Bebelicious - 22 March 2008 09:16 AM

Renquist - 20 March 2008 07:01 PM

I’ll be living off of 17p noodles from Aldi until payday.

Thank God for Aldi!!!  I can get a whole box of groceries for 10 bucks.

Aldi lets me live like a prince on a budget. Where else can I get pheasant and armagnac pate for 99p?

Ah, so is Aldi a grocery store?  Somehow I was under the impression that it was a brand....

Aldi is a supermarket of sorts that prides itself on ridiculously low prices. They tend to sell brands that you don’t really see much of (firkins of DAB beer, Highlander crisps, Scottish Lord whisky) and work on a kind of rotational basis for some items- deals they expect not to last long are published in a little catalogue each week, things like PCs, laptops, DIY equipment.

Only shop you can go into and buy spanners, a sledgehammer, cheese, a firkin of beer, crisps, a goose, lasagne, noodles, a golf gloves, Ferrero Rocher and fortune cookies all at once.

And for abut £20.

WOW! I want one!  I thought Wal-Mart had everything at the best prices, but now I see that I have been missing out!

There are Aldis in the U.S. I am not fan (I am not by any means a fanatic about buying only brand-name products, but I do like to have at least HEARD of the brands, and while you do find brands you’ve heard of at Aldi, you can’t count on it), but I can understand the appeal.

There aren’t any Aldis in this part of the country Crafty, I miss it.  That is where we did most of our shopping in Missouri.

MadCarlotta - 24 March 2008 10:36 AM

You can make your own wipes too if you are so inclined

I have always wanted to try that…

I found two pairs of diaper pins!!  And a handful of cloth diapers with velcro closures that my mom gave me after Jocelynn was born.    Anicah is actually using a cloth diaper with a pad in it right now...and it’s totally working!!

I went to Lidl today…

Bag of red onions
Bag of oven chips
A steak
Three peppers
15 yoghurts (Matt likes yoghurts)
Six oven-ready potato dishes (handy for when you can’t be bothered)
Plaice fillets with feta and spinach
Two jars of pesto
A whole chorizo
Box of wafer-thin salami
Box of tortellini
Bottle of Bordeaux

All for under £20. Which is not bad, and will feed us for nearly a week.
Not that I recognise any of the brand names…

Boo - 25 March 2008 10:32 AM

I went to Lidl today…

Bag of red onions
Bag of oven chips
A steak
Three peppers
15 yoghurts (Matt likes yoghurts)
Six oven-ready potato dishes (handy for when you can’t be bothered)
Plaice fillets with feta and spinach
Two jars of pesto
A whole chorizo
Box of wafer-thin salami
Box of tortellini
Bottle of Bordeaux

All for under £20. Which is not bad, and will feed us for nearly a week.
Not that I recognise any of the brand names…

There’s a Lidl quite close by, but it’s a further walk than the Aldi. But Lidl sells fancy things like venison and pheasant (according to a girl in work who lives near it and is a regular shopper) for the same cheap Lidl prices.

I shall have to nip up there one day with the car and buy a load of fine food.

Better take all those gingies back to the newsagent first. Aldi and Lidl are the only places you can buy your week’s shopping with Irn-Bru bottles

Tit-for-tat - Having heard you wax lyrical about Aldi, I’ve been thinking that we have to find one and investigate…

BTW, Lidl sell these yoghurts that are just like Muller fruit corners, but nicer. And they cost about half the price.

My pal and I, having equated one morning over a roll and sausage that you can get 14 lorne sausage for £1.15 and 14 rolls for about £1.70, and a roll and sausage sells for about £1.20, we could sells rolls and sausage outside Uni in the morning for £1 each and turn one hell of a profit.

He has no exams, and I have about 2 so we might get a load of burgers and a cheap BBQ and set up outside the big exams