Does anyone do a full shop at Aldi?

burge23

We swapped to Aldi a while ago and haven't looked back. Others seem to have done the same and the car park is regularly full of expensive cars and very well turned out shoppers! Mother in law moved in with us (illness/financial issues) and while she contributes a bit it's nothing close to covering everything so we had to compensate. We have 3 adults and one 6 year old, two dogs, rabbit and a shoal of goldfish so things had to change!

I've found Aldi products to be really good quality - especially the cheese, deli meats, toiletries and household cleaners and fruit and veg. I was going to stop buying grapes as they were so expensive despite the wee on loving them but Aldi do a 500g punnet for 99p! The super 6 is a godsend most weeks and the tinned goods - tomatoes, beans etc are easily as good as the main brands and far better than the supermarket value one which always seem bitty. They also do Hovis bread for 69p now (it had been 75p). Their cereals are fab and much better than Lidl's eg the crispies have the added vitamins (like rice crispies) while Lidl's don't. Their steak mince is really nice and they do 3 frozen pizzas for £2.69 which are really good and you can add extra toppings if you like.

We do still small top up elsewhere and an Asda opened up near us last month. Aldi I go to on the way home for work. Asda is mostly once the wee one is off to bed. The bonus is that you often then pick up really good reductions eg 6 pints of milk for 30p with a week to use it, bread 20p (straight in the freezer) and veg for soups etc. I spent just over £5 like this this week and saved over £25. They also do Harrington's Dog food for £15 for a 15kg bag which feeds the dogs for a month. It has a really good meat content and was a good swap for the Arden Grange they had been on. They're rescue pooches and need built up a bit still. Another bonus is that when they stopped the multi buy wine deals in Scotland Asda reduced the prices to £3.33 a bottle instead :-).

Backmasker

I shop there every week.

On average a weekly shop for my family of 6 including nappies and cleaning products is £80.00 per week. When I used mysupermarket and swapped between Tesco and Asda the average was around £115.00 with delivery.

candygirl

I went there today and got loads of fruit n veg , n pear cider really cheap for under £20:D:DThink i'll pop there again more in the future:DA 5kg bad of really good spuds was only £1,25:D

wonderwallet

I find that the main disadvantage with Aldi is the small number of checkouts and the very small section that your items pile up in as they whizz them past the till!

In my local Aldi there are only 4 checkouts with usually only 2 open and sometimes I have put my stuff back and left after seeing two long queues of people with full trolleys at the checkouts.

eeeeeee

i wouldnt call it down shifting... shopping at aldi i mean .... i gave up on asda in june the prices went up unike my income and the fruit and veg at golborne asda rot and decay within a couple of days of buying them regardles of storing them all in the fridge ; aldi quality is excellent ... fruit and veg last most of the week ... fresh meat is excellent in my local store ... as is the cleanliness... definately cleaner than my local asda .... aldi near too me is in town ... so now i but the rest of my stuff at homebargains ... we have a pound bakery too.... 2 loaves for £1.... cream cakes ... sandwiches .... pies ( ime from wigan lol) ... great value and freeze well

sassyblue

I'm going back to Aldis and Lidls. There's a Tesco near me and it was just convenient but it's getting far too expensive.

The only problem l have with Aldi and Lidls is that their cheap veg is a great price but just doesn't last a whole week (l live in the sticks, the nearest stores are 9 miles away so shop weekly) so l have to work round that.

Other than that l actually prefer A & L they have some fab foreign foods that you would pay a fortune for in the English supermarkets.

katylou6180

I do a whole shop at Aldi now, and I think it's more suited to the "cooker" than the "ready mealer" if you know what I mean. You can pick up basic ingredients in Aldi much cheaper than other supermarkets, I'm not saying that I never use "ready made" anything, but I'm talking cooking from scratch or even partial cooking from scratch (eg buying chicken, buying a sauce and some rice & cooking for ease, not all in one tub & nuking in micro) as Aldi do not do a huge range of ready meals at all. All their meat we have found to be great, raw meat and cooked for sandwiches, the only thing they lack is the majority of their meat joints are frozen, apart from the legendary chickens which are 2.99-4.99 dependant on the welfare of the bird, and their chicken bits and mince/pork chops. The dairy we have always found to be great, as are the fruit and veg, at great prices too! I'm sure some people could do things for less, but we are a family of 3 (two adults one child...Boy 12yrs...eats like small horse, OH, doesn't eat what we do) and at asda, tesco & sains, I regularly spent £320-400 per month on groceries, whereas at Aldi, even including all OH's rubbish (think chicken nuggets, chips, burgers, and the ilk and crisps, lots of chocolate) I spend between £160-200 per month. Son and I refuse to eat rubbish so have a decent meal with veg every night, take salads/sandwiches/fruit etc to work and school- it works for us, it won't for everyone, but for the "basics" of your storecupboard and "essential" shopping you can save a fortune there- I had a surprise when I opened a tin of beans, and actually found it to be a whole tin.....not half beans half sauce like basic ranges in others but for the same price

Candy53

We've been doing our main shop at Aldi's for a while now. We spend between £50 and £60 for 4 of us.

Wish they would stock more stuff though, as to finish off we have to go to Morries. We then get our milk and bread for the week from Farmfoods because they do great offers on them every week.

Candy.

Sessy

I must recommend aldi's peri peri sausages, about £1.50 for a pack of 8. I love them, a regular sausage just doesn't cut it anymore.

Oh and also the rich tea biscuits for 24p (could be lidl ), not quite mcvities but with them touching £1 a pack, I'd much prefer the 24p ones, I shove them down so fast anyway I barely notice

victory

I love Aldi's you get so much for your money, take bags with you and you get masses, spent the other day £40 and have loads of the super 6, kids love the fruit, the tomatoes, peppers and veg are always cheaper than tesco, sains, morrisons etc they have a cheek to ask that much for a pepper some of the big ones:rotfl:

The bratties german sausages love them, the frikadelas (sp) all the european sliced meats (chorizo, italian ham etc) much cheaper, the cheeses, the yogs, the tinned toms, the soups, much cheaper than elsewhere and we cook from scratch all the time now that the Aldi prices allow it:D