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NotDave
20,951 posts
26 months
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Toaster Pilot said:  Sauce mixes (sausage casserole etc) 25p in Aldi, bargain compared with Schwartz or even Tesco own brand. Salted cashew nuts 75p, lot cheaper than even Tesco Value Yeah, tinned s  t & breads are biggest savers. Meat I use local butchers. Veg local place. Far cheaper & better stuff
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Toaster Pilot
7,644 posts
27 months
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I don't know about English stores yet (they seem to stock different stuff) but the big packs of chicken breast fillets in Scottish stores are pretty hard to beat.
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NotDave
20,951 posts
26 months
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Yeah they ain't bad.
Being that I only eat meat 2 or 3 days a week, I rarely buy it.
Heron frozen foods & Iceland are the best for QUORN
We shop 50s style nowadays & visit all the locals. Takes no more time than a one-stop fight through tesco, if you plan your visits
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Toaster Pilot
7,644 posts
27 months
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Fell straight into the Lidl trap earlier,
, bought loads of cheap food for £20 but spent another £20 on kitchen stuff that was on offer!
FYI Dave, 67p for tortilla wraps in lidl!
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SVX
1,507 posts
80 months
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Aldi is now open close to us in Bicester, and we've well and truly switched. My only gripe, as compared to say Sainsbury's/Waitrose is that the fresh produce is a little weak, and the generic meat, say chicken and mince isn't that cheap for what is a fairly commodity product. Some great European products though, and their offerings in the beer/wine dept are really compelling. For me, it'll take a lot to get me to darken Tescos door unless I have to. Only thing is, I pop in for some basics, and the last time I came home with a bow saw 
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Mobile Chicane
14,028 posts
81 months
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kiteless
6,287 posts
73 months
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As neither of us are huge fans of Pimms, I was a little surprised last weekend when my wife returned from the weekly shop at Aldi with a bottle of their Pimms substitute.
It's called "Austins", and as you can imagine the petrolhead in me conjured up images of Allegros and Itals and Ambassadors, which did nothing to tempt me into trying the stuff.
Yet, it is really bloody good! Topped up with Aldi's sparkling lime & lemon with some diced strawberries it is a delicious summery drink. The best bit? £5.99 a bottle - some ten quid less than Pimms.
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kiwifraser
4,264 posts
63 months
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kiteless said: As neither of us are huge fans of Pimms, I was a little surprised last weekend when my wife returned from the weekly shop at Aldi with a bottle of their Pimms substitute.
It's called "Austins", and as you can imagine the petrolhead in me conjured up images of Allegros and Itals and Ambassadors, which did nothing to tempt me into trying the stuff.
Yet, it is really bloody good! Topped up with Aldi's sparkling lime & lemon with some diced strawberries it is a delicious summery drink. The best bit? £5.99 a bottle - some ten quid less than Pimms. I'd agree. I enjoy a well made Pimm's (ginger ale, Schweppes lemonade, ice, fruit, cucumber, borage/mint), but for the difference in price alone Austins v No.1 is relatively hard to justify 
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NotDave
20,951 posts
26 months
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£5 off if you spend £35 at Aldi.
If you're prepared to buy today's Daily Wail
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Ace-T
5,438 posts
124 months
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jas xjr
7,430 posts
108 months
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They do a version of cheesy wotsits . 10 packs for a quid , they are really as good
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Gretchen
11,911 posts
85 months
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I noticed last week that my local Lidl has installed (to be opened soon) ovens and shelving for a fresh bakery. Does anyone have any experience of the produce sold hot? It's not something I've come across in Lidl before.
They've also started putting much of the wine on display in quaint wooden crates...
Just waiting for more sneaky price hikes now.
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Mobile Chicane
14,028 posts
81 months
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Gretchen said: I noticed last week that my local Lidl has installed (to be opened soon) ovens and shelving for a fresh bakery. Does anyone have any experience of the produce sold hot? It's not something I've come across in Lidl before.
They've also started putting much of the wine on display in quaint wooden crates...
Just waiting for more sneaky price hikes now. Prices have been creeping up. My favourite £5.99 Lidl chablis is now £7.49, for example. However bread's still cheap despite the in-store bakery thingy. £1.49 for an 800g rye loaf. It's £1.85 in Waitrose for 500g.
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HOGEPH
3,216 posts
55 months
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Today's special buy.
British 21 Days Matured Rib Eye Steaks £5.99
Bought, cooked, eaten. Very tasty.
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mad4amanda
1,080 posts
33 months
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HOGEPH said: Today's special buy.
British 21 Days Matured Rib Eye Steaks £5.99
Bought, cooked, eaten. Very tasty. was that lidl or aldi ? if its the lidl ones they had those a few weeks ago and they were lovely.
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HOGEPH
3,216 posts
55 months
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Riley Blue
5,216 posts
95 months
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Gretchen said: I noticed last week that my local Lidl has installed (to be opened soon) ovens and shelving for a fresh bakery. Does anyone have any experience of the produce sold hot? It's not something I've come across in Lidl before. The croissant are good at 29p each, even better when they're on offer at 19p each.
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Bill Carr
1,993 posts
103 months
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I recently sampled Lidl's "Creamy Choc" chocolate bar. A high-cocoa milk chocolate (46% cocoa solids IIRC), it was jolly nice. I think it's a 200g size for 99p. Nom.
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Baryonyx
6,882 posts
28 months
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The Ice Tea Aldi do is great stuff. I've only tried the peach flavour so far, but it trumps Nestea/Liptons in terms of flavour. Whereas the big name brands of ice tea seem to have gotten more 'watery' and less sweet as the years have went on, this stuff tastes like Liptons Peach Ice Tea used to taste about 15 years ago! Delicious.
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Gretchen
11,911 posts
85 months
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Mobile Chicane said: Gretchen said: I noticed last week that my local Lidl has installed (to be opened soon) ovens and shelving for a fresh bakery. Does anyone have any experience of the produce sold hot? It's not something I've come across in Lidl before.
They've also started putting much of the wine on display in quaint wooden crates...
Just waiting for more sneaky price hikes now. Prices have been creeping up. My favourite £5.99 Lidl chablis is now £7.49, for example. However bread's still cheap despite the in-store bakery thingy. £1.49 for an 800g rye loaf. It's £1.85 in Waitrose for 500g. I've noticed a few price rises of late, I posted about the Lidl bottled water from 19p to 29p a few pages back. However I saw this tonight and thougt of you  I managed to pick some up with an extra 30% off with just over a week left on the label date too.
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