ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?

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davek_964

8,796 posts

174 months

Monday 14th October 2019
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twizellb said:
NWTony said:
I'm going to add Aldi's new almond croissants to this list,delicious when warm. About £1.19 for two.
Was going to post the same, they are lovelylick
Will give them a try, but I tried Lidl all-butter croissants for the first time at the weekend. Wow - easily the best croissants I've ever had. They weren't kidding about the "all-butter" - tasted like there was about a kilo in each croissant - absolutely lovely. Will definitely be buying those again (and at 35p each, they were an absolute bargain).

soxboy

6,060 posts

218 months

Monday 14th October 2019
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loggo said:
soxboy said:
Wine question - I'm about to give up booze for a month from Sunday, so will be getting a bottle of red to polish off over the next few days.

As it will be my 'last supper' for a while I thought I'd blow the budget and go for an Aldi one up to £10.

Does anyone have any red recommendations for their pricier offerings?
Not quite what you asked but the last bottle of wine I had from Aldi made me want to give up wine so should help you no end!

To be fair it was only £4.50 or so. Torro something
The Toro is usually very good, although I have replaced it with the Animus Portuguese red.

BTW my month without wine lasted just over a week. I decided as my 'last supper' to invest in a posh bottle (£11 Bordeaux from Waitrose, 1/3 off, was meh and 14.5% so big headache), I bought an Argentinian Tempranillo from the Co-op on Friday for £5 which was lovely).

ElectricSoup

8,202 posts

150 months

Monday 14th October 2019
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soxboy said:
loggo said:
soxboy said:
Wine question - I'm about to give up booze for a month from Sunday, so will be getting a bottle of red to polish off over the next few days.

As it will be my 'last supper' for a while I thought I'd blow the budget and go for an Aldi one up to £10.

Does anyone have any red recommendations for their pricier offerings?
Not quite what you asked but the last bottle of wine I had from Aldi made me want to give up wine so should help you no end!

To be fair it was only £4.50 or so. Torro something
The Toro is usually very good, although I have replaced it with the Animus Portuguese red.

BTW my month without wine lasted just over a week. I decided as my 'last supper' to invest in a posh bottle (£11 Bordeaux from Waitrose, 1/3 off, was meh and 14.5% so big headache), I bought an Argentinian Tempranillo from the Co-op on Friday for £5 which was lovely).
It's bloody mental the strength of wine these days, I don't want anything over 12.5%, but the vast majority of wine is 13-14.5% Port should only be 15% for Christ's sake. I have to examine every sodding bottle to find something of a reasonable strength. Like you, I end up with a massive headache on the seemingly ubiquitous 14% stuff.

pzero64

2,089 posts

240 months

Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Sloe gin mince tarts are very nice.

Had the frozen peshwari chicken parcels a couple of times now, there okay for a pie type based meal.

NoVetec

9,967 posts

172 months

Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Had the praline choc pud the other night. Was lazy so nuked it, still very nice in both taste and texture. I presume something with so much sugar and quite small oven baked wouldn't be that much different?

Will have it again, this time with cream as it wasn't as good with ice cream as the apple and toffee sponge was.

Still no chocolate stollen bites. frown

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Tuesday 15th October 2019
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NoVetec said:
Still no chocolate stollen bites. frown
Aldi and Lidl just need to get Halloween stock out of the way and then the full Christmas range will turn up.

andburg

7,214 posts

168 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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definitely not worth trying...the basic salted tortilla chips, they were fine until recently they changed to a blue/yellow and clear bag and they're now atrocious.

ChevyChase77

1,079 posts

57 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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I find Aldi/Lidl good for some things and rubbish for others.

I've found the fruit and veg doesn't last as long as Tesco. And the customer service is generally shocking in ours. Closing all the tills forcing you to use the self service ones. Plus the checkout anxiety as they scan it so quickly with no packing area.

Steamer

13,844 posts

212 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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andburg said:
definitely not worth trying...the basic salted tortilla chips, they were fine until recently they changed to a blue/yellow and clear bag and they're now atrocious.
Seconded! - I fell into this trap. You get loads of them - but they are not very nice. Stick with the NON See-through blue bags - much better quality.

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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Steamer said:
andburg said:
definitely not worth trying...the basic salted tortilla chips, they were fine until recently they changed to a blue/yellow and clear bag and they're now atrocious.
Seconded! - I fell into this trap. You get loads of them - but they are not very nice. Stick with the NON See-through blue bags - much better quality.
I can't say I agree.
They're not the best tortilla chips in the world, but I've had far, far worse. The texture is good and they perform their primary task - that of shovelling a mound of dip into your gob - perfectly. At the price, they're good VfM.

