Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Aldi... what do you recommend?

1136137139141142176

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Yyhhuuu


    rubadub wrote: »
    The 6 pack brioche hot dog buns are still there. I can see a post 11months ago and they were gone, so hopefully they stay as standard now, there were plenty there.

    The jarred aldi hot dogs fit them fine, I have also been putting 2-3 chicken nuggets in them with some lettuce. I put nuggets in the burger buns too but they are trickier to handle and fall out.

    Micowave the bun for ~10seconds and it goes nicely soft and steamed.

    Hot dogs are so unhealthy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭con747


    Yyhhuuu wrote: »
    Hot dogs are so unhealthy

    Then don't eat them. If other people want to let them munch away. I love a good hot dog.

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,951 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Picked up the Diplomat 80 teabags, reduced to 85c
    Taste ok


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    Aldi used to do an amazing pasta with cheese salad pot. Still miss it :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    the Beef Barbaccoa burrito bowl isn't bad at all - have not tried the chicken one, but there is always loads of them left over. So I'll take that as a sign.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,058 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    bassy wrote: »
    Bloody nice alright,but very heavey in fat.

    And people put them in brioche buns *Scream emoji*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭_Godot_


    Ya only live once I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Thread has got me thinking about making hotdogs tonight now. I dont suppose Aldi do crispy dried onions? I get them the odd time in the food section in Ikea but thats wont be up there for a while yet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,999 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    They did yeah but Im not sure if Ive seen them in a while. Caramelized fresh ones nicer in a hotdog imo anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭con747


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Thread has got me thinking about making hotdogs tonight now. I dont suppose Aldi do crispy dried onions? I get them the odd time in the food section in Ikea but thats wont be up there for a while yet

    I make mine similar to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IId7UC5vTU add flavour in if you want.

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • Advertisement
  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    The pickled gherkins are not the same :(
    There's hardly any flavour off the vinegar, it tastes like it's watered down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    The pickled gherkins are not the same :(
    There's hardly any flavour off the vinegar, it tastes like it's watered down.

    Agreed,I thought they were shyte.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    Good offers here - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058120540

    Picked up the white buttons today - very similar to milky bar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,732 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    1kg rooster potato bag has loads of 100% compostable signs over it. Is that the bag or the potatoes?

    The back of the bag says Don’t Recycle. Confused!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Daisies


    1kg rooster potato bag has loads of 100% compostable signs over it. Is that the bag or the potatoes?

    The back of the bag says Don’t Recycle. Confused!

    I would take it to mean put in your brown bit (food waste) as opposed to your recycling.


  • Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Joe Don Dante


    Duckegg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    the Beef Barbaccoa burrito bowl isn't bad at all - have not tried the chicken one, but there is always loads of them left over. So I'll take that as a sign.

    Beef was decent, but I found far too many bones in the chicken one. Put me off that companies products.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,999 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Got the last 3 bags of skin-on fries in my local today, stocked up for a while.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    Thargor wrote: »
    Got the last 3 bags of skin-on fries in my local today, stocked up for a while.

    We have a couple of bags in the freezer. There's no sign of them running low in our branch so far.


  • Registered Users Posts: 189 ✭✭Roald Dahl


    fin12 wrote: »
    Can u explain what was in the wine calendar? I’d be interested in the beer one.

    It's 24 x 200ml bottles of wine; six each of red, rose, white and sparkling.

    It looks like they're on sale on 1 November.

    Here's a new link for the UK:

    https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/16/aldi-is-going-to-sell-wine-and-bubbly-advent-calendars-for-2020-13434471/


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12




  • Registered Users Posts: 189 ✭✭Roald Dahl


    fin12 wrote: »

    I shall be in my local Aldi at noon to hopefully nab one! Make a beeline to the booze section and then do the rest of the shopping - the opposite to my normal routine - and be at the tills for just after 12:30.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Roald Dahl wrote: »
    I shall be in my local Aldi at noon to hopefully nab one! Make a beeline to the booze section and then do the rest of the shopping - the opposite to my normal routine - and be at the tills for just after 12:30.

