ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[GarageQueen]

quick note here on Lidl.....

has anyone else noticed the inconsistent price tags on the shelves, today when I got to the checkout I had at least 3 items that were more expensive than the price I noted when I picked them up!

[Riley Blue]

I've never found that in Lidl but whenever it has happened elsewhere the lower price has always been honoured.

[Tony Angelino]

NormalWisdom said:

tedmus said:

Pothole said:

tedmus said:

You can get wagyu burgers from Asda.

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http://u/product/beef-burgers-meatballs/asda-extra...

These are back in at Asda btw.

Asda also do Wagyu Ribeye - Excellent

Wagyu burgers in my local iceland.

[Truckosaurus]

GarageQueen said:

...has anyone else noticed the inconsistent price tags on the shelves, today when I got to the checkout I had at least 3 items that were more expensive than the price I noted when I picked them up!

They seem to operate Dutch Auction pricing on leftovers from previous week's Specials/Themed Items so it's not surprising that the shelf labels and POS pricing gets out of sync.

[IanA2]

Gretchen said:

jakesmith said:

Aldi food is utter garbage
Bought some once never again
Crisps like dust
Sweets tasted like dog poo
Bread fell apart
Filet steak was actually ok
We jusy go there for nappys and wipes but they'd prob taste better than their food
Plus its full of utter chavs who haven't got a nice word to say

Rude!

There's almost a few thousand posts here that say different...but then we are all utter chavs who haven't got a nice word to say after all.

PS Your literary skills are garbage

[vournikas]

A new addition seems to be Moroccan houmous, and I can confirm it is houmous that has been given the Spinal Tap treatment i.e. turned up to 11.

It's bloody delicious!

[thetapeworm]

The Spruce goose said:

Candy floss grapes in Lidl.

I tried these at the weekend, mind blown, I won't buy them again though.

[SmoothCriminal]

The cookie dough type Ben and jerry ice cream they have at lidl is great so much cookie dough and ice cream is so creamy defo better than the Ben and jerry stuff.

[SpeckledJim]

Alpine week in Lidl next week.

Lots of porky, spuddy, noodly, cheesy stodge.

Fantastic.

[J8 SVG]

Not like the wine in Lidl needed any further discounts but http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/lidl-wine.htm £4 off every 4 bottles!

[Rick101]

May have been posted before but just picked up a couple of bottles of Irish Cream.

Not seen it since Christmas and fairly sure it was £5.99 or £6.99, certainly a good saving over proper Baileys which is what? £16?

Anyhow, saw it again today but only £3.75. That is a real bargain!

[battered]

Truckosaurus said:

GarageQueen said:

...has anyone else noticed the inconsistent price tags on the shelves, today when I got to the checkout I had at least 3 items that were more expensive than the price I noted when I picked them up!

They seem to operate Dutch Auction pricing on leftovers from previous week's Specials/Themed Items so it's not surprising that the shelf labels and POS pricing gets out of sync.

Absolutely this. I bought a tagine (cooking pot) in Aldi that had been discounted to about £5. Got home, checked the receipt, I'd paid £8ish. Took it back, no drama, they remembered lowering the price that day and refunded the difference. They are also bang on about returns. No drama at all, I once bought a pair of Croc-alike sandals for about 99p only to discover they were a mismatched pair cobbled together from what had been rattling around the back of the shop. refund, no sweat.

[NWTony]

battered said:

Absolutely this. I bought a tagine (cooking pot) in Aldi that had been discounted to about £5. Got home, checked the receipt, I'd paid £8ish. Took it back, no drama, they remembered lowering the price that day and refunded the difference. They are also bang on about returns. No drama at all, I once bought a pair of Croc-alike sandals for about 99p only to discover they were a mismatched pair cobbled together from what had been rattling around the back of the shop. refund, no sweat.

It has always been one the annoying things about Aldi, no pricing on the shelf for the item you are looking at. These are often but not exclusively reduced things - for instance there are Lincolnshire mini sausage rolls in Aldi at the moment with no indication about the price whatsoever. I mean, it is going to be less than pound, but I just won't buy them without knowing how much they are to begin with

That and Aldi's haphazard approach to date control, but I've learned never to grab something perishable without checking.

[rich85uk]

Lidl currently have a Russian beer Baltika 7 for £1.25 a bottle, very refreshing lager and appears to be quite hard to get hold of so worth stocking up

[HTP99]

Rick101 said:

May have been posted before but just picked up a couple of bottles of Irish Cream.

Not seen it since Christmas and fairly sure it was £5.99 or £6.99, certainly a good saving over proper Baileys which is what? £16?

Anyhow, saw it again today but only £3.75. That is a real bargain!

The wife got into their posher (Aldi's equivalent of "Taste the Difference) Irish cream last Christmas, she was adamant it tasted exactly like Bailey's, she scanned it into "My Fitness Pal" and the description was Baileys Irish Cream.

[battered]

HTP99 said:

The wife got into their posher (Aldi's equivalent of "Taste the Difference) Irish cream last Christmas, she was adamant it tasted exactly like Bailey's, she scanned it into "My Fitness Pal" and the description was Baileys Irish Cream.

It's probably *slightly* different, but the brief will have been "match this for thrupence a bottle" and it takes a decent food technologist about 35 seconds to calculate a formulation with identical nutrition info, hence the "see Bailey's" figures in MFP. That's the easy bit, the rest is tweaking ingredients to get the taste you want at the price. Sometimes you do indeed say "sod it" and bang out an identical formulation in another pack, because the volumes are such that it's not worth carrying 2 formulations and risking screwing it up by using the wrong one. Other times the costs may be such that you end up pulling out costly ingredients and substituting with cheaper ones. In the case of Baileys the cost is going to be the spirit, so whereas Baileys uses Irish whiskey from blah blah distillery and X years old and herbal extracts rolled on the thighs of maidens, the cheaper variants may well use AN Other food grade spirit, a splash of flavouring and a pinch of Lidl Mixed Herbs Guaranteed Not Too Many Grass Clippings spec. Once it's full of cream and sugar not too many folk will tell it apart, especially at £5-odd a bottle when they are half cut.

[RammyMP]

rich85uk said:

Lidl currently have a Russian beer Baltika 7 for £1.25 a bottle, very refreshing lager and appears to be quite hard to get hold of so worth stocking up

Lidl do some good bottled lager. I'll look out for the Russian one!

[Trustmeimadoctor]

If she likes the irish cream stuff try cool swan not cheap at all but using it for breakfast its that good

https://www.cooleswan.com/

[Jordan210]

I stocked up on some German beers today at Aldi

Schwaben Bräu Volkfestbier
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3340/442...

Schwabern Bräu Das Naturtrübe
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3340/384...

Schwaben Bräu Helle
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3340/237...

Schwaben Bräu Das Weizen Here Hell
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3340/237...

All cost £1.79 each and all are in swing top bottles

Edited by Jordan210 on Thursday 15th September 17:52

Edited by Jordan210 on Sunday 18th September 18:21

[don4l]

Lidl also have some German beers at the moment. I had a "Black Beer" with my lunch. I suppose it is a stout, but it tastes like a craft version of stout. No bitterness at all.

Hopefully, they will still have it next time I go. It was lovely.