ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[anonymous-user]

soxboy said:

Had the Aldi Wagyu burgers again last night, with M&S ciabatta roll and a slice of Stilton.

Lovely and moist, even Mrs SB who's not a fan of burgers thought it was one of the best she's had.

bought 2 packs in freezer can't wait, 2.99 is very good value. To buy online you are looking at 5 - 6 quid.

[rdjohn]

BorkFactor said:

Apparently Aldi gin is meant to be very good, can anyone confirm before I pick up a bottle?

Yes, it is very good. But even better with Fever Tree naturally light Tonic water and lime. Sadly that is not available from Aldi.

[hornetrider]

What do we think of the Global knife block for 200 notes?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-12-nov/...

Includes 20cm Cook's Knife, 22cm Bread Knife, 14cm Vegetable Knife and 8cm Paring & Peeling Knife

Google suggests the 4 knives are G2 (20cm Cooks), G9 (Bread), GS5 (Vegetable chopper) and GSF15 (Peeling).

Based on online prices:

G2 = £90
G9 = £90
GS5 = £75
GSF15 = £40

Seems like a pretty good deal.

[Du1point8]

Same as the expensive scotch they sell.

Try finding a set... Then realise that there was only 2 allocated to store, the staff took then.

[hornetrider]

I don't think many of the 9 quid an hour till staff will be buying 200 quid knives

[Du1point8]

Very few who could afford a £50 scotch, still all went to staff before I managed to get one when the doors first opened. No other member of the public got to them before me... Staff said they were allocated before opening.

[HTP99]

We've recently discovered Aldi; both myself and the wife are astounded as to how cheap it is and yet the food is bloody good.

We tried an Aldi 12 miles away a few months ago and we've used them since for all shopping; 10 days shopping for 3 of us (4 if you included the daughters boyfriend who is at our place more often than not) comes to about £120, the trolley is usually over flowing and that will also include a few bottles of wine and the wife's whiskey.

Yesterday we spent £120 in Sainsbury's (I had £200 of vouchers) on a 7 day shop, no booze and we were careful about not chucking in frivolous bits and bobs.

Fortunately and Aldi opened up near us last week so we can now use that one, when the initial curiosity of the place dies down; there have been queues out of the car park since opening.

The Waygu burgers are fantastic.

[FiF]

We have the G2 Global cook's knife. Yes it's a really really good knife but tbh a £9 Kitchen Devil 20cm cook's knife gets more use and is pretty damn sharp enough. OK maybe a heathen but not going to break a neck over that deal.

[don4l]

rdjohn said:

BorkFactor said:

Apparently Aldi gin is meant to be very good, can anyone confirm before I pick up a bottle?

Yes, it is very good. But even better with Fever Tree naturally light Tonic water and lime. Sadly that is not available from Aldi.

The Oliver Cromvell gin is very good. However, you need to get the 70cl bottle. The 1 litre bottles have a completely different gin.

[Japveesix]

technodup said:

In non Aldi news I have recently discovered the joy of Asda SmartPrice.

Asda brand plain crisps - 6 for 90p (eye level)
Asda SP plain crisps - 12 for 66p (look down... no, further down, at the floor)

Packaging is predictably st but if you put them in a bowl nobody would be any the wiser they were eating poverty spec crisps. 24 packs at £1.32 is nearly a pound less than the Aldi/Lidl Snackrite equivalent. I eat a lot of crisps so this mounts up, especially if I buy a load at a time to make the detour worthwhile.

But Smart Price crisps are in pathetic little 18g bags. You can buy 6 packs of Mccoys (or all sorts of other nice crisps like 150g bags of Tyrells or Kettle chips) for £1 in almost any supermarket.

Smart price crisps are still a bit cheaper but they're not enough as single bags (you always end up wanting a second pack) and in a bowl they'll still taste like salted cardboard whereas Kettle Chips will still taste awesome and only cost you about 40p more or so for the same weight.