    Sounds good. I was kind of hoping there would be a beer one aswell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,599 ✭✭✭bassy


    fin12 wrote: »
    Sounds good. I was kind of hoping there would be a beer one aswell.

    oi oi oi to the beer one :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 940 ✭✭✭Recliner


    I bought the fancy funghi or whatever they're called. What did people do with them? I was thinking of cooking them in some butter and thyme, add some cream and have on toasted sourdough?
    Opinions or other ideas please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Aldi have a new 750g beef stew in a sealed pack that you add water and veg to and slow cook. Made it the other day and it was terrible. One of the worst meals I've had in a long time. The beef was cheap and there was big lumps of fat in it. Awful stuff.

    Did a lovely slow cooked chili with their beef brisket and did another gorgeous slow cooked beef and Guinness stew recently with their diced beef. I'll stick to making it from scratch in future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Are these finished?
    I have tried 3 different Aldi's and couldn't find them. I asked one of the staff and he didn't know what I was talking about (no signal in store and I couldn't bring them up on the phone).
    Suckit wrote: »
    I thought that's what the kits are?

    On a side note, the Red Pepper and Mozarella parcels are really nice for anyone that mightn't have tried them :)
    VVSRZNp.jpeg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Suckit wrote: »
    Are these finished?
    I have tried 3 different Aldi's and couldn't find them. I asked one of the staff and he didn't know what I was talking about (no signal in store and I couldn't bring them up on the phone).

    I dont know but this is the time of year that some products vanish to make space for Xmas products so you might not see them until January.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Thargor wrote: »
    Got the last 3 bags of skin-on fries in my local today, stocked up for a while.

    I saw these in my Aldi last night so picked up a bag, can't say I saw them before but there seemed to be plenty in the freezer and no indication they were being discontinued.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭upinthesky


    Suckit wrote: »
    Are these finished?
    I have tried 3 different Aldi's and couldn't find them. I asked one of the staff and he didn't know what I was talking about (no signal in store and I couldn't bring them up on the phone).

    These are new so should display a new flash card on the price, might help you find them easier, also sometimes they are mixed with another product and thats why you cant find them..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭jordata


    Recliner wrote: »
    I bought the fancy funghi or whatever they're called. What did people do with them? I was thinking of cooking them in some butter and thyme, add some cream and have on toasted sourdough?
    Opinions or other ideas please.

    They are yummy - taste like real mushrooms. Your serving suggestion sounds lovely. I use them for risotto or omlettes. Or here is a link to a Kevin Dundon recipe that they would work in also.

    https://www.sundayworld.com/lifestyle/food/kevins-kitchen-wild-mushroom-tagliatelle-and-blue-cheese-bruschetta-39635441.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ryath


    I liked them in this Jamie Oliver recipe Pappardele with wild Mushrooms
    It's from his first book and a meal I still make regularly 20 years later. Very little prep and can be cooked in 5 minutes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    I'm not big into spicy food but I do enjoy it occasionally so picked up the spice bag style chicken breast fillet pieces. It comes with a big sache of the spice mix which I just poured over completely and stuck it in the oven. First bite started me hiccuping and I knew then I'd messed up, struggled through quarter of it just because I was so hungry. My mouth is still a bit numb 45 minutes later. I'd say a very light sprinkling, about 10% of the saches contents, would have been enough to make it tasty and edible. I'd still recommend it just dont make the same mistake I did


  • Registered Users Posts: 940 ✭✭✭Recliner


    jordata wrote: »
    They are yummy - taste like real mushrooms. Your serving suggestion sounds lovely. I use them for risotto or omlettes. Or here is a link to a Kevin Dundon recipe that they would work in also.

    https://www.sundayworld.com/lifestyle/food/kevins-kitchen-wild-mushroom-tagliatelle-and-blue-cheese-bruschetta-39635441.html

    God, that sounds gorgeous.


  • Registered Users Posts: 940 ✭✭✭Recliner


    Ryath wrote: »
    I liked them in this Jamie Oliver recipe Pappardele with wild Mushrooms
    It's from his first book and a meal I still make regularly 20 years later. Very little prep and can be cooked in 5 minutes.

    Again, this is my kind of cooking, simple but bags of flavour.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭nc6000


    nc6000 wrote: »
    I saw these in my Aldi last night so picked up a bag, can't say I saw them before but there seemed to be plenty in the freezer and no indication they were being discontinued.

