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

robrymond

Yes the charge points have no instructions which left people confused for weeks about what had changed. I believe you scan the QR code and then it links to some payments system. Obviously some people are right, it's a luxury (albeit a company car) but its noticeable how empty those spaces have been since they started charging (infact I counted three ICE vehicles in them the other day!).

Back to good products though, love the Mini Twister lollies they sell at Aldi, £1.69 for six (quite a steep rise, I think a few months back they were 99p) but they are exactly the same as the real thing in texture and taste.

Brie

Rosa_Damascena said:

I made a point of parking by the EV in Aldi this evening so I could inspect it without looking suspicious. I didn't see a direct means of payment (all the instructions were visual rather than written) but I did see a QR code.  Guess that would be used to gather payment? 

I wouldn't worry about stopping to check out the charging points.  I did the same when they first appeared at a Tesco because I couldn't figure out how they worked.  Not that I have an EV.  I'm just nosey.

wild666

I went to my local Lidl on Monday and snapped up 5 Kg of chicken breasts for just over £11 two * 2Kg at £3.75, 70% off and 1 Kg 30% off at £3.85. I'm normally one of the first customers in the store on a Monday and head straight for the meat section.

wild666

Rosa_Damascena said:

Back to Lidl, there has been a distinct lack of orange stickers lately.

I've noticed that but on Monday in my local Lidl I got 5 Kg of chicken for a little over £11 but there again I'm the first person in the store at 08:00 when it opens and head straight for the meat section. 

Cornucopia

New product at Aldi (also a "Limited Edition"):   Rainbow Prawn Salad (bowl).   265g £1.99

A bold attempt to create quite a sophisticated mix of textures and flavours in a standard-sized individual salad bowl.   It's a mix of good-sized prawns, thin rice noodles, a variety of vegetable pieces and strips, edamame beans and spicy thai dressing in a separate sachet.    Inevitably, there need to be more prawns and more dressing, but other than that quite a different kind of salad with interesting flavours and a little spicy heat.   

Good value for money.

Hydromel

Lidl's Red Kidney beans starting to inch up again, now 33p up from 30p previous...

i always feel like i should be buying the bigger bags of dried beans elsewhere, but they require both hours of soaking and cooking, which feels less than economical these days with the energy prices, not that i've done the maths

Brie

Hydromel said:

Lidl's Red Kidney beans starting to inch up again, now 33p up from 30p previous...

i always feel like i should be buying the bigger bags of dried beans elsewhere, but they require both hours of soaking and cooking, which feels less than economical these days with the energy prices, not that i've done the maths

Work it out based on how much your time is worth.  If you can do it in 5 seconds and leave it cooking and then drain it 2 hours later for another 5 seconds maybe it's worth it.  If you have to get up every 10 minutes to check on it then no it isn't.  

National minimum wage = ??  £10/hour?  Each minute is worth 17p to save 3p on a tin.  Nope.  Buy the tins.

rhcp

Looking at the Lidl online leaflets and there are no weekend offers next weekend.

maman

I've been thinking along the same lines for tins of butter beans. I priced them up in our local Asian supermarkets and even getting 3 times the quantity, when cooked,  it really isn't worth it IMO. 

I'll keep a check on the relative prices over time but,  at the moment,  I'm sticking with tins from Aldi. 

VoucherMan

rhcp said:

Lots of orange sticker items in Lidl today.  I got 1.4kg of pork chops for £4.19.  Maybe it was because I went in a bit earlier than normal, will have to go in earlier more often!

I wanted some pork shoulder, but haven't seen any reduced for a while. I was just resigning myself to paying full price yesterday when I noticed some pork leg joints reduced. With 30% off that's cheaper than shoulder, and it smelt delicious when I took it out of the slow cooker today.

rhcp said:

Looking at the Lidl online leaflets and there are no weekend offers next weekend.

I've always found the online leaflets hit & miss. For weekend offers I prefer the top banner on their offers page, although as you say, there's no super weekend listed. https://www.lidl.co.uk/c/xxl-week/c2432/w2

I've got my eye on some of the XXL offers. I suspect my local store won't have any stock, but if they do, I'll be grabbing a pack of 48 tins of tuna. https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/xxl-week/nixe-tuna-chunks-in-brine/p54134 Can't go wrong at 35p a tin, and it keeps forever.