To Buy:
Cottage Cheese
Orange Juice
Strong white flour
Plain flour
Bin bags
Chicken tikka sauce
Nappies
Recycled toilet paper 10 rolls £1.19
Apples
Peaches
Goody Special Muesli - the nicest muesli you can buy!
Chow mein stir fry noodles
Fruit pastilles - yummy!
Orange jaffa cakes - less cake and more orange than normal ones.
Feta cheese - not as crumbly as some feta, but in really convenient smaller packs.
Passata and tomato puree
Croissants and Pain au Chocolat
Luxury coleslaw
Aldi - good stuff Soya milk - tastes like creamy real milk, better than all the others at up to 4x the price. Olive oil - extra virgin 750ml for £2.50ish (it's blended extra virgin so even though the brand may look Italian it may be a mix of oil from anywhere - eg Spain, Tunisia, Israel) Cereals Feta cheese - 99p for 100g Other cheeses generally good too
Aldi - bad stuff Fresh veg - they get a delivery on Monday, and then most isn't chilled for the rest of the week. It doesn't last very long when you've got it home. 2litre plastic bottles of cider (Strongbow clone) - it's mostly sweeteners Tinned veg - nothing particularly wrong with it, just the value ranges elsewhere are usually much cheaper Vitamins - concentrations are very low. The vitamin D+calcium is just lumps of chalk
Lidl - good stuff The big salamis (about 680g for £3.50) Packet just-add-water rice/pasta - a meal for 35p Lentils - 49p for 500g Greek yoghurt - 1kg for £1.50ish Dried fruit and nut mix with chocolate crunchies Fairglobe chocolate - (Fairglobe is their Fairtrade brand) Shower gel - 11p!
My top things to buy are: Parmesan cheese - smoother and creamier than other supermarkets
Extra Virgin Olive Oil - used to be only place doing 750ml for £2.49 or less and it's perfectly useable stuff
Running gear - when the specials are on, this stuff performs as well as the mega-brands, saw me through training for 2007 London marathon and have been using it since then with no problems.
My top things to avoid are: buying too many "bargains"! :rotfl:
Supermarket: Netto
My top things to buy are: cheap loo roll - every so often they have massive packs of Nouvelle on offer (soft and recycled so we both approve!)
Luxury cookies - seem like good value and workmen love them, always stock up when having work done on the house.
Art supplies - some good value and decent items from time to time.
My top things to avoid are: Place frequently full of tat, fruit & veg in local store always looks rather manky
Top tip all round - check websites or leaflets for upcoming special offers if you are looking out for a spcific item; take lots of stout carrier bags.
One thing I can definitely recommend from Aldi is the wonder that is
"Austin’s - grain liquor with fruit extracts", which costs about £5.99 for a 70cl bottle.
Which is their version of *cough* Pimms, but you'd hardly notice the difference once you've added the lemonade and ice etc!! Another tip is also buy a carton or two of pomegranate juice from Aldi and make yourself some cheapo versions of Pim Pom
austins is in imo a good cheap alternative to pimms,
I buy about 4kg per week costing £5.52 a saving of up to £6.00 a week for me.
**Edit** Now back up to anything between £0.99 - £1.49 but still good value especially as ASDA have decided to shrink there grapes from 500g - 400g and keep the price the same (cheeky!) they do a value range but not always available and sometimes the grapes are seeded which I hate!
:T
Excited for Florida - May 2012 :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Top things to buy for us are:
Mozzarella
Feta Cheese
Frozen Lean Steak Mince
Bramley Apple Pies
Tinned tomatoes
Baked Beans
Fruit Juice
Frozen Frying Steak
Frozen Whole Green Beans & Peas & Steak Cut Chips
Imitation Snickers Bars
All Pizzas except the Seafood one - that, we think, is disgusting
Dog Food Chubs
Bathroom Products generally
Scotch Eggs
Dry White Wine
Muesli bars
We do a stock-up once a month and, of course, you can't be sure that you'll always find the same thing - but that's all part of life's rich pageant!
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To Buy:
Cottage Cheese
Orange Juice
Strong white flour
Plain flour
Bin bags
Chicken tikka sauce
Nappies
Recycled toilet paper 10 rolls £1.19
Apples
Peaches
To Avoid:
"fresh" chicken
Minced frozen beef
Goody Special Muesli - the nicest muesli you can buy!
