It’s about time Aldi got a look in on CheapEats. Their Super6 offer sees six selected fruits and vegetables priced at just 39c each. At the moment, this includes mangoes, kiwis, Irish red apples, scallions, salad potatoes, and turnips. This is a very tempting offer.
I still haven’t tried Aldi. Is it much the same as Lidl? Is there any substantial difference that would encourage you to go for one over the other?
Thursday 8 January, 2009 at 5:32 pm
My personal preference for a regular shop is Aldi, but Lidl have stuff in that Aldi does not so I go there too every now and again – it is a question of taste and try! I shop at Aldi Newlands Cross – lovely light, airy, clean store, and their more perishable fruit and veg is kept refrigerated – plus the staff there are very pleasant indeed. Lidl always strikes me as being a very dark store – a bit bargain basement. I go to Aldi every Thursday as that is also the day for their special buys so they seem to have more/fresh stock of everything – I was in today and bought the mango, salad potatoes and kiwis all for 39 cents each and all top quality. I used to do all my shopping at Dunnes each week but since January last year I split the shop between Aldi and Dunnes – Aldi for most things and Dunnes for the few things you cannot get at Aldi – I reckon I save on average at least 70 euro every week this way. Aldi don’t have a large range of products, but most of what they have are very good – our regular buys include breakfast cereals at about half the branded price, cleaning products, toilet and kitchen rolls, fruit and vegetables including lovely huge sweet potates for 89 cents each, dried and fresh pasta, basmati rice, tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, garlic bread at 79 cent for a single baguette, pizzas (frozen and fresh but I usually buy the fresh which are top class and freeze them myself), lasagne, a frozen gorgonzola and spinach penne that you heat up with milk that my 11 year old daughter adores, diet coke at 49 cents for 2 litres that my teenagers find a perfectly acceptable replacement for brand name varieties which are currently retailing at 2.09, chocolate – 79 cents for a 100 gram bar of Hazelnut Heaven milk chocolate and then they have several “gourmet” types including on occasion 80% cocoa which is brill for cooking, cheeses both garden variety (teenagers for toasted sandwiches) and more acquired taste (hubby and me!), cooked meats, rashers, a box of 8 sachets of dog food for 5.29 which my two mutts say is very nice, various copies of brand name biscuits for cents (back to the teenagers and their mates!). I have one friend who does not like shopping at Aldi or Lidl because of the whole thing of putting groceries up on the conveyor then back in the trolley and then packing them yourself away from the checkout, which adds maybe 10 minutes of extra work but the way I look at that is I am “gaining” at least 70 euro for that extra 10 minutes plus another 45 minutes or so for the “second shop” at Dunnes – not a bad rate of “pay” 🙂
Friday 9 January, 2009 at 11:33 am
The super6 are great, especially with the new price reduction (they were 69c or 79c up to last week). One word of advice those, the scallions this week are in mass plastic packaging in the store for a reason – i suspect they were packaged in a “protective environment” a bit like salad leaves – because about 24 hours after I bought them fresh they were completely wilted. Unusual for Aldi, but worth knowing all the same.