ASDA cancelling orders

I would have posted this in news, except it's only substantiated by two FB buddies in different parts of England.

Both had their grocery orders cancelled.  The reason was low stock and too many delivery orders.  

Interesting to know. I used Morrison's who were good to deliver next day.

i understand Aldi do a delivery service !.

I plan to visit supermarket at night. They open untill 10pm, so hopefully minimal crowds.

Hi Pandemic.  We are doing early mornings like 7.30am.  Reason for this is research put on another link suggests it can stay in  air dust for 3hrs.

  Thought early mornings (7am) more settled dust as our local sends stock filling staff home at midnight. We got stock so we keep to a few things and self checkout.

Maybe wrong. Maybe when they start air con in morning dust worst.  No idea guessing all this.

Cant believe it has actually come to this.  

Anyone else have their tips for shopping. Would really appreciate.

Hz

But I have just thought of a way round the bread problem. You can order bread at a supermarket. So you could order up the bread you want and they always ask you what time you'll be picking it up, so just after work about 9pm, and then pick up your order from the bakery counter. That would work really well for me.

FluMom wrote: Dang guys, make some bread it is easy.  When I run out of low carb tortillas that I what I am going to do.

I know. I make bread all the time, but sometimes it's just easier to buy. I'm also putting off opening my new sack of flour until we are full time SIP. Silly, I know, but I can't get a replacement.

Pandemic - please post bread recipe or message it to me! THANKS!

I am not a morning person at all, and I cant cook very well. When this began to look iffy last month, I took the cheats way and went to Argos and bought a breadmaker. If local shop is out of bread flour you can blame me.  Made bread yesterday bit heavy, well very heavy, but will do....and if anyone comes near my stores I can probably use my bread as a cosh. One wack and it's the long sleep.  

Hz x

Hazlepad, Breadmakers always make tough bread.  Here is how to change that.

#1, Flour!   Bread flour is strong ie it has a lot of glutein.  Ordinary flour has less and so traps less gas from the yeast and is denser.  If you are using ordinary flour, or flour with some cornflour added (for a lighter still loaf) You need to kneed it TWICE for 10 minutes or more each time.  Unless your breadmaker has more computer parts than NASA it can't do this. So set the breadmaker to kneed only and run it twice. Then prove it in the breadmaker and bake it in the oven.  (This lets you take out the paddle too.)  

#2. Additives. Commercial breadmakers use several tricks to avoid having to do this. They add things to increase the glutination: xanthan gum, soya flour,  milk, buttermilk, whey, unpronouncable chemicals or even yoghurt.  If you have whey it gives an amazingly good flavour to the bread. So the next time the milk curdles, use the curds to cook (great cheese) and stick the whey in the breadmaker.  You may find: "Oh sh1t the milk curdled!" becomes: "Oh great more whey!"

#3, Violence!  You can't make good bread without kneeding it and knocking it back repeatedly!  The more you bash the cr*p out of it the better your bread will be.  IT IS HARD WORK!  Recipes tell you the dough is ready when it no longer sticks to things, that only means it is ready for the final kneed.

No one makes good bread first time.  NO ONE!   It takes practice and hard work.  The softer the flour the softer the bread but also the more you have to kneed and knock it back.  Take the work out, use the breadmaker, but use the kneed/dough option at least twice.

Dang I have been on a keto diet lost 15 lbs and that is great for the cancer drug I am on.  Most women gain weight not lose it.  If I start eating bread I will gain weight...ugh!  Bread making is fun just take all of your frustrations out on two kneadings..Techno is giving good advice!

The first time I made bread in my bread machine... it came out about 4" square. It was pitiful! I had to throw it out.. Next time I added an egg,  milk and a little more yeast. After a few loaves and more tinkering it became edible.  I probably was using the wrong kind of flour. And if so, I just bought the same kind of flour again. LOL..  If it turns into a big hockey puck again I'll give it to the neighbors dog. He can have fun gnawing on it all day.