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

Gnocchi

The Milbona organic yoghurt drinks in Lidl are 99p or two for 1.50. Raspberry and lemon or mango an vanilla. Haven't tried the mango but raspberry was great and my mother deviated on way home to go get more.

Norwegian organic smoked salmon is 2.49 for 100g which is half the price that organic smoked salmon is normally. A bit greasy but certainly good for sandwiches.

In Aldi there's an organic Spanish tinto rosso which is quite light and smooth for only 4.99. They sell it online too 29.99 for six bottles.

harz99

Aldi cream crackers used to be nice, well baked crunchy and snackable on their own, the new larger(longer) packs that have appeared in the past three weeks or so are now very thin, very hard and taste like cardboard. A poor buy in quality terms.

A._Badger

robin58 wrote: »

Noted that butter prices have gone up again in both Aldi and Lidl, wth Aldi being abit cheaper by a few pennies.

Might start looking for butter in other supermarkets who have a good offer going on as the prices between both are getting close to each other.

I did a recent top-up shop in Morrisons and was surprised to see its own brand English butter either at the same price as Aldi's or within a penny or two. In fact I was so impressed by Morrison's prices on everything except cat food that I will probably start using them instead of the Sainsbury's branch I tend to use to get what Aldi doesn't sell.

Eliza_2

robin58 wrote: »

Noted that butter prices have gone up again in both Aldi and Lidl, wth Aldi being abit cheaper by a few pennies.

Might start looking for butter in other supermarkets who have a good offer going on as the prices between both are getting close to each other.

Butter (block butter, ie the real thing, ) seems to have shot up everywhere. I did a comparison this week and nowhere has it under £1 any more. No idea why.

Feral_Moon

robin58 wrote: »

Noted that butter prices have gone up again in both Aldi and Lidl, wth Aldi being abit cheaper by a few pennies.

Might start looking for butter in other supermarkets who have a good offer going on as the prices between both are getting close to each other.

Butter prices have gone up in other supermarkets too, not just Aldi & Lidl.

A._Badger

Eliza wrote: »

Butter (block butter, ie the real thing, ) seems to have shot up everywhere. I did a comparison this week and nowhere has it under £1 any more. No idea why.

Butter prices have been a mystery for some time. The reason given by the trade for the recent rise has been a shortage of milk and cream, brought about by a declining number of farmers, many of whom have given up due to historic low prices.

There is no doubt that dairy farmers have suffered but there was a concerted effort to raise butter prices a few years ago (widely discussed here) which saw prices getting on for twice what they had previously been. Dairy farmers I knew were telling me that they saw little of the benefits of this rise, so it seems likely to me that some skullduggery was afoot.

Aldi and Lidl managed to put a serious dent in that bid by selling butter at under a pound, while some of the big brands were edging up towards double their price.

In response to Feral Moon, while it is true that prices have risen everywhere, what is significant is that the difference between Aldi/Lidl and the rest has shrunk. Only they will know why.

suki1964

There is apparently as Badger says, a shortage of cream which is pushing butter prices upwards. The word is there's going to be huge shortages around Christmas as the demand for cream increases. I'm keeping some in the freezer now

Our lidls used to be £1.69 a lb, now £1.89. Still cheaper then Tesco which is £3 for a comparable product ( IE the local dairy product , not an EU one )

Feral_Moon

The reason for the shortage is because more and more people are beginning to realise that fat is NOT the enemy the food industry has led us to believe for half a century, hence the increase in demand. They now realise butter and cream are far healthier than the alternative synthetic creams and hydrogenated margarines.

A._Badger

Feral_Moon wrote: »

The reason for the shortage is because more and more people are beginning to realise that fat is NOT the enemy the food industry has led us to believe for half a century, hence the increase in demand. They now realise butter and cream are far healthier than the alternative synthetic creams and hydrogenated margarines.

Can you show us some evidence that sales have increased?

I happen to agree with you about synthetic spreads, but I'm not sure that increased sales of butter account for the price rise..

Doc_N

Not so much a case of Aldi and Lidl increasing their butter prices beyond the others, I think - more a case of the others reducing theirs to compete with Aldi and Lidl. Butter, like milk, is a frequent purchase, and people tend to remember the price.

And it's milk pricing, coupled with people switching back to butter, that's caused the butter price to rise. Stupidly low milk prices forced large numbers of UK farmers out of dairy, and they're no longer there to produce the butter that's now needed.

Europe's now producing just about enough butter for current consumption, but that may change by Christmas, with a supply deficit, and an inevitable further impact on prices. No surplus elsewhere in the world to cover it, either.

Anyone remember the butter mountain?