My first ever Aldi shop - WOW!

MysteryMe

I was delighted to see Baramundi in Aldi so have bought some, I remember loving this fish when I was in Australia and not seen it over here before. It's frozen so fingers crossed it tastes OK!

Funnily enough I prefer the Aldi hair colour to Superdrug's own brand. I think it costs something like £2.99 or £3.49

I regularly get two uses out of one box when I m just touching up roots.

alchemista

Be careful on checking some of the cheaper meat items - so much of it is 20% filler or less, or high fat content. That's true in any store, but the cheaper side of items are more common in Aldi.

They are good prices for things like bread, milk, fruit/veg, but some other items are no cheaper than T and other big stores.

Remember you have to bring your own bags and a coin for the shopping cart!

TravellingAbuela

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I also still went across to Morrisons for my usual hair colourant - going grey is not something I am going to compromise on :[/QUOTE]

I always use Aldi's own hair colourant and it's fine (don't let the colour of the foam put you off!!!) I use Chocolate Brown and it covers all my grey bits!

Doc_N

Congratulations on your discovery of Aldi, Jue. Now you've found how good Aldi is (and Lidl's much the same) you'll never go into Tesco again without thinking how overpriced everything is.

You'll discover that Aldi items are much the same as those all the other supermarkets sell - no surprise, of course, because the same food processors make them.

You'll also discover that in many cases the Aldi item is superior to the Tesco equivalent - for around 30% less.

Try the wines too - plain, low prices for excellent wines (check out the reviews), and none of Tesco's price fiddling. You know the thing - Tesco double the price for a few days, then reduce it again and claim it's 'half price'. Aldi don't do this for their wines, or for anything else, and it's a much more honest, straightforward approach.

Biscuits are incredibly cheap. Every bit as good as the brands, but around half the price. Likewise chocolate and confectionery. In fact, pretty much everything is much cheaper.

You'll find that you buy more and more there. You may find the odd item that you're not keen on, but that's the same anywhere. You'll also find some things they don't sell - that's where Waitrose comes in handy!

Enjoy your new discovery. You'll save a lot of money, and a lot of time, too.

jetplane

This has inspired me to try Aldi again. I tried when they first opened before bar codes and the long queues and practice of shoving everything off the end into my trolley as fast as they could really used to stress me out.

My husband has teased me for years about paying extra prices for the checkout experience. However I think all shops have cut their staff and the queues in the big supermarkets are longer now.

I work near Lidl and get bits and bobs but the fruit and veg doesn't last long. Apparently our taste buds change every 28 days so it should only take a month or so to lose the need for Heinz

Enterprise_1701C

Just one other tip - I used to swear by PG Tips, I now use Sainsbury Basics, which also happen to be Fairtrade, they make a good cup of tea.

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I use Sainsbobs basic tea bags and they are excellant value and make a good cupp.Aldi's is great for fruit and veg.This morning I bought some chestnut mushrooms for lunch and some romaine lettuce which was only 45p for two lettuces Their 15p yoghurts are very nice but only seem to stack peach or strawbeery at my local shop.The biscuits are excellent value and I stock up for my DD as her boys can make a packet vanish very quickly at times

shoppaholic_returns

Serendipitious wrote: »

A friend of the family once had a girlfriend who was German and she spoke very highly of Aldi, she could not understand why in the UK people tended to look down on them as they are held in high regard elsewhere.

I always found their fruit and vegetables excellent, their flowers are good value, and I know their products for Christmas have won taste tests. In fact I think they won an award for their scampi too.

In germany Aldi is a premium supermarket, however, according to my English friend who lives in Germany,the products they sell in Germany are more lux products and very different to those in the uk.

davenport151

Welcome Aldi convert!
I too saw the way forward and shop even less in those other places.
I like the fact you can grab what you need all in one area as opposed to trekking down the many aisles. Plus you do not need to complete a maths test to see if you have a good deal on the bogofs. The price you see is the price you pays.

Doc_N

shoppaholic_returns wrote: »

In germany Aldi is a premium supermarket, however, according to my English friend who lives in Germany,the products they sell in Germany are more lux products and very different to those in the uk.

Not my experience in Germany. Products much the same as in the UK, and the only diference is that whilst the Germans (and everyone else in mainland Europe) regard it as a bog-standard supermarket, the ill-educated in the UK regard it as downmarket and substandard.

We've been made far too used to overpriced supermarkets in the UK - good that Aldi and Lidl are changing all that.