We started using Aldi about a year ago and even though most of the stuff is cheaper than other supermarkets the prices have shot up & some of the food is hit & miss. Good video mate.
Not just Aldi, it's everywhere, because like everybody else they are riding the wave and using the opportunity to massively inflate prices, and we, the idiots, still pay the prices.
Shows you how bad the food inflation is when the gov't is planning price controls on basic items. It's voluntary however, although I think the supermarkets are already doing it. Price of bread, milk, potatoes etc.. hasn't risen anywhere near other items. That perennial favourite, baked beans has doubled in price in Sainsburys.
@@IamBATMAN2024 In that case mate I wouldn't dream of buying Lidl. I don't like Heinz, even though I grew up on Heinz beans on toast. I'm a Branston on toast kind of person now. Something happened to Heinz products from about the early 1970's onwards. They became very bland.
Thanks for the update on the ES health mark! glad to see your interest in those growing! Nice to see where our food comes from. The product is manufactured by FRIPOZO, S.A., down in south east Spain, Murcia region. A company that specializes in frozen breaded and processed chicken products since
i tend to use KENKO branded mayonnaise mixed with Sriracha sauce its usually 2:1 mayo:sriracha ratio KENKO is kind of a european brand alternative for KEWPIE mayonnaise, which is japanese. the taste between them is that the KENKO is VERY slightly tangier than the KEWPIE, well within what i would consider margin of error on batch processing. Sainsburys is the only place I've found it. only because i begrudge paying nearly £6 a bottle from amazon for KEWPIE.
I'm always wary of those "reclaimed/pressure formed" chicken or fish in hold-it-together crumb. They usually turn out nothing like the tempting picture on the box. Cook from frozen means "beware this minced up product will fall apart at room temperature". I do sometimes use the picture on the box as inspiration and knock my own version together at home. Thanks for the vid.
All that hard work that Aldi and Lidl did to to steal customers off the main supermarkets, now the main supermarkets are price matching Aldi and Lidl, some things are actually cheaper in Tesco's now, so i shop at Tesco, bakery stuff is cheaper and beer, Veg is around same price, but there are a lot more reduced items. Lidl used to do big reductions for stuff going out of date, now seems like they only take 30% off, Tesco do 50% off most things, plus get Clubcard points, Lidl voucher, loyalty system used to be good, but now, seems like you get vouchers for things you will never use or that they cant sell. Shrinkflation is more common in Aldi and Lidl, things that were 400g now 350g and higher price.
Are you doing some more "on the road" food reviews? Love your trips around your local area. Love seeing the views and villages. Hoping to travel up to the lakes nxt yr from here in Icklesham nr Hastings, East Sussex.
This one is a definite miss for me. Price wise? too expensive. Sauce? no chilli zing. Chicken in batter? nothing to write home about. I thought your rating of 6 was a bit high, I would have given a 3, maybe a 4 tops. I know people keep saying this, but for £3.49 I would buy a decent pack of chicken breasts, mix up a quick batter, a chilli/mayo sauce and make my own. You could either fry the chicken or cook it in your air fryer to get it crispy. Another great reveal. And as always, keep up the good work. 👌👌👍👍👌👌.
On food inflation. I've only do Aldi for my mum's shop as that's one big weekly shop, but for myself I do a little daily shop at different places. The folks being utterly screwed are the pensioner type person as they eat less food and buy small. For myself I'd make liberal use of the "3 for 2" or the "big bag". My personal inflation is probably around 10% but the pensioner's is nearer 30%. I just did a Morrison's shop and a microwave meal was 1.69 but 3 for 4.50. Her freezer only had room for 2, so I put the 3rd in fridge and told her to eat it next day.
This country still has some the cheapest food prices in Europe. *I say 'still' because its was the cheapest of all the major nations in Europe 2 or 3 years ago.
We are blessed with our supermarkets in this country. I lived in America 2yrs ago and their prices are crazy in comparison (hence why they eat out soo much).
I noticed on the box that only 38% of the contents was actually chicken, that means 62% was sauce and batter coating. Seems rathe expensive for what you get.
The time for price controls on essential foods is fast approaching. The government recently announced discussions about a *voluntary* scheme...good luck with that! But it shows the direction of official thinking and that food prices are expected to continue to rise.
The sauce looked like condensed tomato soup and the chicken like fish on the box. Maybe these food producers are just putting these different things out and see what sells the best.
