I'm actually quite fond of the super speedy checkouts and packing shelf idea. I feel like I'm well aware I'm in a minority but I enjoy how little human interaction it forces on me!
@@Dombalurina What does "nobody cares Karen" mean? Can't you string together a sentence that makes sense? Apparently not? Who is Karen? Nobody cares what YOU say either, because it DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!
Is Norma still a thing in Germany? Remember as a 8 year old on holiday, my parents and I went in to buy some lunch on the cheap. Couldn't believe it when the guy behind us rocked up to just buy an axe. And placed it in the conveyor belt behind us 🤣
The trick to avoiding rebagging is to use a big blue IKEA bag, fits nicely in the trolly and the shopping can be placed directly in. If you load the belt in the order you want to pack it makes it easier.
People should load the conveyor belt like that anyway: heaviest items first With bottles lying flat, I always find it funny when people are trying to rescue wobbling wine bottles when the belt moves. 😂.
I work at Aldi warehouse, most of the crisps etc are made from KP and a good portion of the best stuff specially selected are made in the same factory as Marks and Spencers
I am a fan of the UK style breakfast sandwich. I remember being out in a tiny boat on Windermere, my bag of Tesco with me, cracking that mother open and thinking "whoa, this amazing, way better than I was expecting."
I find Aldi a blessing. Because of health issues, I chose to use Aldi because of the small size of store, plus limited funds go farther. Now, I place an order online, and my husband picks it up on his way home from work. Though there is an additional cost for pickup, and the items are slightly higher cost to me, Aldi's is still a great choice. Posting this from the United States.
Excellent, when I lived in the UK I got all my food shopping at Aldi, it will be interesting to see how much more variety they have now and hopefully you'll do an overview on prices at the end of the week-on.
@@mt_mastermindx8069 Oh oh! I am a cheese maniac, always love to try different cheeses. Have tried goat milk yogurt but I don't think it tastes of anything really. For me it was just a really bland yogurt. Have to try the cheese though.
I was absolutely stunned when I came out of ALDI the other day with the amount of food that I had relative to the amount of money I spent. I'm kind of doing a similar Aldi week myself simply because I bought so much of it and I'm just going through it. The place is going to be a huge help to me with prices in pretty much every other U.S supermarket being massively overinflated. Honestly the bigger chains are just price gouging, methinks.
Most supermarkets are price gouging. Notice prices go up when supply and demand is wonky like with the egg shortage.... They don't come down exactly the same way...just gradually creep up.
@@PriyaPans I very well am aware of that. I work at red and white retailer that I can't name and we mark up products at a ridiculous amount and then we pretend its on "sale". It's exploitative and it's disgusting. Prices only ever go up because the corpos want to see just how far they can go with the price gouging.
@@TARmedia black Friday is somewhat "new" in the UK in that it's only been about the past 5 years that most places have done it. In this time I've noticed that the sales are a waste of time and seem predatory and very pressure-y to the customers. Nowadays if it's not fresh produce like milk and eggs and veg etc, and it's a product, if I can afford to wait for a sale I will do as it's the same product just for less money. However I try not to buy much around black Friday as I don't like how capitalistic it's gotten and how gross it is.
Aldi is german 🇩🇪 We have Aldi/ Süd (South) & Aldi /Nord (North) It's run by 2 brothers. I remember when the 1st one opened, around the corner. It was in the late 80's, I think. (Yup, I'm old!) At the beginning they just had food in boxes, no shelves, no fridge, deep freezer, no coffee, no fresh bread. It was all pretty plain. It was just a lot of cans & dry foods. Edit: When it comes to the "Cheekiness" of the Aldi brands, looking a lot like the more expensive one's, I heard that the products really do come from the same production. They just save money on packaging & they have a special deal with Aldi. It's actually the same.
Always forget to bring my bag to Aldi and end up stealing an empty cardboard box from the shelves and using that. Then I take the box home and the cat sleeps in it for a week until the next grocery run, when he gets a brand-new one. Aldi: preferred grocery store of cats!
