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Best & worst Aldi buys

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Wednesdaywobbles · 23/10/2022 19:52

Best

chorizo & mozzarella sandwich pack
the luxury pizza’s
spatchcock chicken stuffed with pepper in a roasting bag
hummous fries
luxury sticky toffee pudding

worst

all potatoes - dry and grim no matter how you cook them
mushrooms - every pack was slimy
yogurts - haven’t found one I like yet

I’ve just started shopping at Aldi again and overall I do like it, but there are just some things that I cannot live without and good potatoes are one of them

i do find however that the prices are very similar now to Tesco.

we’re spending £80 on our main shop (from Aldi) and then doing a top up at Tesco. We’re 2 adults, 3.5 year old twins and 1 dog (although we don’t buy dog food from the supermarket)

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3peassuit · 25/10/2022 12:40

Aldi’s sliced sourdough bread beats most other supermarket sourdough.

StillWeRise · 25/10/2022 13:24

not tried the sourdough but I haven't been impressed with their bakery section in general
another vote for the butter with salt crystals though

Realityloom · 25/10/2022 14:53

Benjispruce4 · 24/10/2022 16:47

BTW the Aldi wheat biscuits and Weetabix have EXACTLY the same ingredients. I’ve heard they are made by Weetabix.

I buy them and I like them but they are not a bad dupe defo not the real weetabix you can tell.

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Startuplife · 25/10/2022 22:20

We’ve just tried the Barrel fermented Chenin blanc as recommended by Luke Flunder and it was delicious. Hopefully my photo works.

MichaelFabricantWig · 25/10/2022 22:55

Benjispruce4 · 25/10/2022 08:25

I get all my shopping in Aldi bar espresso, cous cous and dental floss because they don’t sell those.
I don’t think it’s fair to say their fruit is bad or their chicken off. I like good food and cook from scarce most days using their ingredients and have not noticed these issues. Last night I made a coconut chicken curry using their ingredients and it was great. You do need to check the dates on fruit and berries.As I’ve said upthread they don’t mark down probably due to space so raspberries with a day left will be still on the shelf. Something they need to sort. Everything else is brilliant .

The problems with chicken/milk/mince have been persistent IME. Maybe it’s just how my local shop store stuff. The whole chicken is fine

tulips27 · 26/10/2022 10:25

I went in Lidl yesterday and they had tubs of 10% Greek yoghurt, too, but I've not tried it to know if it's the same quality.

Startuplife · 26/10/2022 11:06

Sorry this is the wine

Best & worst Aldi buys
MichaelFabricantWig · 26/10/2022 19:14

Oh what I have just bought this week is milk and white chocolate. Like the Cadbury top deck of old. Milk on the bottom and white on top. Yummy

MichaelFabricantWig · 26/10/2022 19:15

tulips27 · 26/10/2022 10:25

I went in Lidl yesterday and they had tubs of 10% Greek yoghurt, too, but I've not tried it to know if it's the same quality.

My husband loves this one

Scrambler4 · 26/10/2022 19:26

I love Aldi extra mature cheddar (no 6) It’s my favourite cheese. Half the price of Cathedral etc. My teenagers love the Aldi Carlos frozen pizzas. They tell me they’re much nicer than branded ones which are double the price.

The ballad of Lidl and Aldi if you haven’t seen it..

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