No frills shopping at a cheap price (Aldi)

Member Name: poet831

Product:	Aldi
Date:	10/04/09 (40 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheap, basic,

Disadvantages: not the greatest selection of meat, frozen or fresh produce

You can get a whole week's family shopping at Aldi for about thirty quid, but it's no frills shopping here. The place is usually full, people trying to manouvre around and there being big trolleys of goods coming out to be put on display. There are some excellent ranges - I love their Worldwide Sauce range. They have a chip shop curry and there are Indian and Chinese varieties, as well as some other flavours from different countries. Their items are copies of all the favourites, from Jaffa Cakes, to soups, cereals, soap powders. They also get batches of other stuff in - one time you'll go and they might have entertainment centres, another it'll be bikes or clothes.
It's definitely no frills shopping though, rarely is there a name brand item in sight. But the quality is good and for basic foods, you can't beat it. Their range of fresh produce and frozen stuff is quite small in comparison with the larger supermarkets, but there's enough to ring the changes in a week's meals. They have a lot of good stuff at extra cheap prices - hot dogs, cereals, baked beans (add a teaspoon of ketchup to the can and a pinch of sugar and they are just as good as Heinz), even their versions of a lot of popular chocolate bars.

For the family on a tight budget, Aldi is a must. You can always go someplace else for a name brand that you just can't live without, but for food cupboard basics, Aldi is hard to beat.

Summary: a cheap supermarket but doesnt have everything