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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ChevyChase77 said:
I find Aldi/Lidl good for some things and rubbish for others.

I've found the fruit and veg doesn't last as long as Tesco. And the customer service is generally shocking in ours. Closing all the tills forcing you to use the self service ones. Plus the checkout anxiety as they scan it so quickly with no packing area.
I think you need to attribute your comments to Aldi or Lidl. Are there Aldis with self-scan tills?

As for packing without a packing area: you're doing it wrong. Everything goes back in the trolley and you pack on the shelf in the window (in Aldi).

Newer Lidls have larger checkouts with bag packing area at the checkout (they clearly decided that the British market was incapable of adapting their learned behaviour)

IME, Aldi is the most responsive of all UK supermarkets with regard to opening/closing checkouts to match demand. In Germany, they just shrug and leave one checkout open. The attitude is 'if you want cheap food, the quid pro quo is that you queue a while.

davek_964

8,796 posts

174 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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V8mate said:
IME, Aldi is the most responsive of all UK supermarkets with regard to opening/closing checkouts to match demand.
+1 - I find the same.

(Lidl is dire)

ambuletz

10,690 posts

180 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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Just had a look on the Lidl site and this might be worth stocking up on for sandwiches etc..

https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/super-weekend/warren-s...

99p for 180g of chicken. Where's the catch? something of that weight would cost £2-2.50 in asda.

Steamer

13,844 posts

212 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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davek_964 said:
V8mate said:
IME, Aldi is the most responsive of all UK supermarkets with regard to opening/closing checkouts to match demand.
+1 - I find the same.

(Lidl is dire)
Agreed - poor staff always getting pulled off their stacking jobs and rushing round like blue-arsed flies.

...Last night someone committed the cardinal / rooky mistake at the checkouts: Left their wallet in the car!!

There does'nt seem to be any way round it, other than waiting for them to go and retrieve their wallet and come back... everyone had to wait and tutt very loudly.

Poor girl on the check out said they have had people with a full trolly just not come back in to pay for it. Apparently it all has to get rescanned to void it before putting back on the shelf.

andburg

7,214 posts

168 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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bags stood up in the trolley and i have no issues packing as they sling them through

CharlesdeGaulle

26,091 posts

179 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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andburg said:
bags stood up in the trolley and i have no issues packing as they sling them through
Me too, and I always keep up with the till person and cause no delay. But I observe that my ninja-packing skills are only rarely shared by other shoppers, and almost never by women.

The 'great' British public is anything but, and I can see why the refusal to adapt to other systems causes frustration.

Bear-n

1,610 posts

81 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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I've been waiting years for this; I feared it would never happen.

99p


Chester35

505 posts

54 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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They do Bishops Finger for £1.20 rather than £1.25 in Tesco's

Also pigs ear off cuts for dogs are £1.67 per bag. It's still not cheap but better than the price they charge you in Sainsbury's.

Me and my dog are often seen down their wearing our dirty macs .... him smelling of beer and me of pork after I get a bit nibbly whilst rummaging around in their "it will be gone soon so buy it now" aisle.

What's the deal with having to put a £1 in the shopping trolley? Germans eh, I could have spent that in store. confused


Jim on the hill

5,072 posts

189 months

Friday 18th October 2019
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V8mate said:
Steamer said:
andburg said:
definitely not worth trying...the basic salted tortilla chips, they were fine until recently they changed to a blue/yellow and clear bag and they're now atrocious.
Seconded! - I fell into this trap. You get loads of them - but they are not very nice. Stick with the NON See-through blue bags - much better quality.
I can't say I agree.
They're not the best tortilla chips in the world, but I've had far, far worse. The texture is good and they perform their primary task - that of shovelling a mound of dip into your gob - perfectly. At the price, they're good VfM.
Don't spoil thier fun, I love the dramatically over the top language people use on this thread it's hilarious. Clearly they were so atrocious they ran to the toilet immediately and vacated thier bodies of the terrible product.

bingybongy

3,858 posts

145 months

Saturday 19th October 2019
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ChevyChase77 said:
I find Aldi/Lidl good for some things and rubbish for others.

I've found the fruit and veg doesn't last as long as Tesco. And the customer service is generally shocking in ours. Closing all the tills forcing you to use the self service ones. Plus the checkout anxiety as they scan it so quickly with no packing area.