Not sure why you'd expect Aldi's food to be much different from any other supermarket, it all pretty much comes from the same factory as Tesco, Asda etc
I love Aldi, I'd never go back to Tesco! Nice range of products but small enough not to be stuck in the supermarket for hours. Good quality and so much cheaper. The wine is great, there is a good meat selection and the flowers are cheap and last a long time.
I have caught up with all of your Week Ons, Infomercialisms, Shameful Sequels, Film Thoughts, BvG. I got halfway through the week ons before I realized they are vlogs which I don't normally watch. But I watched all yours! Really love the consistent quality of your videos. Ready for a week on Aldi!
Only been around for 10 years or so... you sure? They first came to the UK in 1990 and I can sure remember visiting one in the 90s way back before Aldi was cool!
@@19822andy yup I remember being teased for a while in school in the late 90s because I once brought something to school in a netto carrier bag, we usually shopped in Kwik save in our house, they wee about the most budget chain that you could shop in and jnot get teased for it. Although I do remember going with my mum when I was small to the opening of Liverpool's first Aldi as It was something that had been anticipated for some time.
I do all my shopping between Aldi and lidl. Basically I prefer some items from one and vice versa. Generally fresh fruit and veggies and frozen foods are better from Aldi and everything else from lidl. Plus their a damn sight cheaper than the Irish supermarkets without sacrificing quality.
I have to admit, your evening meal looked amazing. Back in the day, I enjoyed Aldi's pasta salads. They did one with prawns in a cocktail sauce and I used it as a sandwich filling. Nowadays, I don't eat meat, but I make my own version of their prawn pasta salad (without the prawns and crammed with cherry tomatoes and spring onions) and put it in lettuce wraps 😋
As someone who live in NY, Aldi's is a godsend. The prices are so much better than any grocery store near me, and the food is just as good if not better in most cases. They also deliver, which in this day and age is worth it's weight in gold.
Tip for you Mike, cut your Vegeta ingredients a day before you cook them, use a packet of fajita mix to marinade, when you cook you have this amazing dry rub that permeates everything better (if you seal then add the mix the flavour can't go in).
Random fact: Aldi is named Hofer in Slovenia, Italy and Austria. Imagine my confusion when I was living in Germany... As a fan of anything with salted caramel really I was jealous at the end.
17p for aldi lemonade and its really not that bad, I buy about 7 of them a week only because its diet as well, you would expect it to taste like water but it doesn't at all.
I read Aldi and thought this is gonna be a German week, but there was like little to nothing in there that I think you can get in our german Aldi's. Looked really tasty though.
In Norway lidl and aldi failed miserably, but with us they tended to only carry cheap and not good cheap products.. We just had to many cheap chains that people already trusted Now I live in Ireland I use lidl all the time
...I never thought to put the sour cream on first, but that makes an absurd amount of sense. (My family always put it on last, like they were making a taco, even though they were making burritos.)
Looks like Aldi UK and Aldi US have very different products. This is going to be an interesting week on just for that. i definitely don't mind the bagging shelf. I prefer to bag my own groceries, but I hate having to rush because someone else is waiting to start scanning their groceries. Or worse, not waiting.
@@labourerplop5034 Aldi in Holland is Aldi Nord which is a separate company to Aldi Sud who operate in the UK. Most countries have one or the other (Wikipedia has a convenient list) Germany is divided. In the US Sud run Aldi branded stores, Nord own Trader Joes.
Thank you for doing a week on aldi's food me and my partner Daniel shuffle aldi's all the time and they're cheaper than ASDA's and my partner Daniel got me watching your videos as well
Mike, I'd recommend doing a Week On from this company called 'The Fitness Kitchen' They're similar to the musclefood stuff from a previous video but more homemade and just way better. Would be interesting to see what you'd think of them.
So Aldi has been around a little longer than 10 years...
Mike Jeavons I work for Aldi have fun
30 years in UK
Yes, I was just about to say that. I can remember Aldi popping up on Teesside sometime in the early 90s, not sure about elsewhere in the UK.
