Quality of meat in ALDI?

Living_proof

I read somewhere that chickens are fed fish meal and that might explain the fishy smell you got from the cooking. I have to confess I buy little meat from Aldi, it's normally from Lidl if I buy it at all.

ohreally

zzzt wrote: »

So I bought some chicken breasts and cooked them (just now). This is something I've done hundreds of times before. I cut it into pieces and fried them ready for a curry, but after they were fried I noticed that they were sitting in 1 inch of slimy water.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/supermarket-frozen-chicken-breasts-water

The meat is then repacked for sale as frozen chicken breast fillets in leading supermarkets. Asda, Aldi and Iceland all sell frozen Brazilian chicken tumbled this way by Westbridge as part of their own-label discount ranges.

If you want high quality meats, go to Costco.

Moggins_2

I've had a couple of dodgy chickens, but no more so than other places. From aldi we buy these meats regularly: whole chicken, beef mince, bacon, gammon and beef meatballs. All nice and good value. Also buy their eggs and ham

downshifted

I buy their free range chickens at £4.99 and have never had a problem

Old_Git

I work for a company that supplies aldi with dry aged beef .
It is hung in a fridge for 21 days .
the same company also supplies asda and sainsburys .

DaveTheMus

I would never use chicken breast in a curry.....thighs and drumsticks all the way.

snowcat75

antrobus wrote: »

Mind you, Aldi were also caught selling a beef product that was in fact between 30% and 100% horsemeat.:)

Apaprently a product sourced from a French supplier which was using Romanian 'beef'.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/feb/09/aldi-100-percent-horsemeat-beef-products

It is no great surprise that certain meat products were not all that they seamed, you have to remember that supermarkets of any colour or creed pay the bare minimum even under cost of production, however Aldi are certainly not the worst...


As I said the chicken you buy from Aldi's (assuming its UK produced) WILL be produced in the very same way by the very same group as the one that supplies Marks and spencer, Tesco's, Sainsbury's or even KFC and McDonalds.


My FIL manages a 22,000 bird unit for the one of the big two.

Coopdivi

[QUOTE=hgotsparkle;66944621]I feel like I'm the only person in the world who manages to shop more cheaply at Tescos than anywhere else.
In my town theres a Sainsburys, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Iceland and Farmfoods. We used to shop at Aldi and Farmfoods and never really had much, we had to do a late night shop one night and everywhere was shut bar Tesco so we went there, and came away with so much more, and all brand items!
I don't know how we do it, but Tesco is about £10 cheaper a week for us than Aldi alone, and we get 1 bag for life more out of it![/QUOTE]

Of course you would say that. You work for them. :rotfl:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=66105824&postcount=86

duchy

Coopdivi wrote: »

Of course you would say that. You work for them. :rotfl:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=66105824&postcount=86

Good spot

I assume Tesco staff get some form of discount on their shopping so perhaps that explains why this poster's experience is different to everyone else ?

(£10 saving sounds very little for a staff discount tho)

hgotsparkle

Coopdivi wrote: »

Of course you would say that. You work for them. :rotfl:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=66105824&postcount=86

Actually, I don't work for them, I work in a Tesco store. I am employed by a completely different company therefore do not get any discounts or benefits of Tesco.