Great What/What Not to Buy at Lidl, Aldi and Netto Hunt

mrs.maverick

Dog food - I bought Aldi's dog food and the one dog likes it, the other won't touch it! But there are good biscuits in a decorated tin that they both like, and Lidl is good for snack treats, under the name 'Gerodog'. I buy the white chocolate treats which they love, and the chocs don't melt in your pocket like some do!

Oh, and we humans like Lidl's chocolate for humans too! They do great continental chocolates especially at Xmas, with praline and marzipan specialities.

stamford

Spaten Lager 500ml bottle brewed in Munich - 99p Aldi

TOP BUY :beer:

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Bought some walking "boots" (more like trainers with some ankle padding) from Aldi earlier this year. Stitching went very quickly.

Mary_Hartnell

You pay "cash" at these discount stores - so keep the receipts in case you need to claim on their warranties.

Stompa

Mary_Hartnell wrote: »

You pay "cash" at these discount stores - so keep the receipts in case you need to claim on their warranties.

You should presumably do that regardless of how you pay.....

BexTech

Mary_Hartnell wrote: »

You pay "cash" at these discount stores - so keep the receipts in case you need to claim on their warranties.

You can pay by debit card too.

Keeping receipts wherever you shop should be something automatic you do anyway.

Mary_Hartnell

Lidl is currently proudly boasting it has won the "Which?" - Best Value For Money Retailer award.

So it is ok to slip in there and save a quid or two, now that the average family grocery bill is up 15 GBP a week.

Your friends and neighbours should be impressed by some of the "exotic" continental
brands and the shops are usually in side streets, rather than in the prime locations; so you won't be spotted in the car park:D.

Lidl is currently offering Pimms at not much more than the reduced duty Calais price.

iranoff

Lidl's Excelsior Lager (Alc 4.1% by volume) at £2.29 for 4 x 500 ml cans and Hatherwood Bitter (Alc 4.0% by volume) at £2.29 for 4 x 500 ml have been voted best cheap beers by Lad's mag Loaded (our 30 year old son buys the mag). We have tried the bitter and its just fine. If you gave it to guests without revealing the can, they would be none the wiser, and the can looks reasonably classy anyway, although the lager can shouts out "cheapo".

I have been drinking theri Grafenwalder pils for years and chose it originally because the name contains our surname. Aussie friends visiting two summers back thought it was great, although if you've ever drunk the most popular aussie beer VB you would understand that water tastes better.

We drank the bitter with a meal where the meat was spare rib pork chops from a Walter Smiths butchers shop (a Midlands chain) in our local city centre coated in Lidl's McEnnedy sticky barbecue marinade sauce at 75p for a 285g bottle. Mrs Ranoff coated it carefully using a silicone pastry brush and we ate in the conservatory and I pronounced it champion.

Tolleydog

Schofferhofer Weissbier (500 ml), a very nice wheat beer, was reduced from £1.39 to 99p in Aldi in Bradford yesterday.

Schamansky

Tolleydog wrote: »

Schofferhofer Weissbier (500 ml), a very nice wheat beer, was reduced from £1.39 to 99p in Aldi in Bradford yesterday.

That's the good news. :beer:

Bad news: Spaten original Oktoberfest beer is back up at 1.39.:(