ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[RammyMP]

twing said:

A few ciders to mix with my usual Thatchers

I quite like the Premium Vintage

[zb]

Freshcure smoked back bacon, hands down made the best crispy bacon I've ever had.

The kicker is; I normally use the oven for crispy bacon, the oven was already getting used at a much higher heat for chicken, so I just bunged this under the grill expecting nothing, and it came out perfect.

[zb]

Add me to the list singing the praises of the Specially Selected Smoky Barbecue Beef Sourdough Pizza.

[louiebaby]

I don't know about the food offers this week, but I now have a secret fridge under my desk at work...

[ajprice]

Disappointed with the Chilli Beef Burrito this weekend, seemed to mostly be plain white rice, not much meat in it. The Morrisons pulled beef one I had a few weeks ago was a lot better. Haven't tried a Sainsbury's one yet.

[FiF]

ajprice said:

Disappointed with the Chilli Beef Burrito this weekend, seemed to mostly be plain white rice, not much meat in it. The Morrisons pulled beef one I had a few weeks ago was a lot better. Haven't tried a Sainsbury's one yet.

The Sainsbury's one is OK, very spicy, but they aren't very careful about the mix. You can find one end of the burrito is mostly rice, the other end mostly chilli. My technique is a surgical incision lengthways along the top, open it up, mix the contents properly then eat. The pulled pork version is also good, if suffering the same poor mixing.

Tend to make my own burritos these days from home cooked chilli. Only downside is I'm crap at burrito wrapping, so have been reduced to making a chilli 'burrito pie' in a pie dish, giving it a quick blast in the oven to crisp up the wrap and give better structural integrity.

[FiF]

One for Worcestershire Lidlers, the old Blackpole Lidl, vacated when they moved across the road into the new bigger store, is being refurbished and will open up as an M&S food store. Excellent news, the trip into the city centre and parking, plus pickup round the back on New St was a pain in the rear. Is this a record, mention of Sparks on this thread?

[V8mate]

FiF said:

One for Worcestershire Lidlers, the old Blackpole Lidl, vacated when they moved across the road into the new bigger store, is being refurbished and will open up as an M&S food store. Excellent news, the trip into the city centre and parking, plus pickup round the back on New St was a pain in the rear. Is this a record, mention of Sparks on this thread?

Your head won't be turned for long.

When you discover that the dedicated food stores have even higher prices than the food halls in their main stores, you'll only have to baulk a couple of times at the price multiples before you dash back to the sanity of ze Germanz.

[FiF]

V8mate said:

FiF said:

One for Worcestershire Lidlers, the old Blackpole Lidl, vacated when they moved across the road into the new bigger store, is being refurbished and will open up as an M&S food store. Excellent news, the trip into the city centre and parking, plus pickup round the back on New St was a pain in the rear. Is this a record, mention of Sparks on this thread?

Your head won't be turned for long.

When you discover that the dedicated food stores have even higher prices than the food halls in their main stores, you'll only have to baulk a couple of times at the price multiples before you dash back to the sanity of ze Germanz.

That's interesting, we've seen it in motorway outlets, but apart from those the only dedicated food store have visited is the one on Kingsditch Retail Park in Cheltenham, which is next door to an M&S store anyway, not sure if that makes a difference. Plus would have been more likely to visit Whole Foods when they were still open, so clearly not exactly price sensitive shopping.

Regardless we only shop there in Sparks for specific products we prefer and usually making use of any discount offers to boot, even then at max only once every couple of months. So unless the prices are ridiculously higher it won't matter to us, as it will save travelling into the centre, parking costs, sitting in traffic caused by yummy mummies taking their kids to private schools on and off Barbourne Road / Tything etc, looking at acres of empty bus lanes with no buses travelling down them. Win win.

[Riley Blue]

O/H shops at M&S at Sheffield station on the way home. Being a canny Scot she's really up in prices; doesn't reckon they're much different (if at all) from the city centre store or the one in our town. Still a pity there's no Aldi or Lidl on her route home though.

[RammyMP]

V8mate said:

FiF said:

One for Worcestershire Lidlers, the old Blackpole Lidl, vacated when they moved across the road into the new bigger store, is being refurbished and will open up as an M&S food store. Excellent news, the trip into the city centre and parking, plus pickup round the back on New St was a pain in the rear. Is this a record, mention of Sparks on this thread?

Your head won't be turned for long.

When you discover that the dedicated food stores have even higher prices than the food halls in their main stores, you'll only have to baulk a couple of times at the price multiples before you dash back to the sanity of ze Germanz.

I can’t believe how expensive the M&S food shops are. Went with the wife a few weeks ago, she conveniently forgot her handbag so I got dicked with the bill. It cost over £40 for next to nothing! Would have been half as much anywhere else!

[Rick101]

Always been a fan of the frozen Carlos Sourdough Pizza's at £1.39. Only a couple of varieties but a very nice pizza.
Have struggled to get them on the last few visits so tried out an Etna this time.

