ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?
Discussion
Riley Blue said:
Has anyone else tried the Aldi noodles? At 24p a pack (I think, might be 34p) they're not a bad but much cheaper alternative to a Pot Noodle. I've no idea whether they're good for you or nutritious (who cares?) but as a quick lunchtime 'filler' they'll do me.
No, no, no. Wet cardboard.Try Koka noodles. Chicken, curry, masala, prawn, beef, tomato and more flavours. Available in Asian supermarkets but you usually find chicken and curry flavour in standard corner shops. About 35p or 3 for a pound. Miles better than own brand supermarket stuff.
Alternatively Ko-Lee are good too. They have a powder sachet and a flavoured oil sachet and are more wholemealy than Koka (but probably not actually wholemeal).
Crack an egg in about halfway through the microwave timer and you get a (sort of) poached egg. Haven't done it for a while but I'm sure it's 2:30 for the noodles and 1:30 for the egg.
technodup said:
Riley Blue said:
Has anyone else tried the Aldi noodles? At 24p a pack (I think, might be 34p) they're not a bad but much cheaper alternative to a Pot Noodle. I've no idea whether they're good for you or nutritious (who cares?) but as a quick lunchtime 'filler' they'll do me.
No, no, no. Wet cardboard.Try Koka noodles. Chicken, curry, masala, prawn, beef, tomato and more flavours. Available in Asian supermarkets but you usually find chicken and curry flavour in standard corner shops. About 35p or 3 for a pound. Miles better than own brand supermarket stuff.
Alternatively Ko-Lee are good too. They have a powder sachet and a flavoured oil sachet and are more wholemealy than Koka (but probably not actually wholemeal).
Crack an egg in about halfway through the microwave timer and you get a (sort of) poached egg. Haven't done it for a while but I'm sure it's 2:30 for the noodles and 1:30 for the egg.
I picked up their own label tacos by mistake thinking they were El Paso..garlic & paprika, very very nice. Although I’d not recommend soldering half the mince to the saucepan (police interceptors was on) . A very small glug of the hot chilli sauce mentioned earlier made it for me total cost about £4 & would have fed me twice if it weren’t for the slight incendiary incident & I still have the best part of a jar of sauce & most of a pack of cheese left.
Aldi's thick double cream sucks.
Lovely when you buy it, but goes runny after a couple of days. I first though it was because it was in the fridge door and so not cold enough, so I moved it to the coldest part but no luck. To check it wasn't a 'they all do that' problem, got the Waitrose one instead and no issues. One to avoid.
Gretchen - the patio ratten set with the coffee table I think you mentioned is being sold again this week.
Lovely when you buy it, but goes runny after a couple of days. I first though it was because it was in the fridge door and so not cold enough, so I moved it to the coldest part but no luck. To check it wasn't a 'they all do that' problem, got the Waitrose one instead and no issues. One to avoid.
Gretchen - the patio ratten set with the coffee table I think you mentioned is being sold again this week.
Edited by hyphen on Tuesday 22 May 22:03
soupdragon1 said:
dazco said:
Tesco's, the highest quality mince you can buy?
Tesco buy all the best meat?
Tesco beef sold as 'the world's premium beef'? Not even Argentinean is sold as the world's premium beef.
NI beef is very fatty , which is why it's so good?
% fat indicator is not a quality guide?
Are you aware that you have posted this drivel?
Do you not read it back and say to yourself , 'hmmm, something here doesn't add up'?
No, I haven't read it back, especially since you haven't read it either, at least within the correct context.Tesco buy all the best meat?
Tesco beef sold as 'the world's premium beef'? Not even Argentinean is sold as the world's premium beef.
NI beef is very fatty , which is why it's so good?
% fat indicator is not a quality guide?
Are you aware that you have posted this drivel?
Do you not read it back and say to yourself , 'hmmm, something here doesn't add up'?
Maybe you should read it again and come back with what bits you think I've got wrong.
If you think all these things are true then someone close to you is winding you up like a comedy mouse
21TonyK said:
Not at that price but they are the cheapest if you do want free range at £3.29 a kilo but they never seem to be a decent size
I used to work at the primary killing chicken plant that supplied Aldi and Lidl and you are correct, the catchment weight went up to 2 kilos if I remember. The birds they took were the standard broiler, lowest out if all the supermarkets and longest leadtimes as well, 7 days. For higher welfare mass produced chickens, m and s, ocado, Waitrose use high welfare chickens, totally different to broiler and better standards.
dazco said:
soupdragon1 said:
dazco said:
Tesco's, the highest quality mince you can buy?
Tesco buy all the best meat?
Tesco beef sold as 'the world's premium beef'? Not even Argentinean is sold as the world's premium beef.
NI beef is very fatty , which is why it's so good?
% fat indicator is not a quality guide?
Are you aware that you have posted this drivel?
Do you not read it back and say to yourself , 'hmmm, something here doesn't add up'?
No, I haven't read it back, especially since you haven't read it either, at least within the correct context.Tesco buy all the best meat?
Tesco beef sold as 'the world's premium beef'? Not even Argentinean is sold as the world's premium beef.
NI beef is very fatty , which is why it's so good?
% fat indicator is not a quality guide?
Are you aware that you have posted this drivel?
Do you not read it back and say to yourself , 'hmmm, something here doesn't add up'?
Maybe you should read it again and come back with what bits you think I've got wrong.
If you think all these things are true then someone close to you is winding you up like a comedy mouse
You think I said: Tesco's, the highest quality mince you can buy?
I actually said: In Northern Ireland, Tesco buy the best wholesale meat from the meat wholesalers. The same meat supplier also sells it in Europe marketing it as 'some of the world's best beef' - namely the rib - eye cut I might add.
Anyone who knows anything about beef knows that Waygu beef is highly rated across the world, and that some farmers feed their cows beer, let them listen to music, brush their hair etc and sell the beef at an huge price. I didn't say its the best beef in the world, it was implying that the quality is so high, it can be sold as 'one of the worlds premium beefs'
I'm not even going to respond to the rest, as you're quite far away from understanding what I wrote earlier.
FiF said:
You don't like my thread, that's fine - why not just leave it at that please?
Edited by andy.mod on Wednesday 23 May 15:08
Thesprucegoose said:
I used to work at the primary killing chicken plant that supplied Aldi and Lidl and you are correct, the catchment weight went up to 2 kilos if I remember.
The birds they took were the standard broiler, lowest out if all the supermarkets and longest leadtimes as well, 7 days. For higher welfare mass produced chickens, m and s, ocado, Waitrose use high welfare chickens, totally different to broiler and better standards.
Not surprising at 2.75 for a chicken but I guess that's the market for a lot of people and until barn reared is a minimum standard the discounters will to exactly that, "discount".The birds they took were the standard broiler, lowest out if all the supermarkets and longest leadtimes as well, 7 days. For higher welfare mass produced chickens, m and s, ocado, Waitrose use high welfare chickens, totally different to broiler and better standards.
I wonder how many people check the provenance of chicken in ready meals, frozen drumsticks, dippers et all.
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