Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

BostonTel

Ken68 wrote: »

A short baguette in Lidl is 19p...Sainsbury 60p.

Just another basic which is way cheaper with no difference in quality.

Grouchy

Couple of things I've tried recently.
Lidl
Ciabatta freshly baked 75p at Lidl vs £1.60 I think at Sainsburys or £1.40 at Tesco (according to friend, but bakery at local Tesco is rubbish anyway).
The Lidls Chiabatta is excellent, the only bread I buy as I bake my own but find Ciabatta impossible to get right. That's a bit difference in price, not just pennies.

Aldi's Almat bio powder is good too, don't use bio often but seems to wash well. £2.39 1.8kg which I think is a decent price.

Kantankrus_Mare

Has anyone tried the Lidl wash powder.....cant remember what it is called?

My usual powder is persil bio and only buy when on offer but am close to the bottom of box and cant find any offers at the moment so was considering trying the lidl one.

Doc_N

Ken68 wrote: »

A short baguette in Lidl is 19p...Sainsbury 60p.

Nada666 wrote: »

Outrageous! A 27% price rise. Call out the National Guard.

I wonder if the National Guard are any good at arithmetic?

Cornucopia

New Product: Aldi Beautifully Buttery Light - 89p/500g

Lower fat version of the existing low-fat spread.

jemb

Feral_Moon wrote: »

It's called inflation and luxury products such as alcohol help to subsidise the basic food lines. I hardly call a rise of 6p per bottle as particularly inflammatory!!

Yes, but unfortunately, that's the reason alot of us have shifted to Aldi. Price rises, even small ones all add up. My salary hasnt gone up in 5 years but goodness knows how much the same food bill 5 years ago has gone up by as a result of prices going up bit by bit.

jemb

Grouchy wrote: »

Couple of things I've tried recently.
Lidl
Ciabatta freshly baked 75p at Lidl vs £1.60 I think at Sainsburys or £1.40 at Tesco (according to friend, but bakery at local Tesco is rubbish anyway).
The Lidls Chiabatta is excellent, the only bread I buy as I bake my own but find Ciabatta impossible to get right. That's a bit difference in price, not just pennies.
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Aldi also do x4 part baked long life ones, which are good.

Feral_Moon

jemb wrote: »

Yes, but unfortunately, that's the reason alot of us have shifted to Aldi. Price rises, even small ones all add up. My salary hasnt gone up in 5 years but goodness knows how much the same food bill 5 years ago has gone up by as a result of prices going up bit by bit.

I totally agree and is why I also shop at Aldi but to expect them never to increase their prices is pretty unrealistic. Actually they've reduced prices over a lot more lines, plus the bigger supermarkets would be increasing a bottle of wine by far more than 6p a bottle. It is after all a luxury item and I don't mind paying a little extra if it means my basic food shops remains the same or even reduces. Can't say that about the other supermarkets.

TravellingAbuela

A big shift around in the Keighley Aldi today, it was chaos. No-one could find what they were looking for and even the staff, when asked, weren't a lot of help. When I did find the new home for some of the items I was met with empty shelves! A week without Cheese Curls, how will I cope?!!

One bonus, however, lots of reductions on left-over Special Buys! Lots of shoes and sandals - men's, ladies and childrens - all reduced to half price. Plus some toys, games and tools half price.

meritaten

lol - us Aldi fanatics grouse at their price rises! until we do a 'comparison shop' then realise we are still paying a lot less for the same 'basket' of shopping!
I have noticed a lot of reductions lately - wonder why, when they are stealing so many customers from the big four anyway? Still that's good news for us 'regulars'.