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

jenniewb

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I take it back. I was in Sainsburys earlier today with just 2 items and headed straight for the self-service tills, when I chanced upon a till with no queue and the SA yawning his head off in obvious boredom. Worst of all he must have been half my age and called me "dear".

I realise that he would have had little choice but to sit there until he was told to close the till, but you just wouldn't see that at Aldi: they jump on and off tills like fairground rides. I'd much rather shop in a place where the staff have a bit of get up and go than in a store that lets people twiddle their thumbs whilst the customer pays for that privilege through increased prices.

Trust me; being paid to sit doing nothing but standing or sitting still waiting for customers has got to be one of the most mind numbing and depressing jobs there is- it really isn't a privilege to be bored to the point of fatigue and tiredness. It's a horrible job to have (spoken from experience!) Jobs that keep you busy are normally further up the retail chain once you can be trusted IME but until then it's often hours of feeling like your mind has died and every minute feels like twenty minutes.:eek:

robrymond

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Try the cheese and onion crisps (multipacks) for 75p. Strong flavoured but not to everyone's taste.

Tried the 6 packs and the 30 packs. There just is no consistency to the flavour and taste anymore. I used to love the Prawn Cocktail crisps but now they are just bland. Salt and Vinegar never has any vineger on them.

On the subject of cold stores, ours is pretty cold ever since they refurbed and added a double set of doors (presumably to help keep it cold inside or keep the cold out?!). The worst is Asda though at Oldbury; the place is like a freezer.

his_missus

I bought Aldi's Asia Escapes (??? Asia something anyway) sweet chilli dipping sauce. It's a lot gloopier than Sharwoods, and although the taste is comparable, I just don't like the gloopy texture.

VfM4meplse

robrymond wrote: »

Tried the 6 packs and the 30 packs. There just is no consistency to the flavour and taste anymore. I used to love the Prawn Cocktail crisps but now they are just bland.

Now that is so weird! One of the "essentials" I dropped by for on Saturday evening was crisps - the crisp monster in my life was dropping by in the evening - so I selected Prawn Cocktail. I thought they were very highly flavoured, almost like a strong S&V!

candygirl

I always buy the 6 pack of ALDI cheese n onion, n salt n vinegar crisps, and they are very strong flavoured I recently bought their camambert, n it's gorgeous with crusty bread

mcculloch29

My son was always the bread - maker in our family, rather than me, he left a bag of Aldi strong flour behind when he moved out so I thought I'd use it up.

I followed the recipe on the bag which adds 2 tsp olive oil and 1 tsp salt with the 310ml lukewarm water and dried yeast sachet to 500g flour.
It made the best bread I've ever made. Ever. Rose beautifully, proved beautifully, and baked so well.

The yeast I used was from Aldi as well (so was the olive oil and salt if it comes to that!).
I've been baking bread for some forty years and never got a bakery standard loaf from scratch until now, just dough good enough for pizza bases, or good results, but from a bag of bread mix.

VfM4meplse

I recommend the tonic water. I'm not a huge fan of fizzles so might have some very occasionally, was pleased to find that product retains its fizz well.

I was looking for wholemeal strong flour but couldn't find any in Aldi, not even white.

Feral_Moon

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I recommend the tonic water. I'm not a huge fan of fizzles so might have some very occasionally, was pleased to find that product retains its fizz well.

I was looking for wholemeal strong flour but couldn't find any in Aldi, not even white.

They sell both in my store for 75p a bag.

Doc_N

Feral_Moon wrote: »

They sell both in my store for 75p a bag.

Is that still the case? Both the strong wholemeal and the strong white bread making flours disappeared from our Aldi a few weeks back and haven't reappeared.

Lidl still sell both, fortunately, and we're lucky enough to have both (and a Waitrose) within a short distance of each other.

CraigDavid

Aldi Specially Selected Lamb & Mint Burgers ... Not very nice, full of fat and grisly bits. Tried to eat them until I found a rubbery pipe thing in it so they ended up in the bin.