Great 'What's Hot and What's not at Aldi, Lidl & Netto' Hunt revisted

babs2008

Today was the first time I've been to Netto.

I got three jars of Marmite with Champagne (250g) for £1.49 each - it's priced £3 in tesco the regular 125g jars are usually around £1.12.

Should keep me going for a while. :j

(the offer's valid until Sunday I think)

Mummylonglegs_2

Top things to buy

Olive oil
Green olives
All their fruit and veg
Cloudy apple juice
Feta style 'salad' cheese
Mozarella
Parmesan
Mature Chedar
Edam
Gorgonzola
Sauvignon Blanc
White Zinfandel
Prosecco
Part cooked Ciabatta
Brown sliced bread

Things NOT to get;
Digestive or wafer biscuits (check - a lot of their biscuits have Hydrogenated Vegetable Fat which the body cannot excrete - giving a new meaning to a biscuit 'for life')
Any of their pork products (mostly from Denmark where it is unethically and cruelly battery farmed, UK pigs have a slightly better life)

psychopathbabble

I must live in the only town with no Lidl, Aldi or Netto! We have Tesco, 2 Sainsburys and a Waitrose. The nearest one is Lidl which is 10 miles away... I guess it would be worth it for a big family, but I only spend about £20 a week as it's just me!

fivealive_2

Products I buy in Lidl in preference to my local Tesco:
Digestive Biscuits
ACE Fruit Juice
Chinese Noodle Soup
Par-baked bread rolls
Packs of mini packets of sweets
Brioche
Ham for sandwiches
Indian & Chinese Ready meals
Emmental or Gouda Cheese slices
Cans of Hi-Energy drink
Pork Loin chops
Any good Special Offers, their shoes and trainers (including children's) tend to wear well.

Polly_Dolly_2

I love Lidl.

Good stuff
tins of tomatoes, baked beans,sweetcorn, beans especially mixed bean salad.
Mint tea bags 59p for 25.
Creamy Greek yogurt 1kg. (useful tub with handle to use again).
Vitakrone tomato ketchup (very strong tomato taste) and mayonnaise.
Bread flour 48p.
Jar of sundried tomatoes.
Luxury fruit meusli delicious lots of fruit.
Formil non-bio washing powder and tablets cheap and ok for my sensitive skin.

Not so good
crunchy oat cereal recently changed and had burnt?/hard sultanas.
As someone said before fruit and veg can sometimes be past best. Just need to check carefully- prod and smell!

Schamansky

Supermarket: ALDI

My top things to buy are:
Bockwurst, jar of 5
Chunky Chilli beef soup
Continental tarts (and I've known a few in my life)
Angus and Stilton burgers
Frikadellen
Ravioli
Garlic sausage
Diet Lemonade
Diet Cola
Lemon cola (no diet version, unfortunately)
Cranberry Juice
Swiss muesli
Grape juice
Stollen
Bathroom and kitchen cleaner
Bin bags (sturdy and with tie handles)
Microfibre cloths
Headstrong anti-dandruff shampoo
Men's shaving gel
Excite after shave
Excite deodorant (men)
Siana face cream (says Ms Schamansky)
Wernesgrüner Pilsener
Okocim Polish lager
Staroslav Czech lager
Shandy
Highland Black 12 year old whisky
Hazelnut Heaven chocolate
Jive (Twix clone)
Moser Roth chocolate (any)
Earl dog food, all varieties (says the dog)
Vitacat cat food, canned (says a very fussy cat)

My top things to avoid are:
Processed peas (awful)
Excite three blade razor system (unless you wanna lick blood)
Brasserie French lager (St Omer goo)
Hokkien noodles (bland)

Lil1965

My favourite ALDI Buys

Chunky Chilli Beef Soup
Siana Anti-Wrinkle Night Cream (at £1.89 this beauty product beat a £50 tub of cream on a survey done on tv a few months back).
Pop-corn - Cinema style
Wine Gums
Curry Sauces in jars (especially Tikka Masala).
Siana Moisturising Shower Gel/creme
Chocolate Wafer Biscuits (individually wrapped in Navy Blue wrappers)
Strawberry Jam
Pikelets (yummy with ALDI jam)
Baby Wipes
Extra large tins of Rice Pudding
Cones for ice-cream (not full of artificial sweetners, cheaper and lovely and crunchy if you keep in an air tight container once opened)
Award winning frozen Pizza
Flowers

Don't Like
Any (so called) Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Lemon Sole Goujons

stewb

Personally I love the hazelnut chocolate, and tomato puree is good value.

A few people have mentioned cakes as being good. Some certainly are, but beware because quite a few of them are full of partially hydrogenated vegetable fats which are really bad for you. These have largely been eliminated in all the major supermarkets products. Lidl should do likewise.

airgead

SUPERMARKET - LIDL

TOP BUYS
luxury muesli
muesli bars
chocolate spread
cotton wool
tonic water
boxes of tagliatelli (fab!)
tinned mackerel, tuna and herring
chorizo
cartons of passata
frozen pollock fillets
cheeses
organic yoghurts - gorgeous
most of the fruit and veg
shortbread
bars of chocolate - amazing!
british beef sausages

NOT SO HOT
hot chocolate
tea bags
instant coffee
really cheap jam

Schamansky

airgead wrote: »

SUPERMARKET - LIDL

TOP BUYS
chocolate spread
tinned mackerel, tuna and herring
frozen pollock fillets

Full support on these three.

But I find their instant coffee quite drinkable.