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

Doc_N

Katiehound said:

and how would I know when there is a voucher? Advertised on the non existent television I suppose......

hotukdeals - almost guaranteed a thread if one’s published in a national.

Rosa_Damascena

I bought a pack of 6 white rolls from Aldi yesterday - not my usual bread purchase but at 75% they work out to be 2p each. I'm not complaining given the price, but they are not the best white rolls I have eaten! Just one is enough to sink the Marie Rose 

pumpkin89

thriftytracey said:

My fave pies are Pieminster which have shot up in price - now £4.50 each, so £9 for two of us is too expensive.  I do buy them in Waitrose when they are reduced though.

They're almost never actually £4.50 though - they seem to flip-flop between 25% off (£3.37 each) and 2 for £7.

p00hsticks

Rosa_Damascena said:

I bought a pack of 6 white rolls from Aldi yesterday - not my usual bread purchase but at 75% they work out to be 2p each. I'm not complaining given the price, but they are not the best white rolls I have eaten! Just one is enough to sink the Marie Rose 

The lack of decent bread and bakery items is my main bugbear about Aldi - in this section I'd rate them by far the worst of all the supermarkets in the locality (Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's and Cp-op, with an occasional longer trip to an Asda)

Cornucopia

Tricky to compare supermarkets with in-store bakeries with those that don't have them.

Of the pre-packed Aldi bread, I quite like:   full-size wraps, fruit loaf, small seeded loaf, sandwich thins, English muffins...

Sadly, the seeded sour-dough bake-at-home products seem to have disappeared, which is a shame as they were really good.  I need to try the posh bake-at-home dinner rolls.

Doc_N

p00hsticks said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

I bought a pack of 6 white rolls from Aldi yesterday - not my usual bread purchase but at 75% they work out to be 2p each. I'm not complaining given the price, but they are not the best white rolls I have eaten! Just one is enough to sink the Marie Rose 

The lack of decent bread and bakery items is my main bugbear about Aldi - in this section I'd rate them by far the worst of all the supermarkets in the locality (Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's and Cp-op, with an occasional longer trip to an Asda)

Against that, though, while Lidl has more instore bakeries (nice high profit margins) its range of bread beyond that, and of course cheaper, with lower margins, is much poorer.

harz99

Rosa_Damascena said:

I bought a pack of 6 white rolls from Aldi yesterday - not my usual bread purchase but at 75% they work out to be 2p each. I'm not complaining given the price, but they are not the best white rolls I have eaten! Just one is enough to sink the Marie Rose 

i wouldn't expect them to be! I learnt a long time ago that Aldi dates are pretty optimistic, so they'll be stale at that price...

Rosa_Damascena

Doc_N said:

p00hsticks said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

I bought a pack of 6 white rolls from Aldi yesterday - not my usual bread purchase but at 75% they work out to be 2p each. I'm not complaining given the price, but they are not the best white rolls I have eaten! Just one is enough to sink the Marie Rose 

The lack of decent bread and bakery items is my main bugbear about Aldi - in this section I'd rate them by far the worst of all the supermarkets in the locality (Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's and Cp-op, with an occasional longer trip to an Asda)

Against that, though, while Lidl has more instore bakeries (nice high profit margins) its range of bread beyond that, and of course cheaper, with lower margins, is much poorer.

I find their bog-standard seeded wholemeal loaf to be ideal for vegetarian sandwiches, more so when they slap a 20p sticker on it.

A__L

I purchased an Emma mattress from Lidl. Haven't unboxed it yet

YoungBlueEyes

Marzipan logs are 2fer£2 in Lidl 😍 Just the normal ones, not that pineapple nonsense. 

They’ll only let you have 6 tho - any more than that is against their “bulk buying rules”, apparently 😒