ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

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Riley Blue

20,955 posts

226 months

Thursday 19th October 2017
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Christmas has arrived at Aldi - the first instalment at least - so stock up on mini-stollen while you can...

595Heaven

2,416 posts

78 months

Friday 20th October 2017
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andburg said:
rare moment of fail.

Aldi specially selected ginger and caramel granola its awful.
Really?

I have a tablespoon or so of this most days as a topping for yoghurt. Delicious!

Bought some muesli with dried raspberries / strawberries though that was rank...

RammyMP

6,775 posts

153 months

Friday 20th October 2017
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595Heaven said:
andburg said:
rare moment of fail.

Aldi specially selected ginger and caramel granola its awful.
Really?

I have a tablespoon or so of this most days as a topping for yoghurt. Delicious!

Bought some muesli with dried raspberries / strawberries though that was rank...
I don't mind the dried raspberry stuff.

I've been having the pasta salads for my lunch recently, the chicken one is very good for the price. Better than the equivalent Tesco and Sainsbury's offerings which are twice as much.

NWTony

2,849 posts

228 months

Saturday 21st October 2017
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595Heaven said:
andburg said:
rare moment of fail.

Aldi specially selected ginger and caramel granola its awful.
Really?

I have a tablespoon or so of this most days as a topping for yoghurt. Delicious!

Bought some muesli with dried raspberries / strawberries though that was rank...
I tried the very berry muesli - not impressed. However Aldi's Swiss style muesli is excellent, not the reduce sugar one though.

V8mate

45,899 posts

189 months

Saturday 21st October 2017
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NWTony said:
595Heaven said:
andburg said:
rare moment of fail.

Aldi specially selected ginger and caramel granola its awful.
Really?

I have a tablespoon or so of this most days as a topping for yoghurt. Delicious!

Bought some muesli with dried raspberries / strawberries though that was rank...
I tried the very berry muesli - not impressed. However Aldi's Swiss style muesli is excellent, not the reduce sugar one though.
The Really Nutty one is great. (Comes in the mixed case with the Berry one)

A few spoonfuls in a bowl at bedtime with some apple juice. Cling film, pop it in the fridge overnight, and then the following morning mix it with Aldi's Fage-rip Greek yoghurt.

Add fruit, berries etc as desired.

Nom!

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 27th October 2017
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South African boxed 2.25l Chardonnay, really good stuff and all for a tenner. just drinking it now..

21TonyK

11,533 posts

209 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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"Specially Selected" char grilled chicken with patatas bravas. Epically bad.

Avoid.

hyphen

26,262 posts

90 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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andburg said:
My local coop have recently started doing very similar pizzas in similar packaging just a slightly different shape for about £2 a pizza more.

is this a the miracle of Aldi doing something first and others taking note rater than LIDL/Aldi letting others develop products, show there is a market then undercut?
Nope, they all copy each other. Aldi seems to copy Waitrose/M&S a lot.

Probably because it is all made in the same factories!

FredericRobinson

3,699 posts

232 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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A factory which produced pizzas for M&S or Waitrose and then knocked out copies for Aldi wouldn't be supplying M&S / Waitrose for long!

hyphen

26,262 posts

90 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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It wouldn't be knocking out copies, it would be to a different spec and branding i.e. recipes. In the same way Fox's, Mcvities and so on do biscuits for all the supermarkets on different production lines and Foxconn make both iPhones for Apple and Androids for Nokia and others.

It is not cost effective for supermarkets to do their own item for each of their own brand item, cheaper to outsource to mass production experts in each area- they need a good supplier as much they need them.

randlemarcus

13,524 posts

231 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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Whisper it, but the frozen Chateaubriand for a tenner is remarkable. And the box instructions are spot on, including resting time.

V8mate

45,899 posts

189 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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hyphen said:
It wouldn't be knocking out copies, it would be to a different spec and branding i.e. recipes. In the same way Fox's, Mcvities and so on do biscuits for all the supermarkets on different production lines and Foxconn make both iPhones for Apple and Androids for Nokia and others.

It is not cost effective for supermarkets to do their own item for each of their own brand item, cheaper to outsource to mass production experts in each area- they need a good supplier as much they need them.
Yep. Aldi's posh pizzas are very similar to those in Waitrose, but have a much nicer sourdough base.

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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randlemarcus said:
Whisper it, but the frozen Chateaubriand for a tenner is remarkable. And the box instructions are spot on, including resting time.
I saw that, I going through the frozen section each weekend, had the turkey crown with stuffing, really good value for a tenner.

FredericRobinson

3,699 posts

232 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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hyphen said:
It wouldn't be knocking out copies, it would be to a different spec and branding i.e. recipes. In the same way Fox's, Mcvities and so on do biscuits for all the supermarkets on different production lines and Foxconn make both iPhones for Apple and Androids for Nokia and others.

It is not cost effective for supermarkets to do their own item for each of their own brand item, cheaper to outsource to mass production experts in each area- they need a good supplier as much they need them.
Often own-brand production IS about knocking out copies, just of products other people do

ambuletz

10,736 posts

181 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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tried the american hot pizza from Aldi, was about £1.50. very very nice! much nicer then asda's frozen stonebaked pizzas. still need to try out their larger ones that's £3.

The only thing that puts me off going to Alid-dagenham is the fact that they have no self-service checkouts. the other day i had to play roulette with long queues of people with big shops. thankfully 1 woman was nice enough to notice i only had 1 item and let me go infront of her.

21TonyK

11,533 posts

209 months

Monday 30th October 2017
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The Spruce goose said:
randlemarcus said:
Whisper it, but the frozen Chateaubriand for a tenner is remarkable. And the box instructions are spot on, including resting time.
I saw that, I going through the frozen section each weekend, had the turkey crown with stuffing, really good value for a tenner.
I was going to ask about these. Couple of decent size fillets per box or a mini roast for two?

randlemarcus

13,524 posts

231 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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21TonyK said:
The Spruce goose said:
randlemarcus said:
Whisper it, but the frozen Chateaubriand for a tenner is remarkable. And the box instructions are spot on, including resting time.
I saw that, I going through the frozen section each weekend, had the turkey crown with stuffing, really good value for a tenner.
I was going to ask about these. Couple of decent size fillets per box or a mini roast for two?
Mini roast. Cut on the bias, its big enough for around eight decent slices. Didn't have the awful frozen steak mouth feel, was good tender, not a scrap of fat piece of fillet. Very much recommended, though obviously quietly. Might get another one, and experiment with the SousVide.

jj5b

12 posts

79 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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Aldi almonds & other nuts more than half the price of other big brand supermarkets

tog

4,538 posts

228 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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jj5b said:
Aldi almonds & other nuts more than half the price of other big brand supermarkets
Lidl's loose nuts sold by weight are good too.

Todd Bonzalez

2,552 posts

162 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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Anyone tried their gins yet? Thinking of giving them a go.