Things to look out for in Lidl and Aldi

[maomao]

Aldi have messed with their peanut butter again.
The shelves were stuffed with the palm oil version.
There was also a load of new recipe "wholenut" that looked rather light in colour and also turned out to contain palm oil.
So once more I have to resist the temptation of having a whole kilo of wholenut crunchy in the house

The big plastic tubs are great. Last me a month and 100% peanut.

 

[gentlegreen]

The big plastic tubs are great. Last me a month and 100% peanut.

You clearly have better self control than me...
My last dietary crime was mixing it with cranberry sauce which thankfully I forgot to buy this time ...

 

[blossie33]

The middle of Lidl in the news again

Men buy more from Lidl's middle aisle of unusual stock, says boss

Ryan McDonnell said the middle of Lidl had a “big male following”.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[High Voltage]

I'm a sucker for "luxury" stollen

But I won't be getting this again



You get 10 little squares of very average stollen

 

[trabuquera]

Spatzle / spaetzle (sorry no umlaut) - German egg pasta, absolutely delicious in veg soup or even just in a plain broth - quite firm and interestingly chewy as long as you don't overboil them. Bought as a cheap alternative to posh Italian egg pasta and actually like these more:

 

[Idaho]

Got this the other day and it was excellent:

Georgian Bediani Saperavi - | Lidl UK

Georgian Bediani Saperavi - Region: Georgia Grade: Full-bodied At Lidl UK

www.lidl.co.uk

Went back a few days later to get more but it'd sold out. Keep meaning to check again.

 

[klang]

Spatzle / spaetzle (sorry no umlaut) - German egg pasta, absolutely delicious in veg soup or even just in a plain broth - quite firm and interestingly chewy as long as you don't overboil them. Bought as a cheap alternative to posh Italian egg pasta and actually like these more:

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once boiled chuck in the pan with fried onions and alpine cheese eg gruyere

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Got this the other day and it was excellent:

Georgian Bediani Saperavi - | Lidl UK

Georgian Bediani Saperavi - Region: Georgia Grade: Full-bodied At Lidl UK

www.lidl.co.uk

Went back a few days later to get more but it'd sold out. Keep meaning to check again.

Aldi's doing an Australian Saperavi for a tenner at the moment, well, £9.99 or 9.95 or something like that.

I thought I'd try it because I had a really lovely Georgian Saperavi a couple of months ago in an independent wine bar/shop and bought a bottle to take home, which was about £19.99, iirc.

I wouldn't bother with Aldi's Australian Saperavi, save your money, save up, and buy one bottle of nice Georgian Saperavi (will try to find photo/details a d post later).

Will also look out for the Lidl Georgian Saperavi thanks.

 

[Epona]

Apparently it's Greek Week in Lidl from next Thursday, but there's no retsina shown on the website.

The main reason I go to Lidl for Greek Week is to stock up on Retsina - it's very difficult to get anything other than the OK but not superb (and really not very resiny) Kourtaki in shops here, and the Lidl 50cl pop-cap bottles of Retsina are far superior and a good price.
So if they don't have any this time round, I'm going to be a bit disgruntled.

 

[pogofish]

The chocolate cronuts are back in Lidl this week.

 

[High Voltage]

Mrs Voltz returned home from a trip to our local Aldi clutching the first sparkling shiraz of the season. Always a bit of a tense moment when it was opened that evening as taste has varied over the years. Glad to report that this years is up to snuff

 

[High Voltage]

And ever closer looms the opening of our completely rebuilt and enlarged Lidl (still going to be bloody February '25 mind) that's over a year of a 15-20 mile round trip, basically negating all savings

 

[TopCat]

Massive rearrangement of stock in my Lidl. Will take a while to find everything. More self service tills and they now have the scan your receipt thing. Bloke paid and was kicking off last night.

 

[existentialist]

 

[gentlegreen]

I haven't looked to see if the Aldi mince pies are vegan, but I can't be trusted near such things ..
Now that I have my microwave working again, all sorts of horrors are an option.
I had a baked potato yesterday
Those gigantic eating apples Aldi sell have been somewhat under-ripe, but they nuke very nicely - no sugar needed - a bit of unsweetened soy poured in ... perhaps I will end up succumbing to a jar of vegan mincemeat ...

 

[existentialist]

I haven't looked to see if the Aldi mince pies are vegan, but I can't be trusted near such things .

I resemble that remark. At some point, I will buy a box of minced pies, in the certain knowledge that it will last no more than 24-48 hours.

 

[Elpenor]

Apparently it's Greek Week in Lidl from next Thursday, but there's no retsina shown on the website.

The main reason I go to Lidl for Greek Week is to stock up on Retsina - it's very difficult to get anything other than the OK but not superb (and really not very resiny) Kourtaki in shops here, and the Lidl 50cl pop-cap bottles of Retsina are far superior and a good price.
So if they don't have any this time round, I'm going to be a bit disgruntled.

I was in a Lidl today and went down the aisle with the Greek stuff. Didn’t see any Retsina, not totally sure what it looks like but certainly the only stuff in bottles was Mythos and olive oil.

 

[TopCat]

Olive oil is so expensive even in Lidl.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Read about that. Gone up by one of the biggest % 37 i think after bad harvest.

 

[quiet guy]

In the interests of product testing for the collective, I have bought and tried the Aldi All Butter Almond mince pies and I approve. Bit pricy at £2.59 for 6 but wanted to try a different flavour to the normal ones and the Stollen bites crack.

 

[maomao]

The chocolate cronuts are back in Lidl this week.

Just had one of these and it was absolutely terrible. The cronut itself was merely disappointing, managing to lack both the flaky sweetness of a croissant and the fried doughiness of a donut but the chocolate icing was offensively bad. If it hadn't been brown I wouldn't have known it was supposed to be chocolate flavored and if it hadn't been on a cronut I would have assumed it was plasticine. 79p well and truly wasted.