This _is_ a rip off at £3.49. In the nutrition information panel it says it serves 4. And one portion, it says, is 83g. 199 calories per portion. But 83g isn't really a portion for an adult. Maybe for a child. Tesco BBQ Ready-to-Eat BBQ Roast Chicken Drumsticks are £3 for 430g and very tasty.
£3.94p Out of that cost is the farmer's for rearing which would including feed and his wage. Slaughter house need paying. Transport cost as I think you said from Spain. Batter mix and sauce mix cost. Then the price of making plastic bags and outer packaging. Then supermarket want their money as they need to pay out wages. !!!
They do fillet strips in a bag in the frozen gastro range , Southern fried , hot & spicy ,& battered . I think they are around £3.75 for 600g . The battered versions are good. Larger fillet strips than what you got . No sauce
In Oz we pay GST on all packaged and prepared food. My local butcher receives fresh chicken every day. It's labour intensive, cooking, as I cooked up a storm caring for my partner and blending and bottle feeding..... But that I would have gone broke a lot quicker buying packaged foods. 🙏🇦🇺
The sesame chicken version of these are really nice but there overpriced however cheaper than the tgi fridays version from iceland but u get a bit less weight in the aldi version u would be better off making them homemade and buying a big bag of chicken strips, bbq sauce and sesame seeds
It looked nice on the box. When you said it was %100 chicken i thought i would eat that. When you showed it broke in half, it didn't look very nice. I will give it a miss. Good review Gareth
Made with and made from have totally different meanings, made with 100% chicken breast could mean 2% breast and the rest any old crap they could find, mainly mechanically separated meat, made from 100% chicken breast has to be 100% chicken breast, its all a play on words to fool the consumer that they are getting something good, when they are really not.
Looks to be more batter than chicken,quite pricey as well! Aldi have been hiking all their prices up latel. Trying to copy bigger brands with packaging and very little in. Great video Gareth 👍
Label it gastro to suggest poshness. Whack the price up. Hope customers will just assume because it's Aldi it must be fairly priced. Not that it's a bad product or anything. Looks like they've been made out of the offcuts when breast meat is trimmed to be sold as chicken breasts.
Another great video! Aldi are definitely pushing up prices like everywhere else. They do a bag of gastro battered chicken chunks I think they’re called and I’m sure they are way better than these ones and you get more chicken for the money. They are £2.29 for 350g so better value. Maybe Aldi think if they put something in a box and add a dip to it they can charge more?! 😂
Shopping tip: This morning I bought a pack of Tesco Prime Cuts *Cumberland Sausage* Slices. New product. Quite tasty in a sandwich. Six slices in a pack, but they are large slices.
Costco chicken tenders and flaming chicken tenders 1.5 kilo’s about £12. And they have them on offer quite a bit. Lush and you get 3 different flavours of dipping sauce.
Great review Gaz that’s was a bit of a letdown with the quantity of chicken but a bit of ghost pepper sauce would of sorted it out and keep up with the great videos 👏👏👍👍
Glad to see that you maybe noticed my comment regarding Aldi’s food weights. They are very rarely correct, so you are paying the equivalent of a dearer product.
You should do what I do when I go to the supermarket and you see something that looks nice via the picture on the cardboard packaging where you can't actually see the contents I open one up first before I buy..and plus a massive congratulations now having over 70k subscribers 👍
Check out Morrisons Crispy Sweet & Sour Chicken, made with British chicken (£5 with a side, I get their chicken spring rolls, not to eat at the same meal).
Interesting review. Think Aldi is just starting to loose the battle between increasing the price & keeping up with the quality of its products. Starting to see better deals in Tesco ( ok, with club card). This one looked good idea, but in reality average. Shame. 🤷♂️
First thing... why the box? I'd have understood if it was a 'save the world from plastics' move, but lo and behold, there's an inner lining! Why? Not sure how these stack up against the Iceland chicken strips for weight, quality or price, but I like the Iceland ones, especially the Southern Fried flavour. Ok, they are breadcrumbed, not battered but are an equivalent 'real chicken' product, not formed meat, so I think I'll stick with those. No mayo with theirs, but they come in a simple bag which seems less daft to me. Good move not to buy them again... I don't think I'll be buying them at all!
