Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

dlusman

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I can also recommend the tubes of Energise effervescent vitamins. They are identical to Berocca for a fraction of the price.

Berocca = £4.79 in Boots for 15 tablets
Energise = 89p in Aldi for 20 tablets

Any generic medical /vitamin will always be a lot cheaper then a brand. I have never understood why anyone would buy ( for another example ) Anadin or Nurofen tablets when the active ingredient in a shops own product is exactly the same , but at a fraction of the price.

Happygreen

I bought Lidl's own brand normal panty liners last week and tbh will not get them again as normal equals tiny, may aswell get the really cheap unbranded ones from other supermarkets. The larger ones are ok.

System

dlusman wrote: »

Any generic medical /vitamin will always be a lot cheaper then a brand. I have never understood why anyone would buy ( for another example ) Anadin or Nurofen tablets when the active ingredient in a shops own product is exactly the same , but at a fraction of the price.

Anadin and non branded paracetamol have the same product licence number

Even Nurofen's liquid capsules and express liquid capsules have the same PLN.

The brands are there to make money from ignorant people.

The only time I have bought branded painkillers was when Wilko were clearing out some Benylin cold relief capsules for 25p a box. I visited Wilko and bought 2 boxes per visit (as only allowed two packs of painkiller based products) over a week.

mcculloch29

Aldi's painkiller range is ibuprofen, (27p) paracetamol (c 25p) and paracetamol with caffeine (40p) , they also do cold relief tablets (89p?) and I did see diarrhoea relief tablets @ 60p some time ago but not recently. Apologies if you are eating.

Like ScarletMarble I don't 'do' branded painkillers. It's worth noting that Wilko's own branded express and long-life painkillers are much cheaper than the supermarket versions.

I second the Aldi energy tablets, we regularly get these.

The other vitamins and minerals seem to be stocked variably at Aldi. I've seen multivits, cod liver oil, high dose omega oil, evening primrose, children's vitamins and zinc amongst others but it is a bit of a lottery as to what is in stock at our store.

shoperholicnot

It has been my first time in Aldi on a Sunday afternoon today.....
never again...mental lol

Very happy with my shop today, I got:
Almat washing Tabs Bio
Almat washing Tabs Colour
Magnum washing up liquid
2x Air freshner
Powerforce Kitchen cleaner
2 pack kitchen towel
Fabric conditioner
Provive shampoo
provive conditioner
Hand cream
large jar of Passata
Jar Tomato Pasta Bake
fresh orange juice
fresh apple juice
Tinned sweetcorn
Red Label Teabags
Specially selected Extra Virgin Olive oil (£2.69 equiv' in Mr T £6!!)
2 x Garlic Baguettes
Spaghetti large pack
Hazelnut Heaven chocolate bar
Quorn mince
Sticky Toffee pudding
Tomatoes 6 pack
Garlic 4 pack
Specially selected salmon fishcakes
Specially selected Cod and Davidstow chedder fishcakes
Digestives
Chocolate cookies
Rich Tea Biscuits
instant custard
sugar
farmhouse mutigrain Bread
2 x Vitacat tins.

36 items £34.08!!

Sticky toffee pudding looks delish!

maman

Red_Cat wrote: »

OK an odd but good buy from Aldi. Their Bramwells English mustard is my favourite of this type with lots of heat and no sourness. Odd? Because it's made in Germany, but better (to me at least) than other supermarket own brands such as Tesco and Sainos.

Another vote here for the Bramwell's English mustard. We used to buy Colman's but no longer.

Valli

I'm posting this as a good buy - but it should be a bad buy really;)

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-range/drinks/spirits/spirits-product-detail/ps/p/bellucci-amaretto-liqueurr/

s'lovely!

missflirtuk

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I also bought some crumpets from Aldi the other week. They were Warburton's. They're not exclusive to Aldi. They're sold in every supermarket and are about the best you can get.

These weren't Warburtons, they were Village Bakery. Didn't see the Warburtons ones but couldn't see much due to having a 5 year old impatient child .

meer53

We love Aldi crumpets too !

steampunkmimi

There are regular complaints in the local press from people who somehow manage to miss reading the massive signs that inform customers they have a 90 minute limit and are fined as a result.

A small, but significant point: one cannot be fined for parking in an Aldi car park (or any other shop's car park), unless they have a P&D car park, and one doesn't pay. I suspect that comment refers to those interesting private parking companies who operate on free car parks, and send speculative invoices to people, in the vain hope that some will be ignorant enough to pay.

As for Aldi... we shop there all the time. We don't have a huge disposable income, so we buy as much as we can from Aldi, and the rest from whoever has the best price for whatever we need to buy.