ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[twing]

Me too, same as turkey mine, I just can’t get my head around it

[V8mate]

dickymint said:

The very thought of a sausage made with Turkey or chicken for that matter makes me

I used to think the same - but they're generally very good, and so much healthier for you.

Even for things like salami, I've switched from pork to poultry-based.

[dickymint]

V8mate said:

dickymint said:

The very thought of a sausage made with Turkey or chicken for that matter makes me

I used to think the same - but they're generally very good, and so much healthier for you.

Even for things like salami, I've switched from pork to poultry-based.

Healthier? What like after 30 years of people being told to ditch Butter and eat axle grease............

[anonymous-user]

I like heck chicken Italia sausages a bit dry but make a change from pork

[twing]

Pork strips with chilli and lime back in my local store, salty as fk but epic! Loads of different tool sets as well in the aisle of dreams

[V8mate]

Thesprucegoose said:

I like heck chicken Italia sausages a bit dry but make a change from pork

Aldi do them too, in spot-the-difference packaging!

[evilmunkey]

Aldi footlong hot dogs 2 for a quid and some change, perfect with aldis buffalo mozzerall in an aldi finish yourself baguette

[Tony Angelino]

Our Lidl just had a mini refurb, increased the number of chillers (and along with that their meat offering) and also increased the range of their specially selected stuff. Many, many more lines in and most of it looking pretty decent, added half a dozen self serve checkouts and a couple more normal tills to ease the bottleneck.

Reckon it puts it on a par with Aldi now after this.

[SpeckledJim]

Aldi Thai Green Curry paste.

Pants.

Nothing about it. Ended up sexing it up with a huge dose of sriracha, after which it was nice, but no longer Thai Green Curry.

[SpeckledJim]

Crossing the streams here - this is a LIDL one.

Their 'Bring the Pain' hot sauce. I never have too high an expectation when a supermarket own-brand says something is hot, but this is really, truly, fantastically hot. Up there with Dave's and Blair's and those kind of things.

Really impressive.

They're also selling Tabasco Chipotle edition at the moment, which is my favourite Tabasco flavour by far. I should go back tonight and buy 12.

I do wish chipotle in general would catch on in the UK in a bigger way, it's a fantastic flavour.

[SpydieNut]

SpeckledJim said:

Crossing the streams here - this is a LIDL one.

Their 'Bring the Pain' hot sauce. I never have too high an expectation when a supermarket own-brand says something is hot, but this is really, truly, fantastically hot. Up there with Dave's and Blair's and those kind of things.

Really impressive.

They're also selling Tabasco Chipotle edition at the moment, which is my favourite Tabasco flavour by far. I should go back tonight and buy 12.

I do wish chipotle in general would catch on in the UK in a bigger way, it's a fantastic flavour.

thank you - i will pop by LIDL for some of both.

the tabasco chipotle is one of my favorite sauces - not hot, but wonderful smoky flavour - i wish tabasco also did this in the large bottles (350ml) - as they do their original flavour in.

[ZedLeg]

I got a big bottle of the chpotle one out of Harvey Nicholls once, years ago. It's not the best chipotle sauce though. The Kankun one is amazing, I've seen it in Lidl before. If anyone is near Edinburgh or Glasgow I recommend Lupe Pintos for your hot sauces.

[NormalWisdom]

SpeckledJim said:

Crossing the streams here - this is a LIDL one.

I do wish chipotle in general would catch on in the UK in a bigger way, it's a fantastic flavour.

Have a look at HotHeadz - Good selection there (their Chipotle mustard is my absoute favourite on a bacon/egg butty!!)

https://www.hot-headz.com/index.php?search=chipotl...

[SpeckledJim]

NormalWisdom said:

SpeckledJim said:

Crossing the streams here - this is a LIDL one.

I do wish chipotle in general would catch on in the UK in a bigger way, it's a fantastic flavour.

Have a look at HotHeadz - Good selection there (their Chipotle mustard is my absoute favourite on a bacon/egg butty!!)

https://www.hot-headz.com/index.php?search=chipotl...

They run a brilliant business. I'd love to get involved with something like that.

[ZedLeg]

The hot headz kethups are great. I usually have a bottle of the Habanero and the chipotle ones kicking around. I bought a bottle of their naga sauce once, it was too much for me.

[tobinen]

SpeckledJim said:

I do wish chipotle in general would catch on in the UK in a bigger way, it's a fantastic flavour.

Yes, agreed. I order mine from mexgrocer.co.uk when I have to top up my other Mexican supplies. It's not particularly cheap or a large size but it's my favourite. I'm running low now.

[21TonyK]

Bacon joints. Under £3 a kilo, cut inch thick make great slabs of gammon, char grill with some tomatoes, a fried egg, onion rings (not Aldis) and some Aldi skinny fries (deep fried not oven cooked) and its like Berni Inn all over again... mmmm

[twing]

A rare bad one tonight, fresh cod loin. Looked lovely but bloody awful, odd tinge of blue cheese about it but properly sealed so couldn’t have picked it up in the fridge.

[RammyMP]

I bought some salmon last week, it was a bit st, not much flavour to it.

[twing]

I’d rather no flavour than smelly feet cheese fish, ahh well lesson learnt, I’ll stay away from the fish