ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?
Discussion
The Spruce Goose said:
ambuletz said:
Did buy these though and have just tried one toasted. Nice Chilli kick and lovely and soft, might have to have a second before making final decision but like so far.
Gretchen said:
Did buy these though and have just tried one toasted. Nice Chilli kick and lovely and soft, might have to have a second before making final decision but like so far.
Will have to try them. We currently have some of the Bramley Apple and Cinnamon ones, and they're lovely. Even S likes them, and she's fussy as anything with bread and pastry products. On a separate note, their sour-dough loaf, heavenly! Gretchen said:
The Spruce Goose said:
ambuletz said:
I bought both flavours first ones Cumberland I cooked when the time was done they looked anemic and not cooked so I ended up leaving them in a lot longer till they got some colour took them out and they were dry and nasty just tasted of pepper.
2nd packet cooked to the recommended time look pretty much like the picture when cooked so unappetising, zero flavour just like eating a sponge even the dog was unimpressed.
ambuletz said:
yellow bottle belgian beer was back in stock at my ALDI. although the green dutch and german bottled beers were nowhere to be seen, they don't appear to be on their website either.
The canned version of the Rheinbacher Pilsner is much better value with no loss in quality.V8mate said:
ambuletz said:
yellow bottle belgian beer was back in stock at my ALDI. although the green dutch and german bottled beers were nowhere to be seen, they don't appear to be on their website either.
The canned version of the Rheinbacher Pilsner is much better value with no loss in quality.Dan_1981 said:
V8mate said:
Dan_1981 said:
Anyone any idea if this wine was specifically done for Aldi & if it's available from anywhere else or something very similar - the normal Gris that aldi have on the shelves isn't a patch on this and my stash has now ran dry 
https://www.aldi.co.uk/specially-selected-alsace-p...
Lidl also carries onehttps://www.aldi.co.uk/specially-selected-alsace-p...
https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/white-wine/ernest-wein...
The aldi cheap pinot gris is horrible.
Now VERY thristy.
Aldi's Everday Essentials rice, 45p. OK, it was for the chickens/ducks evening treat, but my it took forever to cook, and so much rinsing, so it didn't have the consistency of porridge. Avoid, stick with their regular one. This is an instance that it is cheap with good reason.
The birds wolfed it down mind....
The birds wolfed it down mind....
ambuletz said:
They're 2 different wines. the one on the right being the marginally more expensive one.
I tried the Douro and was very disappointed. My wines of choice at the moment are the Asda Tollana (£4.50) The Asda Wolf Blass Reserve Vineyards (£5) and anything from the 19 Crimes reds range.Asda of course has 25% off six bottles at present (for bottles £5 and over). That brings the already discounted 19 Crimes basic wine down from £7 to £5.25, which makes it spectacular value.
SCEtoAUX said:
I tried the Douro and was very disappointed. My wines of choice at the moment are the Asda Tollana (£4.50) The Asda Wolf Blass Reserve Vineyards (£5) and anything from the 19 Crimes reds range.
Asda of course has 25% off six bottles at present (for bottles £5 and over). That brings the already discounted 19 Crimes basic wine down from £7 to £5.25, which makes it spectacular value.
thank you very much for this. I usually didn't bother with ASDA as the level of choice there is huge + it's never mentioned here, so i'm never sure where to start on which wines might be worth getting. i always just went aldi or lidl. I've now got this as an option.Asda of course has 25% off six bottles at present (for bottles £5 and over). That brings the already discounted 19 Crimes basic wine down from £7 to £5.25, which makes it spectacular value.
ambuletz said:
SCEtoAUX said:
I tried the Douro and was very disappointed. My wines of choice at the moment are the Asda Tollana (£4.50) The Asda Wolf Blass Reserve Vineyards (£5) and anything from the 19 Crimes reds range.
Asda of course has 25% off six bottles at present (for bottles £5 and over). That brings the already discounted 19 Crimes basic wine down from £7 to £5.25, which makes it spectacular value.
thank you very much for this. I usually didn't bother with ASDA as the level of choice there is huge + it's never mentioned here, so i'm never sure where to start on which wines might be worth getting. i always just went aldi or lidl. I've now got this as an option.Asda of course has 25% off six bottles at present (for bottles £5 and over). That brings the already discounted 19 Crimes basic wine down from £7 to £5.25, which makes it spectacular value.
Anyway, the Wolf Blass Reserve Vineyards isn't always in stock:
https://groceries.asda.com/product/shiraz/wolf-bla...
When it is though they sometimes do a "2 for £9" offer, which is worth having but obviously not as good as the 25% deal (which at £5/bottle it qualifies for).
The 19 Crimes reds they do are a base version at £9, then "The Banished" at £10 and "The Uprising" also at £10 - however, at least one of these is usually discounted (£7/£8/£8 respectively) and when the 25% deal is on, as mentioned above, the base model at £5.25 is not to be missed.
The other one that is very good (in my opinion, but also my brother's opinion and he knows his wine) is the Yellow Tail Shiraz at £7, which again becomes amazing value with 25% off.
There's a merlot in a box too, which is occasionally only a tenner. For the price it is very fair value indeed.
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