Aldi food?

[Amaunet]

I too love Aldi (even their Chicken Kiev - yum - we have them regularly). Their cereal, biscuits, staples, margerine etc are all excellent. You just don't have a choice between brands and they are Aldi only brands so not things you would recognise.

[Tinks]

I've always found Aldi products to be great quality.

[Emma1979]

give it a shot, you'll soon work out what products you like and what you'd rather go to Coles for... they have yummy biscuits.... you will save a fortune, particularly on stuff like detergents, dishwashing powder, glad wrap, bin liners etc etc... all the boring stuff.

[Astrid]

Depends on what you are getting. I was not impressed with their cheaper biscuits (scotch finger etc), but like their premium ones (melting moments are to die for). Their rice crackers are good and for the moment their seaweed ones are the only ones without MSG. I always double check the ingredients though, as I have seen some change. Their cream cheese is fantastic value.

[~*Niadalla*~]

We get all of our food products from Aldi. I find the quality is pretty darn good.... alot better than the generic supermarket brands.

[Indadhanu]

So what about the preseratives? I'm intolerant to MSG (and fairly intolerable when i eat it to LOL) so have to watch most things... I have only eaten two things from Aldi, a friend offered them to me, and I did notice a lot of preservatives (might have been because it was fairly processed so ) but I saw reference to preservatives on here the other day so it got me thinking is it an Aldi thing...?

[Phteven]

I've found that Aldi food is really full of nasty numbers. I don't bother going because I still have to go to the other shops to get additive free food.
BTW you can find more about additives here. I've given the thread a little bump - it has all the numbers you need to avoid in it.

[Inertia]

I've found that Aldi food is really full of nasty numbers. I don't bother going because I still have to go to the other shops to get additive free food.
BTW you can find more about additives here. I've given the thread a little bump - it has all the numbers you need to avoid in it.

Yeah, we used to exclusive Aldi, but there are still some products we use from Aldi that are numbers free. Our shopping is a bit all over the place, but they are worth the trip price wise for the nasty free stuff.

[Astrid]

Preservatives is something that you just need to check product by product. I can't get apple juice and other things like that. So I do find it a bit limiting. I tend to go there only when I need nappies or see a good special on (had a great deal on bread mix once) and then I will pick on the stuff we like.

[Indadhanu]

Fair enough... might go along and just have a look at their labels before I plan to buy anything from there. Thanks everyone

[Marlene]

I think Aldi's food is fantastic quality (and I am VERY fussy about my food).

[Bloom]

Yep, I've been generally happy with Aldi quality. For instance their diced tomatos in a can have lots of diced tomato in the can, not a few tomato bits floating in juice like other cheap brands can sometimes be. Same with their canned corn and kidney beans. Their pesto is also good.

We generally go to Aldi once every 2-3 months and stock up on pantry staples (i.e. we buy 36 cans of tomatoes!). It really saves on the grocery bills for us.