As quarantined shoppers buy more groceries online, mistakes are inevitable. 4evrmalone reports on accidental bulk purchasing
Photo: skodonnell/Getty Images/iStockphoto If you’ve got any good recipes that call for a lot of milk, my friend Elizabeth would love to see them. She accidentally purchased an entire case — that’s four gallons — of skim during a recent online order in which she meant to buy a more-reasonable half-gallon.
“Somehow I thought I was getting a subscription of one, 100-filter pack every month,” Caroline Fulford says of an Amazon order she’d placed for coffee filters. “Instead I got a one-time order of 12 packs of 100 filters, which may actually last us out until summer, so we’re all set for the rest of quarantine at least.”
However, coffee filters and candied ginger are a lot easier to keep around than, say, a pile of fresh poultry. “In normal life, I’m not much of a cook,” says Esther Zuckerman, a writer at Thrillist. “I do it occasionally and usually just go to the grocery store and buy exactly what I need for one recipe. This whole ‘planning ahead’ thing is new to me.
Emily Dennett, a high-school teacher, also knows the plight of the person who accidentally orders too many perishable ingredients. “I was ordering at 10 p.m. because I had taught all day and then planned lessons,” she says. “I wanted to stock up on food so that we wouldn’t have to order for at least two weeks.” Her goal: Get enough strawberries for her son to enjoy. “I was trying to order about four pounds of strawberries: two two-pound packs.
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