Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

cherryaa

Bargain Bunny: :j
Aldi's Dairy-free snacks & treats!

Everyday Essentials Apple Pies, box of 6, £0.50
Holly Lane Cherry Bakewells, box of 6, £0.75
Holly Lane Fruit Tea Loaf, 500g, £1.49
Holly Lane Irish Whiskey Loaf, 500g, £1.49
Village Bakery Tea Cakes, pack of 4, £0.57
Village Bakery Malt Loaf, £0.45
Warburton's Fruit Loaf, £1.09
Warburton's Crumpets, pack of 6, £0.69
Village Bakery Crumpets, pack of 6, £0.35
Village Bakery Toasting Muffins, pack of 4, £0.45
Harvest Morn Fruit & Grain Cereal Bars, strawberry or apple, pack of 6, £0.89
Moser Roth Dark Chocolate, 70% or 85%, 125g, £1.09
Dairyfine Dark Chocolate, 200g, £0.89
Crestwood Scotch Eggs, pack of 2, £0.62
Crestwood Mini Savoury Eggs, about 12, 216g, £1.29
Crestwood Crispy Bake Pork Pie, 295g, £0.89
Crestwood Crispy Bake Pork Pies, 4 x 90g, £0.99
Crestwood Mini Melton Pork Pies, 6 x 50g, £1.49
Crestwood Steak Chip Shop Pies, 2 x 150g, £0.99
Solesta Sunflower Spread, light or normal, 500g, £0.99
Greenvale baking margarine, 250g, £0.49
Soya Milk, plain or sweetened, 1l, £0.59
Belmont Jaffa Cakes, 2 packs of 12, 300g, £0.95
Everyday Essentials Jaffa Cakes, pack of 12, £0.40
Belmont Oaties (Hob Nobs), 300g, £0.49
Belmont Ginger Nuts, 300g, £0.25
Belmont Rich Tea biscuits, 300g, £0.23
Fruit Shortcake biscuits, 250g, £0.47
Jammie Dodgers, about 12, 140g, £0.49
Licorice Allsorts
Wine Gums
Fruit Pastilles
Jelly Babies
Mint Imperials
Peppermint Chews
Peppermint Crumbles
Midget Gems
Traditional Soft Licorice (love this!)
Cola Bottles
Jelly Cherries
Gummy Mix
Plain Chocolate Marzipan Bar.
Plus all the usual stuff - cereals, crisps, other snacks, meats, etc.
One thing worth noting is that the frozen fish in breadcrumbs (not batter) is dairy-free, while known brands often contain milk.
They used to carry a gorgeous dairy-free ice-cream with a mousse texture, but I've not seen that for ages. We get short-changed on chilled & frozen desserts! (Aldi, are you reading??!)

Naturally, going round the store reading all those snack packets, I was forced to buy a trolley full of 'em so will be looking for advice on a budget wardrobe of XXXL very soon!

cherryaa

Bublin - The pulled pork and ribs are Aldi, I've just bought them!

Bublin1

Thanks cherryaa I did pulled pork in the slow cooker for the first time 2 weeks ago and it was lovely. The Aldi price is great. I bought a yellow stick one in Tesco £6.?? down to £3.??

Happygreen

Red_Cat wrote: »

I withdraw my recommendation of the Aldi Bramwell ketchup. I was having some tonight with my dinner and thought it tasted a bit different (a bit more sour and a fuller mouth feel). I still have the old bottle (the dregs of which I will use in cooking). So I did a comparison and noted the following:

1. Old bottle has 189g of tomatoes in every 100g of ketchup, whereas for the new bottle it's only 132g of tomatoes.

2. Old bottle ingredients are tomatoes, sugar, spirit vinegar, salt, spices, citric acid. New bottle ingredients are tomatoes, sugar, spirit vinegar, MODIFIED MAIZE STARCH, salt, spices, natural flavouring.

3. Nothing to do with flavour but the old bottle was 502ml/563g and the new bottle is 500ml/560g.

4. I noticed the new bottle does not carry the Good Housekeeping Institute Approved 2012 that the old one did.

Oh well, it was good whilst it lasted.

I wish now I hadn't bought that replacement bottle last time. I'll check the ingredients in Lidl's ketchup tomorrow and unopened Bramwell's might go to the food bank collection.

On the note of ingredients, Lidl had lovely tasty Greek feta and spinach snails as specials a while ago - then I looked on the ingredients and all the Greek frozen pastries had hydrogenated/ transfats in them when other supermarkets were fading them out...haven't seen the pastries for some time though.

bylromarha

Bought the Aldi chilli Hallumi with the vouchers from the Mirror and loved it.

