Good and Bad Buys from Aldi & Lidl *Do NOT Expire Please*

quoia wrote: »

Au Contraire

I was just responding to your "I'd prefer stuff to have no added sugar and no artificial sweeteners" and the fact that this product is exactly that.

As for the "Strawberry" image, that's the one that I originally posted - not sure Lidl had one for the Blackcurrant version, and I wasn't specifying that you should try that particular flavour.

And I did say that I was only "guessing" that the strawberry jam might be "quite sweet" because strawberries are naturally - I haven't tasted it yet.

If you "do not like anything that is sweet or even quite sweet" then most fruit will not be to your liking.
Discarding the sweet strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, mango, apple, pear and other similar juicy packages of fructose, including oranges .....

... then I suppose your pleasure are lemons, limes, grapefruit, rhubarb and as you said before, very sour cherries.

You suppose correctly.

RainbowDrops wrote: »

Still present at my local.
Items that I'm missing are the "lazy ginger" in a jar, and the "ambient" fresh pasta ? gnocchi (non refridgerator, used t be with the dried pasta. Gutted about that as they were solid regulars on my shopping list.

Lidl seem to be playing around with removing certain products (or even whole ranges) from some stores, but keeping them in others, then switching them round again.

Basmati rice went missing from my store for months, it's now back. The jams have now all gone, but available elsewhere. Mine has also lost all the Indian curry sauce jars, except tikka and korma.

Aldi have really increased the product range recently (especially for frozen), which makes Lidl look rubbish in comparison. I'd be choosing Aldi everytime if I had one nearby (unfortunately stuck with a Lidl without car parking).

Pollycat wrote: »

Just for clarity:
I do not like anything that is sweet or even quite sweet.

In that case, I'll have your share of the doughnuts

Cornucopia wrote: »

Guacamole is back at Lidl - despite a member of staff telling me (when it disappeared) that it was "gone forever".

Ooh, great. I'll look out for it in my local. It was good value irc.

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Did you go through some kind of aversion therapy? My sugar habit is once again spiralling out of control.

Nope.
Always disliked sweet things.

Don't eat biscuits or cakes.
A 100gm bar of Green & Black's dark chocolate will last me a month.
When I used to go out for a meal with work colleagues, they galloped towards the sweet course. I just savoured my main (and had an extra glass of wine).

I only have jam stirred into porridge (which I don't sweeten).
I really struggle to find anything that isn't too sweet.
Lime curd is good.