Things to look out for in Lidl and Aldi

[friendofdorothy]

Lidl had electrical timers today - 2 or one fancy digital one for £3.99.

I had a chat with the check out staff - very happy about the living wage.

 

[High Voltage]

Greenvale spreadable butter - available in Aldi - 500g tub "around" 90p

Lurpak "similar" same size tub - also from Aldi - £3.20'odd

Now the Greenvale spread, probably, looks not the best of colours, but taste is excellent, you'll never mistake it for real butter, but for sandwiches and general "stuff" and ONLY 90p - it's well worth a punt

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Lidl is selling snails at the moment! Going to pass on that but lots of other nice things, lots of cheap cheeses

Lidls frozen stuff is shite. I had their snails about eight years ago. I still remember them utterly inedible. Made the mistake of buying frozen salmon a few weeks back . . . yuck!. The fresh salmon though is wonderful!!!.

 

[pogo 10]

Buy all my fruit and veg from lidl, proper tasty.

 

[Chz]

Greenvale spreadable butter - available in Aldi - 500g tub "around" 90p

Lurpak "similar" same size tub - also from Aldi - £3.20'odd

Now the Greenvale spread, probably, looks not the best of colours, but taste is excellent, you'll never mistake it for real butter, but for sandwiches and general "stuff" and ONLY 90p - it's well worth a punt

The difference in actual butter content is quite striking though. Lurpack is 64% butter, Greenvale is... less (can't remember, and can't find it online). It's made up for by adding more salt.

That's not to say that Lurpack is worth 3x the price, but they're very definitely not the same thing. Now if you're talking real butter, then there's no sense paying extra for that.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Buy all my fruit and veg from lidl, proper tasty.

It's not bad, but my local market is a bit cheaper and has a better selection. Having said that if I am making a Lidl trip (like today) I don't bother with the market.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Got some nice munchie things in my Lidl shopping today, Polish turkey slices, two packs of peanuts one Marmite coated the other one Branston ,a massive jar of green olives, Welsh rarebit flavour crisps and a box of Polish chocolates with lemon mouse filling.

 

[moose]

Welsh rarebit flavour crisps

What??????

 

[two sheds]

The difference in actual butter content is quite striking though. Lurpack is 64% butter, Greenvale is... less (can't remember, and can't find it online). It's made up for by adding more salt.

That's not to say that Lurpack is worth 3x the price, but they're very definitely not the same thing. Now if you're talking real butter, then there's no sense paying extra for that.

So ... buy proper butter?

 

[dynamicbaddog]

What??????

bags of character

 

[moose]

Going to have to find a Lidl

 

[Mogden]

Going to have to find a Lidl

Also available from Approved Foods currently.

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[plurker]

Polish chocolates with lemon mouse filling.

They sound grim.

 

[rhod]

bags of character

Mmmmmmmmmm..cheese and coal dust!

 

[gentlegreen]

Blood Aldi is stuffed full of Xmas stuff now.
They should put it in the booze aisle where I only need to go once in a blue moon.

One mince pie and my diet will go out of the window.

 

[Chz]

Mmmmmmmmmm..cheese and coal dust!

I did find them to taste mostly of dust. Full stop. Very disappointing. Lidl usually has bags of Seabrook - much, much better.

 

[ViolentPanda]

bags of character

They are lovely.

 

[Fez909]

They sounds great and Real crisps have a good pedigree. Their jalapeno flavour are amazing and actually pretty spicy.

 

[wtfftw]

Ah. Chem and I were just talking about Real crisps. Trying to remember if they did the good jalapeño ones when faced with an empty roast ox flavour packet.

 

[wtfftw]

I'm going to have to look up all the flavours now.

 

[Fez909]

I'm going to have to look up all the flavours now.

They do a nice cheese one, too, IIRC.

 

[High Voltage]

The difference in actual butter content is quite striking though. Lurpack is 64% butter, Greenvale is...

43% - just checked - I'm surprised to be honest as it tastes quite like butter

And where as Lurpak spreadable has .9g of Salt

The Greenvale spreadable only has .12g of Salt

 

[izz]

They are lovely.

I want them.

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm not sure I can recommend the two for £12.99 "memory foam" chair pads in Aldi - even two of them weren't enough for my computer chair, so I picked up an ordinary cushion today for £5.99 to put on top - which seems to be the right combination...

 

[wtfftw]

I've got the robotic floor duster from lidl today. It's currently charging.

I also bought a bag of curly kale and completely ignored the Christmas gingerbread lebkuchen stuff.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Lidl socks - heavy cotton rich boot socks x 2 pairs only £2.49. They're a bit big as only in mens sizes, but buscador likes them

I've got the robotic floor duster from lidl today. It's currently charging.

I also bought a bag of curly kale and completely ignored the Christmas gingerbread lebkuchen stuff.

I saw those - can we look forward to picture of cat sitting on the robot?

 

[wtfftw]

It would have to be photoshopped but possibly.

 

[polly]

For anyone struggling with Stoptober, lidl currently has little Italian non alcoholic aperitif drinks, red and yellow. They're delicious, and because they come in a little bottle and taste kind of different, they make a good replacement for alcohol. Kind of.

 

[iona]

Are £15 boots from Lidl likely to be cold and leaky and fall apart or should they be ok? Anyone ever bought them?

 

[MrSki]

Are £15 boots from Lidl likely to be cold and leaky and fall apart or should they be ok? Anyone ever bought them?

Not bought the boots but their other workwear has been good. at £15 might be worth a punt.