Looking forward to trying the non chilli hallumi waiting for me in the fridge.

mcculloch29

cherryaa wrote: »

Bargain Bunny: :j
Aldi's Dairy-free snacks & treats!

Everyday Essentials Apple Pies, box of 6, £0.50
Holly Lane Cherry Bakewells, box of 6, £0.75
Holly Lane Fruit Tea Loaf, 500g, £1.49
Holly Lane Irish Whiskey Loaf, 500g, £1.49
Village Bakery Tea Cakes, pack of 4, £0.57
Village Bakery Malt Loaf, £0.45
Warburton's Fruit Loaf, £1.09
Warburton's Crumpets, pack of 6, £0.69
Village Bakery Crumpets, pack of 6, £0.35
Village Bakery Toasting Muffins, pack of 4, £0.45
Harvest Morn Fruit & Grain Cereal Bars, strawberry or apple, pack of 6, £0.89
Moser Roth Dark Chocolate, 70% or 85%, 125g, £1.09
Dairyfine Dark Chocolate, 200g, £0.89
Crestwood Scotch Eggs, pack of 2, £0.62
Crestwood Mini Savoury Eggs, about 12, 216g, £1.29
Crestwood Crispy Bake Pork Pie, 295g, £0.89
Crestwood Crispy Bake Pork Pies, 4 x 90g, £0.99
Crestwood Mini Melton Pork Pies, 6 x 50g, £1.49
Crestwood Steak Chip Shop Pies, 2 x 150g, £0.99
Solesta Sunflower Spread, light or normal, 500g, £0.99
Greenvale baking margarine, 250g, £0.49
Soya Milk, plain or sweetened, 1l, £0.59
Belmont Jaffa Cakes, 2 packs of 12, 300g, £0.95
Everyday Essentials Jaffa Cakes, pack of 12, £0.40
Belmont Oaties (Hob Nobs), 300g, £0.49
Belmont Ginger Nuts, 300g, £0.25
Belmont Rich Tea biscuits, 300g, £0.23
Fruit Shortcake biscuits, 250g, £0.47
Jammie Dodgers, about 12, 140g, £0.49
Licorice Allsorts
Wine Gums
Fruit Pastilles
Jelly Babies
Mint Imperials
Peppermint Chews
Peppermint Crumbles
Midget Gems
Traditional Soft Licorice (love this!)
Cola Bottles
Jelly Cherries
Gummy Mix
Plain Chocolate Marzipan Bar.
Plus all the usual stuff - cereals, crisps, other snacks, meats, etc.
One thing worth noting is that the frozen fish in breadcrumbs (not batter) is dairy-free, while known brands often contain milk.
They used to carry a gorgeous dairy-free ice-cream with a mousse texture, but I've not seen that for ages. We get short-changed on chilled & frozen desserts! (Aldi, are you reading??!)

Naturally, going round the store reading all those snack packets, I was forced to buy a trolley full of 'em so will be looking for advice on a budget wardrobe of XXXL very soon!

Wow. About twenty years ago I cared for children on a dairy-free diet and buying snacks and treats was near impossible. Their Mum was lovely, she would often send them in the morning with a box of goodies she had baked and prepared the previous evening - I also learned a host of dairy free recipes that we made together.

Chameleon, from your comment, I think you missed seeing the 'Dairy free snacks and treats' subheading. This isn't a shopping list, just a treats list.

ladybabe

omg just bought the crane perfume "woman" really subtle smell; great for the handbag and even better on reduced at £2.99 i normally by eternity moment at £40 a bottle so good every day replacement and my nice perfume will last longer. am going back tomorrow to get a couple more whilst reduced v happy also recently tried the bb cream and just as good as no7

~Chameleon~

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Chameleon, from your comment, I think you missed seeing the 'Dairy free snacks and treats' subheading. This isn't a shopping list, just a treats list.

Sorry, yes I did. In that case I'll retract my other thread, Sorry

cherryaa

Lol, Chameleon, I didn't see your post but can guess! (I have got an unintended cupboard full of biscuits now, though ) Thanks, mcculloch.

Red_Cat

bylromarha wrote: »

Bought the Aldi chilli Hallumi with the vouchers from the Mirror and loved it.

I bought the chilli halloumi with the voucher too. Had it sliced and lightly cooked in a griddle pan to get the char lines. Enjoyed it with a salad and pitta bread and it was very nice, not too spicy hot, but had a kick.