Groceries On The Doorstep

We took advantage of our quiet day to attack the on-line ordering system from Tesco this afternoon. Tesco and other large grocery chaines in London offer delivery to the door for a fee of about f5. It is a very reasonable price considering the price of gas. They even advertise that they'll put it all in the refrigerator if desired. All ou need is an internet connection. Since we've been trudging to the grocery store two and three times a day, that seems like luxury indeed! Now we'll see if our week's groceries delivered to the door between 9 and 11 tomorrow morning as promised. The ordering was a challenge because nothing here seems to be categorized the same as in the states. For example, string cheese is "cheesey strings". I never did figure out how to order lime juice because when you order "Tesco 250 ml lime juice", which is what it says on the current bottle in the fridge, you get lemon-lime water, Water of Life lime drink and everything else but what you asked for. Cottage cheese is another mystery. We order something that we think fits our understanding of this product, but we had to skip over a variety of options to get there. The more popular items appear to be pint containers layered with cottage cheese and pineapple or cottage cheese and onion and chives, which you are supposed to mix together and eat. We'll see how close our order matches our desires when the delivery man arrives tomorrow morning!