    We had the skin-on fries, they were very nice. Went to get some more but there were none in the freezer. It seems buying only one bag when you see them is stock was a rookie mistake. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Plenty of the skin on chips in Letterkenny this afternoon. The "no beef" burgers seem to be gone though, just the jack fruit ones available.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Plenty of the skin on chips in Letterkenny this afternoon.

    Lots in Blackrock, Dublin too. Looking forward to finally trying them.

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    nc6000 wrote: »
    We had the skin-on fries, they were very nice. Went to get some more but there were none in the freezer. It seems buying only one bag when you see them is stock was a rookie mistake. :)

    No stock of them in my Aldi yesterday either and the price sticker wasnt on the freezers so they must be out of them where I am. I have 1.5 bags in the freezer but if they show up in store again I'll be getting three bags just to make sure :D

    I made garlic cheese chips with them last night using that Heinz Turkish style garlic sauce and some grated cheddar melted on top, it was a very tasty Friday night tv dinner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    No stock of them in my Aldi yesterday either and the price sticker wasnt on the freezers so they must be out of them where I am. I have 1.5 bags in the freezer but if they show up in store again I'll be getting three bags just to make sure :D

    I made garlic cheese chips with them last night using that Heinz Turkish style garlic sauce and some grated cheddar melted on top, it was a very tasty Friday night tv dinner.

    Where can this stuff be bought???


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭con747


    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Where can this stuff be bought???

    and Tesco, who also do an own brand version (that I havent tried) that is slightly bigger and a bit cheaper


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Where can this stuff be bought???

    Id say Tesco the best bet for it, my SV and Dunnes sometimes have it but Tesco always seem to have it. It comes up in the middle aisles in Aldi too but only every few months and at the same price it is in Tesco anyway (1.99).

    Search it out if you can, its a really tasty garlic sauce with a nice tang to it, it goes very well as a dipping sauce with the Aldi Carlos garlic pizza breads too and for spicy chicken wings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    con747 wrote: »
    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    and Tesco, who also do an own brand version (that I havent tried) that is slightly bigger and a bit cheaper
    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Id say Tesco the best bet for it, my SV and Dunnes sometimes have it but Tesco always seem to have it. It comes up in the middle aisles in Aldi too but only every few months and at the same price it is in Tesco anyway (1.99).

    Search it out if you can, its a really tasty garlic sauce with a nice tang to it, it goes very well as a dipping sauce with the Aldi Carlos garlic pizza breads too and for spicy chicken wings.

    It was located in Tesco today, it was brought home, and it was served on the side of my plate as a dipping sauce for the roasted pork, with sauteed spuds and corn I had made for me this evening when I got home from work.

    You lads know your stuff. This is awesome stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭con747


    Just in case anyone has these in the freezer and missed the recall message.
    Aldi has recalled ALL batches of two separate chicken products over Salmonella fears.

    Roosters Southern Fried Poppin’ Chicken and Roosters Breaded Poppin’ Chicken products were sold in Aldi supermarkets all over Ireland.

    A notice that had been previously placed on the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's website has now been updated to recall ALL of these chicken products. The recall reads: "Further to FSAI Food Alert 2020.62 and FSAI Food Alert 2020.62 (Update 1), Aldi is extending its recall to include all batches and all best before dates of Roosters Southern Fried Poppin’ Chicken and Roosters Breaded Poppin’ Chicken.

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    fin12 wrote: »

    Any price on this? I note it’s £60 but with our excise etc


    Oops EDIT - I now see it in the link €78.68 cheers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭tringle


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Any price on this? I note it’s £60 but with our excise etc


    Oops EDIT - I now see it in the link €78.68 cheers



    Is it in yet, nothing in ours yesterday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Anyone's Aldi shutting down the non essential stuff yet?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭snowgal


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Anyone's Aldi shutting down the non essential stuff yet?

    No, why have you seen this? I didn’t hear they would....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,718 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    snowgal wrote: »
    No, why have you seen this? I didn’t hear they would....

    Well WW3 seems to have broken out over who can sell what, and what is essential, so nothing would surprise me!

    is anyone sees the chilli jam (or even better, the set of three dips/dressings) can they please let us know here? I discovered these last year thanks to this thread, am looking forward to treating myself again! (I think they were Christmas specials)


  • Advertisement
Advertisement