Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

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ScarletMarble wrote: »

I bought some of Aldi's long life filled pasta. Not impressed. I find their jelly babies a bit hard.

Hard ? You should try the jelly babies oop north they hang around in gangs and mug you for pocket money :eek:

System

Does Aldi have a list of stores which are in the process of being done up? I know the one 10 mins walk from me is being done up at the mo. I can go to 4 within 5 miles and raher go to one which isn't a mess!

Cornucopia

Given the various complaints, I would have thought all of them.

The new Fruit & Veg sections have dark green metal racking, virtually floor to ceiling. So if your stores still have the old waist-height racks, or boxes/crates on the floor, then they have yet to be visited by the Refurb Elves.

Or you could ask the manager.

Happygreen

ScarletMarble wrote: »

I bought some of Aldi's long life filled pasta. Not impressed. I find their jelly babies a bit hard.

We love the filled pasta ! Obviously tastes differ.

I bought Aldi's French Fries last night (I usually get Lidl's as closer) and we all thought they were lovely. They do contain a lot more ingredients than Lidl's, like spices, stablisers , etc. I was not so sure about the taste of 500 g battered cod (frozen) but a very good price at £ 1.89.

System

Happygreen wrote: »

We love the filled pasta ! Obviously tastes differ.

I bought Aldi's French Fries last night (I usually get Lidl's as closer) and we all thought they were lovely. They do contain a lot more ingredients than Lidl's, like spices, stablisers , etc. I was not so sure about the taste of 500 g battered cod (frozen) but a very good price at £ 1.89.

I like the fresh filled pasta, but there is some for 69p ion the shelf within the dried pasta some filled pasta and it was not on par.

A._Badger

If you are either addicted to, or desperately trying to avoid, heavily salted foods, watch out for Aldis 'Passions' handcooked, seal-salted crisps.

Probably the saltiest crisps I have ever tasted.

Nada666

A._Badger wrote: »

If you are either addicted to, or desperately trying to avoid, heavily salted foods, watch out for Aldis 'Passions' handcooked, seal-salted crisps.

Probably the saltiest crisps I have ever tasted.

Yeah, but it takes ages to rinse and soak the salty taste out of seal blubber so not surprising they cut some corners.

meritaten

Nada666 wrote: »

Yeah, but it takes ages to rinse and soak the salty taste out of seal blubber so not surprising they cut some corners.

I nearly choked on my wine then - as you took the words right outta my mouth!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Cornucopia

A._Badger wrote: »

If you are either addicted to, or desperately trying to avoid, heavily salted foods, watch out for Aldis 'Passions' handcooked, seal-salted crisps.

Probably the saltiest crisps I have ever tasted.

Try the Aldi "Salt-them-yourself" crisps and don't (salt them).

They are the only crisps I have ever seen that have just a "Trace" of salt.

Also Aldi healthier chilled ready meals - the Chicken Tikka variety only has 0.6g of salt, the lowest I have ever seen for a ready meal.

candygirl

The pantene look alike shamppo n conditioner are fab! :j