Hi there, another great video from you like always look very interesting. I am seeing these before I have to try to see if I can see them myself. Keep up the good work and I hope you’re well
I've had Aldi's tempura batter chicken strips and they were a far better offering than these. The last time I bought them was about a couple of months ago and if I remember right they were about £3.50 but I can't remember the weight. The price may have gone up since then They came in a bag, not a box although they didn't have a dip with them you could buy or make whatever dip you wanted.
It doesn't look like you get a lot there :/ Way too much sauce vs chicken! Does David Scales even watch anymore?! :P Best investment he made! 😆 I hate it when it says chilli and has no heat, it's a fail from me!!
Rapeseed oil's in everything......dodgy stuff. As a kid in the 80's I remember constantly seeing on the TV how the force growing of Oil Seed Rape plants all over the country was controversial because the flowers can cause breathing difficulties and allergic reactions. I used to cycle through fields of the stuff in the summer and it stank and I felt a bit ill whenever I went near it.
For that price you’re cheaper making your own they look nice but I wouldn’t pay that price another good one bud looking to the one when you do the noodles that I told you about bud all the best 👍
For the quantity I'd say those are a bit of a rip-off. They do better in bags where you get more, but I've found myself going to Heron for that type of thing now.
Like most processed chicken (EU/CE) produced in EU, made in EU usually just means "assembled" in EU. Most of that chicken comes from Thailand..Spain ES would not be known as chicken producing Country..Still a few beers late at night id gulp..
Looks pretty ghastly to me Gaz. I think I'll stick with real chicken. Just lately Aldi have gotten very expensive and the quality is very hit and miss now. They can't blame it all on the food crisis. They are being greedy by hitting the customer with price rises and dips in quality.
Two statements on the box that make me worry about that product Gaz. 'may contain Soya', and 'Never chopped or shaped'. Why would you have soya in a chicken product, and if that chicken has not been chopped do the workers stand there all day pulling the chicken apart (after they cook it of course), into acceptable sized pieces, before the pieces are dipped in the batter mixture? Obviously they must have a 'pulling apart machine' lol. To pricey for what that was, sounds like retailers are getting greedy, and finding new ways to rip us off. The EU is probably charging the earth to import the stuff, as we are not in the club any more, then the retailers add their mark-up. Anyway, all the best and good review.
I bought a box of 100% white chicken fillet strips for $12 Canadian on sale yesterday. They're closer to $20 when not on sale. Things have gone absolutely nuts at the grocery store! I rarely buy them, so was shocked to see the prices in the freezer section and how much things have increased in price. I should add, I try not to buy the strips with the sauce packet inside with it. I want chicken strips...not sauce...I'm not paying meat prices for sugary sauce! The box I got was 500 plus grams I think.
Hi Gareth, in case you did not find out what the ES sticker states it is ES = Espana (Spain) CE = Communidad Europa (European Community) Hope this helps
A bit pricey maybe i think depends on the taste i would rather buy the chicken dippers in Home Bargains adding my own sauce like Sricacha or a sweet sauce , More portions for less money
So how much is a chicken breast to slice and crumb and put in an air fryer? Seems a bit pricey for what it is. Mayo squeeze of chilli sauce easy. Those on limited income this seems a dumb buy.
We are still in the EU due to the Northern Ireland protocol which keeps us tied in ready for joining again, plus no one knows what Mrs May and her team of snivel servants got up to. One of them said he would have to leave the country if Brexit happened and we got to learn the truth about what they got up to, as it wouldn't be safe for him here anymore. The fact we have heard nothing about it bar the kitkat wrapper episode that appeared in the media for a brief moment, and Rishi is no longer having a bonfire of EU rules tells me they are ready to re-join at any time. My teachers in 1973 said the EEC was a stepping stone towards a one world government and a treasonous act, and I agree. No outside forces should be allowed to control this land, and our King shouldn't be in bed with the WEF, which has nothing to do with economics, as he is supposed to be our King. In readiness to join the EU we have had to sell all of our assets and reduce our gold stocks from 1973's 1600 tonnes to todays 300 tonnes. Nobody is allowed to join with enough money in the bank or enough assets to refloat a new currency and start a new nation, it's supposed to be a one way ticket/ trap, with no way back. So I never voted to join, I've only ever voted to leave.
I live in Spain so I voted to remain. Luckily for me brexit has been a success though, all the non registered cash in pocket brits went back to the UK and the work has been flowing in since.
