Approved food discussion thread

chalkysoil

Alas no HB near me. Just put another order in of vegetarian food eg sosmix.
Watched the youtube clips on that link - mad!

EDITED TO ADD email came at 2.14 Your order has been packed and is now waitng for the courier to pick up your shippment. OMG will have to start eating lots to make room for the new goodies

Ironside

Ironside wrote: »

My family love refried beans, and I'm tempted by the mega 3180g tins at 99p each.

Surely they should be safe at the hands of the carriers?

Then again,

Would I want to be in the same room as a family that has just eaten nearly 3.2kg of beans?

chalkysoil

Ironside wrote: »

Then again,

Would I want to be in the same room as a family that has just eaten nearly 3.2kg of beans?

:eek::rotfl:
have them for breakfast then go for a long day out

mcallister1

peterx wrote: »

99% of Approved Foods items are available in cheap shops and home bargains. A lot of the items are cheap and fattening with not very nice ingredients. Manufacturers want to get rid of these items which haven't sold for one reason or another.Cant understand why anybody would pay for delivery of these inferior products.OK one or two items might be passable but most can be bought individually from cheap shops.

Sometimes I think that when I look at what is in stock- but it changes very quickly. So although there are always loads of biscuits and cheap crisps, like Poundland etc, then there are days when there are really good quality things, which are at a really good price.For instance, the de-identified supermarket cous cous from Waitrose which was really nice, or the fruit juice, which may not be as healthy as it seems, but is better than paying big money for it in the supermarket. And the baking boys flapjacks have been really good for packed lunches.Likewise the quality brown basmati is £4.90 in Tesco- becasue I checked before I ordered- and he had it for 99p. Yes you can get cheaper rice- but I feel funnily enough that with AF sometimes I am getting nicer food than I would have got otherwise.
I think its a question of deciding when to place an order for best value for the postage.

cheerfulness4

Yes I agree with you Mcallister. I think the same.
The 99p tins of Red Salmon were a bargain yesterday but were OOS when I looked again this morning.
It doesn't pay to ponder too long with AP - you sleep, you weep!

BlimusOreilly

I got an order this morning. Very quick as I only ordered on Monday - loving the new delivery system.
I was prompted to order because of the case of Falafel mix, so ordered 2 - unfortunately they were the only things that weren't in the box (replaced with 24 bags of peanuts - not so great for the diet). Haven't tried them yet but the 5 massive bags of tortillas for 99p look like an amazing bargain!

Badger_Lady

I've just ordered a bunch of Body For Life stuff (metaboliser capsules and whey protein). It's actually the stuff I use for my diet anyway (see signature!) so I'm chuffed to pieces

Shame I can never seem to log in and always end up starting a new account...

mcallister1

The Ainsley harriot sticky rice is back on- and some pasta stuff. Just sent an order to my student daughter...

chalkysoil

:mad: just got home from a trip out - parcel delivery note left poked in the front door frame at 2.30 ( hey burglars we're out...) There was no parcel tracking email or etc - is this some new system that doesn't do that anymore? The previous parcels have been with our DHL driver who is here every week and leaves next door's parcels with me & vice versa, we're miles from anywhere else.
I also ordered falafel and won't be getting it, weirdly although I ticked several alternatives to put in instead of anything out of stock I'm getting a refund. Wastes the postage a bit but nevermind.

chalkysoil

ladybabe wrote: »

v v annoyed, delivery man knocked once and by the time i got to the door had placed a card between the frame and the door (i live on a main road so had i not been in they might as well said this housee has no-one in!! have perfectly good postbox at rear), and my neighbour always take in items they never even bothered and gave me less than 2 mins to answer so now have to pick up from depot... which they say cant ring them to do this for at least 1 working day. good job nothing in the parcel is perrishable... not happy

My card says they will automatically redeliver tomorrow between dawn & midnight or somesuch, I can't get to a parcel depot from here and if I could I couldn't lift a 25kg box out of a car, so they better do

:easter_ba :EasterBun :icotbaske