Meat from Aldi is always off

[samuelclemens]

Has anyone else found that meat bought from Aldi is frequently off despite being well within the date shown?

I bought some chicken breasts from there and opened them for cooking and they smelt horrible so ended up getting chucked.

It’s happened before so I’ve given up buying fresh stuff from them.

I no longer shop at Aldi or Lidl. Their meat and fruit and veg are shocking, a complete waste of money.

I now shop online at Asda and have done for the last 18 months, I’m never disappointed with the quality and even their replacement products are as near as the original, I have no complaints.

I’m a regular at Aldi and I’ve never had any issues with their meats. Usually tasty, tender & lip smacking good!

I am always a bit baffled by these threads- it's like supermarket one up manship. Can people not accept that people shop where they like pertinent to their particular situation.

I don't personally shop at Aldi or Lidl as I did enough of it to last me a lifetime in Denmark. It's not even so much the quality (although I did find it very mixed) as the fact I find them mega depressing places to shop - I'm not loaded but not price conscious enough if I'm honest for it to matter if I spend £20 a week more in M&S or Waitrose or sainsburys and with only 2 of us at home I don't need to pile the house full of stuff I'm not keen on because it's cheap- I do see why others shop there and I did a fair bit in Denmark, partly through less choice on the doorstep. Part of it is how you shop too- I buy little that isn't strictly for meals, no ice creams, no snacks , no cakes, no stuff for pack lunches - and some of it is down to how good the particular branches are- standards seem to vary wildly. I did go to a very good (large, clean and extremely new) Aldi in Windsor (on outskirts) whereas the Lidl here in Bath is depressingly crap

Where I live I find the Aldi is generally better quality than Tesco or Asda. I don’t tend to buy meat from Asda as the quality is often very poor. Aldi is some of the best.

Nope, never had this. It’s most bizarre - Aldi is one of the largest supermarket chains across Europe but for some reason there are numerous posters on MN who seem to have stumbled across the one that only sells rotten meat and veg that’s been packaged directly from the local council’s food waste bins.

I get fillet steak ( Irish beef ) from Aldi and it's delicious .
But I won't buy soft fruit from there again.

Exactly, I don't understand why people are getting defensive, we all have different experiences

Because it always seems to be Aldi. Someone upthread said it’s as if the other major supermarkets sponsor these regular ‘more rotten meat and veg at Aldi’ posts and it’s true.

Their wine is never off....

That’s interesting about packaging potentially causing the smell. Maybe I should have waited but the smell was eggy 🤢 So off-putting.

Looks like mixed experiences. I do still love Aldi for cleaning stuff and toiletries which always works out a heck of a lot cheaper than elsewhere. But I think I’ll be getting meat and fruit/veg from another shop.

Lol @Daisyislazy

The ALDI we shop in is a newish building and it is clean and bright inside. The quality of the vegetables is no better than the vegetables we have bought from the other ALDI stores in our area which are generally dirty with fridges that look as if they are never cleaned and fresh fruit is placed on top of older rotten fruit.
I bought a punnet of raspberries from ALDI and it caused an infestation of fruit flies in my kitchen which were a bugger to get rid of.

I find ALDI is OK for some things but not others. You have to get to know the shop in order to know what to avoid buying.

I shop at ALDI and ASDA or ALDI and Sainsbury's. I buy the fruit and veg and fresh things like fish and chicken from the other two. I do buy potatoes from ALDI though as they are always OK. You just have to inspect everything very carefully to get good value from your ALDI shop

I'm not defensive. I just find it completely baffling that nobody appears to report this rotten meat to Trading Standards. Surely you would, rather than allowing someone less vigilant to get food poisoning? And also- I suspect snobbery, which I hate.
Absolutely delicious macaron, by the way. Imagine. Poor people eating macaron. The very idea.

Not in my experience either, Mumsnet snobbery going on here.

My new Aldi is fabulous. Great value, now has a great range without overwhelming choice, fabulously efficient AND cheery staff meaning that I get a big weekly shop and am out in 30 minutes! 😁

No. 20+ years shopping in Aldi and i must be super lucky as I see posts like this daily on MN and haven’t experienced any off nest or fruit causing pest infestations. Makes you wonder

I've been an Aldi customer for a few years now and I've never had any issues with