So should have should have said that it has grown in popularity over the last ten years.
Lidl I know has been around longer. But It does seem that Aldi has been around for 5 years. But that's not the case.
I'm actually quite fond of the super speedy checkouts and packing shelf idea. I feel like I'm well aware I'm in a minority but I enjoy how little human interaction it forces on me!
Thats why I prefer the bigger supermarkets - theres a lot more self service tills!
Same!!! Can just get my stuff and go!!!
I'm NOT fond of Aldi checkout operators who cough and sneeze all over my shopping! Check out my comment on this video!
@@marcse7en nobody cares Karen.
@@Dombalurina What does "nobody cares Karen" mean? Can't you string together a sentence that makes sense? Apparently not? Who is Karen? Nobody cares what YOU say either, because it DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!
Here in Germany, for many people it's "a year" on Aldi or Lidl.
I got introduced to aldi, when I lived in Germany. I am greatfull I have one locally now I am back live in UK.
Love Aldi, great quality and price
Yup, that was me when I lived in Ireland too 🤣
Is Norma still a thing in Germany? Remember as a 8 year old on holiday, my parents and I went in to buy some lunch on the cheap. Couldn't believe it when the guy behind us rocked up to just buy an axe. And placed it in the conveyor belt behind us 🤣
Best grocery store ever.
The trick to avoiding rebagging is to use a big blue IKEA bag, fits nicely in the trolly and the shopping can be placed directly in. If you load the belt in the order you want to pack it makes it easier.
People should load the conveyor belt like that anyway: heaviest items first With bottles lying flat, I always find it funny when people are trying to rescue wobbling wine bottles when the belt moves. 😂.
@@mgthestrange9098heavier items first and also group the frozen and chilled items together
I work at Aldi warehouse, most of the crisps etc are made from KP and a good portion of the best stuff specially selected are made in the same factory as Marks and Spencers
Yeah there was a news story a few years ago where people found bags of hula hoops in packets of Aldi own brand version
😱😱😱
Aldi is basically a national treasure in my town. Everyone shops there and knows the employees' names.
I am a fan of the UK style breakfast sandwich. I remember being out in a tiny boat on Windermere, my bag of Tesco with me, cracking that mother open and thinking "whoa, this amazing, way better than I was expecting."
Where are you from? Don’t they have them in your country ?
Mike: Aldis been around for 10 years or so..
Me: been shopping in Aldi for 17 years
@@GibboFrank it's almost a decade longer than 10 years 😂 and I know Aldis been in the UK even longer than the 17 years I've been going there too
Yeah I'm 23 and we've had an Aldi in my town as long as I can remember
Aldi is over 70 years old though...
@@JackOfen
Your point being....
@@acs6785
More a reply to Mike's statement.
If you Google ‘What’s the most unpractical way to wrap a fajita’
Mike Jeavons is the top answer.
As someone who does all my shopping at Aldi and Lidl, this should be interesting.
I shop there here in America for a few items, along with Costco and the dollar stores. They aren't huge but you can get everything you'd need here.
As somebody who works in aldi this should be interesting.
I love Basil's box. My cat (Iris) has the same tendency for cardboard housing.
I find Aldi a blessing. Because of health issues, I chose to use Aldi because of the small size of store, plus limited funds go farther. Now, I place an order online, and my husband picks it up on his way home from work. Though there is an additional cost for pickup, and the items are slightly higher cost to me, Aldi's is still a great choice. Posting this from the United States.
What mad man doesn’t have salsa with their fajitas!
i was thinking that - there was some in the packet!
Me.
Slightly more than 10 years in the UK Mike, try 30!
These a week on videos are defo a fan favourite. Ive watched all of them 👍
The way you wrapped that fajitas is killing me haha
Excellent, when I lived in the UK I got all my food shopping at Aldi, it will be interesting to see how much more variety they have now and hopefully you'll do an overview on prices at the end of the week-on.
Aldi has half the amount of staff needed for the job to save money. Thats why they're so cheap and the queues are so long
yeah, they only employ seven members of staff per store.
