Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

Annie021063

Lidl fat free lemon Greek style yogurt - totally yummy and syn free if you are following slimming world

recovering_spendaholic

I bought the tomato and oregano mini bruschetta yesterday (99p for a good sized bag) and they were just lovely! I haven't had anything like that before and will Defoe be buying again.

PLRFD

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

will Defoe be buying again.

He was very good in Platoon.

Ken68

The 5litre Laundry Buckets in Lidl look useful. Bought one yesterday to use as a kitchen caddy. Cheap... £1.79 but not strong.

Ken68

The vinegar in LIDl 568ml is still 21p but now in a plastic bottle.
The Valley Spire cheese is the same price whether mature or lighter mature, also they have a mild cheese same type package and same price.

PLRFD

The Lidl extra virgin olive oil Is now in plastic bottles I've stopped buying it much prefer it in glass.

mcculloch29

The Aldi bruschetta are lovely, tomato and oregano nicer than the garlic and herb imo. They are with the crisps, for some odd reason and not with the crackers. I noticed some different luxury savoury biscuits the other week - mature cheddar flavour, very small.

I'm missing the savoury rice cakes in the large cylindrical packets. Aldi have Kallo rice cakes at the till but they are not the same.

I've noticed that my Aldi now has large 9 roll packs of all the loo rolls it sells.
I usually get the quilted, which is 3 ply, 4 rolls for £1.49. I think their luxury roll is, like Andrex, only 2 ply.
Aldi ultra kitchen roll is pretty good stuff. At the moment, Plenty is on offer in Wilkos, 6 rolls for £3 so I'm using that.

pakokelso93

PLRFD wrote: »

The Lidl extra virgin olive oil Is now in plastic bottles I've stopped buying it much prefer it in glass.

Makes no diff to me plastic/glass.

PLRFD

Maybe it should do,

http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/files/packaging-influences-on-olive-oil-quality

mcculloch29

PLRFD wrote: »

Maybe it should do,

http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/files/packaging-influences-on-olive-oil-quality

Really interesting. I keep my plastic bottled olive oil in a dark cool cupboard, we use it quite a lot, and Aldi stock turns over quickly so it doesn't get a chance to go off, but it is interesting research all the same.

I tried the salt and chilli ribs from the Aldi chiller last night - very nice, fell off the bones so no waste of meat.

I can't remember if anyone gave the Aldi salted caramel Magnum lookey-likeys the nod, but ooh, they are really nice. Not many left in my Aldi, always a giveaway of a really nice product.

For anyone getting into the courgetti fad, courgettes are one of the Aldi Super 6 for the next couple of weeks.