Own Brand/Shop Brand Products That Are As Good As The Posh Stuff

[Dave7]

Aldis cottage pie is a masterpiece, tastier and more flavoursome than even the most expensive rivals.

Interesting, I will give that a try.

 

[Dave7]

Asda bakery is best ime...

My Aldi doesn't have a bakery. My Lidl does but it's a pain to get to.

 

[stephec]

My Aldi doesn't have a bakery. My Lidl does but it's a pain to get to.

You don't loaf around when it comes to a pun.

 

[Dave7]

You don't loaf around when it comes to a pun.

Unintentional pun.

 

[bonzobanana]

My Aldi doesn't have a bakery. My Lidl does but it's a pain to get to.

I've never actually seen a Lidl bakery. I've been to a few but all they seem to have is those parbaked crap ovens where you put a half cooked then frozen bread product in an oven to continue cooking. They typically have very high levels of yeast so the resulting bread product goes off very quickly. It's the same as convenience stores and petrol station shops where they just heat up frozen stuff. I think the only supermarkets locally that have bakeries here are Tesco, Asda and Morrisons. All of them bake some fantastic loafs which last a long time. I'm a little sensitive to yeast so would typically buy the prepacked bread in Lidl or Aldi as won't have excess yeast and much healthier.

One thing that isn't comparable to the top brands is the Lidl premium coffee in a tin. I bought the Turkish flavour version and it has a weird taste although usable but you have to keep stirring the coffee. It's meant to be instant but it doesn't dissolve properly into the water/milk. Even if you keep stirring you still seem to have some black tar at the bottom. It's a weird product of very low quality. It's completely put me off buying anything similar in Lidl. I'd give it a 1/10 rating, 2/10 for flavour and 1/10 for not actually being a proper instant coffee. I'm not sure if all varients are like this or its just the Turkish one.

 

[Gunk]

One thing that isn't comparable to the top brands is the Lidl premium coffee in a tin

The expresso beans are really good, in fact now our coffee of choice

 

[gbb]

I spend a lot of time in food factories for work and, as has already been said, see supermarket own brands being produced in big brand name factories all the time.

On the Weetabix thing, I was told many years ago that all the wheat biscuit style of breakfast cereals are made in the same place, don't know if that's still true though.

Probably Weetabix make 'other' bix's. All they have to do is slightly change a component or quantity in the recipe, a bit more or less of something.
I remember trying one aside the other...they were virtually the same taste...you could 'just' detect a slight difference.

Having worked in fruit packing factories for 20 years, yes, they can pack for M&S through to Aldi, whoever. The machinery, the process is the same...but M&S for instance will have far more stringent quality requirements. Add to that they will use specific varieties, dictate sugar levels etc etc. Its all driven to give a better.product than the cheaper ones.

Equally, on a good day with good fruit, you'd struggle to tell the difference, but you should get more consistency with an M&S product.

 

[presta]

Blind taste testing has repeatedly shown that people really can’t tell which is the leading brand or most expensive in most cases.

Some fun for you next time you're down the pub: one blindfold, four identical tumblers, and some lager, Guinness, bitter & water. If one in a dozen gets it right that's good going.

 

[fossyant]

Stockwell instant coffee, which is Tesco's 'smart price/budget coffee, to me is far better than those 5 quid a jar fancy ones. It's strong in taste and caffeine which is all I require!! 🧐

All instant coffee is rancid

 

[stephec]

Probably Weetabix make 'other' bix's. All they have to do is slightly change a component or quantity in the recipe, a bit more or less of something.
I remember trying one aside the other...they were virtually the same taste...you could 'just' detect a slight difference.

Having worked in fruit packing factories for 20 years, yes, they can pack for M&S through to Aldi, whoever. The machinery, the process is the same...but M&S for instance will have far more stringent quality requirements. Add to that they will use specific varieties, dictate sugar levels etc etc. Its all driven to give a better.product than the cheaper ones.

Equally, on a good day with good fruit, you'd struggle to tell the difference, but you should get more consistency with an M&S product.

That's the difference, slight changes in ingredients from brand to brand, and quality requirements.

M+S always like to have the highest code of practice, but others seem to just follow them anyway, updating their COP every three years keeps me in work though.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

All instant coffee is rancid

All coffee is rancid

 

[fossyant]

All coffee is rancid

Weirdo.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Lidl wines. I got to love them when they were the nearest supermarket for Doug and I in Kendal last year. I tried a lot of wines I'd never have tried otherwise at genuinely half the price of the posh wine merchant in Shrewsbury.

 

[DRM]

Bacon, all comes from one factory, to several supermarkets, Meat pies, one factory to several supermarkets, Biscuits, one factory to several supermarkets, Milk, one bottling plant to several supermarkets, I can say that's right because I've been in all of them

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Weirdo.

Been drinking green tea for 23 years now. Maybe I am and I don’t care 😀