ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[IanA2]

Yup, or do the same with Lidl's frozen wild salmon. Excellent....

[e21Mark]

Tried the breaded 'off the bone' ham pieces last night, in a sandwich made using the Aldi seeded wholemeal bread & pickle. It was very nice and the ham just £1.65! The bread is certainly as good as anything else out there.

As an aside, Mrs E21 spent part of her shift removing M&S labels from the melons, before they were given Aldi stickers and put on the shelf. I'm guessing they use the same supplier?

[battered]

e21Mark said:

As an aside, Mrs E21 spent part of her shift removing M&S labels from the melons, before they were given Aldi stickers and put on the shelf. I'm guessing they use the same supplier?

Very possibly. It is probable in this case that Aldi bought the melons on the spot market as part of an overmake/rejected load that should have gone to M&S (and possibly did). Aldi are good at this, it's the JD Wetherspoons approach to buying up what's available. "What you got? How much you got? Right, I'll take it all, thrupence a ton." So are Lidl - when I was in France I got wind of a Lidl Bourgeuil that had been bought up as a job lot and was being banged out in a cheap bottle with a cheap cork by a local wine bottling plant. The winery was only 5 miles up the road, I could have gone there and bought the same stuff on site for 4 Eu. Lidl's price? 2 Eu. I kid you not. It was flying out of the door. The only caveat was not to lay it down (cheap corks) and to drink it promptly, ie within a month or 2. We duly did, and funnily enough none of us went to the producer to pay twice the price. Why did the producer go for it? Because he had a cellar full, it wasn't bottled and the next harvest was looming. He got rid cheap to improve his cashflow and because the number of people beating a path to his door and offering 4 Eu wasn't enough to justify telling Lidl to push off.

[Yipper]

Some are saying Lidl and Aldi had a bad Xmas. The golden era may be coming to an end.

Overcrowded stores, understocked shelves, and understaffed tills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098880/Th...

[craigthecoupe]

Yipper said:

Some are saying Lidl and Aldi had a bad Xmas. The golden era may be coming to an end.

Overcrowded stores, understocked shelves, and understaffed tills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098880/Th...

some being the daily mail

[hornetrider]

But a spokesperson for Aldi denied the claims and said the shop had its 'best-ever Christmas'.

The spokesperson said: 'This has been our best ever Christmas, with double-digit sales growth in December and positive like-for-like sales, which were boosted by strong demand for our Specially Selected range of premium products that are comparable to the quality of more expensive retailers such as Fortnum & Mason, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer.

'Our colleagues did a fantastic job of managing the unprecedented demand we experienced from shoppers over the Christmas period.

'The claims made by Clive Black, whose firm represents Morrisons, bear no relation to reality.'

[MiniMan64]

craigthecoupe said:

Yipper said:

Some are saying Lidl and Aldi had a bad Xmas. The golden era may be coming to an end.

Overcrowded stores, understocked shelves, and understaffed tills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098880/Th...

That article is absolute horsest.

Standard fair for the Daily Mail then.

Aldi and Lidl are always a bit manic, they're never the best shops because of their business model. If you shop there you suck it up and accept it is the price of halving your shopping bill. Encourages you get it over and done with quicker too!


some being the daily mail

[V8mate]

Aldi vs Lidl: frozen salmon wellington from their premium ranges.

The Lidl one knocks Aldi out of the park. The quality of every element: the salmon steak itself, the sauce and the pastry, were all significantly better in the Lidl version.

I think my preferred version is slightly more expensive, but entirely worth it, IMHO.

Edited by V8mate on Sunday 8th January 19:26

[Murph7355]

Murph7355 said:

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Have a pot of chicken liver pate in the fridge...quite looking forward to it

Tried it tonight. It's nice, but the smoked duck one is a lot better.

[Tony Angelino]

Yipper said:

Some are saying Lidl and Aldi had a bad Xmas. The golden era may be coming to an end.

Overcrowded stores, understocked shelves, and understaffed tills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098880/Th...

