Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

skitler

thanks vpb23 and travellingabuela, :j


produce, not chiller


I was on the wiki link posted by tera-ferma, for a while last night trying to get to grips with it, but the links on the wiki pages end up sending you every where, but did see the apple stickers that had a number on when I shopped at Tesco and that they are the plu code.


I only wanted to know what the yellow box meant meant originally, ill be an authority of plu knowledge in a bit.:rotfl:


Universal Product Code, another system for identification of consumer products
Stock-keeping unit (SKU) codes, another system


then I got looking into those 2.

~Chameleon~

terra_ferma wrote: »

Are you referring to my post? The spinach are indeed Aldi's, the same I bought and also confirmed by MS, I just thought it was a bit funny that someone thought you didn't know where you were shopping....

Oh, I see, sorry. No, I knew exactly what Skitler meant when he referred to PLU codes and bar codes

sillyme673

Is this week the voucher week? The tablet is back does any one have one and is it any good.Bet you you have to camp out to be first in queue. Quite fancy one to carry around instead of note book. I know Tesco's good but will never save enough points.:)

bylromarha

sillyme673 wrote: »

Is this week the voucher week? The tablet is back does any one have one and is it any good.Bet you you have to camp out to be first in queue. Quite fancy one to carry around instead of note book. I know Tesco's good but will never save enough points.:)

Yup, voucher on Thursday.

OH took his 24 yr old Aldi Single Malt to our friends last night - friend is now going to bring himself to buy the Mirror for the voucher on Thursday to buy a bottle for himself. :rotfl:

paulineb_2

I got a couple of craft books for my mum today in aldi, one was a crochet book with a decent amount of patterns plus a beginners guide to crochet as well, plus another craft book, rag rugs etc. There was one I didnt buy, it was a jewellery making one, plus there was a cupcake making book. RRP 9.99, got them for 2.99 each, will ask my mum for the name of them incase anyone thinks they might want to buy them.

Steve059

Lidl seem to be learning the "big boys" bad habits. Strathvale fresh British beef roasting joints. On the offers page of the website, the price is shown as £5.99 each. However, click on the picture and go to the product page and the price is £5.99 per kg.

skitler

thanks for the reminder for the voucher on Thursday.


I was saying on another thread that the aldi ee spuds are better than the maris piper spuds from aldi, the m-p spuds went all watery and mushy in the pan before mashing, I tried to not boil the second lot as much but wasn't much better.
also the baby new type spuds that was on the super 6 last week were not that nice, just flavourless.
the super 6 oranges are nice though, im not a orange fan but they peeled easy and where very juicy.

VfM4meplse

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Perhaps we have a better of class of Aldi here. They even sell posh butter too :rotfl:

I like the look of this, how does it compare to President?

skitler wrote: »

the super 6 oranges are nice though, im not a orange fan but they peeled easy and where very juicy.

Agreed they taste lovely, but they have very thin skins and don't peel brilliantly, I thought.

But they do keep in the fridge for ages

~Chameleon~

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Agreed they taste lovely, but they have very thin skins and don't peel brilliantly, I thought.

But they do keep in the fridge for ages

I picked up some small oranges in Co-op last week and they also had very think skins but were incredibly juicy and flavoursome so maybe it's a particular variety that is currently available.

skitler

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Agreed they taste lovely, but they have very thin skins and don't peel brilliantly, I thought.

But they do keep in the fridge for ages

hi.


mine had thick skins and peeled great. they did come in either 5,6,or7 in a net bag, I got the 5 as they where bigger. and no pips.:j