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Who has had coronavirus related shopping substitutions and what were they?

13 replies

ouch321 · 14/04/2020 18:40

These are normally some of my favourite threads for making me, and probably others, smile.

There must be some great ones during these past few weeks of shopping shortages.

I have never done a food shop online so cannot give any of my own but those who have...

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Ellmau · 14/04/2020 18:47

Marzipan for chocolate. I said no thankyou.

ouch321 · 14/04/2020 18:51

That's funny. Probably someone like me who made that swap. I could happily snack on a pack of marzipan.

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Pipandmum · 14/04/2020 18:58

The stores are well stocked here and I've only had a couple of deliveries in the last few weeks so no odd substitutions. If they don't have bread I don't get bread, but everything else has been available.
Before this though I ordered organic eggs and they said they had no suitable alternatives (plenty of eggs but none were organic). I would have thought any eggs were better than none.
Got cherry tomatoes as a substitute for cherries once.

DoTheNextRightThing · 14/04/2020 19:04

They tried to swap my gluten free food for food that wasn't gluten free 😂

ExplodingCarrots · 14/04/2020 19:10

3 cartons of Passata was substituted with 3 tubes of tomato purée. Not horrendous but did give me a chuckle.

Iadoremylabrador · 14/04/2020 19:22

I ordered a tin of hotdogs and got a multipack of tinned tuna in brine!

SirVixofVixHall · 14/04/2020 19:30

They tried to swap my GF flour for normal flour too Hmm .
Last night the yeast in my basket was out of stock and the suggested substitution was a bottle of lemon juice.

TheGreatWave · 14/04/2020 19:38

I ordered 3 X 4 pts of milk 2x2 pts were delivered. Wouldn't last a day in our house.

OxanaVorontsova · 14/04/2020 19:44

I ordered Cadbury's mini eggs to top my Easter cake, they were replaced by full size creme eggs

Tulio · 14/04/2020 19:49

I ordered a regular Cadbury’s Easter egg and got sent a GIANT one instead including 2 sharing bars of dairy milk inside 😂 poor me

40somethingJBJ · 14/04/2020 20:11

I ordered bbq sauce and received burger relish. A bottle of wine was swapped for a bottle of vodka! A whole chicken swapped for diced chicken. The most annoying ones I’m finding, when shopping for multiple households, is ordering 2x 4pt of milk, and getting a substitute of 1x 6pt, or 3 lots of half a dozen eggs swapped for a tray of 15. It makes dividing up the shopping interesting!

dyscalculicgal96 · 14/04/2020 20:29

Tonight I received my groceries I ordered on Sunday afternoon. A tin of tuna was craftily swapped for a tin of salmon! And I have just realised that I only have two bottles of low fat milk to drink yet I specifically said three in the original order. One of my tins of fruit and cat food has gone too. I also ordered six jars of strawberry jam and three tins of chicken soup. None of my eggs were delivered either. I will be sending them a feedback email tomorrow. I will make a trip into town later this week to get me some milk and fruit.

gingganggooleywotsit · 14/04/2020 20:37

Smash instead of Maris Pipers!

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