Love your vlogs Gareth, but send a little bit of love to your fellow vlogger Lee 'the macmaster 'davey,,who is going through a vit of a health scare at the moment 🇮🇪
We started using Aldi about a year ago and even though most of the stuff is cheaper than other supermarkets the prices have shot up & some of the food is hit & miss. Good video mate.
Cheers Eric
Happy retirement mate
Inky missing you Eric
Aldi prices are starting to creep up for sure. Our weekly shop is pretty consistent and I’d say we pay £20-£30 more a week than this time last year.
Food price inflation is quite a bit above the general inflation figure - about %19 at the moment. This, of course, hits the poorest hardest.
Not just Aldi, it's everywhere, because like everybody else they are riding the wave and using the opportunity to massively inflate prices, and we, the idiots, still pay the prices.
Shows you how bad the food inflation is when the gov't is planning price controls on basic items. It's voluntary however, although I think the supermarkets are already doing it. Price of bread, milk, potatoes etc.. hasn't risen anywhere near other items. That perennial favourite, baked beans has doubled in price in Sainsburys.
@@richieconway3465 beans are £1.29 in Lidl for 4! I wouldn’t dream of buying Heinz it’s a total rip off! They taste exactly the same lol
@@IamBATMAN2024 In that case mate I wouldn't dream of buying Lidl. I don't like Heinz, even though I grew up on Heinz beans on toast. I'm a Branston on toast kind of person now. Something happened to Heinz products from about the early 1970's onwards. They became very bland.
Thanks for the update on the ES health mark! glad to see your interest in those growing! Nice to see where our food comes from.
The product is manufactured by FRIPOZO, S.A., down in south east Spain, Murcia region. A company that specializes in frozen breaded and processed chicken products since
i tend to use KENKO branded mayonnaise mixed with Sriracha sauce its usually 2:1 mayo:sriracha ratio
KENKO is kind of a european brand alternative for KEWPIE mayonnaise, which is japanese. the taste between them is that the KENKO is VERY slightly tangier than the KEWPIE, well within what i would consider margin of error on batch processing.
Sainsburys is the only place I've found it. only because i begrudge paying nearly £6 a bottle from amazon for KEWPIE.
Thank you
I'm always wary of those "reclaimed/pressure formed" chicken or fish in hold-it-together crumb. They usually turn out nothing like the tempting picture on the box. Cook from frozen means "beware this minced up product will fall apart at room temperature". I do sometimes use the picture on the box as inspiration and knock my own version together at home. Thanks for the vid.
I'm not sure why the inner cardboard tray was necessary...
Good review, Gaz. Perhaps try the kilo bag of Seara from Farm Foods?
Shocking price, Aldi seems to be getting really greedy, some of their price rises are staggering.
Not sure you'll find cheaper tbh.
@@jimg9820 you are probably right but I have started shopping around again. Some of Aldis prices have gone up almost double.
Inflation is running at 19%
All that hard work that Aldi and Lidl did to to steal customers off the main supermarkets, now the main supermarkets are price matching Aldi and Lidl, some things are actually cheaper in Tesco's now, so i shop at Tesco, bakery stuff is cheaper and beer, Veg is around same price, but there are a lot more reduced items. Lidl used to do big reductions for stuff going out of date, now seems like they only take 30% off, Tesco do 50% off most things, plus get Clubcard points, Lidl voucher, loyalty system used to be good, but now, seems like you get vouchers for things you will never use or that they cant sell. Shrinkflation is more common in Aldi and Lidl, things that were 400g now 350g and higher price.
@@pattybumklart9045 19% is what we are being told, but certainly for food it's more like 70% compared to a couple of years ago.
Are you doing some more "on the road" food reviews? Love your trips around your local area. Love seeing the views and villages.
Hoping to travel up to the lakes nxt yr from here in Icklesham nr Hastings, East Sussex.
Yes will do next week now. Thank you. Great getting out isn't it.
Yes I like Gazas road trips as well
It is summertime now
An ice cream comparison video would be interesting to see where you compare supermarket own brand ice cream vs. expensive brands
This one is a definite miss for me. Price wise? too expensive. Sauce? no chilli zing. Chicken in batter? nothing to write home about. I thought your rating of 6 was a bit high, I would have given a 3, maybe a 4 tops. I know people keep saying this, but for £3.49 I would buy a decent pack of chicken breasts, mix up a quick batter, a
chilli/mayo sauce and make my own. You could either fry the chicken or cook it in your air fryer to get it crispy.