@@Larry yea ngl I'm salty about that because they didn't higher me lol
@@Larry good to see you larry
@@aprilmustoe5657 I worked at one for about 4 years, most stressful job I've had by far - time went quick though lol
I've never seen a long queue in aldi
90 % of my food shopping is Aldi now
same
Really excited for this week, always thought about shopping at Aldi.
When you realise your own comment makes you sound like a sad case lol
Haha, Aldi is brilliant.
Aldi has the best goat cheese by far of all the stores in my area.
fuzer909 the goats cheese is so good!
@@mt_mastermindx8069 Oh oh! I am a cheese maniac, always love to try different cheeses. Have tried goat milk yogurt but I don't think it tastes of anything really. For me it was just a really bland yogurt. Have to try the cheese though.
I haven't shopped in Aldi, so I liked your description, I also look forward to seeing how good their products are.
Mike: I've had three big fat sausage
Me: Found my new message tone
15:03 Yay, I got a mention 😛
Everyone loves Guru Larry.
I was absolutely stunned when I came out of ALDI the other day with the amount of food that I had relative to the amount of money I spent. I'm kind of doing a similar Aldi week myself simply because I bought so much of it and I'm just going through it. The place is going to be a huge help to me with prices in pretty much every other U.S supermarket being massively overinflated. Honestly the bigger chains are just price gouging, methinks.
Most supermarkets are price gouging. Notice prices go up when supply and demand is wonky like with the egg shortage.... They don't come down exactly the same way...just gradually creep up.
@@PriyaPans I very well am aware of that. I work at red and white retailer that I can't name and we mark up products at a ridiculous amount and then we pretend its on "sale". It's exploitative and it's disgusting. Prices only ever go up because the corpos want to see just how far they can go with the price gouging.
@@TARmedia black Friday is somewhat "new" in the UK in that it's only been about the past 5 years that most places have done it. In this time I've noticed that the sales are a waste of time and seem predatory and very pressure-y to the customers.
Nowadays if it's not fresh produce like milk and eggs and veg etc, and it's a product, if I can afford to wait for a sale I will do as it's the same product just for less money. However I try not to buy much around black Friday as I don't like how capitalistic it's gotten and how gross it is.
Been waiting for this specific week on for ages, about bloody time!
This looks like a healthy weight for you man. I was worried about how skinny you had gotten. Enjoy those breakfast sandwiches!
Me as a student in Germany: All year on Aldi.
11:20
Mike: *puts rice* "This is controversial, can't wait to hear did it wrong comments"
Me, as a southeast Asian: "Joke's on you I'm into that sht!"
Aldi is german 🇩🇪
We have Aldi/ Süd (South)
& Aldi /Nord (North)
It's run by 2 brothers.
I remember when the 1st one opened, around the corner.
It was in the late 80's, I think.
(Yup, I'm old!)
At the beginning they just had food in boxes, no shelves, no fridge, deep freezer, no coffee, no fresh bread.
It was all pretty plain.
It was just a lot of cans & dry foods.
Edit:
When it comes to the "Cheekiness" of the Aldi brands, looking a lot like the more expensive one's,
I heard that the products really do come from the same production.
They just save money on packaging & they have a special deal with Aldi.
It's actually the same.
A week on Aldi? I have been on Aldi for YEARS! Great place to shop.
Always forget to bring my bag to Aldi and end up stealing an empty cardboard box from the shelves and using that. Then I take the box home and the cat sleeps in it for a week until the next grocery run, when he gets a brand-new one. Aldi: preferred grocery store of cats!
As someone who usually goes shopping at Aldhi a good portion of times this should be pretty cool.
I really like these supermarket weeks
It's a great price, but Aldi has some damn good stuff.
Their frozen meatballs are some of the best out there.
Oh yeaaah
I wish the prices of the meals were included
Daniel Ahmadu yes
Not sure why you'd expect Aldi's food to be much different from any other supermarket, it all pretty much comes from the same factory as Tesco, Asda etc
Aldi is the best, they have the best things for dinner, great meat range, great prices
New in New England too here in the US decent cheap no bags bring your own or use the boxes they leave around.
