Good and Bad Buys from Aldi & Lidl *Do NOT Expire Please*

Feral_Moon

DigForVictory wrote: »

Not wanting to disrupt, but what should I be buying in Aldi other than their rather charming shopping bags? (My sons have already picked out Tea & Fruitcake for me, how thoughtful...)

Anything you like. It always amuses me when people ask what they should buy as we have absolutely no idea of what your family usually eat.

It's just a supermarket so buy what you usually buy elsewhere. You'll probably find the quality is better and come home with more change in your pocket.

Feral_Moon

Cornucopia wrote: »

A lot of the A & L bread products are made by Warburtons (and are generally very good). In particular, the "posh" loaves in Lidl and the sandwich thins in Aldi are very nice. Also the wraps.

Someone in the thread mentioned some of the muesli products being made by Dorset Cereals (but I can't remember whether that was Aldi or Lidl).

That's the Aldi muesli.

SparksAlive

Not sure if this has been said before (not reading 80 pages to find out!) but I tried the Aldi versions of cheese strings and peperami sticks recently. The meat sticks were actually quite nice - they don't taste like peperami exactly, but they do have a nice flavour and texture, more like chorizo.

The cheese strings however were awful. They don't taste like anything! Almost completely flavourless, apart from a very faint plasticky cheese taste if you chew them vigorously. Pretty disappointing.

So yeah - buy the meat sticks. Don't buy the cheese strings.

VfM4meplse

Feral_Moon wrote: »

That's the Aldi muesli.

The Lidl blue muesli is better though. Addictive in fact

andygb

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Would they have a choice in the wild?

Jeez!
Every Dingo I ever saw out in the bush, always had a George Foreman grill strapped to its back - everyone knows that the Aussie critters love a bit of grilled meat:D

Doc_N

Feral_Moon wrote: »

That's the Aldi muesli.

Lidl, I think:

https://thedorsetknob.co.uk/5210/makes-lidl-simply-sumptuous-special-muesli/

maman

VfM4meplse wrote: »

The Lidl blue muesli is better though. Addictive in fact

My DH's favourite. He loves the stuff, even took some on holiday with us.


We're down to the last bag so need to re-stock.


I need dishwasher salt too (love the easy dispenser box) so I'll get that at the same time.


We have a city centre branch (where I picked up aubergines last week) but won't carry heavy stuff from there so need to take the car to next nearest.

Feral_Moon

Doc_N wrote: »

Lidl, I think:

https://thedorsetknob.co.uk/5210/makes-lidl-simply-sumptuous-special-muesli/

My mistake. The news report referred to in the article is the I saw a few years ago but for some reason I thought it was Aldi packaging they showed.

Wizard_of_Id

Bought the Floralys Aloe Vera supersoft toilet tissue in the Super Weekend a few weeks ago, I wont be buying that again, it is rubbish.

It says 3ply on the packet but it is so thin that I need to use twice as much as the Nikki tissue and also, it wont tear at the perforations very easily

PLRFD

Lidl's Rounds are identical to Viscounts.