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To tell you about Morrisons food boxes

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DamnYouAutoCarrot · 23/03/2020 14:51

www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/boxes

For those that can't get delivery slots.

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SoleBizzz · 30/03/2020 17:59

Slots sold out AGAIN

SoupDragon · 30/03/2020 18:18

Presumably it's not just the slots but that they can only make up a certain number of boxes at a time.

caringcarer · 30/03/2020 18:34

Morrison's are really leading the way in this worrying time. First these fantastic basic shop boxes that are helping so many. Now they are donating millions of food to the food banks for next few months. I heard it on Sky news today. Well done Morrison's. Your hard working staff deserve a bonus when this is over. Halo

ArriettyJones · 30/03/2020 18:40

They have changed the website text now to clarify the cost of a box as £30 + £5 delivery charge.

Kingcole · 30/03/2020 19:23

Still no box. It was due on Saturday.

Cakeweek · 30/03/2020 21:46

May I ask - I ordered one on Sunday for us and got a screen that I'm sure confirmed if got one. But have had no email. It should arrive tomorrow. If it doesn't I'm a bit pushed to feed the children as I can't get out and the friend who was helping us has now got symptoms. Have other people who've not got a confirmation received their box please?

Cakeweek · 30/03/2020 21:47

I mean we've got cereal and whatnot. I just mean a proper dinner. Sorry, panicking a bit and that sounded a bit more dramatic than I meant it to.

HerMajBishop · 30/03/2020 21:58

I didn’t get any notification email from Morrison. Just a DPD notification on the day telling me what time it would arrive.

Danglingmod · 30/03/2020 22:02

All my confirmation emails went to junk box (presumably because it's a new company). Got DPD confirmation on the day of delivery and box arrived perfectly and as described.

Kingcole · 30/03/2020 22:02

@Cakeweek I had email confirmation from Morrisons and payment pending, but still no box.

lozster · 30/03/2020 23:50

*@lozter

How could that not feed 2 people for a week? How much do you eat*

Grin more than that! What with my three meals a day I’m quite the glutton.

This would need to cover 42 meals - 14 breakfasts, 14 lunches and 14 dinners. There is no fruit, no cereal, no puddings, no snacks. The milk is 1 litre. The only breakfast option is bread and the lunch option is bread too. The loaf only has 20 slices so even at a frugal one slice each, that isn’t going far! I did get a steak bake, but just the one so I guess that could be cut in two and shared with a can of baked beans for one lunch. The pack of rice is tiny. The other carbs are the pasta, maybe four servings, though like several other posters my pack was ripped so some was wasted. The potatoes, maybe four servings perhaps slightly more. The protein, I’d get 4 servings from a pack of quorn that size IF I bulked it out with other veg, but say 4 per pack plus another 2.5 from the sausages, so 10.5 of 14
portions needed? I would like to see the suggested meal plan; like the ones that often feature in the popular press, I suspect it would involve double counting of some of the items plus the addition of other items not actually included in the box.

I’m not knocking it; it’s ok. It’s an option. I can see it has a place and I can see where the costs other than the food itself come in. It’s a Mumsnet chicken too far to claim its sufficient for a normal week or several weeks in a row though.

Comefromaway · 31/03/2020 00:45

The quorn mince and pieces is being divided into 4 portions per pack so 4 meals for two people in total with the mixed beans, peppers and onions being used. The rice is one meal for two and the pasta two meals. I’ve split the sausages, 2 sausages is one meal, I’ll do them with potatoes and veg one day and maybe Sunday brunch for another meal. and I put the others in the freezer. The veggie burgers are going to be a lunch for two as is the “steak bake with half the tin of baked beans. The other half tin will be beans & cheese on toast. Then cheese sandwiches for lunch one day and the tin of soup another day.

Dh says he’s going to make carrot soup. We used half the bag of potatoes, the broccoli and about a third of the carrots yesterday to do Sunday lunch for 4 people (though dd and Ds are not big potato eaters and I did have Yorkshire puddings in.

I will have to buy more milk and also eggs.

AmelieTaylor · 31/03/2020 02:01

They look like a good deal to me

Will come in as a handy option if I can’t get my Aunts shopping to her at any stage.

