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

maman

Pollycat said:

I've found the quality of the chicken breasts to be good.

Last time we had them was in a home made blue cheese sauce with new potatoes & green beans

Yum! 😋

Like you, I portion them for the freezer. One of the large ones can be enough for a stir fry for 2 of us.

Mostly though I use thighs for many chicken recipes, cheaper and tastier IMO. Unfortunately they come in many sizes too!! 🤣

rhcp

The were selling mince pies in my aldi.  I thought these were only sold at christmas!

Rosa_Damascena

rhcp said:

The were selling mince pies in my aldi.  I thought these were only sold at christmas!

They were making June-mass a thing to make up for a non-existent gap in profits in December.

Stompa

briskbeats said:

Has anyone come across Aldi with a red light over the door?

Yes, though only the once, so I had to wait about ten minutes. Mind you, it was a long time ago.

briskbeats

A won’t purchase again from a friend - Lidl’s Cinnamon Squares. They are still hard when in milk and not as cinnamony as Curiously Cinnamon.

Rosa_Damascena

Just tried this, which I bought this afternoon for the grand sum of 49p:



The lady at the till said it is delicious, and she is right

harz99

Just tried our first Aldi Curry Mayonnaise, a little stronger in taste than the Belgian Frittes Stalls do but still very, very tasty, and I'm not into ordinary mayo...keeps up to 4 weeks after first opening😁. 

Bacman

briskbeats said:

The other day I had to sling out some Lidl’s fat free Greek yogurt. Opened it 3 days before. Though had another 10 days on bb date - it curdled and stank.

I use the stretchy silicon lid covers and never had a problem 

BBE on dairy means unopened, once you open the product then oxygen gets into it and starts the rotting process, opened dairy should be consumed within 2 days of opening, 3 is usually ok but after that, bin it or not only will be product be unpleasant but also could make you sick. So, for example, if the BBE date is 10th of the month, if you open it on 7th, good (usually) to 10th, 8th to 10th, 9th to 10th (maybe 11th), 10th use on the day; if before 7th then 2 or 3 days later from opening date.

On other note, we love the Lidl version of the chocolate digestive biscuits, about 1/3 the McVities price and we think actually taste even better.

Rosa_Damascena

Bacman said:

On other note, we love the Lidl version of the chocolate digestive biscuits, about 1/3 the McVities price and we think actually taste even better.

Agreed but I prefer the dark ones. Their chocolate hobnobs are also very more-ish.

LittleVoice

Bacman said:

briskbeats said:

The other day I had to sling out some Lidl’s fat free Greek yogurt. Opened it 3 days before. Though had another 10 days on bb date - it curdled and stank.

I use the stretchy silicon lid covers and never had a problem 

BBE on dairy means unopened, once you open the product then oxygen gets into it and starts the rotting process, opened dairy should be consumed within 2 days of opening, 3 is usually ok but after that, bin it or not only will be product be unpleasant but also could make you sick. So, for example, if the BBE date is 10th of the month, if you open it on 7th, good (usually) to 10th, 8th to 10th, 9th to 10th (maybe 11th), 10th use on the day; if before 7th then 2 or 3 days later from opening date.

On other note, we love the Lidl version of the chocolate digestive biscuits, about 1/3 the McVities price and we think actually taste even better.

I think you may be misinformed.  Dairy products do not have BBE dates.

They may well suggest that the product should be consumed "within 3 days of opening and before the Use By date" - but I have lived so long that I have not only safety consumed dairy products beyond such dates but survived not having them added to purchases.

I expect those biscuits do have a BB date.  Perhaps they are too enticing, but would you bin those if they ever reached that date?