Good and Bad Buying at Lidl and Aldi (***Please don't expire***)

maman

harz99 said:

Tried a different Aldi this morning, still no Village Bakery Both in One bread, OH now winging as she doesn't like Wholemeal which is the only alternative for me and we don't eat enough bread to run two loaves simultaneously.

Obviously, other 'Best of Both' breads are available elsewhere as one solution but DH and I eat different breads and keep them frozen. Most of the bread we eat is as toast but defrosts quickly if you plan to have a sandwich. 

Pollycat

maman said:

harz99 said:

Tried a different Aldi this morning, still no Village Bakery Both in One bread, OH now winging as she doesn't like Wholemeal which is the only alternative for me and we don't eat enough bread to run two loaves simultaneously.

Obviously, other 'Best of Both' breads are available elsewhere as one solution but DH and I eat different breads and keep them frozen. Most of the bread we eat is as toast but defrosts quickly if you plan to have a sandwich. 

Is Both in One (that the OP is talking about) the same as Best of Both?

Best of Both appears to be a mix of white and wholemeal flour resulting in a loaf of the same colour.

Given the comment from harz99 re OH not liking wholemeal, I got the impression that it was one loaf with white and brown slices.

I may be confused though.

I keep bread in the freezer too.

Always a mix of toastie and Aldi's very nice granary (thick slices). And Aldi malted rolls.

maman

Pollycat said:

Is Both in One (that the OP is talking about) the same as Best of Both?

Best of Both appears to be a mix of white and wholemeal flour resulting in a loaf of the same colour.

Given the comment from harz99 re OH not liking wholemeal, I got the impression that it was one loaf with white and brown slices.

I may be confused though.

I don't know either, I just assumed it was the same. I think the idea is that you're eating something that's got the nutrition of wholemeal bread but it looks and tastes like white. I've heard people buy it for children, a bit like they grate veg in food to hide it.  If it's been discontinued, we'll never know!! 🤣

harz99

maman said:

Pollycat said:

Is Both in One (that the OP is talking about) the same as Best of Both?

Best of Both appears to be a mix of white and wholemeal flour resulting in a loaf of the same colour.

Given the comment from harz99 re OH not liking wholemeal, I got the impression that it was one loaf with white and brown slices.

I may be confused though.

I don't know either, I just assumed it was the same. I think the idea is that you're eating something that's got the nutrition of wholemeal bread but it looks and tastes like white. I've heard people buy it for children, a bit like they grate veg in food to hide it.  If it's been discontinued, we'll never know!! 🤣

That's pretty much it, and your not wrong we'll never know as Aldi aren't going to tell us. I'm just suspicious that the cheaper own brands may be disappearing as part of a drive to push prices and profit up (just what Mr T did when they ditched a lot of their Value items and started up the Stockwell own brand).

MoneyMoneyMoneySaving

Do buy the lemonade. 2L bottles for 29p - and much better than Sprite!
Don't buy the Washing powder. It's awful and has stained my clothes

harz99

MoneyMoneyMoneySaving said:

Do buy the lemonade. 2L bottles for 29p - and much better than Sprite!
Don't buy the Washing powder. It's awful and has stained my clothes

Welcome, but A or L please?

od244051

Has anyone here bought the Lidl's Cien Mega Moisture hair condition in the Aussie Hair style bottles (cream bottle, dark red cap)? Used their Beautiful Brunette conditioner (blue tube with brown stripe) and very impressed. Having to use wash out conditioner to keep my lockdown hair in a reasonable state 

S_uk

The latest monthly price tracker report form Which? has been released for February which has Lidl just ahead of Aldi on price on the basket shop. Even though the weekend offers aren't brilliant I find myself doing more and more of my shop at Lidl these days, with the app being an added bonus.



And on the expanded shop of the basket items plus 66 branded goods, Asda is again cheapest of the bigger 6 supermarkets. I'm quite surprised they found Tesco more expensive than Sainsbury's, although this is mostly branded goods I understand. If it was own brand stuff I think Tesco would be cheaper than S, or not much difference?

maman

That's interesting to know S-uk. How can we find out what's in the baskets of goods that they compare? 

Personally I do my main shop at Aldi and top up in Sainsbury's. The reasons are partly the geography as I can visit both with almost no extra mileage. Compared with when I first started shopping in Aldi when the shop was 50:50 I now buy a minimal number of items in Sainsbury's, sometimes nothing. My local Lidl seems to stock a much poorer range (quantity rather than quality) of fruit and veg than Aldi possibly because of the student/bedsit area it serves.

S_uk

They don't list all the items they use to compare, but they say:

Every day throughout February we checked the prices of 19 items, including own-brand products such as apples, eggs and tomatoes, as well as branded goods such as Hovis wholemeal bread, to see how UK supermarkets compared.

We also compared a shopping trolley packed with 85 items (the original 19, plus 66 more). This included a greater selection of branded items, such as Branston baked beans and Kleenex tissues, that aren’t always available in the discounter supermarkets – so for our super-sized trolley we haven’t been able to include Aldi or Lidl.