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

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  • ALDI

    Great for

    Italian ham

    Nuts

    Small packs of juice for packed lunches etc

    Plain low fat yoghurt - checked and it seems as healthy as sainsbury's but less than half price

    Batemans beers - except for summer swallow

    Large bottle Italian Lager - not bad with food.

    Ile La Forge red wine - not ultra cheap but very good

    Olive Oil

    Kitchen and bathroon cleaning wipes

    "Excite" shower gel

    Carlton tea tree and mint shaving gel - wonderful, won't use anything else, how do Gillette et al get away with their prices for shaving gel/mouse/mist or whatever they want to call it?

    Anti persiperant roll on

    Tooth brushes - see above re shaving gel - how do other shops convince folk that toothbrush fashions change every year?

    Packs of Stubbie french beer from St Omer - not bad - and unless I'm very much mistaken it's exactly the same as sainsburys flogs for a pound or so more.

    Finally - question - from Thursday 17 Nov Aldi is selling a DAB/FM radio - they say they sold it last year for more - anyone here buy one? Is it any good?

    Finally finally - they do tend to have only one checkout but just love the way they are so fast and you are just expected to put it in your trolley/pack later - really speeds things up - none of the Sainsbury's tokenism where they reckon to help you pack the first two things or whatever. Please - spare me.
  • Aldi

    Great for:

    Toilet paper (rolls look small but they're more tightly wound) £1.75
    Nappies and pull up pants
    Olive oil
    Mozzorella (49p compared to 94p at Tesco)
    Shampoo (sure it's the same as Herbal Essences) 49p for 300ml
    Face wash 49p
    fishfingers 85p for 10

    Avoid

    Tuna

    I think really that most things are fine at Aldi but I've done a weekly shop to compare prices to Tesco and if I hadn't bought so much Mozzorella, the prices would have been similar. Some Tesco value stuff is much cheaper and the same quality. I find the best solution is to get my weekly shop delivered from Tesco and then get anything that's significantly cheaper from Aldi. I'm lucky though that I live 5 mins away from Aldi.
  • All Lidl cleaning products are very good in my opinion especially dish washer stuff and window cleaning liquid (no streaks)!!!!!!!!!

    Lidl mushy peas are fab (15p) and hardly any water in the tin unlike other brands.
  • gravitytolls
    gravitytolls Posts: 13,558 Forumite
    Lidl also do great weekly deals, we buy all our trainers and workl boots there.
    I ave a dodgy H, so sometimes I will sound dead common, on occasion dead stupid and rarely, pig ignorant. Sometimes I may be these things, but I will always blame it on my dodgy H.

    Sorry, I'm a bit of a grumble weed today, no offence intended ... well it might be, but I'll be sorry.
  • Lidl is great for natural yogurt - good price and excellent taste. Likewise, their natural cottage cheese is half that of M & S and every bit as nice. Pineapples are always good value - usually around 85p. And my husband says their licorice allsorts are better than Bassetts (and again, way cheaper!).
  • This is my first post - so hope I get it right
    My favourites are
    Lidl's High Juice Blackcurrant is less sweet and tastier than Ribena
    Cling Film
    Foil
    Man Size tissues
    Sweet cure bacon
    All cheeses
    Wines
    Aldi Washing and Dishwasher stuff
    Savoury Cheese Sticks (better than M&S)
    I bought a really cheap DVD player last Christmas - excellent !

    The one question I have is Why are they always cleaning the floor with the monster cleaner when there are loads of people queing?
  • I lived in Germany for several years and even they have a kind of snobbery there too. While affluent Germans will prefer to shop in 'regular' supermarkets, many of the houses have cellars and they so they go to Lidl & Co in disguise to bulk buy tinned stuff, beer and long-life dry goods.

    The best regular buys we found were :

    Tinned soups - really tasty, but you have to appreciate the seasoning

    Olive Oil - soooooo cheap and every bit as good as the brand names. I find even now that you can save a couple of quid on a single bottle.

    Boxed dried pasta - pure durum wheat at a fraction of the price elsewhere

    Pasta sauces - first class Italian stuff at bargain prices

    Any kind of new recording media - when Recordable CD were first popular, they had them at ridiculously low prices. For two years CDRW were around half the price of anyone else and most small german companies would send their staff out to buy them for work use!

    The electronic special offers - again, Tevion is top stuff. If a new type of computer drive is launched, you'll be able to afford one here before the high street or even internet. This has been mentioned in the 'great disguised electronics' postings, since the internals are usualy from a big name.

    For Christmas goods, it's all top grade German stuff at rock bottom prices - the stollen, gluhwein and marzipan are all excellent. The continental penchant for quality chocolate shines through. Cadbury's it ain't, but the quality is fantastic.

    The downside was that the limited offers usually were just that - and if you weren't in the queue at 8am (like my father-in-law still does in Norfolk!), you can miss out on the very best bargains.

    Lidl's baked beans are cack - they catch in the back of the mouth and make me retch.

    The snobbery's still there - back in the UK, my wife won't go in any of them, and I bargain shop in my lunch break!
  • And I forgot to mention the avocados. As previous posters have said, the fruit and veg can be hit-and-miss. But if you buy avocados from JS/Tesco/M&S ets, they're never quite ripe enough to make guacamole on the day.

    That's never a problem with the bargain stores - and often the ripe ones are marked down to 25p to get rid of them. I've even had them as low as 10p, when they mash up really easily without being slimy. Add this to their bargain onions, garlic and lime and the job's a good 'un. Shame they never have any chillies when I need them . . .

    Of course, making your own guacamole is a very personal thing and I may be alone in thinking this is useful. Ay carumba!!
  • ping_2
    ping_2 Posts: 88 Forumite
    ALDI

    are good for Olive oil(really cheap for theit extra Vigin one)
    KIds bicuits and sweets
    Yogurts and
    their wine is generally good, no lots of people that buy their wine there when stocking up for christmas
  • aldi
    most of the continental type sausages are very meaty and tasty. some do look a bit weird though.
    german lager a good buy
    why is there only one monopolies commission?
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