I’ve been fortunate with Woolworths deliveries which I get once a week on Wednesday evenings. I can always get a slot because they have a priority ordering system for seniors. I’ve been an online customer of theirs since I had my hip replacement, when I wasn’t allowed to drive for 6 weeks. Lately there have been more substitutions when items were not available. They always send things of greater value. For example, a whole chicken when I’d ordered thighs, two packs of frozen organic blueberries when the normal ones had run out, a 1.5 litre bottle of orange juice instead of a 600 ml one. Their veggies are always a bit tired, but oranges and bananas are fine. We get top-ups from C who visits a local greengrocer near her office which even sells fresh figs. She also brings us essentials like Aldi’s chocs and wine boxes. We only really lack stuff if I forget to order it.
Last night we enjoyed red meat for a change, in the form of BBQ’d lamb chops - a great favourite of mine. I used to consume 4 at a time, but have to make do with only 2 now! I served them with mushrooms, carrots, beans and rice. We drank a precious bottle of Proximo from the Marqués de Riscal vineyard in the Rioja (a place which I visited a couple of years ago whilst on a deviation from the Camino). It’s not expensive and sold here by Dan Murphy’s.
I’ve just come across the frenetic Gordon Ramsay cooking a similar dish on YouTube at his self-isolation home in Cornwall. Mine was much less chaotic in the preparation.
Seeing the shelf pickers preparing the home deliveries I have sympathy for them. The supermarkets here have recruited new staff for the job and they often look very like "fish out of water" puzzling over customers lists on small handheld devices and gazing back and forth at often almost empty shelves. I imagine they have no choice but to make quick decisions and substitutions although as they stand puzzling it looks anything but quick and far from easy. I take my hat off to the supermarkets here who are managing to make the deliveries albeit not exactly as required every time. I found a delivery driver in my yard at 10pm recently who had come to the wrong address. I spoke to him from a bedroom window just in time to stop him putting the delivery into my garage. He was extremely polite and apologetic. I gave him directions from my window to the correct address.
ReplyDeleteI believe that our home deliveries come from a warehouse rather than the supermarket. I once met a woman who worked through the night on Fridays, preparing for the Saturday deliveries. She quite enjoyed it, she said. Anyway, I’m really grateful not to have to go out shopping at this time.
DeleteLooks delish!
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