Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

carlyh69

Charliezoo wrote: »

I second that - I'm a real laundry liquid snob and love my washing to smell really clean, this is my favourite laundry liquid available on the market and I've tried absolutely loads!

I've just bought the extra concentrated version as that works out cheaper than the regular liquid?! Hopefully it will be just as good if not better!

peterx

A couple of items that i do not like at all. Frozen beefburgers and their freeze dried instant coffee.

GlynD

Spitfire and Bishop's Finger ales down to £1.17 per bottle in Lurgan today. Best previous price I've seen was £1.25. Usually between £1.50-£1.75.

thriftymanc

Aldi's chicken en croute from the frozen section are gorgeous. Their fries, curly fries and potato wedges are great too. I also prefer their big tubs of natural yoghurt to Tesco's, Tesco natural yoghurt always tastes a bit watery and 'off' but Aldi's is really creamy.

Aldi stopped doing the 99p ready meals I used to buy, the pasta ones, they were really nice only do the lasagne now.

daveyjp

Two products we will never buy from Aldi again. Brown sauce and Ham and Mustard ridged crisps, which were awful.

Mojoworking

Our Aldi moved so not been there for ages - I usually whizz round tesco and it does seem to be going up and up.

I tried Lidl for the first time in a couple of years and I liked the chorizo, I got the african spiced meat (deli) which we all liked, had the fresh french stick for 70p which I didn't know they did now (not as tasty as Tesco salt and pepper bread but nice all the same), I really liked the huge tub of low fat potato salad. I got some rose wine from the chiller for less than£4 and it tasted lovely.

I think once I've got the layout and confidence it will be fine. I usually only use bold 2 in 1 - is there a good alternative?

There were crispbreads in there but I couldn't get the calories off the back, I didn't really want the ryvita copies that were next to them.

The tins of kidney beans were 18p.

Got the £4 perfume as my friend raves about it - it is ok, not sure if it is nicer than chanel but definitely my new every day perfume. I think it's just getting out of your comfort zone. I like that there is always new things.

I didn't buy any fresh or frozen meat - does anyone have any recommendations. In fact I didn't look in the freezers at all - is there any recommendations or avoids there. Thanks

DCFC79

Mojoworking wrote: »

Our Aldi moved so not been there for ages - I usually whizz round tesco and it does seem to be going up and up.

I tried Lidl for the first time in a couple of years and I liked the chorizo, I got the african spiced meat (deli) which we all liked, had the fresh french stick for 70p which I didn't know they did now (not as tasty as Tesco salt and pepper bread but nice all the same), I really liked the huge tub of low fat potato salad. I got some rose wine from the chiller for less than£4 and it tasted lovely.

I think once I've got the layout and confidence it will be fine. I usually only use bold 2 in 1 - is there a good alternative?

There were crispbreads in there but I couldn't get the calories off the back, I didn't really want the ryvita copies that were next to them.

The tins of kidney beans were 18p.

Got the £4 perfume as my friend raves about it - it is ok, not sure if it is nicer than chanel but definitely my new every day perfume. I think it's just getting out of your comfort zone. I like that there is always new things.

I didn't buy any fresh or frozen meat - does anyone have any recommendations. In fact I didn't look in the freezers at all - is there any recommendations or avoids there. Thanks

What was the rose win you bought, was it a dry 1 or sweeter ?

Yes the chilled meat is fine, ive had the chicken breasts and pork loins and both are fine, chicken is chicken is it not.

Frozen foods the chips, wedges are fine so is the vanilla ice cream but dont worry about the little black bits in teh ice cream as these are bits of vanilla(brother used to work for lidl as a manager and he had a customer complain about the little black bits)

Mojoworking

The wine was Cimarosa then under that said zinfandel and it was the California one. It was in the chiller by the veg/fruit at the back of the shop.

Chicken is chicken your right - I tend to dump the whole thing in the slow cooker anyway - are they priced right - I am trained to "2 for £7" and break out in sweat when things are by weight!!

I wasn't sure about all the frying steaks etc and if these would be best going straight in the slow cooker - or if it would be cheaper to go to a butchers (in fact find a butchers ...can't think of one straight away)

alex21

JethroUK wrote: »

Walkers multi-packs "bags" of crisps (28 grms ish) are smaller than Walkers regular 'bags' of crisps (35 grms ish)

I know they have done this for a long time but thats never made it right and I've posted about this for as long as i can remember

There is only one reason they do this - It's to deceive the consumer into thinking they get more crisps than they are actually getting

Printing the pack size/weight on the packet is irrelevant - because the quantity that they actually & actively "selling" is "bags" of crisps and the consumer buy crisps in "bags"

If they wanted to be transparently honest (which the law should ensure) they could either pack regular size bags of crisps (the "bag" most people think they are buying) or dont promote/sell how many "bags" are in the pack but just promote/sell the 'weight'

I cant understand why weights & measures have allowed this to go on because you must have noticed other companies have now joined in on the weights & measures scam (multi-pack Mars bars are smaller than regular ones) etc etc etc

If Walkers even attempted to defend this I would make them start packing regular size bags (would counter anything they can say)

I was enjoying the tips for items in Lidl and Aldi. Why have you totally highjacked this post with this rant? So annoying.:eek:

sb44

Thought I would try their midget gems, won't bother buying them again.

Not very fruity. like chewing rubber.

Will stick to either Tesco or Sainsburys cheapo versions, both are ok but the Sainsbury ones are juicier.