Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

System

My friend uses Aldi's mouthwash - the purple one and is good.

storytime

ScarletMarble wrote: »

My friend uses Aldi's mouthwash - the purple one and is good.

I second that and it matches my towels!

PlymouthMaid

I need to try some of that rummy raisiny choc mentioned a few posts back. Have just scoffed several squares of Bournville's but that is £1.99 a bar. Will check it out tomorrow.

PenguinOfDeath

Just opened a bar of Dairyfine Mint Creme I got for Xmas, wow I forgot just how good it is, like a giant After Eight but with chunkier yummier chocolate

maman

ScarletMarble wrote: »

It's the same with washing up liquid. The supermarkets' value stuff is not concentrated, does not cut through grease or tough stains, leaves a horrible finish to your plate and only lasts a week.

Aldi Magnum original is every bit as good as Fairy or other leading brands.

PlymouthMaid wrote: »

I need to try some of that rummy raisiny choc mentioned a few posts back. Have just scoffed several squares of Bournville's but that is £1.99 a bar. Will check it out tomorrow.

If you like dark chocolate try the Moser Roth 70% it's fantastic and comes separated into small bars so stops me being too greedy. I had some Bournville a few weeks ago and it was so sickly I had to throw it away.

mcculloch29

Back to toilet roll, I've tried a couple of the Aldi Saxon range, ok, but I prefer the Triple Velvet at 6 for £1.99 from Savers. The 6 for 4 has been a permanent special offer in Savers for years now.
It's their best seller, I'm told. Plenty kitchen towel is always on offer there too. (£1.19 for 2 standard rolls, I think).
I haven't found an Aldi chocolate I didn't like. Unfortunately for my waistline!

iris

Bought Aldi's chicken stock cubes recently, but thought they were very salty. I won't be buying them again.

UnderPressure

Doc_N wrote: »

What's all this stuff I'm reading above about Aldi chicken from Brazil, Thailand etc? Aldi do a perfectly good range of British chicken (including some excellent free range). Is there some confusion here?

• 100% Fresh British Chicken
  
  Olly Coles is a second generation poultry farmer located on the edge of the Salisbury Plain. As well as running their own family farm, Olly and his wife Sally have grown their business to offer specialist services to other poultry farmers in the South West.
  
  "On our family farm we rear all the chickens to the highest welfare standards where they are cared for 24 hours a day, every day of the year," says Olly. "The birds have access to food, water and warmth which encourages them to express their natural behaviour. We also demand the highest levels of husbandry to achieve Class A quality chickens". He adds, "by sourcing 100% British chicken, Aldi receive the very best in freshness and quality".

• Olly Coles, Chicken Farmer, Salisbury Plain
  
  The British poultry industry operates with world-class standards and makes a crucial contribution to feeding the nation. The work of the BPC helps ensure that British poultry is recognised as an essential part of this country's agriculture and food production.

• Below is our 100% British range of fresh chicken. Look out for our recipe links to help create the perfect meal solutions.

The chicken is wonderful I have mentioned this already both normal and free range, you can tell they are very well cared for birds and taste delicious. The poster was referring to something tinned.

A._Badger wrote: »

Anybody who ate the diet suggested by human dentition and valued the convenience and safety of modern food packaging?

No not really, I prefer more natural home cooked offerings.

A._Badger wrote: »

I really don't know why people try to defend Aldi by attacking Tesco. If this was an 'I think Tesco is ghastly' thread, I would be in there with you. But the degree of tribal loyalty being shown to Aldi beggars belief.

And please do remember that the 'intellectually challenged' remark was used by one of the Aldi cheerleaders on this thread, to describe people who prefer to stick to buying the brands they know they like and have come to trust.

Funny thought that the brands you have mentioned, Shipams and Princess are bot notorious for highly processed low quality food, not for me sorry have you any idea what goes into some of this processed food? Each to their own I suppose I would much rather have the fresh quality produce that Aldi sell any day over processed junk that is only really fit for dog food, even my dog would turn his nose up and Shipams and Princess offerings :cool:

The other poster who felt poor, I suggest you move to a more prosperous, up and coming area because as already mentioned our Aldi car park is full of Range Rovers and Audis and middles class people, all the srouts are at Asda and Tesco throwing their kids around and buying the chicken nuggets!

Each to their own, we have the occasional "sin" but mostly have always cooked good quality, fresh home made food, this costs lots more in the Big 4 than it does in Aldi and most of the time the Aldi offering is not only cheaper but of a higher quality, as said I really cannot comment too much on the processed side of things as we really eat very little of it.

Our 4th week at Aldi and now it would probably be a lot easier to tell you what we do not like rather than what we do

Premium dry aged 21 day matured topside of beef, wow this is delicious, really top quality mouth watering roast beef, even beats our local butcher's Welsh Black Beef and around £11 a kilo, really really good.

Smoked gammon joints, been buying these for a long time now from other supermarkets, they do us a gammon type meal with veg and potatoes, our version of carbonara and then loads left over for sandwiches, we have a food slicer so meat goes a long long way in our house, less that a fiver and nowhere near as salty as Tesco and Morriosn equivalent.

All the chocolate is yummy.

Fruit and Veg are fantastic, love the clementines they have in at the moment for 89p cannot eat enough of them, bought a punnet of plums they were disappointing but still tasted better than the big 4's, plums for me everywhere have been rubbish for a couple of years now. Grapes are outstanding for 1.49, all the fruit and veg is great, we only ever used to buy Rooster potatoes as they are so versatile, Aldi's reds are just as good and loads cheaper.

The premium tins of tomatoes are also lovely.

The spreadable butter is fantastic and unbelievable value so is the the everyday mature white cheddar, £3.99 for just over 800g and it really is delicious.

The jars of sweet and sour sauce are excellent, all the premium fizzy pop, double strength cordials and everyday pure orange are superb.

The cheap 15p yoghurts are great and also the greek style corner, wow the apricot and honey is delicious.

Their free range eggs are brilliant so is the flour, milk bla bla bla it goes on and on, we are converted!

Mince is a bit ropey even the Aberdeen Angus one, £1 sausage we did not like, coffee I am struggling with, I have tried all of the premium instants and the first cup always tastes good but more long term every day it is no good for me, I am though a self confessed serious coffee snob so back to the "brands" for that, the french style ground coffee is brill.

There will be loads more but this is all I can think of at the moment, oh the cerials are great as well especially the swiss style muesli in the red box, slap an Alpen sticker on it and you would never now the difference and is half the price!

A._Badger

UnderPressure wrote: »

Funny thought that the brands you have mentioned, Shipams and Princess are bot notorious for highly processed low quality food, not for me sorry have you any idea what goes into some of this processed food? Each to their own I suppose I would much rather have the fresh quality produce that Aldi sell any day over processed junk that is only really fit for dog food, even my dog would turn his nose up and Shipams and Princess offerings :cool:

Well, hurrah for you being so righteous.Most people, however, who lead normal lives, do make use of convenience foods from time to time. Neither they, nor their dogs, are quite so picky that they will turn their noses up at the occasional packaged product.

Your comment about Shiphams (as was) by the way is entirely misplaced, though it is reasonably true of Princes, which bought the old company and trashed its brands.

Islandmaid

Tried frozen Aberdean Angus quarter Pounder burgers from Aldo,s this week, dry fryed then on griddle and they were really good £1.99 for 4, Which wasn,t too bad for the quality in comparision to other,s i,ve bought