Ps. if you're determined to eat horrible crisps then Tesco bags are actually 2g heavier and the same price, so you should buy those instead.

Pps. Last time Lidl had a good offer on their Snacktastic crisps it looks like they were 24 packs (variety pack too) for £1.07. That's 600g of crisps for £1.07 compared to your 432g for £1.32, so ner

[BrabusMog]

hornetrider said:

I don't think many of the 9 quid an hour till staff will be buying 200 quid knives

Why not? Might treat themselves. Good knives will easily last 20+ years.

[Pothole]

BrabusMog said:

hornetrider said:

I don't think many of the 9 quid an hour till staff will be buying 200 quid knives

Why not? Might treat themselves. Good knives will easily last 20+ years.

Or buy them to sell on or for family/friends

[Trustmeimadoctor]

re the knives the lidl ceramic ones are very good for the money

[jonny_bravo]

don4l said:

rdjohn said:

BorkFactor said:

Apparently Aldi gin is meant to be very good, can anyone confirm before I pick up a bottle?

Yes, it is very good. But even better with Fever Tree naturally light Tonic water and lime. Sadly that is not available from Aldi.

The Oliver Cromvell gin is very good. However, you need to get the 70cl bottle. The 1 litre bottles have a completely different gin.

I always make my sloe gin using the Oliver Cromwell, on it's own it's delicious though

[jonny_bravo]

don4l said:

rdjohn said:

BorkFactor said:

Apparently Aldi gin is meant to be very good, can anyone confirm before I pick up a bottle?

Yes, it is very good. But even better with Fever Tree naturally light Tonic water and lime. Sadly that is not available from Aldi.

The Oliver Cromvell gin is very good. However, you need to get the 70cl bottle. The 1 litre bottles have a completely different gin.

I always make my sloe gin using the Oliver Cromwell, on it's own it's delicious though

[Chicken Chaser]

For the coffee connoisseurs, our local Aldi has started selling Cafe Express espresso grounds. Comes in a brown bag. At £4 it is really rich, full bodied and finely ground. Great in the aeropress!

[technodup]

Japveesix said:

But Smart Price crisps are in pathetic little 18g bags. You can buy 6 packs of Mccoys (or all sorts of other nice crisps like 150g bags of Tyrells or Kettle chips) for £1 in almost any supermarket.

I hadn't noticed, I eat them that quickly my ex used to say I inhaled them.

I'll need to revisit the g/£ then. But I do like cheap crisps, not a fan of Kettle or Tyrell although Burts are OK in some flavours.

[AlexC1981]

Have Aldi/Lidle got their marzipan logs out for Christmas yet? The one with the praline centre is best, then the rum and raison.

[Du1point8]

AlexC1981 said:

Have Aldi/Lidle got their marzipan logs out for Christmas yet? The one with the praline centre is best, then the rum and raison.

Lidl has already got them out, including my favourite Apple one... Im trying hard to resist them.

Also have the festive meat in:

Ostrich
Kangaroo
Venison
Wild boar
lobster
crab

[Baryonyx]

Had a mixed bag with an Aldi tea tonight. I got two of the 'Specially Selected' game pies. One was venison in puff pastry with a smoked bag and red wine jelly gravy, the other was wild boar with IIRC a red wine sauce and Bramley apple sauce. The venison pie was absolutely marvellous, but the boar pie was awful. It was just a mushy soup of apple sauce which struggled to get hot in the oven (circa 140'c coming out of the oven). The taste was awful too, far too sweet. I had assumed when I bought the damn thing that the apple sauce would be sparingly applied, but it makes up most of the pie!

One thing to definitely try though is the 'Takeaway' spicy chicken chunks found in the frozen good sections. Do them at 200'c for 40 mins, rather than 20 at 180'c as the packet suggests, and you get wickedly crispy chicken nuggets with a nicely spiced coating, made from breast meat. Love these things!