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Title: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: shygirl on September 09, 2013, 01:26:14 pm
wev been food shopping online for a year now. often we buy things without checking the weight and have ended up with tiny bags of sugar/flour when expecting the big packs, as they look the same in the foto. often i have thought id ordered a pack of bananas to receive just one solitary one.  :innocent:
this time i was very careful order 10 bananas not realising they were packs of ten  - so alas i have 80 bananas in the cupboard...whoops...all ripe and ready to eat.
recipes ideas anyone? ... :roflanim: :roflanim:
 :innocent:

Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: john and helen on September 09, 2013, 01:30:26 pm
Banana fritters  :thumbsup: made some the other night..naughty but very nice...loads of maple syrup  :thumbsup:
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Post by: RUSTYME on September 09, 2013, 02:31:26 pm
I use tesco , hate the company but they are the only ones who deliver here and i don't want to starve just yet .
But if there is anything i don't want , even if i have just changed my mind , i can just send it back and get full refund .
Obviously , if you are getting goods delivered by courier in a box , that is a different kettle of fish , or bunch of bananas !
What to do with a lorry load of 'nanas ? , lots of visits to the monkey house at a zoo ?
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: lachlanandmarcus on September 09, 2013, 02:39:48 pm
Oops!!

Does anyone nearby have one of those dehydrators so you could make dried banana slices ?

I think banana cake freezes, but watch that flour order quantity :-DDD
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: bloomer on September 09, 2013, 02:41:50 pm
i saw the title and came in here to moderate you all for inappropriate subject material, turns out its just my dirty mind...


can't help with the bananas they are the fruit of the devil and should all just be binned as they are nasty!!!
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: sidds on September 09, 2013, 02:54:07 pm
Bananas take a long time to dehydrate in a machine so works out quite costly, we use the stove just ticking over with the door open and it works fine.
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: Womble on September 09, 2013, 04:10:12 pm
Yes, make loads of banana cake and send it to me freeze it for later  ;D
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: Anke on September 09, 2013, 04:51:52 pm
Can I send my  :goat:  round to yours.... they would form an orderly queue I promise!
 
Banana milk shakes loved here, and also banana bread of course... but 80, that's quite a few cakes that is...
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: doganjo on September 09, 2013, 05:04:16 pm
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order 10 bananas not realising they were packs of ten

Is that not 100?

Most supermarkets will take back anything you have made a mistake with - I would say 80 or 100 bananas was a very obvious one and your driver should have offered the question 'did you mean to order so many bananas?'
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: Rosemary on September 09, 2013, 05:15:29 pm
This doesn't help but, a while back, we ordered wholemeal muffins, which we enjoy with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon as a Sunday breakfast treat from time to time. They were obviously out of stock and they substituted................Chocolate Chip Muffins  :P NOT.
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: shygirl on September 09, 2013, 05:24:23 pm
the kids have found it hysterical, especially as they have witnessed the delivery of the single banana many times  :roflanim: :roflanim:
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: Bionic on September 09, 2013, 05:26:50 pm
This doesn't help but, a while back, we ordered wholemeal muffins, which we enjoy with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon as a Sunday breakfast treat from time to time. They were obviously out of stock and they substituted................Chocolate Chip Muffins  :P NOT.
I ordered velcro and they sent me stick on cup hooks????
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: happygolucky on September 09, 2013, 05:47:21 pm
 :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: , made a few mistakes myself but those who know me, know we go shopping now just for bargains.......I have also done similar...................I think maybe go around and donate a few bananas to the school after  your run in........ :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: shygirl on September 09, 2013, 07:14:45 pm
...................I think maybe go around and donate a few bananas to the school after  your run in........ :thumbsup:

we gave the school nursery some fresh rhubarb from our garden once but they wouldnt let the kids taste it, too much health and saftey... :innocent:
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: lachlanandmarcus on September 09, 2013, 07:17:25 pm
...................I think maybe go around and donate a few bananas to the school after  your run in........ :thumbsup:

we gave the school nursery some fresh rhubarb from our garden once but they wouldnt let the kids taste it, too much health and saftey... :innocent:


They should have lived a few decades back. My Mum came from a not well off background, and remembers as a little girl the treat of eating an apple all of her own, and that she had finished eating it, another little girl asked if she could have the core to eat.....bet she wouldn't have turned down rhubarb.....
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: Daisys Mum on September 09, 2013, 07:30:21 pm

They should have lived a few decades back. My Mum came from a not well off background, and remembers as a little girl the treat of eating an apple all of her own, and that she had finished eating it, another little girl asked if she could have the core to eat.....bet she wouldn't have turned down rhubarb.....
I remember getting a stick or rhubarb with some sugar in a paper bag as a treat 
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: little blue on September 09, 2013, 07:35:29 pm

this time i was very careful order 10 bananas not realising they were packs of ten  - so alas i have 80 bananas in the cupboard...whoops...all ripe and ready to eat.


what happened to the other 20?!
If you have goats, or pigs they'll be well chuffed - or sell some on to someone that has!

Love banana cake, chuck a few sultanas in.
make milkshake or smoothies & stick 'em in the freezer? Banana yogurt?
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: happygolucky on September 09, 2013, 07:57:20 pm
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I remember getting a stick or rhubarb with some sugar in a paper bag as a treat 
me too :thumbsup:
 
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: mowhaugh on September 09, 2013, 08:11:52 pm
Banana cake freezes well, and all my ponies love bananas.

Bit worried re the rhubarb, I am making apple pies next week (cheese scones tomorrow, yum) with my class using apples from our orchard, hope I am not going to upset the Safety Elf.
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: MAK on September 09, 2013, 08:18:57 pm
Ah - the good old days.
Old men could talk to children and give them rhubard sticks with a newspaper cone of sugar and we could all then get the subsequent dental care on the NHS.  :roflanim:
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: happygolucky on September 09, 2013, 08:27:53 pm
and bob a job day had no hidden mean :innocent:
can liquidized nana be frozen?
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Post by: RUSTYME on September 09, 2013, 09:02:02 pm
Er , poor old nana may have something to say about that !
Oooo , soylent green and custard eh ?
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 09, 2013, 10:15:43 pm
I once (deliberately) bought a load of bananas as they were going very cheap, and turned them into banana wine.


Actually, it was too sweet so I then turned it into banana liqueur which was scrummy but when I gave some to my new man (now my husband) he knocked it back like milkshake and got pretty drunk.
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: happygolucky on September 09, 2013, 10:16:27 pm
 :cold:  frozen nana :roflanim:
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: Simon O on September 10, 2013, 12:32:08 pm
Banana jam. Or banana and rhubarb jam. Had this at a b and b in France once. It was great, but I've never tried to make it myself...too frightened
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: ZacB on September 11, 2013, 09:13:34 am
Have heard that if you mash them up and freeze in a suitable container you have banana ice cream. Let us know if it works as we would probably do this and then use in smoothies.
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: waddy on September 11, 2013, 09:40:32 am



Try this - instant banana icecream.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/instantbananaicecrea_86115 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/instantbananaicecrea_86115)


Helen
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 11, 2013, 10:17:48 pm
 :yum:
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: happygolucky on September 11, 2013, 10:55:26 pm
I thought of this thread today when I did see Banana Jam in B&M. I made a Banana Omelette after it being suggested on here and I was so sick, I do not think I can digest too much banana!
Title: Re: Another internet shopping boob
Post by: AndynJ on September 12, 2013, 03:38:40 am
serves you right for shopping at such a place :roflanim:
What happened to eating from the land/local or whats in season.
Just eat one at a time  :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
 
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