The missus bought some Cornetto/Drumstick-like ice-creams from Aldi today. Just had one, and they're bloody awesome, at least as good as the real thing.

Doesn't have to be strictly Aldi, but any QGLers have experience with awesome no-frills type foods that are non-discernible from the real thing, or better? I think there have been threads like this before, but none recent that come to mind.

Post your favourite cheap food alternatives! Go!

Aldi's take on the almond magnums are better than the real things.

Homebrand tuna in springwater is identical to named brands and costs less than 50% of the price if you buy the ~180g tins.

Homebrand cordial. Orange is great, lemon is ok.

Homebrand unsalted peanuts are good for peanuts, and only cost 60cents per kilo as opposed to $30 a kilo for delux mixes.

Milk - I just get the cheapest light s*** as possible - milk is milk. The only thing I've found is that 3 litre Woolies milk goes off a couple of days before the use by, but that might be related to our fridge temp.

Homebrand mineral water is fkn awesome and only ~80cents per 1.5L (almost 10% of other "natural" bottled water).

Homebrand cage eggs - about half the cost of others.

You buy caged eggs? :/

4 serials, dont even get me started on how awesome aldi is for nearly*++ everything

love lack of options, speeds up shopping wiht wifey tenfold (no comparing of s***** name brand products, aldi brand or bust), their goods are super quality
try
their coffee
their baby products
their breakfast cereals
their suprise bargains of the week
their cordial (diet or otherwise)
f***it, im even on aldi meal replacements, which are half the price of tony ferguson, same ingredients, less carbs

we live about 60 metres from our aldi and its saved us thousands i reckon in grocerys

best brand evar



*ok their tvs were suss, they ditched the dodgy ones

++ despite their mowers being powered by briggs and stratten, they could be more powerful, im sure with a less fierce lawn they would be dreamy

You buy caged eggs? :/

Yeah WTF :S

You probably haven't tasted a proper egg if you;re willing to eat that crap.

Yeah no cage eggs here but funny stat is that in Australia more "free range" eggs are sold than are actually produced, hehe. Mentioned in another post, dig to find reference.

Yeah no cage eggs here but funny stat is that in Australia more "free range" eggs are sold than are actually produced, hehe. Mentioned in another post, dig to find reference.

I get mine from a local farm... I can't trust the big name freerange eggs, just because they're not in a cage doesn't mean they're treatly humanely.

What about the RSPCA-approved ones?

Most probably, I haven't bought from a supermarket in a couple of years... but I see/view reports from time to time and the industry doesn't seem as honest as it should be.

lolz aldi

+1 for free range eggs. poor caged chickens :(

I haven't tried aldi before, but spooks rantings have me interested.

Is Aldi significantly cheaper? I've heard it's the bomb but we don't seem to have one around here, noticing my shopping costs skyrocketing with healthier eating... might be worth making the trip once a week.

Home brand Tasty Cheese isn't too shabby.

Caged eggs.. Free eggs.. Same bloody thing. Caged are usually cheaper so I get
them.

You can easily tell the difference between free-range and caged. The shells are thicker, the yolk is darker, and they taste better. Actually been thinking about getting some chickens of our own for awesome eggs.

Aldi ice cream sandwiches - god damn - just like Monaco bars

Oooohhhh, man. I love Monaco bars. I'm fully getting some Aldi ones next time.

Is Aldi significantly cheaper? I've heard it's the bomb but we don't seem to have one around here, noticing my shopping costs skyrocketing with healthier eating... might be worth making the trip once a week.

Some things are way cheaper, other things are about the same. The good thing, though, is all the price tags have a $/KG or $/L, etc. breakdown on them, so it helps calculate things and bulk buy more cost effectively.

The good thing, though, is all the price tags have a $/KG or $/L, etc. breakdown on them, so it helps calculate things and bulk buy more cost effectively.

Coles and Woolies do unit pricing too.

Oh, really? I've only ever noticed it at Aldi. Carry on.

I eat 6 eggs every day so I go for cheap caged eggs. I aint paying double to quell my conscience. When I lived at home my mum bought these ritzy enviro/peta/cert/organic eggs and they had thin shells sometimes. Taste was the same. I'll buy free range when they don't cost $5 for a dozen.

The Rocklea markets sell 30 free range eggs for $8. Pretty sure most farmers markets will do similar deals. The markets in Kelvin Grove have some cheap eggs too.

I eat 6 eggs every day

Sheesh. You a body builder or something?

If so, pics of you and/or the eggs or lying.

Free range vs caged eggs. Basically, unless you have an RSPCA or Free Range Egg and Poultry Association of Australia (FREPAA) label, there is no guarantee that eggs are free range or chicks are humanely treated. I could have chickens locked up in tiny cages in terrible conditions, and once a day pick these cages up and put them outside, and I can call my eggs free range. The costs associated with the time it takes me to move those cages gets passed on to the consumer.

I'm going to say this again so everyone is really clear (having said it with links in two other threads isn't enough).

Unless the eggs you buy has one of the two following labels on the carton, you are doing your morals AND your wallet a disservice by simply "trusting" the eggs are free range, or that the chickens are treated humanely.

http://www.choice.com.au/Reviews-and-Tests/Food-and-Health/Food-and-drink/Organic-and-free-range/Free-range-eggs/Page/~/media/Images/Reviews/Food and health/Food and drink/freerange_eggs/2008/body/f133068.ashx?w=117&h=128&as=1

http://www.choice.com.au/Reviews-and-Tests/Food-and-Health/Food-and-drink/Organic-and-free-range/Free-range-eggs/Page/~/media/Images/Reviews/Food and health/Food and drink/freerange_eggs/2008/body/f133069.ashx?w=150&h=30&as=1

Read the choice article; ask your market egg dealer some tough questions. As for taste, I doubt that anyone could tell the difference between different laid eggs in a double blind taste test.

One final note - price of eggs will more often than not reflect the labor/expenses gone into them, so cheap eggs are usually all dealt with the same way, regardless of what propaganda label they have.

When are the rocklea markets open?

i don't usually shop at aldi coz the location of the nearest store is inconvenient to me but i did pickup a 6pack of some german ginger beer from there the other day n it was very nice. tasted like bundy ginger beer but not as sickly sweet.

yup, wednesday nites and saturday mornings

look for team spook to be there every saturday morning eating hungarian donuts and garlic bread with sour creams!

You can't go past their Nappies. I've used them on my last two girls and they rock, just as good as Huggies and half the price, yes they are good for nights.

Is that like Extra? My girlfriend bought some Tic Tac type things from there recently too which were pretty awesome.

Aldi Blitz Mints - spearmint. No sugar.

+1 i'm addicted

Jim, I still shop at coles for convenience. I hit aldi every other week to stockup on the products from there that I like.

we live about 60 metres from our aldi and its saved us thousands i reckon in grocerys

If i bouth that house I looked at on Orange Grove Rd I looked at I would have bet you by 40 metres.

If i bouth that house I looked at on Orange Grove Rd I looked at I would have bet you by 40 metres.

yar, too busy to live there though

im nicely tucked away from all the noise and traffic