Aldi - Change in Food Quality

cabbage

Hi

Although our cats have Felix when we don't shop at Aldi, they absolutely LOVE the Aldi cat food and wolf it all down.

ZiQi

I buy mostly fresh fruit, veg, meat and then just things like frozen veg or fish fillets, so for me not many processed foods as others have found to have changed and Aldi themselves have confirmed there has been recent changes, though some branches may still have older supplies.

Ones I've noticed on the few processed items I've tried are:

Cheese, including the Greek Style Salad Cheese (this now has the consistency and taste of paint).

Some of the cooked meats.

Norpak spread.

Some of the biscuits and the dairy toffees and chocolate !clairs.

Orange squash.

Be warned Aldi have informed us the yoghurts are changing supplier and recipe too soon.

Some other items too, I forget at the moment, but when shopping the kids remind me which ones are inedible now.

Others have noticed other items changing too, however other than a few items I mainly buy foods so I can cook from scratch, always have done, always will do.

ZiQi

cabbage wrote: »

Hi

Although our cats have Felix when we don't shop at Aldi, they absolutely LOVE the Aldi cat food and wolf it all down.

SOme of the Aldi cat food range has changed recently too. Your store may still have old version. Some people reporting their cats no longer like the new suppliers version.

ladyelegance77

I was in Aldi as recently as 2 hours ago and the quality of everything I looked at seemed fine to me. I've also been to the one in St John's in Liverpool city centre and sometimes their quality has been questionable. I guess it's location, time of day, and all that perhaps? The Aldi near me is quite good, so I guess I'm very lucky in that respect.

ZiQi

ladyelegance77 wrote: »

I was in Aldi as recently as 2 hours ago and the quality of everything I looked at seemed fine to me. I've also been to the one in St John's in Liverpool city centre and sometimes their quality has been questionable. I guess it's location, time of day, and all that perhaps? The Aldi near me is quite good, so I guess I'm very lucky in that respect.

Fresh foods not a problem, nor simply frozen items such as veg.

The quality is in mostly the processed foods or foods with more than a couple or so ingredients as they have changed recipes and suppliers on these very recently, so you don't know until you open the tin, packet etc. Also depends on when your local distribution centre have in the new versions and when your local store received them too.

flea72

About a year ago they changed the recipe of the tomato ketchup. Were quite fussy about ketchup in our house and the aldi one was a good cheap version of heinz. Not any more. Is thin and vinegary and more like the cheap stuff you buy from a chippy in sachets

maman

ZiQi wrote: »

I buy mostly fresh fruit, veg, meat and then just things like frozen veg or fish fillets, so for me not many processed foods as others have found to have changed and Aldi themselves have confirmed there has been recent changes, though some branches may still have older supplies.

Ones I've noticed on the few processed items I've tried are:

Cheese, including the Greek Style Salad Cheese (this now has the consistency and taste of paint).

Some of the cooked meats.

Norpak spread.

Some of the biscuits and the dairy toffees and chocolate !clairs.

Orange squash.

Be warned Aldi have informed us the yoghurts are changing supplier and recipe too soon.

Some other items too, I forget at the moment, but when shopping the kids remind me which ones are inedible now.

Others have noticed other items changing too, however other than a few items I mainly buy foods so I can cook from scratch, always have done, always will do.

I don't buy much from that list except biscuits and cooked meats. I can confirm their ginger nuts are still excellent as is the Torchon (French style) ham.

Fruit and veg is generally good in my Aldi. If some weeks e.g. the cauliflower looks ropey then I don't buy it. Invariably when I get to Sainsbury's they too have ropey cauli at 50p more!!

Where/when did Aldi confirm their changes and warn you of future ones?

ZiQi

maman wrote: »

I don't buy much from that list except biscuits and cooked meats. I can confirm their ginger nuts are still excellent as is the Torchon (French style) ham.

Fruit and veg is generally good in my Aldi. If some weeks e.g. the cauliflower looks ropey then I don't buy it. Invariably when I get to Sainsbury's they too have ropey cauli at 50p more!!

Where/when did Aldi confirm their changes and warn you of future ones?

I like the German baked ham too and so far that has escaped change yet.

Aldi confirmed the changes to me in the email I received and letter I received with £5 voucher as I emailed them a written complaint and then they contacted me for more details.

They mentioned on their Facebook page regarding future change.

I buy a lot of fruit and veg from the market, but do use Aldi too.

From Birmingham Market I got 3 Savoy cabbages for £1, Cauliflowers are now 60p, but you can get them 2 for £1 and at the end of the day they often sell them 3 or 4 for £1.

Fair Trade bananas work out at 45p/kg, though again at the right time they sell them off, boxes of peppers, chillis, mushrooms again fairly cheap.

Nada666

Is the Torchon ham real ham?

It is difficult enough to find real ham for £10 per kilo at the best of times. Two questions: is Torchon tortured pigs? is Torchon pumped full of water?

75p per 100g is dodgy by any measure.

Buying beef and lamb is easy - it is always labelled wrt the individual nation (Scotland, Wales, England)
The trouble is so much pork is labelled BRITISH pork - which, to me, means do not buy because it means crated, intensive European.

Beef and Lamb is easy. Pork is horrible.

The trouble with pork is escalated with the vile muti-buy dictats of supermarkets. As a matter of principle, I refuse to buy anything that is labelled with a multi-buy discount.

How the blazes can I buy pork??!?!?"?!?

ZiQi

Nada666 wrote: »

Is the Torchon ham real ham?

It is difficult enough to find real ham for £10 per kilo at the best of times. Two questions: is Torchon tortured pigs? is Torchon pumped full of water?

75p per 100g is dodgy by any measure.

Buying beef and lamb is easy - it is always labelled wrt the individual nation (Scotland, Wales, England)
The trouble is so much pork is labelled BRITISH pork - which, to me, means do not buy because it means crated, intensive European.

Beef and Lamb is easy. Pork is horrible.

The trouble with pork is escalated with the vile muti-buy dictats of supermarkets. As a matter of principle, I refuse to buy anything that is labelled with a multi-buy discount.

How the blazes can I buy pork??!?!?"?!?

Other than ham, gammon and belly draft, I don't like pork.