I love Aldi, I'd never go back to Tesco! Nice range of products but small enough not to be stuck in the supermarket for hours. Good quality and so much cheaper. The wine is great, there is a good meat selection and the flowers are cheap and last a long time.
That all looked really good to me! Wish there was one of those stores around here!
I love Aldi 😍😁. I couldn't go back to shopping anywhere else.
Then after this? Do a week on Lidl
I have caught up with all of your Week Ons, Infomercialisms, Shameful Sequels, Film Thoughts, BvG. I got halfway through the week ons before I realized they are vlogs which I don't normally watch. But I watched all yours! Really love the consistent quality of your videos. Ready for a week on Aldi!
Me, as a German:
This gonna get gut.
Only been around for 10 years or so... you sure? They first came to the UK in 1990 and I can sure remember visiting one in the 90s way back before Aldi was cool!
People used to get teased in school about shopping in Aldi and Netto in the 90's. It was my dirty little secret as my family used to shop there!
@@19822andy and Kwiksave :D
@@19822andy yup I remember being teased for a while in school in the late 90s because I once brought something to school in a netto carrier bag, we usually shopped in Kwik save in our house, they wee about the most budget chain that you could shop in and jnot get teased for it.
Although I do remember going with my mum when I was small to the opening of Liverpool's first Aldi as It was something that had been anticipated for some time.
I do all my shopping between Aldi and lidl. Basically I prefer some items from one and vice versa. Generally fresh fruit and veggies and frozen foods are better from Aldi and everything else from lidl. Plus their a damn sight cheaper than the Irish supermarkets without sacrificing quality.
I have to admit, your evening meal looked amazing.
Back in the day, I enjoyed Aldi's pasta salads. They did one with prawns in a cocktail sauce and I used it as a sandwich filling. Nowadays, I don't eat meat, but I make my own version of their prawn pasta salad (without the prawns and crammed with cherry tomatoes and spring onions) and put it in lettuce wraps 😋
I love ALDI here in the states. great finds :)
I love Aldi I save so much money! I'm excited about this week on :-)
As someone who live in NY, Aldi's is a godsend. The prices are so much better than any grocery store near me, and the food is just as good if not better in most cases.
They also deliver, which in this day and age is worth it's weight in gold.
I love Aldi it's the best supermarket and you can do your shopping quick because it's small shop too.
Really hard to get excited to watch someone else eat cheap, packaged food. But I'll give it a go. For Basil.
It's ok, I buy the fajita kits & put rice in it. Bulks it out and tastes good.
Tip for you Mike, cut your Vegeta ingredients a day before you cook them, use a packet of fajita mix to marinade, when you cook you have this amazing dry rub that permeates everything better (if you seal then add the mix the flavour can't go in).
Also, I realize my US passport may be revoked, but I happily use greek yogurt in place of sour cream in burritos, quesadillas, etc.
Same here!
Having your US passport revoked might not be a bad thing at this time... 🤔😉
Random fact: Aldi is named Hofer in Slovenia, Italy and Austria. Imagine my confusion when I was living in Germany...
As a fan of anything with salted caramel really I was jealous at the end.
Aldi is awesome! Especially all the sweets, snacks and general junk food. The vegetables can be a tad questionable though.
Also be warned the aldi's mince goes off before its sell-by date as well
Aldi’s only been where I live for a few years. We had Lidl for a lot longer
The middle of lidl and middle of aldi is amazing, random stuff made in Germany
Eggs, milk, hammer drill, chainsaw!
As a Lidl worker, this offends me
Aldi is OP, had fajitas tonight as well! They do a good tex-mex dip selection and tortilla chips 👍
I love aldi so much
There is an Aldi a half mile from where i live
YAY basil , 2020 needs a lot more basil .... and maybe week on's :D
Been waiting for this week on!
17p for aldi lemonade and its really not that bad, I buy about 7 of them a week only because its diet as well, you would expect it to taste like water but it doesn't at all.
Aldi has some good shit!