Another great reveal. And as always, keep up the good work. 👌👌👍👍👌👌.
Yes I'm very generous really Gerry. ☺️ cheers pal.
On food inflation. I've only do Aldi for my mum's shop as that's one big weekly shop, but for myself I do a little daily shop at different places.
The folks being utterly screwed are the pensioner type person as they eat less food and buy small. For myself I'd make liberal use of the "3 for 2" or the "big bag". My personal inflation is probably around 10% but the pensioner's is nearer 30%. I just did a Morrison's shop and a microwave meal was 1.69 but 3 for 4.50. Her freezer only had room for 2, so I put the 3rd in fridge and told her to eat it next day.
We`re getting ripped off in this country...
Nice generic comment.
This country still has some the cheapest food prices in Europe.
*I say 'still' because its was the cheapest of all the major nations in Europe 2 or 3 years ago.
Same all over! 🇩🇰
We are blessed with our supermarkets in this country. I lived in America 2yrs ago and their prices are crazy in comparison (hence why they eat out soo much).
@@Coxy-b34 that's rubbish
I liked the marks out of ten. I wonder how much chicken there actually was without the batter. "Not a lot," as Eric would say.
Wasn't that Paul Daniels?
@@eadweard. Oh yes.... LOL. "What do you think of it so far?" "Rubbish"
133g
Thanks for the taste and truth about these rip off dinners,very expensive for so small lot of chicken,
Our pleasure!
Well the train ticket for the Spanish chicken is costly 🤷
ES is Spain. In fact I work for Aldi and we seem to have a lot of product and fresh produce from Spain
We're trying them tonight. Went in for the bbq and sesame ones butter only had the chilli ones.
Thanks for the review Gareth. The only problem is, I have a box of these from Aldi in my freezer. I await the disappointment !!!!
Cheers Richard
I noticed on the box that only 38% of the contents was actually chicken, that means 62% was sauce and batter coating. Seems rathe expensive for what you get.
The time for price controls on essential foods is fast approaching. The government recently announced discussions about a *voluntary* scheme...good luck with that! But it shows the direction of official thinking and that food prices are expected to continue to rise.
Were those scales a gift Gareth by any chance 🤔
Not sure, I've never seen or heard them get mentioned before.
Pmsl
The sauce looked like condensed tomato soup and the chicken like fish on the box. Maybe these food producers are just putting these different things out and see what sells the best.
Old man Ken Morrison used to check his bins to see what had not sold and had to be dumped then he knew not to try sell that item again.
@@PaoloBanke You'd have thought he'd have some kind of stock control in place.
@@eadweard. Not old Ken he wanted to physically see what was going on it doesn't have the same impact on paper.
As a former soldier Gareth i was hoping the sauce would go in the cup before the hot water. Overfilled it many a times with the rations 😂
Haha yes
As a former para I would have put in my mess tin and had boiling water ,simple to our regiment, but others find it hard to understand
O dear you can't do it ,sorry your Bind
This _is_ a rip off at £3.49. In the nutrition information panel it says it serves 4. And one portion, it says, is 83g. 199 calories per portion. But 83g isn't really a portion for an adult. Maybe for a child. Tesco BBQ Ready-to-Eat BBQ Roast Chicken Drumsticks are £3 for 430g and very tasty.
£3.94p Out of that cost is the farmer's for rearing which would including feed and his wage. Slaughter house need paying. Transport cost as I think you said from Spain. Batter mix and sauce mix cost. Then the price of making plastic bags and outer packaging. Then supermarket want their money as they need to pay out wages. !!!
As soon as I heard tenders I thought Kids Happy Meal avoid
You get chips in Happy Meals too I believe.
Enjoy that Sun !!We havent had any in East anglia its like bloody October:-)
Oh sorry to hear that.
They do fillet strips in a bag in the frozen gastro range , Southern fried , hot & spicy ,& battered . I think they are around £3.75 for 600g . The battered versions are good. Larger fillet strips than what you got . No sauce
This is a case Gaz of spot the chicken. Utter load of rubbish, wouldn’t have these even, if they were free. Nice honest video. Superb.
Cheers pal
In Oz we pay GST on all packaged and prepared food.
My local butcher receives fresh chicken every day.
