Aldi bread hike..

Cornucopia

I've been shopping regularly at Aldi & Lidl for 3-4 years now. Before that, I was going to Asda & Tesco, and both of them (especially Tesco) had many random price hikes - often for no apparent reason, and often 30-40p or more at a time, rather than just a few inflationary pennies.

It's one of the things that I like about A & L that they do not do this. Indeed, I can point to products (and even whole product areas) where the prices remain the same (or less) than they were 3 years ago with no change in quantity or quality.

Aldi revised their bread range a few months ago and it was discussed on the long running "Aldi & Lidl Good & Bad buys" thread. At the time, I said that the brown bread, particularly, looked to have ended up somewhat more expensive than it had previously been. However that's now been resolved, and in fact with the addition of Brown Sandwich thins and 50/50 Wraps, the range is actually bigger now than it was.

I don't think Aldi are guilty of price hiking, and I think that the OP probably would have more luck looking elsewhere.

I don't know how it happened that two German businesses came to represent best value in British grocery shopping, but I applaud them for it.

Soworried

Soworried wrote: »

I noticed this so I re costed one of the weeks menus I did (pg13) and it was a whopping 21% price increase.
Asda still have the 15p stuffing in some times and they do the mixed herbs, the rest I haven't seen for ages.
Stock cubes cost almost 300% more now :eek:

Soworried wrote: »

I am seeing my shopping bill increase and have used this shopping list to see how much it really is increasing.

The above shopping would now be £4.26 more, a whopping 21.3% higher No wonder more people are struggling.

Soworried wrote: »

Shopping list- All from Mrt unless stated.
500g of Cornflakes 31p
Creamfields milk 2l x 2 £2.00
500g dried mixed fruit 64p
Wholemeal loaf 47p
Lemon curd 22p
Chicken stock cubes 10p
5x fresh chicken portions £1.50
Mixed veg frozen 1kg 75p
Chicken noodles 11p
1kg spread £1.35
Salt 29p
Potatoes 5kg £1.78
Coleslaw 500g 39p
12pk bread rolls 35p
15pk eggs £1.25
Mayonaisse 48p
Sweetcorn tinned 33p
Custard 6p
Tinned peaches 29p
Tin tuna 49p
Tinned pineapple x2 64p
1kg of frozen sausages 20pk £1
Pasta 30p 500g
Tin of kidney beansx2 36p
6x tins of mushy peas 24p
Cooking bacon 74p
Tinned grapefruit 34p
Rice 1kg 40p
Rice pudding 12p
Plain flour 52p
Gravy granuales 20p
Tin of carrots 18p
Cheese sauce 3 for £1
Frozen broccoli 80p

That is £20 to the penny. Some items will be left for the following week as well. It is not quite 5 a day but it is not far off.

Breakfasts
4 days of the week, cornflakes 30g each with 120ml of milk and 30g of mixed fruit
2 days 2 slices of Toast with lemon curd

Lunches
1 day, Chicken noodle and vegetable soup served with a slice of bread and spread.
Make it with 1 chicken portion boiled in chicken stock made with 2 stock cubes and 1 1/2 pints of boiling water. Add in 240g of mixed veg. Once the chicken is cooked remove it and shred in to tiny bits. Part blend the soup to make the veg smaller and to help thicken it. Add the packet of noodles and the chicken back in. Simmer for another 5 minutes.

2nd day, Jacket potato with coleslaw. 1 large potato, around 175g. Microwave for 7-8 minutes and top with 140g of coleslaw.

3rd day, Egg mayonaisse rolls. Using 1 roll each and 1 egg each with a tsp mayo and a pinch of salt and 1/8th can of sweetcorn. A tin of peaches with custard.

4th day, Tuna mayonaisse rolls using 1 tin of tuna, 4 rolls and the rest of the sweetcorn. Pinch of salt and mayo to mix. A tin of pineapple for afterwards.

5th day, Kidney bean pasta. Using 75g each of pasta mixed with mayonnaise a tin of kidney beans. Follow with a tin of pineapple.

