Value Range foods compared

[jennyjj01]

Currently watching a 'Documentary' on Channel5
aldi-vs-lidl Which Tastes Better?
It's doing just a few comparisons of products including with Tesco and mainstream brands.
I wonder how much influence the compared retailers had over the reviews?

Anyhow....... Jenny's non-sponsored Review:-

Lidl is far ahead of ALDI on Value for Money. Both beat Tesco on VFM.
The Lidl loyalty card provides typically a free croissant or doughnut each week. This week a £2.99 tub of free blueberries. ALDI doesn't even have a loyalty scheme.

[jennyjj01]

Just a heads up on some current lidl bargains. Probably only for Lidl Plus app users.

Noted today that they have three varieties of 213g Nixe Tinned Wild Salmon reduced from £1.99 to £0.99 a can

OMG. Grossest product since Chappie dog food!

I just opened a tin of the Lidl's Nixe 'Wild Pink Salmon with Skin and Bones'

The title did not prepare me enough. . . And I'm not usually bothered by a bit of skin and bones.

OK. I know it's a matter of taste and we should expect to have to pluck out some spine bones, but this was like a junior fisherman's surgery kit.

I should have photographed it, but just wanted rid.
It was in date!

Three slices of salmon of decreasing size, as they'd chopped down through the carcass. The carcass looked and stank like it had died of old age and left to rot. All skin was grey and loose. The spines and long bones were soft but conspicuous. Removing them was hindered by their softness and the smell. Oh, boy, the smell!
The skin was dull grey/almost green. The flesh was grey like death.

If I had a cat, I wouldn't feed him this shite. You would have to be some sort of nutter to eat this.

Binned!

[pseudonym]

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OK. I know it's a matter of taste and we should expect to have to pluck out some spine bones, but this was like a junior fisherman's surgery kit.

You obviously never played "Operation, the mad Doctors Game from MB Games"

[jennyjj01]

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OK. I know it's a matter of taste and we should expect to have to pluck out some spine bones, but this was like a junior fisherman's surgery kit.

You obviously never played "Operation, the mad Doctors Game from MB Games"

LOL. I did indeed think of that game.
I took it out of the tin and started to take out the bones with a fork, as you do, but the feel of the skin and the smell put me right off.
Odd, 'cos I normally don't mind plucking a few bones out of tinned fish, and I quite like the silvery skin that usually features. Maybe if the pink salmon had been just a bit pink.

I'll dig out another can and take some photo's to illustrate. Lucky we can't upload smelly vision.

[jennyjj01]

Lidl have gone nuts on the cheap veg competition.
Spuds carrots parsnips sprouts shallots and more for 8p. Dehydrator will be busy.

Anddddd. Aldi also 8p. Some different products

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And now ASDA too. Looks to have been hurriedly done as a price match as the bags of spuds are both at 8p and full price in ASDA, depending on where you look.

Anyhow.... Shallots: Would you believe I've never tried them. Have some dehydrating, and will try to roast some or make gravy with some.
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[pseudonym]

Lidl have gone nuts on the cheap veg competition.
Spuds carrots parsnips sprouts shallots and more for 8p. Dehydrator will be busy.
Anddddd. Aldi also 8p. Some different products

[Edit]
And now ASDA too. Looks to have been hurriedly done as a price match as the bags of spuds are both at 8p and full price in ASDA, depending on where you look.

Anyhow.... Shallots: Would you believe I've never tried them. Have some dehydrating, and will try to roast some or make gravy with some.
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My dehydrator would be on overtime also at that price.

[GillyBee]

Shallots are great. Slightly milder and sweeter than onion they make great gravy and stir fries.
They can also be planted to multiply like garlic as long as they look really healthy. Tradition was to plant Boxing Day for harvest on the longest day.

[jennyjj01]

Shallots are great. Slightly milder and sweeter than onion they make great gravy and stir fries.
They can also be planted to multiply like garlic as long as they look really healthy. Tradition was to plant Boxing Day for harvest on the longest day.

planting as seed was always on my mind. In they'll go at a penny a bulb. Spuds also going to the lotment. This year's crop was small but lasted well.
Freezers are chocka with half price beef and lamb from Tesco. Seems a waste of resource to freeze veg.
Wish I could master dehydrating spuds.

[GillyBee]

I wish I had a bigger freezer. We replaced the fridge freezer a month ago but try as I might I could not actually get a bigger one into the available space.
The one rule for planting supermarket veg in a plot is to be really careful that that the seed potatoes/shallots etc do not have the smallest hint of disease. That is most of what you are paying for with commercial "seed" suppliers plus some additional heat treatments etc all aimed to reduce the risk of spreading something nasty like white rot which could ruin your plot for all onion types for years.