friend has now told me she got sent size 2 nappies instead of the size 4 she'd ordered.

Has anyone else had anything even more ridiculous?

Not really bad, but we specifically wanted Asda little angels nappies as they were the only ones that didn't leak at the time. They got substituted for Huggies.

One wonders of possible hilarious substitutions. Balloons for condoms? Or vice versa??

Nappies instead of kitchen roll (from Sainsbury's). We didn't even have a baby at the time so I'd never ordered nappies. I tick no substitutions now!

I feel much better about my substitutions now and it seems that yes, indeed, I am very lucky.

I'm sat here giggling at one lonely mushroom in a carrier bag and 5KG of bananas!

I do remember a friend telling me years ago that she must have accidentally ordered the wrong weight of fresh ginger as she'd expected a small piece and a huge carrier bag full had turned up...

Ordered a pregnancy test. Got a bottle of Durex lubricant

I have found now the Tesco cheat have got crafty with the price match promise

Huggies wipes on special offer 9 pack for £6.28 not available so they gave me one pack of wipes so they didin't have to price match (DS had tummy bug at the time one pack wasn't going to last very long).

Same with kitchen toll 6 pack on offer not available so the they gave me a two pack so they didn't have to price match.

Tesco Bottle Teats Size 2 instead of Tommee Tippee closer to nature size 2 which weren't going to fit my tommee tippee bottles

Fresh Salmon Fillets and got smoked salmon instead (didn't really work for the recipe I had in mind).

I ordered Cow & Gate and got Aptamil Formula instead luckily my DS is nearly one and it doesn't seem to bother him changing from one to the other. Because the next time I ordered Aptamil to keep to the same but got Cow & Gate.

Ordered Cointreau and got sent orange juice. My mum was gutted!
Also ordered sure women's deodorant and got sent men's instead........

Cat litter was given as a substitute for cat food.

MarathonRunnersPukeCatcher I use (home made) scone mix as a pizza base - it's lovely

Oh bottles of nice wine on offer but they gave me cheap nasty stuff

Meat feast pizza instead of vegetarian

Jar of chopped ginger instead of jar of chopped garlic (can imagine the picker not being arsed to walk to a different aisle to get fresh garlic, garlic paste or other garlic variant)

Entire fruit and veg component of weekly shop food order supplied with same day best before date

Used to work at a small solicitors where we ordered online from Tesco regularly.

We once ordered a bumper pack of Duracell and someone in their wisdom supplied us with a job lot of B&H Gold.

We also got 48 punnets of peaches once too

I'd ordered 1 - they were on a 2 for £2 offer with nectarines and plums. I ordered 1 each of peaches and nectarines which were in the carrier bags with the rest of the fruit I'd ordered and then the driver appeared with 2 large trays full of punnets of peaches

I'd not ordered them, not been charged for them so who knows why

Midori we have a friend in common. I was just going to post the story about the ginger!

Asda sent me size 5 instead of size 3 nappies. I ordered asda own nappies, I've a feeling they aren't encouraged to substitute for pampers/huggies given the massive price difference. I also got sausage meat at Xmas which they substituted with actual sausages. I asked the delivery driver if I should squeeze the meat out the skins.

frillymilly ... yes! Squeezing sausage meat out works just fine. Its what I normally do as I can't often find sausage meat around here.

OOh, Olives, I wonder if it is the same person? Does their name begin with an S?

The last time i used them I got a nail file instead of tea cakes.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It does!!!!!!!!! Is she really scatty with normal life stuff but actually really intelligent?

Do her cat and her baby share the same name?

I got sent a block of butter instead of a pack of chicken breasts. Totally the same.

Ah gemma I thought I was being really clever to the delivery driver bet he thought I was just being a snotty cow. Next time I'll just take the sausages.

I once got lemons for lemsip .... I assume someone thought I could cook them in boiling water and dissolve an aspirin in it at the same time or something ?!?

Oh .... and instead of those foil takeaway style dishes I got regular foil .... which kind of misses the point about freezing meal portions.

I read a story on a previous mad substitutions thread about a mumsnetters who ordered white wine, and got grapes instead. As she said, she wasn't into DIY!

Posh hake fillets in seasoned flour ordered.

Tesco value fish fingers delivered.