Shopping in Aldi

Loopy

Eviledna wrote: »

I get the majority of my shopping in Aldi. I bake with their ingredients. I clean with their solutions. But I always buy ariel excel gel for the clothes as I've found aldi stuff leaves a residue.

Recommended Aldi products:

Tinned PLUM tomatoes, not chopped, far superior for only 45c
Barrel Bread
Fruit of all types
Veggies of all types
Free range chicken breasts are massive for only 3.99
Free range chicken gorgeous for 5.99
Angus mince is lovely, as are the steaks, lean and tasty.
Dusted lemon sole, frozen, 2.49.
Specially selected carlos frozen pizzas kick goodfellas ass!
Sugar/eggs/oil/butter/nuts all for baking.
Cheese all lovely, especially the little chilli brie for ~1.50, yum with their wheaten crackers!
Pork products all great, rashers red pack smoked are lovely.
Jarred peppers and sundried tomatoes are great and so handy.
Spices and condiments are also brillo.
Baking paper, freezer bags, sandwich bags, tin foil all cheaper and great.
Pasta sauces especially arribiata.
Frozen fish and prawns great.
Dog food great (well so my little terrier says!:))
Bleach is bleach for 79c
Specially selected range usually fantastic at pretty much everything.

Thanks!
I buy a lot of this stuff and was just about to write out my shopping list.
Gonna print this now

corblimey

Tks, Eviledna for the list, there's a few on that list I need this weekend. So far, my experiment has gone well, I've found about half my list from last weekend was cheaper (and as good as, if not better) than Tesco.

For me, the problem with the fruit and veg in Aldi is that it's all prepacked, I don't need a kilo of carrots, I need 3. I don't need 5 stone of potato, I need half a dozen, so it looks like it'll be Tesco for them for the moment. Also, there's a few branded items I just can't do without, mccain oven chips and doritos.

But so far, so good. Another few shops like this and I should be able to afford biscuits again

BTW, I agree on the steak, although it does turn out more expensive than the cuts I was getting in Tesco, it's worth the extra few pennies

Honey-ec

corblimey wrote: »

there's a few branded items I just can't do without, mccain oven chips and doritos.

Seriously, the Aldi tortilla chips are just as good as Doritos, give them a go. And I will admit that I'm not the world's biggest chip eater, but Aldi's oven chips are lovely too - they even do a "Specially Selected" version, which is their equivalent of Tesco Finest.

And to the poster who asked if Aldi do hummous - they do, but like most commercial versions, it's not great. Instead, just buy yourself the ingredients (they carry everything you need) and make your own. It takes about three minutes and it's so, so worth it.

curly from cork

I agree with the tortilla chips and frozen chips recommendations , or your money back !! :)

nesbitt

This is my Lidl good buys...:)

All veg especially their organic range great quality and value.
Porcini mushrooms (dried) 1.49
Strawberries always 1.99
Blueberries
Lemons bag of 3 @ .59c
Limes bag of 3 @ .79c

Dairy

Creme Fresh (spelling) excellent...
Mozzarella grated by the bag for pizza @ 1.49
Mozzarella (ball) @ 0.99c
Edam/Gouda sliced
Champion Butter @ 1.95
Whipping cream btl with screw top
Double cream btl with screw top
Greek Yogurt (lovely) 1L tub! think its 2 euro
Fruit puree yogurt - grand
Vanilla yogurt - grand
Natural yogurt @ 0.69c? - fab

Chilled cooked meat

Salami with black pepper sliced 0.99c
Chorizo sliced
Chorizo cooking sausage v. good
Premium cooked ham (Dulano) large pack for around 3euro
Dry cured back bacon rashers
Dry cured streaky bacon rashers
Irish Sausages (okay) not loaded with fat or too peppery

Chilled Meat all Bord Bia approved

Chicken Drumsticks - grand
Chicken Thighs - grand
Lean mince Beef okay but prefers butchers

Bakery (baked on premises in my local Lidl)

Fresh baked traditional cob - delicious @1.49
Pastries - yum


Other

Noodles
Organic Pasta
Pasta Sauce
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (from Lucca in Italy) excellent
Cream Flour
Self Raising Flour
All baking items -, sugars, nuts, dried fruits etc. - great value
Golden Syrup
Jams - 50% fruit reduced sugar - yum @99c
Chocolate so cheap and lovely for eating and baking
Kids treats/sweets

Bin bags, great quality
cling film
freezer bags - great quality
tin foil

At this stage apart from my weekly butchers shop its Lidl for practically everything except certain favourites I buy in Superquinn as I said earlier in this thread. Cannot give up my Maldon sea salt flakes:) That type of thing...

Anyway for someone like myself who hates the grocery shopping but loves the cooking/eating I have become more than savvy at saving my few bob!:)