Chow mein stir fry noodles
Fruit pastilles - yummy!
Orange jaffa cakes - less cake and more orange than normal ones.
Feta cheese - not as crumbly as some feta, but in really convenient smaller packs.
Passata and tomato puree
Croissants and Pain au Chocolat
Luxury coleslaw
Soya milk - tastes like creamy real milk, better than all the others at up to 4x the price.
Olive oil - extra virgin 750ml for £2.50ish (it's blended extra virgin so even though the brand may look Italian it may be a mix of oil from anywhere - eg Spain, Tunisia, Israel)
Cereals
Feta cheese - 99p for 100g
Other cheeses generally good too
Aldi - bad stuff
Fresh veg - they get a delivery on Monday, and then most isn't chilled for the rest of the week. It doesn't last very long when you've got it home.
2litre plastic bottles of cider (Strongbow clone) - it's mostly sweeteners
Tinned veg - nothing particularly wrong with it, just the value ranges elsewhere are usually much cheaper
Vitamins - concentrations are very low. The vitamin D+calcium is just lumps of chalk
Lidl - good stuff
The big salamis (about 680g for £3.50)
Packet just-add-water rice/pasta - a meal for 35p
Lentils - 49p for 500g
Greek yoghurt - 1kg for £1.50ish
Dried fruit and nut mix with chocolate crunchies
Fairglobe chocolate - (Fairglobe is their Fairtrade brand)
Shower gel - 11p!
(all prices approximate from memory)
- My top things to buy are: Parmesan cheese - smoother and creamier than other supermarkets
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil - used to be only place doing 750ml for £2.49 or less and it's perfectly useable stuff
- Running gear - when the specials are on, this stuff performs as well as the mega-brands, saw me through training for 2007 London marathon and have been using it since then with no problems.
- My top things to avoid are: buying too many "bargains"! :rotfl:
Supermarket: Netto- My top things to buy are: cheap loo roll - every so often they have massive packs of Nouvelle on offer (soft and recycled so we both approve!)
- Luxury cookies - seem like good value and workmen love them, always stock up when having work done on the house.
- Art supplies - some good value and decent items from time to time.
- My top things to avoid are: Place frequently full of tat, fruit & veg in local store always looks rather manky
Top tip all round - check websites or leaflets for upcoming special offers if you are looking out for a spcific item; take lots of stout carrier bags.[threadbanner]box[/threadbanner]
austins is in imo a good cheap alternative to pimms,
Red Grapes - 69p (500g)
I buy about 4kg per week costing £5.52 a saving of up to £6.00 a week for me.
**Edit** Now back up to anything between £0.99 - £1.49 but still good value especially as ASDA have decided to shrink there grapes from 500g - 400g and keep the price the same (cheeky!) they do a value range but not always available and sometimes the grapes are seeded which I hate!
:T
Parmesan cheese
J.D. Gross chocolate
Bourbon Vanilla Ice-cream
Parma ham/Prosciutto
Antipasti
Bagged rocket
Fresh mozzarella
Choc-chip 'luxury' cookies
Red ("Rosso") Balsamic Vinegar
Jars of Amarena cherries
Lemon and Lime marmalade (indistinguishable from Rose's)
Aldi:
Wernesgrüner pilsner
Cooker hood filters
Self-bake croissants
Ice-cream
Jars of black olives
Sandals
From either:
Apricot jam
Most electronic goods, though recent PCs at Aldi haven't been as good deals as a couple of years ago.
Mozzarella
Feta Cheese
Frozen Lean Steak Mince
Bramley Apple Pies
Tinned tomatoes
Baked Beans
Fruit Juice
Frozen Frying Steak
Frozen Whole Green Beans & Peas & Steak Cut Chips
Imitation Snickers Bars
All Pizzas except the Seafood one - that, we think, is disgusting
Dog Food Chubs
Bathroom Products generally
Scotch Eggs
Dry White Wine
Muesli bars
We do a stock-up once a month and, of course, you can't be sure that you'll always find the same thing - but that's all part of life's rich pageant!
What we avoid - those Seafood pizzas!
Tiramisu
Belgian chocolate seashells
Coffee chocolate bars