Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

Doc_N

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Milk in the Aldis around here have rubbish dates - 5 days at best. Ok if you have a large family having cereal for breakfast and have loads of tea and coffee.

Asda I always have 10-11 days on the milk

It's odd how the dates vary from store to store. There are two stores in this area - one usually has 10 days on the milk, and the other one just 6 or 7.

The store nearest us is the one with the short date (always packed, so that's no excuse) so the milk now comes from the Tesco next door to it. Much longer date (always) and a much more reliable supply. I'm no lover of Tesco, but their milk supplies are far more reliable than Aldi's.

deebee

big fan of Aldi as I now buy virtually all my shopping there now (local shop is minutes away), so many Aldi items are good quality and good value, moved from rip-off Tesco, only thing I have tried which is disappointing is their 1 litre bath creme - very thin and not bubbly, won't buy that again, their eggs are great - the large ones, vegetables, salad items and fruit are hard to beat, and it takes minutes to do your shopping as opposed to wandering round huge stores to find things

Tabithabooboo

Am an avid Aldi shopper, but yet to try their fish...we really need to eat more fish. Any recommendations?

charlies_mum

Tabithabooboo wrote: »

Am an avid Aldi shopper, but yet to try their fish...we really need to eat more fish. Any recommendations?

Their salmon steaks with a chilli and ginger dressing are lovely. Try with their Singapore noodles. Really easy dinner

glider3560

Does anyone use Aldi's Alco Fabric Conditioner? I bought the yellow 99p for 1l (40 wash) version (they do a premium one for £1.3) but it seems quite disappointing.

Used half a cap as recommended and the clothes don't smell of much. Tried a whole cap when I washed some bedding again today and it still doesn't smell of anything.

I was previously using Tesco's Daisy 1l (50 wash) for £1 but was getting fed up with the scent so thought I'd try something else.

Dr._Shoe

What do you want, a nice scent or nice soft clothes? Just because other products are heavily scented doesn't mean they're good. I do agree that some do smell lovely but the priority for me is softness.

quoia

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Milk in the Aldis around here have rubbish dates - 5 days at best. Ok if you have a large family having cereal for breakfast and have loads of tea and coffee.

Asda I always have 10-11 days on the milk

Doc_N wrote: »

It's odd how the dates vary from store to store. There are two stores in this area - one usually has 10 days on the milk, and the other one just 6 or 7.

The store nearest us is the one with the short date (always packed, so that's no excuse) so the milk now comes from the Tesco next door to it. Much longer date (always) and a much more reliable supply. I'm no lover of Tesco, but their milk supplies are far more reliable than Aldi's.

All I can say is that I HIGHLY recommend MORRISONS own milk ...

... IRRESPECTIVE of what date it has on the label :j ...

... at least the BLUE top 3.6% fat WHOLE MILK.

Since a Morrisons LOCAL opened up about 3 months ago just a few hundred yards from where I live, (and they have yet to get fully in control of their supply and demand stock management requirements) ...

... I have been buying "gallons" of the stuff with ZERO days on the use by date ...

.. FOR A PITTANCE :rotfl:

On several occasions I've left with 6,8 or 10 pints costing no more than 5p per pint on every occasion.

I've had single pints at 5p, 2 pint bottles for 9p and the 4 pints size for 19p
I've also had 4 pint ones for 15p and as little as 9p :rotfl:

all being sold ON their Use By Date.

I've taken them home, just kept them in the fridge as normal and been drinking them almost TWO WEEKS LATER :eek: :rotfl:

On Xmas Eve I bought a load dated 24th Dec which I used the last of on 3rd Jan
A load more on 31st Dec that I finally finished on January 13th.
I've just made a coffee :coffee: with some that's been opened a couple of days whose UBD is 11th Jan and I've yet to start what I bought on the 12th.

It doesn't have the slightest smell of going off, it tastes as good, nice and fresh as milk I've bought with 2 weeks still to go to the UBD, and it doesn't split or curdle when added to the hottest coffee - something that milk on the turn will readily do (smell or no smell) days before it might reach its displayed "arbitrary" UBD.

I've even taken a large glass of it to bed with me, left it on the bedside table all night having fell to sleep before drinking it, brought it downstairs in the morning and put it back in the fridge, then used it throughout the day in cups of both tea and coffee and it's been perfectly fine.

In the last month I've bought at least 4 GALLON of the stuff for UNDER £1 and as far as I'm concerned it's the best milk I've ever bought.

Even the "extra micro filtered" "fresher for longer" ones I've had in the past, including Cravendale, have never kept as long as this does.

So there's my recommendation, do with it as you wish.

iris

sb44 wrote: »

Can you remember the price of their Sloe Gin and the size please.

Ta.

£10.99 for a 50 cl bottle. Haven't seen it on their shelves since Christmas.

iris

candygirl wrote: »

I've never seen that:eek:was it a Xmas special?:D

I think it must have been a Christmas special, because I haven't seen it on their shelves since. It also disappeared quickly at Christmas, as I wanted to buy more but they never restocked.

VfM4meplse

TravellingAbuela wrote: »

I have at last opened the L'Esprit D'Orange I bought for Xmas from Aldi (why did I buy so much booze!!) and I have to say, after great expectations, I was not impressed. No orange taste to it at all and far too sweet. One of the few things I wouldn't buy again from Aldi.

In that case I shall save it for baking activities - I'm sure it would be fine poured into a cake for extra "oomph". Will stick to Cointreau for the serious business of margarita-making!

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Milk in the Aldis around here have rubbish dates - 5 days at best. Ok if you have a large family having cereal for breakfast and have loads of tea and coffee.

I try to secure the milk with the best date on it whilst I am in the store, but use the sniff test once opened so not at all bothered about drinking milk past its SEL as long as it causes no offence to my nostrils

Just one of me and I use it in tea and coffee only, so unsure why 4 pints rarely lasts for more than 5 days