Aldi/Lidl Bores

[sassytheFIRST]

I just can't cope any more with my delightful PILs and their Aldi-Love. Eevery time I see them, they tell me what they've bought recently, how much it cost, when they went...which then spirals into a monologue about every blessed thing they have ever purchased there. It's getting to the point where I don't even want to say Thanks if they have made me a coffee, or offered me a biscuit...and as for Sunday Lunch? Never again.

Disclaimer No1:- LIGHT-HEARTED thread

Disclaimer No2:- In NO WAY sneering at people who are skint and have to shop in such places (did it myself for a couple of years when I wasn't working); nor those who choose to. Just those who go on and on endlessly about their latest bargains.

Better a LIDL bore than an EXTRME COUPONING wierdo.

Seriously, this amazingly strange programme popped up on the telly. I was boggle eyed at how much faux "tension", obsession and general oddness they managed to extract from....spending fucking hours in a bloody supermarket.

We should thank our lucky stars this is mumsnet not momsnet or the LIDL bores would be small potatos indeed.

I like LIDL. They have "forrin food" weeks, and sometime it's British week, where I go mad and buy things I never ate when I actually lived in England. Things with tartan and crowns on them

But I get cross when people go on about ALDI, cos they have studiously ignored all my pleading emails about expanding their european presence and coming here too. I even found the perfect empty shop for them in my nearest town.

Bastards.

Am not skintight but discovered aldi a month ago and won't look back. Many products better than supermarkets. Promise I won't brag though ;)

Meant to read skint....predictive text again

One word. Lacura.

Telling my Mother In Law that the ingredients for the food I have placed in front of her came from Lidl is one of the few pleasures left to me in life.

She is a snob and Waitrose bore and watching her little face screw up with distaste is worth every bit of extra effort that shopping there entails.

Plus the bargains..I save looking at their 'what to buy from us next week' leaflet as a treat. Then pass it on to my mate as a pleasure shared is a pleasure doubled...

oh on the subject of aldi hey sell huge cookies fecking FILLED with nuttella stuff.

Ave died and gone to heaven I think.

99p btw

Oh and their fake quavers (99p for 10 bags ) are amazing.

As is their (£3.49 ) aberdeen angus steak mince.

I got a jar of manuka honey factor 10+ from Aldi for only £3.99!!

In France and Germany Aldi's and Lidl's are just considered supermarkets. There is no snobbery there on these types of shops.
We aren't skint in my household but I shop at Aldi. For the things I can't get from there I go to Asda. I don't give a monkeys chuff what anyone thinks of me.
And yes I can be an Aldi bore too.

Oh and the own brand bars of chocolate with almonds are to die for!
As is the ice cream!

I fear I am both an Aldi bore AND a Witherspoons one (as referenced by Celticlassie.) In my defence I used to be a Manager for Aldi so know where all the food comes from (i.e exactly the same producers as the expensive branded stuff in other supermarkets...) so at least I am informed Aldi bore. And when I found out I could have an eggs benedict brunch with decent quality coffee from Witherspoons for about £2.00 I think I may have posted it on MN. There is obviously no hope for me....

I love Aldi and Lidl!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aldi recently opened up near me and I did my first ever Aldi weekly shop there yesterday. Couldn't get porridge oats or dishwasher salt though.

Dishwasher salt is on special offer in the centre aisle at the moment. 79p

Aldi stuff is great, in my experience. So many people go there just for one or two things, but hey'd be better off buying everything they can get in Aldi and only growing elsewhere for the odd item they don't sell.

Honestly, the cereals, chocolate, sliced bread (the posh one with seeds), veg, meat (Aberdeen Angus fillet steak for £3.99!), beer/wine, it's all been excellent quality in my experience. And I spend £30 on a shop that would cost £50 in Tesco easily.

BTW, I hope I'm not a Aldi bore. I wouldn't raise the subject unless someone asked where I bought something, or started a thread about Aldi!

Thanks bumhead and notyummy!

6p a tin mushy peas !! 6p !! >