Love Aldi.
Awww, glad Basil's joining in this A Week On! :D
Why didn't we see him trying his food? FFS Mike!
Love their cheese pasta salad 😍 I add spicy hummus to give it a little kick
Rice in a fajita is fine by me 🌯😋 I put the spicy Mexican pouch rice with the beans in homemade burritos
This’ll be interesting. I’ve always wondered how the American version of Aldi compares to the one in the UK.
All of the stuff looks different at first glance. We have generic aldi 12 packs and definitely not the sodas pictured.
Plus, at an American Aldi everything is geared toward hot breakfast sandwiches and reheatable breakfast bowls. No cold breakfast sandwiches.
True. I wonder what the fit and active line looks like over there.
@@Foxonian oh that's disappointing we don't have that really in Aldi in the UK!
Basically my diet anyway haha. bar the odd chinese, maccys and supermarket sushi
I read Aldi and thought this is gonna be a German week, but there was like little to nothing in there that I think you can get in our german Aldi's. Looked really tasty though.
I mostly buy groceries from aldi in the us so it will be interesting to see the differences
I wish the Aldi's in the USA had nice things like this.
Well stuffed....FIT TO BURST!!😀😄👍 Loving it...
Fall guys is manic lol. Love Aldi’s food :)
In Norway lidl and aldi failed miserably, but with us they tended to only carry cheap and not good cheap products.. We just had to many cheap chains that people already trusted
Now I live in Ireland I use lidl all the time
I was debating on what that decoration display in the background with the heart 😂 Thought it said c❤m at 3:30
Same 😂 Took me a while to realise it’s G♥️M, Grace hearts Mike.
This is my life. Pretty much all the food we buy here comes from Aldi Süd US.
Yes an aldi vid
We don't get any of that good stuff in our aldi here in Australia
Try their Aldi Lemon and herb King Kebab (freezer isle)
Delicious aren't they!
...I never thought to put the sour cream on first, but that makes an absurd amount of sense. (My family always put it on last, like they were making a taco, even though they were making burritos.)
10 years?! I shopped in aldi in 2005!!!
Interesting that the British Aldis include the Aldi's logo on the package since they don't do that in the United States.
They also don't do that in germany
@@JackOfen Thanks.
Looks like Aldi UK and Aldi US have very different products. This is going to be an interesting week on just for that.
i definitely don't mind the bagging shelf. I prefer to bag my own groceries, but I hate having to rush because someone else is waiting to start scanning their groceries. Or worse, not waiting.
Aldi in Holland has even less
@@labourerplop5034 Aldi in Holland is Aldi Nord which is a separate company to Aldi Sud who operate in the UK. Most countries have one or the other (Wikipedia has a convenient list) Germany is divided. In the US Sud run Aldi branded stores, Nord own Trader Joes.
Mark H too bad because I desperately want shredded wheat and I can get it here only sugary loaded cereal
Funny thing about that sundae is I can get that in Lidl over here. Also, the toffee one is far better than the raspberry.
Thank you for doing a week on aldi's food me and my partner Daniel shuffle aldi's all the time and they're cheaper than ASDA's and my partner Daniel got me watching your videos as well
We all have Aldi mate.but thanks fa explaining though
I love ALDI in the US.
Was this a 10k calorie Challenge?? 😂
60% of my food shopping is Lidl 🤗
The Aldi by you has way more stuff than here by me in the States. Regardless, interested to see another "Week On" generic store products!
Mike, I'd recommend doing a Week On from this company called 'The Fitness Kitchen' They're similar to the musclefood stuff from a previous video but more homemade and just way better. Would be interesting to see what you'd think of them.
"Lockdown continues to be indulgent!" Unless you converted to kg wrongly, you're 10 KG lighter than some of your earlier Week Ons. You're fine.
Aldi has been in the U.K. since 1990
"Groovy Biscuits" sounds like a play on "Disco Biscuits", a term for Quaaludes.
They used to be called Disco Biscuits but they changed it for that reason. They’re bloody good biscuits, great with a cup of tea. 😋