I have just done my first Aldi shop - I feel like i have arrived!

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So normally shop at tesco but so many people say how they save £££s by shopping at aldi! I am a very frugal shopper we are skint so tend to buy own label/everyday value stuff. I am that much of a geek/tightwad that i came home and did an online "shop" from tesco for the same products - we saved £12!! So what would have been £62 for a weekly shop, was £50!! Not the £30 that friends have boasted but i think they spend more than we do anyway. Also, a tesco shop = 1 hour feelng rushed because we do it when DD is at an activity. Aldi = half an hour AND I think that i saved more than £12 because there is less "stuff" to be tempted by on the shelves, so its just essentials. There were a few things i couldnt get like cous cous/quinoa and fruit teas poncey middle class shite but can get these locally and don't buy every week anyway.

I'm converted - more by the time saving than anything else.

great stuff, aldi is brilliant.
Unfortunately, though, you've arrived in aibu rather than chat.

Well done.
I don't think I've ever spent more than £30. I went yesterday and had a cart load of basics, £27 then off to Iceland ton more veg, bread, fast chicken pieces £11 and Asda for anything not found in the other two £20 thats for two weeks shopping, next will be a small fresh fruit, milk, bread shop.

I managed to spend 90 in Aldi for the first time last week - got so much food.

My trolley was overflowing with veg, meat and soft drinks plus rest of weekly shop and spent £74!!! I love aldi. I do need to shop elsewhere once in a while as it gets too boring, but I hate the big supermarkets now.

I find Iceland fab for stocking up on icelolly in the summer £10 and the bottom shelve of the freezer is full of magnums, calippos, fans etc.

A good size free range chicken is only £4.99 in Aldi and they cost a fortune in the big supermarkets (if they have any).

What do you think YABU about?

oops - I thought i had posted in chat!

id ask for it to be moved but i don't think its worth taking up MNHQ time wth it - its hardly a contentious issue , or is it..............

We've got one of those free range chickens for dinner. Complete with the chilled potato gratin. Can't wait yum yum

That potato gratin is lovely, I will happily eat a plateful of that on its own!

I did a huge shop on friday and it was £70, it would've been well over £100 in Tesco. LOVE Aldi

Anyone else noticed that Tesco and Sainsburys have started reducing the prices of a lot of goods to match Aldi. They both have cut the price of their brocolli to 49p in Tesco and 69p in Sainsburys, both used to be £1. Lots of other things have gone down too so they must be noticing that a lot of people have switched to Aldi/Lidl/99p store. Makes sense because Tesco were ridiculously priced and the quality was not fantastic. Why pay £££ for the same product when you can go to Aldi and get it for half the price!?

I didn't see the free range chicken :(

I did a big shop in Aldi a few weeks ago and it cost £75; the same in Tesco is easily over £100. Having said that, we pay more for food in the UK, than in Europe. I bought a load of salami, snacks and beer in a Lidl in Berlin and it cost 16 euros, the beer was 65 cents (!) a bottle.

Yes vitaminz I have noticed this too. Our local shop is a morrisons and they've slashed prices on veg and other stuff. Cucumber were nearly £1 and now they're only 49p.

Aldi do sell fruit teabags. Just one variety of course. Near normal tea and coffee.

The mirror newspaper does a £5 off a£45 spend on the last Thursday of every month (you've just missed it). Plus money off vouchers for certain items - it's a random selection, but I bought some packet risotto, which was reduced to 50p and the children enjoyed it.

The vouchers last for a week, so some people buy two copies of the paper and use the second voucher the following Thursday.

There is currently no convenient Aldi near us, but one is opening in October. Very noticeable that the local Tesco, just a mile or so from where it will be, has now started frantically reducing prices and stocking even more of the everyday value items. They have also increased the size of the area where they reduce prices at the end of the day for short-dated stuff, and have added one for fruit and veg.

I too have noticed the reduction in price of things like broccoli to 49p. Plenty of other reductions too.

I've been shopping at Aldi's for 5 years, saving around £40 a week. So by my calculations (ok, the calculator's), that's a whopping saving of £10,400 which is a whole car!!!

Dh brought pink grapefruit back from Aldi today. Absolutely delicious - better than any I've had from elsewhere.

I nearly sent him back for more but it's a bit of a drive.

I love it.

Just wish I could bloody move around the aisle without a trolley traffic jam.

Love aldi yoghurts!

thanks chanie I do my shop every Thursday and hadn't even thought of buying TWO papers, thank god for this place

We just had the frozen raspberry brûlée cheesecake after dinner and it was lovely. Less than £2 as well.

I love the conserve. It will be lucky to last till Friday!