It's labour intensive, cooking, as I cooked up a storm caring for my partner and blending and bottle feeding..... But that I would have gone broke a lot quicker buying packaged foods. 🙏🇦🇺
Cheers Phil
The sesame chicken version of these are really nice but there overpriced however cheaper than the tgi fridays version from iceland but u get a bit less weight in the aldi version u would be better off making them homemade and buying a big bag of chicken strips, bbq sauce and sesame seeds
Where did you get your plates mate ?
ASDA
70.5k subs well done gaz. They look amazing I don't know I'd pay that price
Cheers pal
It looked nice on the box. When you said it was %100 chicken i thought i would eat that. When you showed it broke in half, it didn't look very nice. I will give it a miss. Good review Gareth
You're welcome 😊
Made with and made from have totally different meanings, made with 100% chicken breast could mean 2% breast and the rest any old crap they could find, mainly mechanically separated meat, made from 100% chicken breast has to be 100% chicken breast, its all a play on words to fool the consumer that they are getting something good, when they are really not.
Looks to be more batter than chicken,quite pricey as well! Aldi have been hiking all their prices up latel. Trying to copy bigger brands with packaging and very little in. Great video Gareth 👍
Cheers Andi
Label it gastro to suggest poshness. Whack the price up. Hope customers will just assume because it's Aldi it must be fairly priced. Not that it's a bad product or anything. Looks like they've been made out of the offcuts when breast meat is trimmed to be sold as chicken breasts.
Cheers Matt, that bacon was good mate 👍
@@BaldFoodieGuy which one was that? I think I mentioned the Edwards from Tesco the Welsh stuff.
@Matt 19 yes video coming mate. Cheers pal.
@@BaldFoodieGuy oh right. Yeah I enjoyed it. Good quality. Nice one. That stuff you got from the farm shop looked the business too.
Another great video! Aldi are definitely pushing up prices like everywhere else. They do a bag of gastro battered chicken chunks I think they’re called and I’m sure they are way better than these ones and you get more chicken for the money. They are £2.29 for 350g so better value. Maybe Aldi think if they put something in a box and add a dip to it they can charge more?! 😂
Thank you kindly 😋
Shopping tip: This morning I bought a pack of Tesco Prime Cuts *Cumberland Sausage* Slices. New product. Quite tasty in a sandwich. Six slices in a pack, but they are large slices.
Oh nice mate. Well have to have a look for them.
Hi Gareth ES stands for Spain, love these as a fake happy meal xx thank you for the video
Thank you
Costco chicken tenders and flaming chicken tenders 1.5 kilo’s about £12. And they have them on offer quite a bit. Lush and you get 3 different flavours of dipping sauce.
Yea there quality them
Thanks again for saving me money. 😅 Why do most chilli sauce/dips need to be sweet? Chilli is for heat and not sweet. 😋
Totally agree...sick of everything "sweet chilli"
@@popeyedish Right on bro' 👍
Great review Gaz that’s was a bit of a letdown with the quantity of chicken but a bit of ghost pepper sauce would of sorted it out and keep up with the great videos 👏👏👍👍
Cheers Peter
I've lived in Australia for 18 in years! I really miss breaded button mushrooms! Hope you find some for a vid soon 👍
Something I've not seen. I used to order that as a starter when I used to go out on dates. They were the classic starter to a meal.
DAVID WHINFIELD!!! WHoooo.
I reckon they put the I'M NEW stickers on just for you bud lol
£3.49 you can buy a whole chicken
Prices are creeping, quality is dropping.
Glad to see that you maybe noticed my comment regarding Aldi’s food weights. They are very rarely correct, so you are paying the equivalent of a dearer product.
You should do what I do when I go to the supermarket and you see something that looks nice via the picture on the cardboard packaging where you can't actually see the contents I open one up first before I buy..and plus a massive congratulations now having over 70k subscribers 👍
Cheers Paul very kind of you thank you. 😊
Check out Morrisons Crispy Sweet & Sour Chicken, made with British chicken (£5 with a side, I get their chicken spring rolls, not to eat at the same meal).
Cheers pal
Interesting review. Think Aldi is just starting to loose the battle between increasing the price & keeping up with the quality of its products. Starting to see better deals in Tesco ( ok, with club card). This one looked good idea, but in reality average. Shame. 🤷♂️
Which part of the chicken does the tender come from??
