Aldi! I am thinking of converting!

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Is it sad that I,m getting excited as they are building an Aldi round the corner from us..... due to open start of september.

I use Lidl alot at the moment, with a quick dash to Mr S for the things I can,t get.

Love their cold meats and jars of antipasti, and always buy Mr L,s black bin bags, so thick compared to any general supermarket ones.

Do Aldi have good meat offers? I always get the allowed 6 of any HP meat offers from Lidl - saves us a fortune.

PLRFD

They did have half price meat offers all the time not so often now,enjoy checking yours out when its finished.

Florasaurus

Congratulations on your wedding!!

As well as the usual fruit and veg, I tend to get most of my meat and frozen potato wedges/chips there too... The milk, butter and bread is very good date-wise as well Beware of branded stuff, like the Coca Cola, you can usually get that elsewhere for cheaper, but for own-brand stuff I usually go for Aldi

DCFC79

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valk_scot wrote: »

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.

Yes shopping in Aldi is as quick as in Lidl, its much easier and nicer to get it done in half the time or less than in Tesco etc

Cottage_Economy

Aldi convert here too. Started shopping out of necessity one month and never went back to Mr T's for the main shop. Still buy the cat food mostly from Mr T's though, although do add in the Aldi foil trays here and there to mix things up fir the three furballs.

Things we particularly like:

Speciality beefburgers
Chicken breasts
Chocolate marble brioche
White chocolate
Chilli tortilla crisps
Italian ground coffee
Pate
Frozen Crumbed haddock
Steak chips
Frozen stuffed pork loin
Leek and apple sausages
Diavolo pizza (so much so it has boken my husband's Domino's habit:j)
Wheaties breakfast cereal
Large packs of ham for sandwiches
Little french beers
Laundry liquid
Mahooosive frozen strudel desserts

Love, love, love scouting the household rummage 'stalls' in the middle of the shop. Fascinating eclectic mix of stuff. Hubby had to drag me away from the fishing gear the other day...and i don't fish. I wanted to buy the fishing socks and fleeces and snuffle them away for winter. No idea how they differ from normal ones but it must get pretty cold on a riverbank at night so I'm assuming they're pretty warm and snuggly.

Oh and i love the speed of the tills. I shove it all back in the trolley and then pack at leisure.

Usually spend around £40 a week for two of us...

meritaten

the Apple and Mango juice from the chiller tastes just like the J2Os! and you can make at least six from one carton! just add a couple of tablespoons of water and ice!

I love Aldi - I can do a main shop there and only top up in Tresco about every three months - and over the years I get less and less in Tresco!

my OH tells everyone we eat like Royalty on a less than Tresco Value budget! in fact I get embarrassed when we do our top up shop as he loudly says 'Don't get that here! its cheaper/nicer/better value in Aldi!'

he loves their Outlander white wine - and their cider - oh and their lager! I love their Amaretti liquer.

The only things I seem to buy from Tresco these days are OXO cubes (I don't like the aldi ones), their own brand curry powder - sorry but if I used a different brand my own home made curry wouldn't taste the same), chicken livers, pepper sauce (Schwartz) mild pepper sauce and gravy browning and Worcester sauce!

richardw

Cottage_Economy wrote: »

..Things we particularly like:
..
Diavolo pizza (so much so it has boken my husband's Domino's habit:j)
...

That's a significant saving!
how often did you get a Domino's?

VicBev_3

I used to have my shopping delivered by Tesco but then when I couldn't get my weekly shop below £100 with no treats and buying a lot of the value range.

We are a family of 5 plus have 2 dogs and cats to feed etc.

I decided to try Aldi and Lidl again, I used them a years ago but they didn't stock half of what they do now, I am lucky that they are over the road from one another so can pop to both.

Now I wouldn't look back I do my main shop of around £60 in Aldi and pop over to lidl and spend £10, we have all the treats I couldn't afford and more.
The amount of people that ask where I shop after seeing or tasting something of mine and can't believe that its from these shops and secondly about how much I paid.

I prefer Aldi fruit and veg over Lidl don't think theirs lasts as long, I have jacket potatoes, new potatoes, grapes, apples, celementines, blueberries,tomatoes and carrots all over a week old and still look and tasting fresh, Do like Lidl's bacon and its slightly cheaper by about 10p. Also like Lidl's baked beans over Aldi's plus they are nearly half the calories of Bransons beans!

I could go on forever about how wonderful these shops are but I think it would do no-one any harm to just go do a weekly shop and see for yourselves what you think.

I cannot afford to shop in Tesco etc and I won't knowing what I know now.:T

maman

VicBev wrote: »

I decided to try Aldi and Lidl again, I used them a years ago but they didn't stock half of what they do now, I am lucky that they are over the road from one another so can pop to both.

Now I wouldn't look back I do my main shop of around £60 in Aldi and pop over to lidl and spend £10, we have all the treats I couldn't afford and more.
The amount of people that ask where I shop after seeing or tasting something of mine and can't believe that its from these shops and secondly about how much I paid.

I prefer Aldi fruit and veg over Lidl don't think theirs lasts as long, I have jacket potatoes, new potatoes, grapes, apples, celementines, blueberries,tomatoes and carrots all over a week old and still look and tasting fresh, Do like Lidl's bacon and its slightly cheaper by about 10p. Also like Lidl's baked beans over Aldi's plus they are nearly half the calories of Bransons beans!

I could go on forever about how wonderful these shops are but I think it would do no-one any harm to just go do a weekly shop and see for yourselves what you think.

I cannot afford to shop in Tesco etc and I won't knowing what I know now.:T

I'd be interested to know if there's anything else you prefer/better value in Lidl rather than Aldi. I go to Aldi every week but Lidl only occasionally to stock up on luxury muesli that DH adores plus their dishwasher stuff. Anything else you'd recommend specially.