The middle aisle in Aldi

[bfcjg]

Is there a more tempting but utterly disapointing place on earth? Yesterday I was tempted again. Wife buying the food so I went for a browse up down looking smirking thinking why the F would you want one of them ? Then thinking hang on you might in fact you really do need one how have I lived for so long without a small frying pan that cooks one egg from the Croston range stick it in the trolley love dont argue we need one. This morning realising my cooker just pushes heat up and around it whilst my bacon and sausge cooks to perfection in an adjoining pan with a gap for my eggs I have put it away in my attic on the Aldi shelf with the workzone compressor, label printer ,four way desk top extension lead,concealed fixing shelf etc etc. Never again.

[starting_11]

Funnily enough I bought a tefal one the other day and it's since changed my life!

[starting_11]

Then as I placed it in my drawer next to the cookie cutters, I wondered if they, placed in a normal pan, would achieve the same desired result?

[ExistentialWanderer]

I have the same feeling. I honestly try to avoid it if I can. The missus on the other hand, seeks bargains in those brochures in the TV Listings mags; so you can imagine she is in her element on the Aldi special buy aisle. That said she did get a pair of cargo pants on said aisle that came in very useful for her job.

[wilks_bfc]

Aldi

The only place you can go for a tin of beans and come out with full motorbike leathers, a duvet & a deep fat fryer


....whilst forgetting the beans

[LeadBelly]

The one-egg pan is one of the most used items in my kitchen (not an Aldi one mind); I wont hear a word against them.
slow fry a duck egg in there with a very small amount of oil whilst the toast is doing, beautiful and tasty fried egg on toast.

There's no convenient Aldi where I live but Lidl has a similar "odds & sods" aisle which I sometimes have a wander down. Think I bought some long-johns there a few years ago but the winters have never been bad enough to wear them since.

[starting_11]

The declining quality of supermarket eggs is the reason for my purchase.

Love a nice thick egg, not one which has spread the entire width of a 20cm pan..

Starving now!!!

[bfcjg]

The declining quality of supermarket eggs is the reason for my purchase.

Love a nice thick egg, not one which has spread the entire width of a 20cm pan..

Starving now!!!

Use a proper pan with a circular frying ring,that keeps your egg together they don't sell them in Aldi though if they did they'd have heat generated phone charges built in.

[Rumbletonk]

I have a meat thermometer, bird table and vegetable slicer. All 3 absolute bargains. All 3 still in the boxes. Cunning devils

[IanMcL]

Tin o'beans and a wet suit! What a combination!

[Wile E Coyote]

yes, wet suit and angle grinder next to it in Aldi last year, what's not to like ?

[LordBob]

That post has really made me laugh and I thought it was only me with the problem brilliantly written bfcjg!

[yTib]

even the midget gems aren't real.

[Juan Tanamera]

Men's and ladies cycling suits next to the baked beans.
Bit of a tenuous link but wind powered cycling.
Those clever people at Aldi think of everything.

[WadingInDeeper]

It's great that middle aisle. I slowly stock up on decorating buts ready for the next project, Christmas presents etc. I have to discipline myself not to buy any must have but never used items.

[yTib]

baked beans are on the right.

[Rumbletonk]

I'm also the proud owner of a 4 egg poaching pan and a torch that you could see from the moon

[Diesel]

Lidl had some chainsaws the other week, well tempted but I didn't know whether they were cheap or not, not being clued up on the price of chainsaws and such.

[SirAlec]

those single egg frying pans are amazing

[yTib]

they had a compressor there the other week for about eighty quid.

it's shopping but not as we know it.

[ElectroClaret]

And single egg pans save on washing up liquid.

Every little helps.

[bfcjg]

those single egg frying pans are amazing

It's the pan for the lonely annorexic. .

[Dressinggown]

I bought a child sized wetsuit from Aldi. At £12 It was an absolute bargain. Pity I don't have any kids and I can't swim.

Also bought some Secateurs which might be useful if I didn't live in a flat.

[FactualFrank]

There's a new retail park that's opened around here... Aldi, Costa Coffee, Poundland, McDonalds and all that jazz.

I took a trolley into Aldi after a long walk, thinking I'll buy the shop, it's so cheap.
I got to the end of the last aisle... feck all. Trolley... Empty. I felt like a right pillock walking up to checkout number 3 with a family sized pack of bog roll in my trolley that I'd just thrown in.

It reminded me of a Kleeneze catalogue. Lots of weird and wonderul things, but quality like what you'd find in a Kinder Egg.

[Diesel]

There's a new retail park that's opened around here... Aldi, Costa Coffee, Poundland, McDonalds and all that jazz.

I took a trolley into Aldi after a long walk, thinking I'll buy the shop, it's so cheap.
I got to the end of the last aisle... feck all. Trolley... Empty. I felt like a right pillock walking up to checkout number 3 with a family sized pack of bog roll in my trolley that I'd just thrown in.

It reminded me of a Kleeneze catalogue. Lots of weird and wonderul things, but quality like what you'd find in a Kinder Egg.

You didn't even fancy the Torchon Ham?

[beddie]

There is a simple solution...... Don't go in

[bfcjg]

There is a simple solution...... Don't go in

You go in for the food bargains and come out with an all weather cover for a car even if you have a moped.

[FactualFrank]

You go in for the food bargains and come out with an all weather cover for a car even if you have a moped.

Haha, summed up very well.