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Great video again Gareth but they are a total rip off. Iceland chicken strips are far better value. Enjoy your time ;))
I love your plates, where did you get them?
Asda
First thing... why the box? I'd have understood if it was a 'save the world from plastics' move, but lo and behold, there's an inner lining! Why? Not sure how these stack up against the Iceland chicken strips for weight, quality or price, but I like the Iceland ones, especially the Southern Fried flavour. Ok, they are breadcrumbed, not battered but are an equivalent 'real chicken' product, not formed meat, so I think I'll stick with those. No mayo with theirs, but they come in a simple bag which seems less daft to me. Good move not to buy them again... I don't think I'll be buying them at all!
From someone who works in the uk frozen food wholesale business, that selling price is nothing short of theft
Gareth where you going for your holidays, France? Or Greece. I used to go island hopping in Greece, eating souvlaki in pita with salad😋
Cheers Nige
Where I live, in Asia, we don't eat battered chicken tenders, we eat battered chicken tendons. Great with a cold beer.
Haha brilliant yes when in Rome lol
Hi there, another great video from you like always look very interesting. I am seeing these before I have to try to see if I can see them myself. Keep up the good work and I hope you’re well
Cheers pal
I've had Aldi's tempura batter chicken strips and they were a far better offering than these. The last time I bought them was about a couple of months ago and if I remember right they were about £3.50 but I can't remember the weight. The price may have gone up since then They came in a bag, not a box although they didn't have a dip with them you could buy or make whatever dip you wanted.
It doesn't look like you get a lot there :/ Way too much sauce vs chicken! Does David Scales even watch anymore?! :P Best investment he made! 😆 I hate it when it says chilli and has no heat, it's a fail from me!!
Rapeseed oil's in everything......dodgy stuff. As a kid in the 80's I remember constantly seeing on the TV how the force growing of Oil Seed Rape plants all over the country was controversial because the flowers can cause breathing difficulties and allergic reactions. I used to cycle through fields of the stuff in the summer and it stank and I felt a bit ill whenever I went near it.
For that price you’re cheaper making your own they look nice but I wouldn’t pay that price another good one bud looking to the one when you do the noodles that I told you about bud all the best 👍
All the best pal
For the quantity I'd say those are a bit of a rip-off. They do better in bags where you get more, but I've found myself going to Heron for that type of thing now.
Hi Gareth, we are loving your videos! We wondered where you got your plates from as they look great. Sorry if you've been asked this already 😊
Asda
@@BaldFoodieGuy thanks very much, I'll have a look for them 🙂
Looked ok sauce looked very thick
Wouldn't put on my shopping list
Best wishes gareth 👍
Cheers Kizzy
Like most processed chicken (EU/CE) produced in EU, made in EU usually just means "assembled" in EU. Most of that chicken comes from Thailand..Spain ES would not be known as chicken producing Country..Still a few beers late at night id gulp..
Looks pretty ghastly to me Gaz. I think I'll stick with real chicken. Just lately Aldi have gotten very expensive and the quality is very hit and miss now. They can't blame it all on the food crisis. They are being greedy by hitting the customer with price rises and dips in quality.
Two statements on the box that make me worry about that product Gaz. 'may contain Soya', and 'Never chopped or shaped'. Why would you have soya in a chicken product, and if that chicken has not been chopped do the workers stand there all day pulling the chicken apart (after they cook it of course), into acceptable sized pieces, before the pieces are dipped in the batter mixture? Obviously they must have a 'pulling apart machine' lol. To pricey for what that was, sounds like retailers are getting greedy, and finding new ways to rip us off. The EU is probably charging the earth to import the stuff, as we are not in the club any more, then the retailers add their mark-up. Anyway, all the best and good review.
I expect the batter is made somewhere where there is also soya products so they are covering their back in case of cross contamination.
Cheers both, all the best Jim and Adz yes not much chicken really.
I love seeing the spiel on the back Gareth! Great video as always 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you
Hi Gareth hope you and the wife are OK mate and had a good Bank Holiday weekend
All the best pal
@@BaldFoodieGuy cheers mate back to the grind tomorrow the joys pf 12 hour shifts lol
I bought a box of 100% white chicken fillet strips for $12 Canadian on sale yesterday. They're closer to $20 when not on sale. Things have gone absolutely nuts at the grocery store! I rarely buy them, so was shocked to see the prices in the freezer section and how much things have increased in price.
