With Christmas day being a Thursday....

[reddragon]

We shall mostly be eating meat, roasties and gravy

I do my food shop on a Friday every week, and there Is no chance of veg bought today lasting to next Thursday. Now I could quite happily live off meat, roast potatoes and gravy but I suspect my husband, parents and sister will expect a little veg, so I will have to brave the hoards next week



As an aside, the other week husband was off to a do on the Saturday night so I bought a meal for one. As he is obsessed with food he asked what I was having, I told him cod mornay and little roasties, he said what no veg? I had to explain that in fact potatoes are veg

[igual]

Hehe,
Unfortunately I'll be battling the hoards on Wednesday morning at 7am lol
Elbows are sharpend spikes are ready to attatch to boots and shotgun oiled and ready
Bring it on ( OK that last parsnip is mine b**** )

[reddragon]

Best of british igual I am not great at having to go shopping at the best of times, crowds are not for me, I am a dab hand at barging people out of the way with a trolley however

[lairey]

As my Dad decided he wanted goose for Christmas this year, I've had to order one to collect on the 23rd. between 8am and 10am. I plan to get there at about 6:30, do all the rest of the shopping, scan as you shop, and get to the meat counter bang on 8am, so I can just head straight to the checkout and escape asap! Really not looking forward to it at all!!!

[reddragon]

Ooh goose lairey never had that before. No doubt at 6.30 am there will be lots of other bleary eyed shoppers sleep walking the aisles

[Deleted]

Went alcohol shopping tonight at Tesco and Sainsbury, only a small amount to keep me going until Christmas, and it was bliss. Last lot I will do next Tuesday night. Dave

[lairey]

Dec 19, 2014 21:20:39 GMT reddragon said:

Ooh goose lairey never had that before. No doubt at 6.30 am there will be lots of other bleary eyed shoppers sleep walking the aisles

Neither have I, but there will be lots of goose fat for the roasties 

When I have driven past the Tesco Extra at 7am on my way to work on the last few days before Xmas, the car park, which in itself is the size of a small town, has been full!  Absolutely dreading it!!!

[katiekoo]

We get our Turkey from the farm up the road, fab value & villagers can collect Christmas Eve. Hubby has offered to go veg shopping at 6am Tuesday morning! I don't do rude people, one day my irritation at all things rude & inconsiderate will get me into trouble & the older I get the more intolerant I get! Holidays bring out the worst in people. Grrr! Manners cost nothing in my book. X

[Perpetua]

Spare a thought for those of us who will actually be working in these frenzied, festive food conditions.

Our .com ladies are starting work from 4am as of today through to Christmas Eve picking orders for Collection & Delivery, other Staff are working through the night to try and keep the parsnips etc stocked up.

I finish work at 10.30pm on the 23rd . . . then am due in again at 6am Christmas Eve.

[dagl]

Dec 19, 2014 21:21:52 GMT @darch said:

Went alcohol shopping tonight at Tesco and Sainsbury, only a small amount to keep me going until Christmas, and it was bliss. Last lot I will do next Tuesday night. Dave

Waitrose, wed after 3pm   a turkey for about £15

(if that doesn't work its the backup duck out the freezer)

[reddragon]

I dread to think what would happen if I sent my husband food shopping katiekoo even with a list I once asked him to pick up some cooked chicken breast, he came home with raw I swear he does it on purpose so he doesn't get asked again, even though he is the shopper out of the two of us.

[igual]

lairey
How you cooking the proverbial goose hun
Don't want to teach you to suck eggs like but if you want any tips shout.
Shot and cooked a fair few in my life lol

[reddragon]

That's meant more as a thumbs down than a "like" Perpetua I imagine supermarket workers see some shocking behavior this time of year

[Perpetua]

It's not pretty that's for sure reddragon . . . though I think what saddens me more, is the desperate state of angst & stress some people work themselves into over buying food for Christmas.

Maybe it's just part of their traditional build up to it all. ???

But I can't help but think that the sell by date on a bag of satsumas is really something to get in a flat spin over.

[lairey]

Dec 19, 2014 21:35:55 GMT igual said:

lairey
How you cooking the proverbial goose hun
Don't want to teach you to suck eggs like but if you want any tips shout.
Shot and cooked a fair few in my life lol

Just a simple roast igual, along with honey glazed gammon, pigs in blankets, black pudding in blankets, roasties, sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts, roast parsnips, sausage meat stuffing, carrots and yorkshire puds (for my nephews' benefit, they both love them) and loads of gravy... getting hungry just thinking about it