What do you buy from Aldi?

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What’s worth getting? Especially as part of a general shop

The new buffalo sauce flavoured peanuts are yum. Their diet Lilt is good. Their nicer range of beef joints are really good value

I get absolutely everything from Aldi. I don't go anywhere else at all.

And to be fair to @Zimunya there are some aldis are better than others. I deliberately go to a specific one because the shopping experience is better.

I switched from Sainsbury's to Aldi a while ago now, and I buy most of our shop there. Anything I can't get, I drive round the corner to Sainsbury's.

Sadly our cats won't eat Aldi cat food - bloody snobs! - and I buy Diet Coke at Sainsbury's as it's always on offer/much cheaper. Some more esoteric stuff isn't available at Aldi, e.g. things like harissa paste or less everyday herbs/spices, or specific stuff for baking, e.g. ground almonds or different dried fruits.

Their wine range is really good, and their gins are excellent, as well as being really good value. Although I don't buy flavoured gins that often, this one is lovely - actually nicer than Tanqueray's Sevilla gin.

The washing non bio stuff is fine and what i use. No idea whether it's as good as persil tho, cos I've never used persil.

And I realise I've told a lie, I don't buy everything in aldi. I specifically get Flash bathroom spray elsewhere because I think the aldi one is crap.

I love all their snacky foods especially for kids! Such a good price.

Rice cakes
Raisins
Cereal bars
Crackers
Porridge/ cereal

I always stock up on Protein yoghurts for my breakfasts/ snacks.

Size 7 pull ups.
Frozen garlic bread with cheese.

Wow, just wow!

their hot cloth cleansers are lovely and last ages

Ooh loads of stuff...

The torchon ham is so much nicer than any prepackaged ham I've found in shops.
The split yoghurts are as good as muller.
Cheese
There was a £3.99 Pinot which I loved. It might be £4.19 now and I might have a shitty taste for wine but I always get a bottle if they have it in. The blush one is nice too.
I tend to buy frozen stuff for the kids. The chicken dippers have a higher % of chicken than Birds Eye and taste nicer. Fish fingers are good. They do a lovely frozen chicken burger which has a crunchy outside on it, they are great to have in.
Ice creams are good, especially the knock off little moons.
Bakery section is good, we tend to buy wraps and croissants and they're always fresh.
The knock off millicano coffee is good.

I shop elsewhere for fruit and most veg now unless I know it'll be eaten quickly but can easily do a full shop there. All versions of most things tend to be really decent quality.

Totally agree, I forgot those on my original list but it's great. Just rub over your face and clean off with a warm flannel. I always buy a couple when I see it in stock as they're not always available but they do last for ages.

I’ve started shopping at Aldi recently as there’s a branch right by DD’s nursery. I love their wooden toys and I have stocked up for Christmas. I’m impressed by their Belgian hot chocolate stirrers, their pink clay mask dupe and thier cheese. Not so taken by their Jaffa cakes though, they taste very odd!

Peppers/artichokes etc in oil, half the price of Waitrose.

Rosemary crackers

Part baked sourdough bread.
Fruit cider.

Most things are equally good between Aldi and Lidl.

Sauces and jarred items, cleaning products, snacks. Their fruit and veg don't last, nothing special in freezer section. Meat is good, especially picnic and snacky bits.

The Freeman's Bay sauvignon blanc is excellent glugging wine.
The salt crackers (also salt & pepper ones & rosemary ones) are very morish.

Our local Morrisons is way more of a high risk shopping experience than Aldi 😱😂

Their chicken jalfrezi and butter chicken curries for 2 are fantastic and cost £3.80. The sauces are rich and delicious, as good as our local takeaway which charges £9.50. We’ve stopped buying the extra special crisps because they are so moreish.

Avocados, salad bags.
I love their 'deli' selection, olives, sun-dried tomatoes.
Their hummus is lovely-I've stopped making my own as I cannot get it as nice.
Cream crackers, tinned tomatoes, great vegan range too.

I go to the other supermarkets for bits to top up with but I've no problem at all with any aldi stuff.

Refrigerated salmon fish cakes (either the plain ones or ones with hollandaise sauce in the middle, grated cheese, tuna pasta bake ready meal for when I cba, stir in tomato and mascarpone sauce jar, mini hash brown waffles, frozen vegan chicken kievs, instant katsu rice pots, Tropicana 'dupe' juice from the fridge. Lots more too x

Jo Malone candle and other special buy beauty dupes have all been great when I manage to get my hands on them as they're very in demand

They do pineapple fizzy sweets that are great

I always get candles. The Hotel range are good

I do the majority of my weekly shop in Aldi. The highlights I’d recommend:

Ballycastle (much cheaper version of Baileys)
Austins (much cheaper version of Pimms)
Garlic pizza dip (bigger, tastier and cheaper than Domino’s)
Any Moser Roth chocolate
Chocolate covered Lebuchken hearts (Christmas range)

Nothing. Tried it. Didn't like it.

Everything, but off the top of my head, things that are better than the branded version are all the chocolate, especially their fruit and nut bar and their fake twines, mars bars, snickers and milky ways. Nordpack butter, protein mousse, yoghurt and shakes, Langhams dog food trays (well I haven’t tried these personally but my dog seems happy with them!), garlic and cheese pizza breads and DS loves their mango sorbet but unfortunately that seems to be seasonal.

All of it except the light mayo and the pack of cheap croissants, the pricey pack of 4 croissants are lovely but the cheaper pack of more are seriously nasty!!