Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

System

sharond101 wrote: »

I am giving up buying Aldi milk as in the past two weeks two lots have gone down the sink before the use by date. I am sure the tops aren't great quality and let air in and the milk goes sour. Also I love the funsize apples but this time there was a rotten one in the bag and the rest are really hard and tasteless. They had gone up in price too from 89p to 99p.

Also I have noticed with their milk sometimes it has a short date. For example, today (27th) may have milk in dated 31st.

Now with the supermarkets all now charging £1 for four pints, I go to Iceland or Sainsburys for milk and buy the one with the longest date. As I live alone, it needs 8 days or more as lasts me a week.

Stompa

Ken68 wrote: »

In my local Lidl....15eggs for £1.25, probably in response to FF at £1.

Same price in Aldi, and they also do 6 for 49p.

~Chameleon~

Peggybabcot wrote: »

Our moggy who refuses most cat food other than Sheba wolfs Aldi's premium sachets of cat food as well as the boxes of biscuits and cat sticks.

My 23 year old cat too loves ~Aldi~ VitaKat premium (old age) sachets plus the dried food which has a nutrition profile matching the premium Pro Plan food I'm feeding her already.

maman

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Also I have noticed with their milk sometimes it has a short date. For example, today (27th) may have milk in dated 31st.

Now with the supermarkets all now charging £1 for four pints, I go to Iceland or Sainsburys for milk and buy the one with the longest date. As I live alone, it needs 8 days or more as lasts me a week.

I think you have to be careful to pick up the one with the longest date but that's the same with all shops. I regularly do it with Aldi eggs.


I still buy my bread in Sainsbury's and every week sees me kneeling on the floor reaching to the back of the shelf for the longest date. Stock rotation means they put the short date ones easily to hand.

System

maman wrote: »

I think you have to be careful to pick up the one with the longest date but that's the same with all shops. I regularly do it with Aldi eggs.


I still buy my bread in Sainsbury's and every week sees me kneeling on the floor reaching to the back of the shelf for the longest date. Stock rotation means they put the short date ones easily to hand.

Its the 'sleep walker' shoppers that grab the first item. Saw a lady doing this with the tinned tuna. Asked her why. She wanted a better date. Looked at the dates - April 2018! :rotfl:

benjus

My favourites from Lidl:

Saskia sparkling mineral water - sparkling water is the only soft drink we have at home, so we get through loads of it. Saskia is a good price, and stays fizzy to the end of the bottle, unlike some brands which seem to go flat pretty quickly. Bottles are also a good size and shape for the fridge.

The big brown loaves (possibly rye - not sure) sold in some stores with in-store bakeries - love these.

Raclette cheese - only available from time to time, but much cheaper than elsewhere.

Mushroom and truffle filled pasta - bought this recently, seemed to be from a "luxury" range I hadn't seen before. Very nice.

VfM4meplse

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Also I have noticed with their milk sometimes it has a short date. For example, today (27th) may have milk in dated 31st.

This is the weird thing - I popped into tSainsbos on Sunday (25th) and 4 pints bottles of skimmed milk expired on 28th May, far too short dated for my purposes. I ended up buying 4 pints of full fat (exp 6th June) instead and will be diluting it down when I use it / simply use less in my tea and coffee. If there's any left over next week I shall make rice pudding.

Happygreen

I tried one of the glazed doughnuts from the Lidl instore bakery yesterday (I try not to get into the likes of cookies and donuts but needed a small bite! ) and what a pleasure to eat compared to T's stale rubber things....

VfM4meplse

Happygreen wrote: »

I tried one of the glazed doughnuts from the Lidl instore bakery yesterday (I try not to get into the likes of cookies and donuts but needed a small bite! ) and what a pleasure to eat compared to T's stale rubber things....

TMI, didn't need to know that but yet another reason to avoid their carb-fest bakery!

maman

VfM4meplse wrote: »

TMI, didn't need to know that but yet another reason to avoid their carb-fest bakery!

I agree!:rotfl:


I hate it when people recommend things that sound yummy but would wreck my healthy eating plan.


I'm still recovering from 2 YS marzipan bars in Aldi this weekend. I knew I should have left them where they were.:o