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

creditcrunch_comper

Thanks for all the tips I'm going to swap to Aldi for my grocery shop next month, but I can recommend the siana face cream - there is a day and night cream containing the holy Q10 and its only £1.89 a pot! I've seen it in a few surveys where its beaten the very expensive brands and can honestly see and feel the difference in my skin

abirdy

Lidl - The Hot Cross Buns are among their best regular items - yummy!

grannybiker

Lidl:
Must be weird as love both the sea-food and spinach (just add a little extra grated cheese!) pizzas!
Can echo comments on the Schgotten chocolate, particularly the strawberry yoghurt, tiramisu and praline flavours.
Cranberry flavour meusili bars. Not too sweet. Usually 8 for around £1.18, but often 1/2 price/69p.
Large tin of chicken soup with pasta shells, 79pish. The clear kind (closest to home-made you'll get.) Usually add a pack of cheap noodles to pad out into a more substantial lunch.
Has anyone mentioned the filled plaice fillets yet? Usually around £1.79 for 2, but recently been on offer for £1. Come in spinach & feta cheese or prawn filling as well as plain. Have tried most of their fish products and have yet to find one we dislike. The fillet fish fingers even get the thumbs up!
Quite like their frozen gorgonzola & spinach penne you cook in the frying pan with a little milk too. Quick & easy, again, around £1.79, but sometimes on offer for £1.
Thanks to a large freezer, can stock up when these are on offer and ignore them at full price!
Aldi:
(Don't get there much as no store nearby, but call in when I'm in the area & have time!)
The rich, luxury milk chocolate. 200g in a cardboard wrapper. (Sorry, none left in the cupboard to give details!) 45% cocoa I think.
Single bio yoghurts, around 27p. Love the blueberry or peach & passion fruit.
Multigrain loaf, around 80p. Much nicer than Lidl's where slices are all different (many MUCH too thin!) thickness.

Will no doubt think of more...!

Dustsucks

Lidl

All the 79p herring in various sauces are excellent value and very tasty. Similarly for the salmon etc.
Rye bread - keeps well in fridge and makes lovely snacks spread with anchovy butter or similar. Also, their dry roasted peanuts at 39p are very good.

Of the items they have in as specials from time to time (like this week I think?), the rechargeable batteries are wonderful value and their rechargers work very well.

vicbenjake

I've just done my first big shop at Lidl's and got tons for my £100. Only problem was the lack of space at the till when the cashier had swipped them. It was extremely stressful having to pack at that speed, and she was getting stressed with me and kept tutting. I had just spent £100 so I felt she could be a little more gracious. Anyone else have the same problem in their local store?
Also the veg was very dodgy, everything I picked up was going brown at the edges.
Looking forward to seeing what all my bargains taste like!

rosieben

I always take my own bags and have them standing opened and ready to fill in the trolley, anything I cant get packed quickly goes loose in the trolley and after I've paid I move away from the till and take a couple of minutes to finish packing. There is always a rush there and I find it better to move away and pack rather than pack hastily and break or smash something.

usually the checkout person like to have your trolley quite close to them so they can put stuff straight into your bags

hancdw

Lidl Jalfrezi and Rogan Josh curry sauces are superb - and a very good price. .
Dave

kayseri

The things I really LOVE to buy from Lidl:

lebkuchen (German Christmas cookies)

Formil washing powder - the whites powder makes my whites ultra white and the colours powder does a good job on colours. those come in large boxes and tablets. they also sell non-bio tablets, but haven't yet seen that in the large boxes.

W5 dishwasher tablets and also W5 water softener tablets and W5 wipes (like Flash wipes)

swing bin liners

paper towels

pump hand soaps

instant coffees

biscuits and sweets

soups

toothpaste

Annaleena

The reason why they ask you to turn your trolley is because that's the way the tillpoints were designed and it makes it easier and faster for the customer to load the trolley that way instead of having to lean over it.

Recommended: Milk Mouse chocolates. Tasty choc pieces with milky filling with tiny (hazelnut?) bits in them. They are reduced at the mo to 79p.

dixie wrote: »

Recommend in Aldi
Vitacat in gravy - I have two very fussy cats and they love the cat food in foil packets
Orange juice
flavoured fizzy water
Black bin bags
Instant Coffee
Lager (red and white tin)
Foil (very strong)
Men's Deodorant (blue)
Also if you buy any special offers, eg clothes very good at taking back.
Free parking

Don't like
No baskets - and being told which way to put my trolley at checkout

Definitely a thumbs up

Bowlesy_2

I still love that (as some comedian once said) shopping in Aldi is like food shopping on holiday - so true!:rotfl:

Anyway, our faves our:

Frozen Lamb shanks (with mint gravy or Moroccan style sauce) - miles better than Asda or Morrisons' versions
Handcooked crisps - better than Kettle chips, from the fussy OH!
Sliced meats (actually taste like meat)
Hotdogs (chiller) - bratwurst or whatever they are called...
Pizza - fresh
Fresh lasagne
Seed biscuit things (99p and are just addictive)
Face cream (even featured on Gok's TV program, 2nd only to one that cost about 100 quid - and this is less than 2!) Love it.
Fish goujons
Instant Columbian coffee
Kitchen towel
Lean Steak mince - does enough for 2, for 2 meals
Toothbrushes (pack of 2, include tongue cleaner!)
Disposable razors
Baby wipes (went down a treat at this years fesitvals!)
Microwaveable rice packs
Special pasta sauces
Mozzarella balls (especially with above in pasta bake) - don't always have in though
Frozen individual lasagne and pasta dishes (for quick meals) - sometimes salty
Mackrel in tomato sauce
Diet Red Thunder - exactly like Redbull and miles cheaper
pepper corn mill
Wholegrain yoghurts
Fruit & veg - if it doesn't look bruised, and use straight away
Flowers - last amazingly long
Bleach
Fingertip sponge scourers - clean up a treat
And definitely the chocolate!

Not too keen on:
Bread - batch loaf tastes good but goes stale quickly
Bran cereal - bland
Washing up liquid - big bottle, too runny - works if you use loads but defeats the point
Women's anti perspirant - leaves clouds of spray!
The fact you have to get a trolley (and need a pound!) - baskets please?
The speed they fling your goods back at you and demand the money while you're trying to chuck it all back in your trolley!