ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

[Balmoral]

I love those, I like a bit of heat! The Madras one is perfect for me.

[tobinen]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

tobinen said:

I ventured in to Aldi last night and bought their chicken jalfrezi plus poppadoms and come mango chutney

I was pleasantly surprised - the jalfrezi was pretty good.

Was this a pre-made one? The Jalfrezi in a jar, the ones with a spice pot on top, is far hotter than any Jalfrezi I've ever had. Too hot for my taste.

Pre-made microwave one.

I have bought the Lidl one for tonight to compare. My Lidl has just moved everything around except the wine. New freezers and bins for the bread. I had to wander around far too long to find everything but it is an improvement.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

tobinen said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

tobinen said:

I ventured in to Aldi last night and bought their chicken jalfrezi plus poppadoms and come mango chutney

I was pleasantly surprised - the jalfrezi was pretty good.

Was this a pre-made one? The Jalfrezi in a jar, the ones with a spice pot on top, is far hotter than any Jalfrezi I've ever had. Too hot for my taste.

Pre-made microwave one.

I have bought the Lidl one for tonight to compare. My Lidl has just moved everything around except the wine. New freezers and bins for the bread. I had to wander around far too long to find everything but it is an improvement.

Was it an OK size, apposed to the child sized that ready meals often are? She's away this weekend, I don't really cook much so may grab one

[tobinen]

The Aldi one is better than the Lidl one, I can report. Same for the poppadoms

[Gretchen]

£300 3D Printer in Aldi. I know nothing of technical capabilities of these but would this be any good for an old man who works in aviation/builds model planes?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/balco-3d-printer-/p/0868872...

(I’m talking about my Dad. Not me)

[V8mate]

Balmoral said:

've just opened a bottle. There's nothing to say what it is exactly other than red wine, classification wise it looks to be nothing more than table wine. It's not bad stuff, but I think the £5 Peuceta Primitivo from Lidl is much better.

That was a great tip, Balmoral, thank you!

Grabbed a bottle on your recommendation and could not believe the quality for a fiver. Light enough to drink alone, yet robust enough to complement a be-gravied meal.

[Balmoral]

Glad you liked it, I've been trying all sorts of Primitivo from elsewhere at up to and over twice the price, and I keep going back to that.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

V8mate said:

Light enough to drink alone, yet robust enough to complement a be-gravied meal.

Supermarket poetry old friend, poetry.

[V8mate]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

V8mate said:

Light enough to drink alone, yet robust enough to complement a be-gravied meal.

Supermarket poetry old friend, poetry.

[Register1]

JUST DON'T BUY ANY OF ALDI FRUIT.
At a guess, it is days old when they put it on the shelf.
We get fresher fruit coming back to the Morissons recycle centre for disposal (compactor)

[Riley Blue]

Register1 said:

JUST DON'T BUY ANY OF ALDI FRUIT.
At a guess, it is days old when they put it on the shelf.
We get fresher fruit coming back to the Morissons recycle centre for disposal (compactor)

Fruit that's days old before you buy it, quelle horreur!

[mad4amanda]

Register1 said:

JUST DON'T BUY ANY OF ALDI FRUIT.
At a guess, it is days old when they put it on the shelf.
We get fresher fruit coming back to the Morissons recycle centre for disposal (compactor)

we very rarely get any poor fruit from Aldi

[anonymous-user]

bought lychees, all mouldy and in date. the fruit and veg is very hit and miss.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Our lidl quite often has mouldy fruit on display.
But the other day i paid £3 for four nectarines from sainsburys and one of them was totally rotten on the bottom. So its not just lidl/aldi

[FiF]

Agreed about Lidl, we've had some horrors. So far not had much issues from Aldi, but not much sourced there. Tend to patronise a really good farm shop.

As others have said it's not just the discounters, some occasional issues with both Tesco and Sainsbury's, Waitrose much worse ime.


Sort of off topic, what do we reckon about Tesco chopping the fresh counters? Butchers, probably choice on the high st. Fishmongers non existent round us. Deli, bad move getting rid of that imho. Seems to me they're chasing the Lidl/Aldi model, and going to fail.

[wobert]

I find Aldi has short dates on a lot of stuff, particularly fresh meat.

I’ve been caught out a few times recently where meat was going out of date on the day of purchase.

I now dig to the back of the shelf to get longer dated stuff.

[Riley Blue]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Our lidl quite often has mouldy fruit on display.
But the other day i paid £3 for four nectarines from sainsburys and one of them was totally rotten on the bottom. So its not just lidl/aldi

O/H bought some 'easy peelers' from M&S and found the same, one was rotten on the bottom. About five days later she bought some more and again one was rotten. Grotty fruit is found everywhere, it seems.

[IanA2]

Riley Blue said:

Register1 said:

JUST DON'T BUY ANY OF ALDI FRUIT.
At a guess, it is days old when they put it on the shelf.
We get fresher fruit coming back to the Morissons recycle centre for disposal (compactor)

Fruit that's days old before you buy it, quelle horreur!

"We get fresher fruit coming back to the Morissons recycle centre..."

An employee of a Bradford based chain store makes important statement about very successful competitor.

Guaranteed no COI, so it must be true.

[Truckosaurus]

wobert said:

I find Aldi has short dates on a lot of stuff, particularly fresh meat.....

I have a suspicion that such things are very store dependant. For stores that are in the suburbs the customers are more likely to be buying 'ingredients' (ie. fresh meat and veg) as part of a 'big shop' but town centre stores are more likely to have customers buying ready meals or a couple of essentials for use that day, so the fresh stuff sits on the shelf longer.

[twing]

The on I use, 5 minutes out of Bristol constantly has bread with one day left on it. The cold meat is normally 3-5 days but cooked meats only a day or two. Frustrating because I try to do a whole week’s shop on a Sunday