6th day, Bacon and pea soup. Use 4 tins of mushy peas, add 1pt of stock and salt to taste. Blend then add 250g of bacon chopped in to pieces. Simmer until cooked. Serve with a roll each.

7th day, The other half of the pea and bacon soup. Then share the grapefruit tin.

Dinners
Day 1, Chicken with vegetable rice. Roast the remaining 4 chicken portions, boil 300g of rice in stock and add 240g of mixed veg.

Day 2, Sausage hash. Using 8 Sausages fried then cut in to chunks. 700g of potatoes cut in to disks. 240g of mixed veg. 1 pint of stock. Layer up in a dish and pop in the oven to slow roast. Serve with 300g of broccoli and a tin of peas.

Day 3 , Sausage, chips and peas. Using 8 sausages and the last tin of mushy peas. To cook the chips put them in a freezer bag once chopped with a spoonful of melted spread, then cook as oven chips. If the potato skin is nice, leave it on.

Day 4, Vegetable burgers with rice. Using the remaining mixed veg, blend it with salt and the two slices of wholemeal bread that is left. Gently fry in a little spread, serve with a fried egg and 300g of rice.

Day 5, Bacon omlette using the rest of the bacon pack and 6 eggs, add a splash of milk and a pinch of salt. Serve with the remaining coleslaw on a jacket potato.

Day 6, The last 200g of pasta mix with cheese sauce and 300g of broccoli. Add 1 hard boiled egg on the top to serve.

Day 7, Toad in the hole. Using the remaining 4 sausages. Make your own batter with the last 1 egg, splash of milk and some salt and flour. Melt a little spread to add the batter to. Make mashed potato using 700g of potatoes, pinch of salt and splash of milk and a knob of spread. Tin of carrots, 300g of broccoli and gravy.
Follow with rice pudding and stir in some lemon curd.

I'll try again to see if I can get it any healthier but it is not to bad I don't think.

Well I just looked back and I'd remembered the % incorrectly, it was a 21% increase.
I don't go by what the papers say is happening with food prices, I go off the prices I'm actually paying vs the prices I was paying.

whitegoods_engineer

mad_dr wrote: »

I bought a loaf of bread the other day for 1.29. Turns out it was unsliced. What a ripoff - one slice of bread for 1.29!!!

:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sooo funny!

What a rip off. The original poster hasn't thought this one through!

Soworried

angel_of_dartford wrote: »

At first, I thought the loaf was named after the OP, I looked again and the wrapper said "Thick CUT"

You get one life and you get to chose the way you live it in the most part.
Some people seem to want to live their lives taking cheap shots at others. Others like to help others and offer friendly advice.

angel_of_dartford

Soworried wrote: »

You get one life and you get to chose the way you live it in the most part.
Some people seem to want to live their lives taking cheap shots at others. Others like to help others and offer friendly advice.

And some like to gallop sanctimoniously on their high horse pretending to be offended at simple tongue in cheek humour that wasn't even directed at them.

Further more, then went on to quote my post which the mods had deleted to just make sure it remained visible.

Each to their own !

Bollotom

mad_dr wrote: »

I bought a loaf of bread the other day for 1.29. Turns out it was unsliced. What a ripoff - one slice of bread for 1.29!!!

Aye! And your beggared if you want a couple of sarnies rather than just the one! :cool:

robin58

OP, So Aldi do thicker slices now and you don't like it.

Other Sliced breads are available from other supermarkets so take your business there.

Problem solved!

Cornucopia

Aldi also has some medium-sliced bread. This is a non-story.

PILES

FedUpWithHikes wrote: »

The basic wholemeal loaf has a new wrapper, and is still 800g, but the slices are bigger, and much thicker ('doorsteps'), so there's only 18 rather than the typical 22-24.
A sneaky way of an effective price hike..(not for the first time)
I'll be going back to Lidl, next time..

Buy un-sliced next time, you can then cut to your desired thickness Rip off avoided, you might even get more than 24 slices.

Bobcrowther

suki1964 wrote: »

Id love to be earning that an hour :eek:

It's not really that much, honestly.