Very nice. Was prepared to be disappointing but it was a solid 8/10. Would buy again.

Was spicy enough for me as a non spicy eater.

[V8mate]

RammyMP said:

V8mate said:

FiF said:

One for Worcestershire Lidlers, the old Blackpole Lidl, vacated when they moved across the road into the new bigger store, is being refurbished and will open up as an M&S food store. Excellent news, the trip into the city centre and parking, plus pickup round the back on New St was a pain in the rear. Is this a record, mention of Sparks on this thread?

Your head won't be turned for long.

When you discover that the dedicated food stores have even higher prices than the food halls in their main stores, you'll only have to baulk a couple of times at the price multiples before you dash back to the sanity of ze Germanz.

I can’t believe how expensive the M&S food shops are. Went with the wife a few weeks ago, she conveniently forgot her handbag so I got dicked with the bill. It cost over £40 for next to nothing! Would have been half as much anywhere else!

Regular M&S foodhalls are 'satisfyingly expensive'. The standalone stores, especially those on petrol stations or near railway stations, are obscene.

[guitarcarfanatic]

RammyMP said:

I can’t believe how expensive the M&S food shops are. Went with the wife a few weeks ago, she conveniently forgot her handbag so I got dicked with the bill. It cost over £40 for next to nothing! Would have been half as much anywhere else!

But the food is SO GOOD!!

[BrabusMog]

V8mate said:

RammyMP said:

V8mate said:

FiF said:

One for Worcestershire Lidlers, the old Blackpole Lidl, vacated when they moved across the road into the new bigger store, is being refurbished and will open up as an M&S food store. Excellent news, the trip into the city centre and parking, plus pickup round the back on New St was a pain in the rear. Is this a record, mention of Sparks on this thread?

Your head won't be turned for long.

When you discover that the dedicated food stores have even higher prices than the food halls in their main stores, you'll only have to baulk a couple of times at the price multiples before you dash back to the sanity of ze Germanz.

I can’t believe how expensive the M&S food shops are. Went with the wife a few weeks ago, she conveniently forgot her handbag so I got dicked with the bill. It cost over £40 for next to nothing! Would have been half as much anywhere else!

Regular M&S foodhalls are 'satisfyingly expensive'. The standalone stores, especially those on petrol stations or near railway stations, are obscene.

I will have to check when I am back from holiday but the one in Reading station is the same price as the one in the town centre from memory.

[whoami]

guitarcarfanatic said:

RammyMP said:

I can’t believe how expensive the M&S food shops are. Went with the wife a few weeks ago, she conveniently forgot her handbag so I got dicked with the bill. It cost over £40 for next to nothing! Would have been half as much anywhere else!

But the food is SO GOOD!!

Much of it is, at best, average.

[FiF]

BrabusMog said:

V8mate said:

RammyMP said:

V8mate said:

FiF said:

One for Worcestershire Lidlers, the old Blackpole Lidl, vacated when they moved across the road into the new bigger store, is being refurbished and will open up as an M&S food store. Excellent news, the trip into the city centre and parking, plus pickup round the back on New St was a pain in the rear. Is this a record, mention of Sparks on this thread?

Your head won't be turned for long.

When you discover that the dedicated food stores have even higher prices than the food halls in their main stores, you'll only have to baulk a couple of times at the price multiples before you dash back to the sanity of ze Germanz.

I can’t believe how expensive the M&S food shops are. Went with the wife a few weeks ago, she conveniently forgot her handbag so I got dicked with the bill. It cost over £40 for next to nothing! Would have been half as much anywhere else!

Regular M&S foodhalls are 'satisfyingly expensive'. The standalone stores, especially those on petrol stations or near railway stations, are obscene.

I will have to check when I am back from holiday but the one in Reading station is the same price as the one in the town centre from memory.

Can't speak for ones at railway stations, but the motorway service ones are more expensive, but certainly not price multiples, and not what I would call obscene. Some motorway service area pricing is indeed obscene, but not M&S from my perception. Anyway time will tell with this store as it's quite a decent size, not like the tiny poky motorway outlets.

[dazwalsh]

bought some of their fresh qtr pounder burgers at the weekend, just had one for lunch in a brioche bun and it was fantastic with a slice of cheese and some fried onions.

[jakesmith]

21TonyK said:

I'm yet to find a better supermarket steak. I compared the Aldi 30 day rib to Sainsuburys extra-mature-finest-comes-in-a-gold-packet-whatever at £8 for a single steak and both me and Mrs 21 preferred the Aldi steak.

The only good thing I’ve had from Aldi, the fillet steak. Their crisps, bread and everything else we tried once were inedible

[bingybongy]

jakesmith said:

The only good thing I’ve had from Aldi, the fillet steak. Their crisps, bread and everything else we tried once were inedible

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Certainly not my experience.
Their baked beans, for example, are vastly superior to any others.