Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

tigs33

Aldi's spray glass cleaner is great

mcculloch29

There's a very good choice on the Aldi Super Six veg from today:
Swede
Baby potatoes 1kg
Onions 1kg
Chantenay carrots 500g
Tomatoes six
Butternut squash each

All priced at 49p
Copied from Butterfly Brain's post on the 'Feed a Family for £20' thread. There's a really quick turnover of the Super 6 products, which tend to be better quality than some of the other veg as a result.

renegade

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Aldi and Lidl stores need separate Customer Service Desks. Don't have to be manned all the time. Just install a different sounding bell to the tills to the ones used to alert the others to open up another till.

I have been unfortunate to be stuck behind a customer returning two items (the only till open too) at Aldi and have to fill in paperwork! If the items are under £10, the normal staff can refund. Both items were over £10 - a baby bottle warmer and fishing waders!

Needless to say, I gave up and walked out the store, leaving my £18-20 of shopping on the conveyor belt.

How churlish and inconsiderate , somebody would have had to remove your stuff , thus prolonging the wait for other people in the queue.
Patience is a virtue you don't have, you should develop some!

SUZYKINS

Tried the large jars of pickles at Aldi & they are awesome!
At my usual they sent them back as they were Christmas stock but the other close by still had stock so I got 3 more

mcculloch29

My local Aldi had some big reductions on Christmas stuff...Gosh I was tempted! I did get some plain chocolate marzipan hearts, which will be gifted and some very posh salted nuts, which won't be.
They had 'funsize' pears (Conference) which were actually the usual size and great value at 95p a bag. Lovely clementines at 89p, British Gala Apples at £1.09, British Cox's at 89p. A massive family pack of mushrooms at £1.49.
Can't remember if I've mentioned the chilli con carne cooking sauces before now - (69p a jar) I use these with their Quorn mince, prefer the hot one, which isn't too hot. If you prefer a larger portion to feed more than 2 people, the packet chilli con carne mix at 25p (add your own mince, tomatoes and kidney beans) has a really good flavour too.

VfM4meplse

I've never really looked at the freezer items in Aldi but am going to use the voucher in next week's press so was wondering if there's anything suitable for vegetarians particularly worth trying?

Rabbit

Hi, I have got the spicy veggie burgers, plain veggie burgers and nut cutlets, they are nice and they sell Quorn chicken style pieces and mince too at mine. Nice to see more veggie stuff appearing :-)

bylromarha

Choceur Rum, Raisin and Nut.

Died and gone to heaven with this...

Raisins really soaked in rum, chocolate is sooooo good. Full of nuts. Why did I ever pick it up as a Cmas treat?

VfM4meplse

bylromarha wrote: »

Choceur Rum, Raisin and Nut.

Died and gone to heaven with this...

Raisins really soaked in rum, chocolate is sooooo good. Full of nuts. Why did I ever pick it up as a Cmas treat?

OMG if I wasn't away on business next week I'd be paying an 8am visit to Aldi to track this down tomorrow. Now I'm gonna have to wait for a week, it'll be torture. But a nice treat for Saturday.

bylromarha

VfM4meplse wrote: »

OMG if I wasn't away on business next week I'd be paying an 8am visit to Aldi to track this down tomorrow. Now I'm gonna have to wait for a week, it'll be torture. But a nice treat for Saturday.

Would say I'd send you a square from mine, but it went in one sitting :eek::eek::eek::eek: I can normally wrap and wait, but not with that beauty.

And I opened my last pack of THOSE mince pies at teatime...still taste as good as the first.