ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?
Discussion
Steamer said:
Miocene said:
It's probably already been mentioned, but Aldi sticky toffee pudding is incredible. As good as anything you'll get in a decent restaurant.
Seconded.Awesome with Ice cream.
I've always found Aldi a bit lacking in the pudding department - but this one is great (in the chilled cabinet - not frozen)
Fastchas said:
Not food I know, but bought one of Aldi’s steam irons last week for £19.99.
Extremely pleased with it, easily as good as one 4 or 5 times as much.
How they do it for £20 is beyond me.
Buy a loadExtremely pleased with it, easily as good as one 4 or 5 times as much.
How they do it for £20 is beyond me.
Sell them at cost or close to cost
customers leaves with the <specialbuy> and other random articles whilst in store that make real money
Fastchas said:
Not food I know, but bought one of Aldi’s steam irons last week for £19.99.
Extremely pleased with it, easily as good as one 4 or 5 times as much.
How they do it for £20 is beyond me.
China.Extremely pleased with it, easily as good as one 4 or 5 times as much.
How they do it for £20 is beyond me.
Something that you might think cost at least a tenner to produce is often just a pound or so. I just checked Alibaba and a high spec top end steam iron is £2.15p if you order 2000 pieces. I would imagine that Philips are paying nothing like as much as that.
Tried the 'ultimate' sausage roll the other day (i heated it up). Was not a fan.. didn't really taste of much, like it was trying to be too clean/healthy.
Has anyone eaten the venison grillsteaks? what differentiates them frrom the venison burgers other than size/name. I quite enjoyed the grillsteaks last time I had it but they don't seem to be on sale now that I want to buy them more.
Has anyone eaten the venison grillsteaks? what differentiates them frrom the venison burgers other than size/name. I quite enjoyed the grillsteaks last time I had it but they don't seem to be on sale now that I want to buy them more.
ambuletz said:
Tried the 'ultimate' sausage roll the other day (i heated it up). Was not a fan.. didn't really taste of much, like it was trying to be too clean/healthy.
Has anyone eaten the venison grillsteaks? what differentiates them frrom the venison burgers other than size/name. I quite enjoyed the grillsteaks last time I had it but they don't seem to be on sale now that I want to buy them more.
No but I did the actual venison steaks, underwhelming. May as well have been beef Has anyone eaten the venison grillsteaks? what differentiates them frrom the venison burgers other than size/name. I quite enjoyed the grillsteaks last time I had it but they don't seem to be on sale now that I want to buy them more.
Had one of these for lunch.
You've got to wonder whose product was the inspiration eh!
Not great tbh. Even though shown in the picture, there was no lettuce (worked around with tiny small print on the box - 'serving suggestion only') opening the packet for cooking the contents weren't assembled, which was a bit of a pain, as by the time the cheese was melted the meat was hotter than the centre of the sun. The bun was quite elasticy (is that a word?!) too.
The patties were a beef and chicken mix rather than the 100% beef of the Big Mac.
Not completely inedible, but still not great. As an imitation it's poor. 4/10, being generous.
You've got to wonder whose product was the inspiration eh!
Not great tbh. Even though shown in the picture, there was no lettuce (worked around with tiny small print on the box - 'serving suggestion only') opening the packet for cooking the contents weren't assembled, which was a bit of a pain, as by the time the cheese was melted the meat was hotter than the centre of the sun. The bun was quite elasticy (is that a word?!) too.
The patties were a beef and chicken mix rather than the 100% beef of the Big Mac.
Not completely inedible, but still not great. As an imitation it's poor. 4/10, being generous.
Edited by Fermit and Sexy Sarah on Monday 14th June 16:29
ambuletz said:
has anyone tried the doner verson of those snack things? I've always dismissed it because the portion size looks miniscule. especially when it's saying its only afew hundred calories
Yes, I have. It's not huge, no, but enough for me for lunch. The mint dressing is nice.WCZ said:
I bought a couple of them and the nuggets, the nugs are alright but the fake big mac is truly awful imo, and i'm a fan of microwavable stuff
The mcd's-a-like hash browns are also a bit meh, and (comparatively speaking) ridiculously overpriced, when you can get a bag of regular hash browns in the same section for 70p or so.They're ok for putting in muffins with the pork patties, but they're pretty flavourless and still need to be done in the oven or fried. Need to go elsewhere for a hit of quickly microwavable hash brown filth.
moorx said:
ambuletz said:
has anyone tried the doner verson of those snack things? I've always dismissed it because the portion size looks miniscule. especially when it's saying its only afew hundred calories
Yes, I have. It's not huge, no, but enough for me for lunch. The mint dressing is nice.
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Had one of these for lunch.
You've got to wonder whose product was the inspiration eh!
Not great tbh. Even though shown in the picture, there was no lettuce (worked around with tiny small print on the box - 'serving suggestion only') opening the packet for cooking the contents weren't assembled, which was a bit of a pain, as by the time the cheese was melted the meat was hotter than the centre of the sun. The bun was quite elasticy (is that a word?!) too.
The patties were a beef and chicken mix rather than the 100% beef of the Big Mac.
Not completely inedible, but still not great. As an imitation it's poor. 4/10, being generous.
I've tried lost brands of micro burgers as we only have a microwave and a toaster for heating food at work.You've got to wonder whose product was the inspiration eh!
Not great tbh. Even though shown in the picture, there was no lettuce (worked around with tiny small print on the box - 'serving suggestion only') opening the packet for cooking the contents weren't assembled, which was a bit of a pain, as by the time the cheese was melted the meat was hotter than the centre of the sun. The bun was quite elasticy (is that a word?!) too.
The patties were a beef and chicken mix rather than the 100% beef of the Big Mac.
Not completely inedible, but still not great. As an imitation it's poor. 4/10, being generous.
Edited by Fermit and Sexy Sarah on Monday 14th June 16:29
Out of all of them the 99p Lidl quarter pounder is probably the best.
Although I do freestyle on the cooking method though, toast the bun in the toaster for a couple of minutes and give the burger 30 seconds in the micro then assemble burger and cheese onto the bun with sauce and give it another 30 seconds in the microwave.
It definitely makes a difference and tastes nicer that way.
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