It would give her a bit of exercise though carrying all the bits from the front door to the kitchen as she’d never manage to pick it up! 🤣

lozster · 31/03/2020 03:49

So Comefromaway; you got quorn mince, quorn pieces, burgers, sausages (how many? Enough for 2 meals and freezing some Confused I got 6?) and a steak bake? That’s at least one more protein than me?

And seriously, lunch for an
Adult would be half a steak bake and one quarter of a can of beans? And another lunch is just half a can of soup? That soup btw is 35p in the shop. It’s one of the items that made me Hmm about the total price of the parcel.

Don’t get me wrong, if it was this or nothing then this is great! But there can’t be enough calories even in the box for two over that time period. Morrisons might want to hang fire on claims over ‘2 adults one week’. That needs to be substantiated same as it does in normal times... I could survive on this ration for one week but it would be unpleasant and I wouldn’t want to do a second week of it.

lozster · 31/03/2020 04:03

Steak bake half is 213 calories, quarter can of beans 80, so lunch is under 300 calories?

That steak bake is a pastry parcel of evil though - my hand has hovered over them before but I have never succumbed. I was secretly delighted that now I will have to eat one... well, half a one, to ‘do my bit’ 🤣

My rough guess is that dinner would then be 600 calories so 1000 per day (topped up with butter and cheese) which would be a pretty aggressive target calorie intake for weight loss?

GemmaTellerMorrow · 31/03/2020 08:06

We were really pleased with our box and have ordered another one for this weekend. We've also managed to order for elderly relatives, and friends who are S/I.
Everyone has just been so glad to have at least something to eat, plus loo roll!
It's definitely not enough for DH and me for a week, but it's kept us away from the large supermarkets, we're just doing a small top-up at the local Spar.

I think it's an excellent initiative from Morrison's, to come up with it at relatively short notice, even if it's not perfect. I'm still hearing and reading about vulnerable people not being able to organise food deliveries and what a huge headache it is.

Thank you OP ThanksGin

GemmaTellerMorrow · 31/03/2020 08:14

We've had cottage pie, maybe 6 portions from the mince provided, but we did have more potatoes and veg as a local greengrocer delivers.

Tomorrow is pasta with some of the chicken, and the tub of sauce. That will be 4 generous portions.

Sausage and mash

Ham sandwiches
Cheese on toast
Bacon and beans
Soup and bread

We'll save the sachet of rice, wait for our next box, then make something with the other sachet too. Not sure what yet.

cornishdreams1 · 31/03/2020 08:18

The boxes are a brilliant idea, great value, on time and lots and lots of food. Well done Morrisons! Honestly they have saved the day for my old and vulnerable parents, they are delighted with it!

Georgiesgirl · 31/03/2020 09:07

Boxes available now!

Dixiechickonhols · 31/03/2020 12:35

My box came today. Meat eaters box. Very impressed and my over 70 mum I’d sent one to was delighted with hers. Long dates and decent quality products.

To tell you about Morrisons food boxes
To tell you about Morrisons food boxes
Dixiechickonhols · 31/03/2020 12:39

I had an email from dpd yesterday and an email today with an hour Delivery slot.

StarbucksSmarterSister · 31/03/2020 15:16

Still no sign of the second attempt at delivery.

So I just rang DPD who said it arrived at their depot on the 28th and yesterday they received a notification from Morrisons to dispose of it! Apparently this is because it was on a 2 day service and as it is food that means it has to be binned if not delivered next day.

So, 2 delivery slots, neither delivered AND I've just discovered they've charged me twice!

I know they're swamped but this is totally unacceptable. I will never buy anything from them again.

DamnYouAutoCarrot · 31/03/2020 16:25

www.marksandspencer.com/mands-food-box/p/p60016371

M&S have followed suit.

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DamnYouAutoCarrot · 31/03/2020 16:26

@StarbucksSmarterSister that's terrible!! So £70 down and no deliveries? Seems like it's great when it works, but terrible when it doesn't. I'd be really peed, like you tbf.

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DamnYouAutoCarrot · 31/03/2020 16:27

@Dixiechickonhols it does look great though!

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