ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[21TonyK]

V8mate said:

In the Aisle of Dreams...

I'm going to use that one LOL

[The Vambo]

V8mate said:

The Vambo said:

battered said:

dazco said:

How can the taste of vodka have got in there? Alcohol is not vodka, nor does it taste like it

Vodka is 40% alcohol, 60% water, not much else. Funnily enough the dominant flavour of vodka is alcohol, and a wine at 14% ABV has a stronger alcohol flavour than one at 12.

Hactually, 100% proof spirits are only 50% alcohol. Pure alcohol is 200% proof.

You're mixing your degrees and percentages.

Does 200 degree not mean I go back the way I came?

[jas xjr]

i reckon pure alcohol is nearer 170 proof. in other news , our local aldi is forever running out of stock . the branch has been there at least six months so maybe demand should have settled down.
the fruit and veg section was almost empty , with us having to stop at another supermarket to buy some salad. is this limited to my local branch or are other people finding this too?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Yep our local lidl is much worse now it's a new store the old one was never like this

[zb]

Had this with couscous. Mistake I made was doing it in an open dish in the oven, sauce dried out a bit, will do it in a covered dish next time.

[V8mate]

zb said:

Had this with couscous. Mistake I made was doing it in an open dish in the oven, sauce dried out a bit, will do it in a covered dish next time.

Aldi?
Fresh or frozen?

[zb]

V8mate said:

Aldi?
Fresh or frozen?

ALDI, fresh.

[condor]

jas xjr said:

in other news , our local aldi is forever running out of stock . the branch has been there at least six months so maybe demand should have settled down.
the fruit and veg section was almost empty , with us having to stop at another supermarket to buy some salad. is this limited to my local branch or are other people finding this too?

There's a problem with getting some fresh fruit and veg at the moment. Aldi normally advertise their super 6, but on their website it says to go into the store to find out the local offers as they will differ from store to store.

[majordad]

Must be Aldi suppy issues, my local store had bags of Carrots on Super Six then they disappeared a day later to be replaced by Carrots and Parsnips on a tray mix.

[battered]

bds have done it again - changed suppliers and product without saying. I used to enjoy their tomato soup. It was better than Heinz and dare I say it better than another soup manufacturer where I worked. Happy days, until a few days ago when I went in and saw a new label. Aye, aye. Here we go. Yep, changed product. It's now like bat's p*ss. F*ing thank you Aldi. Yet another product that you have bought cheaper from someone else and rendered crap. This race for the bottom does you no favours.

[IanA2]

battered said:

bds have done it again - changed suppliers and product without saying. I used to enjoy their tomato soup. It was better than Heinz and dare I say it better than another soup manufacturer where I worked. Happy days, until a few days ago when I went in and saw a new label. Aye, aye. Here we go. Yep, changed product. It's now like bat's p*ss. F*ing thank you Aldi. Yet another product that you have bought cheaper from someone else and rendered crap. This race for the bottom does you no favours.

Lidl's Tom soup is good, again better that the Heinz variety.

[hyphen]

V8mate said:

Warning: The following post may contain nuts.

Peanut butter alert!

Aldi has got its Specially Selected variant in again. So yummy!

In the Aisle of Dreams, not with the regular products in the jams and spreads section.

What are the ingredients, specifically does it contain sugar? as the cheaper ones do, the better don't.

[V8mate]

hyphen said:

V8mate said:

Warning: The following post may contain nuts.

Peanut butter alert!

Aldi has got its Specially Selected variant in again. So yummy!

In the Aisle of Dreams, not with the regular products in the jams and spreads section.

Yummy as it is high quality ingredients, or yummy as sugar is listed in the ingredients?

Here it is next to Aldi's 'wholenut peanut butter'.

Five grammes less fat, but five grammes more sugar. Which becomes fat anyway. So, basically, the same

[Riley Blue]

Peanut butter.... !

I can't even unscrew the lid of a jar without heaving - that smell!

BTW, had Aldi's Chicken Jalfrezi last night as I couldn't be arsed to cook; not bad at all for £1.49 or whatever it cost. O/H had Ham & Mushroom Tagliatelle and rated it highly too.

[battered]

V8mate said:

Here it is next to Aldi's 'wholenut peanut butter'.

Five grammes less fat, but five grammes more sugar. Which becomes fat anyway. So, basically, the same

Basically not at all. You can't turn 5g sugar into 5g fat. If you could we wouldn't be worrying about cold fusion because energy would be free.

[Ste1987]

zb said:

Had this with couscous. Mistake I made was doing it in an open dish in the oven, sauce dried out a bit, will do it in a covered dish next time.

Added to my shopping list. Good call!

[V8mate]

battered said:

V8mate said:

Here it is next to Aldi's 'wholenut peanut butter'.

Five grammes less fat, but five grammes more sugar. Which becomes fat anyway. So, basically, the same

Basically not at all. You can't turn 5g sugar into 5g fat. If you could we wouldn't be worrying about cold fusion because energy would be free.

Jeez. I bet dinner parties round yours are a riot.

[battered]

V8mate said:

battered said:

V8mate said:

Here it is next to Aldi's 'wholenut peanut butter'.

Five grammes less fat, but five grammes more sugar. Which becomes fat anyway. So, basically, the same

Basically not at all. You can't turn 5g sugar into 5g fat. If you could we wouldn't be worrying about cold fusion because energy would be free.

Jeez. I bet dinner parties round yours are a riot.

Just like yours, sunshine.

[Balmoral]

I find it interesting that generally people are having good experiences with Aldi, I've found them to be terrible and have given up. We recently had a big new shiny Aldi open up in our town, so I was happy to switch from the Lidl I'd been using in the next town, but I've had to take things back after every shop at Aldi (once a week over several weeks). I can't remember the last time I've had to (or even been bothered to) return goods to a supermarket, if indeed I've ever taken anything back over the decades.

Stock shortages (Yes, I know that you just can't do a full shop in Aldi/Lidl, but they should at least have adequate stock of what they do purport to sell).

Appalling shelf life (don't think this can be put in the cupboard/fridge and eaten towards the end of the week, it's about had it right now as it is).

Rubbish fresh produce (veg/meats), and I do mean rubbish, stuff that is actually rotten and when the bag is opened the stench makes me wretch (I've had to take back a number of butchery items).

It does seem good (and good value too) for stuff in tins/jars/bottles/packets/boxes, but that's about it.

Anyway, I've given up on them and had started to return to the Lidl in the next town, although it too has similar issues (but I've never had to take anything back because it was unfit for consumption). But I did a one off full shop this week at the local Morrisons that I used to use for twenty odd years and I'd sort of forgotten just how good the usual big UK chains are, I can shop just as well, just as cheaply, I can get everything I want too, with BB dates that would see me through a nuclear winter. I do wonder why I ever changed in the first place.

[matchmaker]

I'm currently munching through a bowl of Aldi Specially Selected Cullen Skink. Very nice it is too!