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

quoia wrote: »

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IF you are close to a MORRISONS ....

...then get your CARROTS FREE

They are handing out their bags of WONKY Carrots (usually 41p) for NOWT !</snip>

Ken68 wrote: »

Thanks Quioa...wonky I do.

Correction on the Morrisons WONKY Carrots front.

Contrary to the article in the Sun and/or Mirror .....

.... it's NOT the "NORMAL" 1kg bag of Wonky carrots (reportedly 41p but actually 35p in my store)

BUT

a "SPECIAL" bag (brown paper) containing a (single) MAGIC (Wonky) Carrot intended to be used as REINDEER FOOD



Collected 2 earlier today for a couple of children I think would "appreciate" feeding the "engines" of Santa's sleigh.

Must admit I did pick the 2 largest carrots I could find - both long enough and fat enough to use as a rolling pin :eek:

Just weighed them and each is over half a pound - 9 ounces / 258 grams actually

While examining one of these huge monsters I did enquire of a member of the grocery team what size batteries did it take and which end did you put them in !!! :rotfl:

Successful Yule dinner was had by all - almost all ingredients purchased at Aldi

Starter - venison carpaccio with beetroot, rocket & horseradish

Main - 5-bird roast plus roast spuds, red cabbage, parsnips, carrots, green veg etc

Dessert - deluxe crime brûl!e or Xmas pud with brandy butter

Total cost: less than £40 to feed 3 courses to 3-4 people.

quoia wrote: »

May well have featured an English sparkling wine and from ALDI but it wasn't the Cremant du Jura - that's definitely French (from the Jura region bordering Switzerland near Geneva)

https://www.aldi.co.uk/p/000000015800900

ALDI do have a very new addition (since October 2016) of their 1st English sparkling wine - developed exclusively for Aldi by the supermarket’s buying team, created in collaboration with the winemakers of Denbies Wine Estate.

It's NOT CHEAP - £14.99 a bottle - and called CHALK VALLEY

https://www.aldi.co.uk/p/000000103838600

Sorry to disagree but it was actually the Cremant de Jura that they promoted as an English sparkllng wine.

I'd been in both A & L yesterday and none is stocking the things I always purchased there before Christmas especially, hard to believe that all of it is out of stock in both stores - Marzipan for baking, Cocoa powder in the baking isle (all your round until recently) and from the chiller all butter puff pastry. Very disappointed indeed. No labels on the shelves so probably discontinued