Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

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Tetley blend of both (pink bags) for 80 bags down to 59p. These are really nice and I'll miss them when they're sold out. I will be filling my trolley tomorrow with whatever they have left. Best before date is Jan 2016.

TravellingAbuela

Stompa wrote: »

Tinned mackerel appears to have disappeared again, at least it has for me!

There was plenty on the shelves in our branch this morning so, hopefully, it will appear again for you shortly! Stocked up on a few tins in case it disappears again!

It was stock cubes that had disappeared here! Just a few beef ones left and no chicken or vegetable!

VfM4meplse

pakokelso93 wrote: »

Both Lidl's and Aldi stollen is really nice, the bites are more handy - especially if I go to my parents as they hate Stollen, so a giant bit of it is no good.

Sorry I agree its delish but don't follow the logic. All the more for you?

maman

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Sorry I agree its delish but don't follow the logic. All the more for you?

I have this dilemma. If I buy Stollen early for Christmas and then, although we have the best of intentions, it gets eaten I have to start all over again. So far we've had Lidl large Stollen and a pack of Aldi bites to 'sample'.:o And it's not even November yet!

andygb

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Sorry I agree its delish but don't follow the logic. All the more for you?

Bl***Y stollen bites are devil's food.
I am trying to lose five kilos not put five kilos on!!!!!!
I don't eat sweets or biscuits or even cake - generally - but stollen bites have hooked me and reeled me in:mad:

Cornucopia

My grandmother used to make a version of stollen all year round - that's my excuse for buying them in October, and I'm sticking to it.

robin58

andygb wrote: »

Bl***Y stollen bites are devil's food.
I am trying to lose five kilos not put five kilos on!!!!!!
I don't eat sweets or biscuits or even cake - generally - but stollen bites have hooked me and reeled me in:mad:

Luckly, I have a an eversion to stollen cake.

I hate with vengeance Marzipan paste.:rotfl:

(before anybody says 'you don't know what you are missing', I did try it once. That's why I hate stollen cake.)

mcculloch29

I have the dilemma of do you buy early for Christmas & test willpower or do you simply not buy, & risk the product selling out, as well. I may put the goodies in a suitcase in my wardrobe. I always did that with the kids' Christmas presents. Some years ago my son confessed that they knew this... It did explain the slight lack of an expected reaction that I often got! ��

PLRFD

You have a lot of dilemmas

Happygreen

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I have the dilemma of do you buy early for Christmas & test willpower or do you simply not buy, & risk the product selling out, as well. I may put the goodies in a suitcase in my wardrobe. I always did that with the kids' Christmas presents. Some years ago my son confessed that they knew this... It did explain the slight lack of an expected reaction that I often go

Same here, lol. At the moment it's advent calendar fillings clogging up my wardrobe as mum's away and she sent them early!
My motto is no Christmas stuff in the house before Halloween and then I'll try to make things first, bake cookies ,etc. Stollen had sold out in both Lidl and Aldi when I was done in some years . This year I'll make proper Lebkuchen (spiced buscuits), last year I had a go at Stollen which wasn't too bad.
Back to the products - I really don't like Lidl's frozen puff pastry, it has palm oil in it and so do a lot of their other frozen or chilled pastry products. Either that or hydrogenated fats. It's reading the labels each and every time....I'd rather pay a few pennies more for all butter puff!