I should add, I try not to buy the strips with the sauce packet inside with it. I want chicken strips...not sauce...I'm not paying meat prices for sugary sauce! The box I got was 500 plus grams I think.
Cheers Apple
@@BaldFoodieGuy cheers to you too!
ES is the country code for Spain, or Espana as they call it. Spanish chicken is clearly cheaper for Aldi to use than British.
The tesco hearty shoppers breaded chicken goujons were bloody lovely, no sauce but can recommend "Crucial s" sauces, have you reviewed them ?
Not yet!
🐔 🐔 Hey Gareth!!!!! 🍻 🍺 🍺 🍻 ❤ 😊
When will this robbery end! Nobody knows.
Hi Gareth, in case you did not find out what the ES sticker states it is
ES = Espana (Spain)
CE = Communidad Europa (European Community)
Hope this helps
Thank you
FR? 😌
it may just be me, but when I buy items like these from lidl and aldi, they appear to be made from lips and arses.
Batter looks nice and crispy
the sesame bbq version are really nice i reckon.. bit overpriced like 3.50
There was so little chicken I’d never think to read the package once I see 100% chicken and the weight but I will in future thank you for the review ❤
You're welcome
loving the wally nosh food reveiws
Get ya sen to lidl they have some red hen gastro buttermilk 2 chicken thigh burgers, absolutely beautiful
Love the mug! 😄
I think you would get more chicken in a bag of popcorn chicken… great vlog Gaz 👍👍
Thank you
Man! Thanks for the warning. Shan't be buying those anytime soon.
ES is believe is Spain ( Espana).
ES is not ESsex.
Wasn’t a lot of chicken for your buck, Gareth. And not very tasty with you giving it 6/10 ! Definitely one to miss. Thanks for the video 👍
You're welcome
350g at 38% chicken is 145g of chicken! You could buy a whole chicken for the price you paid.
I do like the mug where did you get it?
Oh that was a gift mate. Good isn't it.
A bit pricey maybe i think depends on the taste i would rather buy the chicken dippers in Home Bargains adding my own sauce like Sricacha or a sweet sauce , More portions for less money
You bought fowl but ended up eating foul .
Aldi used to be great value now they’ve joined the rest and ramped up their prices.
Not worth it gareth thanks for video xx👍👍☀️☀️☀️
You're welcome Frances x
So how much is a chicken breast to slice and crumb and put in an air fryer? Seems a bit pricey for what it is. Mayo squeeze of chilli sauce easy. Those on limited income this seems a dumb buy.
The gastro southern fried bites are pretty good.
Cheers pal
fish and wedges , yum.
ive tried Youngs gastro fish which is ok dunno if they do chicken like this or not might be better than roosters
Cheers pal
Have you got home bargains near you?
Their chicken dippers are superb
We are still in the EU due to the Northern Ireland protocol which keeps us tied in ready for joining again, plus no one knows what Mrs May and her team of snivel servants got up to. One of them said he would have to leave the country if Brexit happened and we got to learn the truth about what they got up to, as it wouldn't be safe for him here anymore. The fact we have heard nothing about it bar the kitkat wrapper episode that appeared in the media for a brief moment, and Rishi is no longer having a bonfire of EU rules tells me they are ready to re-join at any time. My teachers in 1973 said the EEC was a stepping stone towards a one world government and a treasonous act, and I agree. No outside forces should be allowed to control this land, and our King shouldn't be in bed with the WEF, which has nothing to do with economics, as he is supposed to be our King.
In readiness to join the EU we have had to sell all of our assets and reduce our gold stocks from 1973's 1600 tonnes to todays 300 tonnes. Nobody is allowed to join with enough money in the bank or enough assets to refloat a new currency and start a new nation, it's supposed to be a one way ticket/ trap, with no way back. So I never voted to join, I've only ever voted to leave.
I live in Spain so I voted to remain. Luckily for me brexit has been a success though, all the non registered cash in pocket brits went back to the UK and the work has been flowing in since.
Love your vlogs Gareth, but send a little bit of love to your fellow vlogger Lee 'the macmaster 'davey,,who is going through a vit of a health scare at the moment 🇮🇪
It looks like 🐟 I hope it’s 🐔
😂😂😂😂
It's the first time I've seen a box inside a box like that they don't look very tasty Gareth not for me I'm afraid but still a good video ,😸
Thank you