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

Rosa_Damascena

Cornucopia said:

New product at Aldi (well, it has the "I'm new" label)...   Choceur Cake Bars (Milk Chocolate).   

I'm sure there is or used to be a Galaxy cake bar that was very similar to this.   It's a light sponge topped with fondant and covered in chocolate.   Not huge, but nicely luxurious.   5 bars for 99p.

Delicious as it looks, its a funny time to launch a product like this given the number of premium-priced Christmas goodies available.

Cornucopia

Rosa_Damascena said:

Cornucopia said:

New product at Aldi (well, it has the "I'm new" label)...   Choceur Cake Bars (Milk Chocolate).   

I'm sure there is or used to be a Galaxy cake bar that was very similar to this.   It's a light sponge topped with fondant and covered in chocolate.   Not huge, but nicely luxurious.   5 bars for 99p.

Delicious as it looks, its a funny time to launch a product like this given the number of premium-priced Christmas goodies available.

Maybe some strategic tinsel could be added to the Cake Bars?

scrummy-mummy

I love most Aldi products but just cannot get on with their peppermint tea, it's far too weak.

Rosa_Damascena

scrummy-mummy said:

I love most Aldi products but just cannot get on with their peppermint tea, it's far too weak.

Leave the bag in the cup?

I bought a bottle of Lidl's Batt's tomato ketchup, which not only has gone up to £1.05 but is also now quite thin. Has the recipe been diluted?

Rosa_Damascena

Spotted in Lidl yesterday - looked interesting but £2.99 per 150g pack (just shy of £20/kg) was just too much, even as a treat:

thriftytracey

Cornucopia said:

New product at Aldi (well, it has the "I'm new" label)...   Choceur Cake Bars (Milk Chocolate).   

I'm sure there is or used to be a Galaxy cake bar that was very similar to this.   It's a light sponge topped with fondant and covered in chocolate.   Not huge, but nicely luxurious.   5 bars for 99p.

Oh dear.  They look nice.

Brie

Northern_Wanderer said:

Has anyone else noticed that some products taste more oily nowadays at Lidl? 

A change to frozen waffles, really oily taste now, think the product might have changed as it now says it can be toasted. Been happy with these for many years until now.

The frozen garlic chicken kievs seem to have gone the same way. Just tastes of oil and very little flavour otherwise, used to be really tasty although I haven't bought them in a while.

Is this another way for them to reduce costs rather than put up the price??? I don't live on this type of stuff but the oil taste honeslty makes me want to vomit and puts me off food in general. Are they trying to poison us?

Haven't noticed this inLidl but I did come across this in Tesco a while back.  I used to love their soft baked cookies - you know, the 5 pack for £1 from the bakery section.  Well the cookies got smaller, 5 became 4, and the price went up.  All normal I guess.  But then I bought some and they just tasted nasty.  Instead of tasting nice and buttery they tasted like they had been made using really cheap vegetable oil.  So basically all you could taste was oil.  Yuck.  Complained and got a refund but that's not been enough for me to buy them again.  I have had the Aldi ones (maybe a year back?) and they were quite nice in comparison. 

Strangely too I recently had the same problem with Tesco peanut butter.    Fresh jar, made a sandwich and it was yuck.  At first I thought it had gone off, like rancid.  But then I thought it was more like it tasted of machine oil.  So not sure what happened there.  Presumably all the own brand PB is from the same factory so I might have to try one of the other stores just to see if it was a one off or what.  Don't suggest I try to live without the stuff - I've been snacking on it for decades!!!

Rosa_Damascena

@Brie, there is hope. I had one of their (bakery) chocolate cronuts with my evening coffee and it was delish.

rhcp

Noticed today that Aldi now have wholemeal seeded bread for £1.05.  I've been wanting something like that that isn't expensive.

Cornucopia

Two 89p bargains...

- Lidl has a pack of 12 small boxes of snack raisins for 89p.   The boxes are tiny, but more than enough for a kid's lunchbox or a generous handful for an adult snack.

- Aldi "Carlos" Pizza Subs - crispy bread base with Pizza style topping (either Cheese & Tomato or Pepperoni).   Two subs for 89p.   Cooks nicely in my air fryer in about 5 mins.