We can all agree Aldi have some good stuff but sometimes there’s some bad too. I’d like to hear about your favs and not so favs.

Don’t worry if it’s not food based. We will forgive you.

I’ll start a Coles/Woolworths post in the near future.

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    11 months ago

    I shop at aldi so I have a couple of vouches:

    Nutella knockoff is decent. it obviously tastes different to brand name, but it’s not bad or even worse imo. But it does go runny when melted, so on toast it has a tendency to go from a thick paste to closer to water (but still a bit more viscous). It doesn’t sog the bread, but does go everywhere if you use much

    The cheese is fine, although I don’t eat much and almost keeled over when I saw the price of it these days. Still more expensive at colesworth though.

    I don’t like their party pies but don’t mind the bigger ones. I don’t like any home brand sausage rolls I’ve tried, the pastry they all use tastes funky to me. But I like other quick snack foods they have like the tenders and such. The tuna is nice

    I find their strawberries are usually quite fresh. I don’t know if my local Coles is just garbage or what, but I feel like everytime I get any punnet berries from Coles there’s a few punnets with mild on them, and the ones without go moldy within a few days. Aldi is good for at least a week, and I’ve yet to see them go moldy, worst that’s happened is I forgot about a punnet in the back of the fridge for 2.5 weeks and they’d gone kind of slushy

    I also find their packaged produce like Ceasar salad and such as well as pasta salads and similar don’t last anywhere near as long as Coles and Woolies ones. perhaps my local aldi just doesn’t sell them fast enough, but I notice I can only find ones in aldi expiring within a few days, whereas Coles and Woolies are good for longer (particularly the pasta salads)

    The bog roll is fine, I was briefly spoiled with some quilton for a while and only thing I note from that is that the aldi one is slightly harder to tear at the little perforation line thing and needs a bit more effort, but not unmanageable. Mind you, for about 4.5 years all I had access to was cheap nasty sandpaper style crappy 1 plus garbage jumbo roll things, so anything else is a step up, no matter how cheap.

    I’ve used their deodorants before (the prince spray one), but I didn’t really like the smell. Smelt more chemically than name brand stuff. These days I just stick to the plain Rexona stuff which they also sell and isn’t much pricier. Their knockoff Panadol (“Headanol”) works fine, although I really struggle swallowing them because they’re very large and aren’t coated, so it dissolves the second it touches water (including your hands if they’re sweaty). But it’s also literally 80 cents for a 20 pack so you get what you pay for

    I haven’t tried their face creams but I might see if they have one next time I go there. I’ve been paying like 15 bucks for one from Woolies (which is probably cheap, seeing as all other face care and beauty stuff seems to be expensive as shit). But it is another trip to do every fortnight, so even if it’s not much cheaper, if it works well it’s worth it just to save the extra trip