Approved food discussion thread

415SanFran

Not that I want to encourage anyone or anything.

But at the moment they have Tilda rice for 99p, lasagna sheets, and flour, all the staples in one day for some people.

mcallister1

Whoops! i was all excited about the seaweed thinking it was the crispy stuff from the chinese restauant- actually it is sheets of real seaweed for wrapping round sushi. Unless anyone has another use for it?:o

Hootie19

I placed an order on the 22nd January and it arrived this morning.

I didn't get my lemon and lime flavoured water, multigrain ryvitas or bakin' boys raspberry flapjacks. Instead I got 4 extra toblerones, 4 extra tins of mint sweets, 2 extra bottles of red wine vinegar, and masses extra individual pots of cous cous. I have enough cous cous to see me through until next christmas!!

I also got two packs of Scholl Party Feet which I didn't order and haven't been charged for - my daughter is delighted as she can have a pack for herself!!

All in all, I am very pleased with my stash, and will be ordering again.

mcallister1

Hootie19 wrote: »

I placed an order on the 22nd January and it arrived this morning.

I didn't get my lemon and lime flavoured water, multigrain ryvitas or bakin' boys raspberry flapjacks. Instead I got 4 extra toblerones, 4 extra tins of mint sweets, 2 extra bottles of red wine vinegar, and masses extra individual pots of cous cous. I have enough cous cous to see me through until next christmas!!

I also got two packs of Scholl Party Feet which I didn't order and haven't been charged for - my daughter is delighted as she can have a pack for herself!!

All in all, I am very pleased with my stash, and will be ordering again.

The scholl part feet are a bonus from Dan- just before Cristmas we got about 10 in a huge order.

twiz21

mcallister1 wrote: »

Whoops! i was all excited about the seaweed thinking it was the crispy stuff from the chinese restauant- actually it is sheets of real seaweed for wrapping round sushi. Unless anyone has another use for it?:o

I have made my very first order and it includes this seaweed.

I planned to stick it under the grill and then crumble it over stir fries like I used to many years ago.

Hope I can still do this with this lot!

oystercatcher

oystercatcher wrote: »

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 !

My order arrived ten minutes after we had left to catch a train! Luckily my son arrived home just as we left so could sign for the order!

Very pleased. Two items not available but substituted with an extra pack of muslie bars which will soon be used. It seems they use common sense with the substitutions and add things you have ordered rather than random items.
Son now says he will take pack lunches to school as we have appropriate goodies available so that will save money.

I wonder how long I can hold out before ordering again?

mcallister1

mcallister1 wrote: »

Whoops! i was all excited about the seaweed thinking it was the crispy stuff from the chinese restauant- actually it is sheets of real seaweed for wrapping round sushi. Unless anyone has another use for it?:o

My mum suggested putting it in soup- I'm sure its good for you.

Welshwoofs

mcallister1 wrote: »

Whoops! i was all excited about the seaweed thinking it was the crispy stuff from the chinese restauant- actually it is sheets of real seaweed for wrapping round sushi. Unless anyone has another use for it?:o

Yup!

Cut it into strips and chuck it into a very hot wok, it shrivvels up instantly and goes crispy. Fish it out, cook the rest of your stir-fry and then put the crispy seaweed bits on the top.

oystercatcher

mcallister1 wrote: »

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...!

I ordered two cases of the big Ryvita with coupons on. 20 coupons for free bags of mini Ryita's , used six of them this morning in Sainsburys only the mini Ryvita's were 3 for 2 so I actually got six free bags of Ryvitas and 96p off my shopping!! I will be back ASAP!
Not bad considering the two cases (10 packs per case) of Ryvita were only 99p each in the first place !

mcallister1

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Yup!

Cut it into strips and chuck it into a very hot wok, it shrivvels up instantly and goes crispy. Fish it out, cook the rest of your stir-fry and then put the crispy seaweed bits on the top.

Sounds good- I added it to my carrot and coriander soup but that was a bit of an error. In regular vegetable soup I think it will be ok