Aldi! I am thinking of converting!

sambalina

Im an Aldi converter too! have been shopping there for the last few months. A house move and a baby on the way means that money is think on the ground at the moment!
We love the double strength Orange Squash, The Viva Lemonade, Chocolate Brioche Loaf.
The Titan and Racer bars are exactly the same as Mars and Snickers.
I love getting the baking stuff too, Flour, Baking powder and the fruit is cheap as anything too - Home Made Cakes and Muffins cost pennies in our house!
Cleaning products are fantastic too, the dishwaher tablets are really cheap and just as good, if not better than a branded box.

We love it! We can get a weeks shopping in there for about 60 on average compared to 80-100 at Asda or Tesco. My OH works at Asda and gets 10% off and sometimes doing the weekly shop there still isn't as good as Aldi!

borkid

Positiveoutlook wrote: »

Downside of Aldi for me is lack of gluten free food as I am coeliac.

I'm not sure if this is any help but you can get some gluten free foods on prescription. If you don't pay prescription charges or have a prepayment card for other things it might be useful and more cost effective.

bella2121

We have aldi round the corner and I think it's fab!!

Part of our regular shop include

Tinned beans and sausage
Pasta/spaghetti
Cheese
Cooked meat
Bacon
Lamb mince/pork mince
Hot and spicy beef grill sticks
Biscuits
Cakes
Chocolate bars
Yogurts
Norpack butter (OH says its better than lurpack)
Fruit juice
Viva lemonade (I love this)
Nappies/baby wipes
Large fresh chicken (delicious)
Packet pasta and sauce (macaroni cheese flavour)
Tinned tuna
Pickled beetroot jar
Mustard
BBQ sauce
Pepper
Custard
Milk
Bread

HTH xx

valk_scot

I'm a Lidl shopper, I've converted at least 70% of my regular Tesco shop over to Lidl in the past couple of years. But reading the posts above I think I might look in the local Aldi again, there's a few things recommended that I can't get in Lidl or that I don't like from Lidl.

To the OP, give it a try but if you can, change over gradualy. Try a few alternatives, some you'll not like after all but the rest will either taste better or there's no difference...but almost always cheaper. You won't recognise most of the brands but that's okay, you don't eat the label after all.

One other advantage in shopping at Lidl and I presume Aldi is how quick it is. There's not as many choices in a range, you don't have to look at twenty different varieties and sizes of baked beans for example to work out the best buy. At the most there will be their brand, one other brand and probably only one size of each. Quick decisions! I can do my Lidl shop in twenty minutes, a Tesco one of half the size takes me nearly twice as long, argh.

joolsybools

Another Aldi convert here. I probably get 80% of my shopping here with the other bits mostly from Lidl and occasionally Sburys/Mr T/Asda.

I think Aldi and Lidl stores weren't that good when they originally came to the UK around 10 years ago and that's what puts some people off. Personally, I would never go back to doing all my shopping at the big supermarkets as they are such a rip off. I've had no problems with Aldi and Lidl product quality although occasionally some fruit and veg does go off quicker than other bits.

Norma_Desmond

We're quite recent converts to Aldi too - even though the store is a 35 mile round trip away!

Our nearest small town just has a horrible over-priced and badly stocked Co-op and we'd had enough of feeling ripped off.

We adore Aldi's cold meats, cheeses and those gorgeous goat's cheese or Gruyere tarts......frozen duck in hoisin/chili sauce.....salmon fish cakes.....chicken breasts.....their focacchia flat breads......spicy noodles........curry/pasta sauces....

I've always found their fruit and veg. very good too.

I'm starving now, the contents of the fridge have dwindled
and we're not off to the big city (Haverfordwest!) until DH has the day off on Wednesday!

lucinad

i am on a very small strict budget and tend to buy mostly tesco value branded food stuff, however i have been going to aldi for several things that cost the same as tesco value but the quality is much better

i buy:
almat washing powder is really good
tortilla wraps
british minced beef £2.49ish (cheaper then tesco value)
jaffa cakes
fruit and veg (lettuce and cucumbers 1/2 the price and bigger than tesco)
cheesecakes (much deeper)
trifles
butterly spread
ham (plastic ham cheaper but nicer than value)
cornet icecreams (these are about 15p more than value but 100% nicer)
loo rolls (aloe vera 3 ply really good quality £1.85)
sugar is 10p cheaper
frozen chicken breast £3.99 for 1kg (same price as value seem better quality and sizes)
frozen mixed veg
sometimes the nescafe coffee is cheaper in one or the other

i tend to mix between the 2 and get some from both

ginge2804

I do all my shopping in either lidl or aldi!!
I only use other shops when they are closed, or for certain things you can't get from there.

I think everything tastes either the same or better than Tesco etc! And me and my bf have saved a fortune on alcohol because its so much cheaper!! Lidl do their own version of Malibu, which tastes the same, for £4!! (aldis version is not so nice)

They also do branded things now, which can sometimes be cheaper than other supermarkets.

amr547

I've been looking at switching, we have both Lidl and Aldi. I really like Farmfoods for frozen stuff and normally buy it all there. We currently shop in Morrisons and ASDA but would like to get our shopping bill down. I have tried a few things from Aldi and been pleasantly surprised. I am just a bit of a brand snob! I think I'll give it a go and see what I like

liney

I shop at Aldi each week with the odd top up from the whoopsie meat shelf of Sainburys or Asda.

The vegetables are always fine from my store. I do keep most things in the fridge though apart from onions and potatoes. Soft fruit is always cheap.

Tinned food, like soup, tomatoes and fruit are excellent and very cheap. The tomatoes in particular are like premium band.

Ham for sandwiches is very good at £1.79 for a large pack.

Fresh pasta is lovely. If you use dried it is better value to buy the huge bags that Asda sell for £3 instead of Aldi small bags though.

Fresh meat if on par with other supermarkets. The sausages are very nice and the bacon doesn't shrink to nothing.


Frozen food - I don't buy much but the pizza and fish fingers have been nice. Not a great selection of vegetables.

Cleaning products are good value. Fabric softner and dish washer tablets too.

Lacura handcream is great and about 80. Not keep on the rest of the toiletries.

6 large free range eggs. hovis bread and 4 pints of milk are £1 each.

You won't get everything you want, but I haven't bought anything inedible yet.