The lidl local to us is almost always manic, so much so that due to the lack of parking and it looking like it's been ransacked we avoid it and go nowhere near as many times. It's good stuff at a decent price but it's not good enough to put up with how busy it is now so I can see this not being too far from the mark.

[RammyMP]

Had an Aldi free range chicken for tea, £5, it was very good.

[Yipper]

Yipper said:

Some are saying Lidl and Aldi had a bad Xmas. The golden era may be coming to an end.

Overcrowded stores, understocked shelves, and understaffed tills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098880/Th...

Looks like the DM article (which was actually a reprint from The Times) was correct. Aldi's UK stores are seeing shrinking profits and like-for-like revenue growth slammed to a halt in Dec 2016 (don't get tricked by the headline figures, which include new store openings -- this is an age-old PR ruse). Aldi UK is obviously coming off the boil.

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/jim-armitage-it...

[Pothole]

Yipper said:

Yipper said:

Some are saying Lidl and Aldi had a bad Xmas. The golden era may be coming to an end.

Overcrowded stores, understocked shelves, and understaffed tills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098880/Th...

Looks like the DM article (which was actually a reprint from The Times) was correct. Aldi's UK stores are seeing shrinking profits and like-for-like revenue growth slammed to a halt in Dec 2016 (don't get tricked by the headline figures, which include new store openings -- this is an age-old PR ruse). Aldi UK is obviously coming off the boil.

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/jim-armitage-it...

Have you got any food to recommend?

[berlintaxi]

Yipper said:

Yipper said:

Some are saying Lidl and Aldi had a bad Xmas. The golden era may be coming to an end.

Overcrowded stores, understocked shelves, and understaffed tills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098880/Th...

Looks like the DM article (which was actually a reprint from The Times) was correct. Aldi's UK stores are seeing shrinking profits and like-for-like revenue growth slammed to a halt in Dec 2016 (don't get tricked by the headline figures, which include new store openings -- this is an age-old PR ruse). Aldi UK is obviously coming off the boil.

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/jim-armitage-it...

Or reporting sales up 15% in December if you read the Torygrapgh.

[BrabusMog]

berlintaxi said:

Yipper said:

Yipper said:

Some are saying Lidl and Aldi had a bad Xmas. The golden era may be coming to an end.

Overcrowded stores, understocked shelves, and understaffed tills.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098880/Th...

Looks like the DM article (which was actually a reprint from The Times) was correct. Aldi's UK stores are seeing shrinking profits and like-for-like revenue growth slammed to a halt in Dec 2016 (don't get tricked by the headline figures, which include new store openings -- this is an age-old PR ruse). Aldi UK is obviously coming off the boil.

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/jim-armitage-it...

Or reporting sales up 15% in December if you read the Torygrapgh.

I believe they include new stores sales in that, so hardly a properly audited sales report.

Anyway, does anyone have any new food to share from either of our favourite German discounters?

[majordad]

Lidl has chilled Scotish Mussels 1 kg XXL size at a good price , and some stores are selling off those Canadian Frozen Lobestrs cheap. Not good value at full price as they are barely the size of a large prawn but good when cheap.

[Janluke]

I've was given a stove top coffee maker and some Iffy ground coffee at Xmas. I quite like the whole process and results. Any recommendations for ground coffee from Aldi/Lidl

[tedmus]

Janluke said:

I've was given a stove top coffee maker and some Iffy ground coffee at Xmas. I quite like the whole process and results. Any recommendations for ground coffee from Aldi/Lidl

Personally I like the Specially Selected Ethiopan stuff from Aldi.

[RammyMP]

Janluke said:

I've was given a stove top coffee maker and some Iffy ground coffee at Xmas. I quite like the whole process and results. Any recommendations for ground coffee from Aldi/Lidl

I prefer the cheaper stuff the 'specially selected' coffee had a bit of a bad taste.

[RammyMP]

I had an Aldi chicken jalfresi meal for one tonight, it was very good for £1.49. The wife had the Chinese curry and she was pleased with that also.