Approved food discussion thread

madhouse

Minxy_Bella wrote: »

I received my first order today and am extremely pleased with it all! The vast majority of it is well within the sell-by date - one product's label says Dec 2010!! The two items that have past their sell-by are Twixes and Toberlones which will be fine, especially as I can't see them lasting very long in a house full of women!

Second order has just been put in! I can see this becoming my new obsession!

When did you place this order please? I'm waiting for one placed 20/1

Minxy_Bella

madhouse wrote: »

When did you place this order please? I'm waiting for one placed 20/1

It was on the 20th too - although it says on my invoice that it wasn't packed until 25/1/10 at 6.43am! I think they've had a backlog due to all of the publicity from Facebook or something.

HTH

oystercatcher

Interesting! I placed an order on 20th as well and have just had the e-mail to say it is in transit so I hope will arrive tomorrow !

We haven't found places to store the last order yet, and I peeked at their site yesterday and there were more new things I fancied !


Minxy_Bella you're not alone in this obsession

Minxy_Bella

oystercatcher wrote: »

Interesting! I placed an order on 20th as well and have just had the e-mail to say it is in transit so I hope will arrive tomorrow !

We haven't found places to store the last order yet, and I peeked at their site yesterday and there were more new things I fancied !


Minxy_Bella you're not alone in this obsession

:T

My OH has already started rolling his eyes at me, upon seeing the shedloads of Curly Wurlys and Toblerones etc in the cupboards. He reckons the kids will have eaten them all by the weekend. Well, it'll shut 'em up for a while if they do

Hope your order comes tomorrow!

madhouse

I phoned today and was told my order was packed onthe 21st and should have been dispatched already. I have been told it will be redone tomorrow,but they will tell me if items are out of stock as they believe a lot of the things I ordered are no longer on the shelves!! I was told they were well past the order date of 20th, but ths may be a mistake if other people have only just had orders posted from the 20th!!

wyebird

I wanted to order 2 cases of the Ainsley Harriot stuffing, but managed to order 12 :eek:. So 72 packets of stuffing, any visitors have to leave with some

mcallister1

I received my order of the 20th today, although they tried to deliver yesterday. It was mainly ryvitas and ryvita minis which I was pleased to see as weight watchers and Approved food don't always combine well. When I unpacked the sunflower seeds and oats ryvita, I was amused to see each one has a moc dated March 10th for a free packet of ryvitas minis...
As I currently have two cases of these, I may wait a while to use them- or try to use them at Tesco, though not sure what is happening with coupons in my one at the moment.
Anyway, another great order- the de-identified lemon and garlic cous cous is waitrose and in a really nice packet- I am also pleased with the sharwoods curry paste, the seaweed and the ballisto bars, but I think I will be making up a few parcels for my friends as I am having storage issues and in retrospect, 10 packet of Ryvitas wil take a fair amount of commitment to eat up.
I still have a glut of coulis from before Christmas although I have told my son to use is instead of jam and I am squirting it in every dessert I can think of...!

mcallister1

wyebird wrote: »

I wanted to order 2 cases of the Ainsley Harriot stuffing, but managed to order 12 :eek:. So 72 packets of stuffing, any visitors have to leave with some

Lols- thats the kind of thing I do. You will have to ask more people round just to use it up. Or, keep it and you can have two packs on Christmas day every year for the next 36 years?

oystercatcher

Have had an e-mail to say my order from 20th has left the depot for delivery..... now am hoping it arrives before we have to go out at 14.30 today!Am not sure if they will be happy to leave it without a signature.
This is one drawback that there's no way of planning delivery day or time.

We too have a lifetime's supply of ryvita and ryvita minis coming!
lots of flapjacks too.
I didn't dare look at the sweets and chocolate department when I ordered !

SilverBird_2

SilverBird wrote: »

Reading this thread reminded me about Approved Foods

I've now placed my first order with them and will post an update as and when it's been delivered.

Placed the order on 19 January and it arrived yesterday 27 January. Three items were out of stock by the time my order was picked and packed but no worries as there are still lots of goodies in the box. (I'd selected "no substitutes".)

Everything looks okay. Best buys have to be the croutons, a box of 8 packs for 1p, 15 sachets of flavoured couscous for 99p and 8 packs of nut roast for 99p!!!