Aldi... what do you recommend?

It might sound odd but the large frozen (Japanese I think) scallops are delicious if you thaw and dry them off properly before sauteing in butter with some garlic, salt and pepper or however you like your scallops.

I normally run a mile from frozen scallops so I don't know if the technology has improved or what but these are legitimately very good!!

I love scallops but I just can't justify eating them anymore given the damage to the seabed caused by them being commercially harvested 😞

I don't like prawns anyway, but yeah, I get you and I'm a bit the same about fish in general now too.

I also don't really eat pork any more either, unless it's free-range. They're such social and intelligent animals and the way they're treated in the meat industry here is appalling. They're on a par with dogs, basically, in terms of how intelligent they are, but they're essentially treated like battery hens.

I'll be down to a mostly vegetarian diet with the odd bit of game before long…

I like my IPA's and could never find a no / low alcohol beer worth drinking but this stuff absolutely does the trick for me. I find myself quite happily reaching for it during the week to scratch that beer itch if there's a match on I'm watching or whatever. Honestly very tasty full stop, not just very tasty for a non alcoholic beer. €1.99 a can.

Thinking of getting a beef roast for the new year from ALDI, can anyone help with suggestions i.e best flavor, leanest etc?

The best flavour won't be the leanest and vice versa.

Odysssey06 is on the ball with their advice but I'd go further and say don't go near round roast. Tasteless, dry and tough.

This maybe ?? 😁 It's only for 2 people

https://groceries.aldi.ie/en-GB/p-irish-30-day-matured-beef-striploin-joint-typically-12kg-butchers-selection/2914150000000

I'll third that opinion. Round roast really isn't great. I bought it one christmas and was really disappointed with it.

I'd definitely go with the Rib roast. As a treat it's hard to beat. I get small ones (1.2kg or a little more) and roast them in an air fryer with just a spray of olive oil all round and a generous sprinkle of salt, pepper and garlic granules all round.

It comes out great if turned every 10 minutes or so, cooked to your target internal temp (68c is my personal preference) and you let it rest for 20-30 minutes loosely covered in silver paper. Feeds three hungry adults no problem.

aldi have a whole filet - there was only one left in our local yesterday, so maybe hard to get

reverse sear roast to keep it tender.

Did they taste nice though? 😆

I wonder whats actually in the no chicken breast and the no turkey stuffed roast joint?? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say its the same stuff as is in the no carboard box they come in.

It's not all about personal welfare or the planet, not everyone wants to eat other animals.

I can vouch for the Jalapeno ones. Not as spicy as i hoped but does gently build with a few handfuls. Nice and flavoursome nonetheless. Buffalo Wings will be the ones i try next.

Well?