MyBuddy-Box, The Alternative Aldi Challenge & My Aldi Favourites
MyBuddy-Box, The Alternative Aldi Challenge & My Aldi Favourites
A little while ago, I was challenged to take the #AlternativeAldiChallenge which is to see if you can beat the fast cashier and fill your MyBuddy-Box before you get asked to pay. MyBuddy-Box is a clever invention — it’s a storage box that you can use for many things but what’s so great about it is that it folds up really small, is very strong and sturdy and is stackable too. It’s a great box to take with you when you’re doing your supermarket shop. Read my full review of it here.
I usually shop in Aldi midweek and then I just walk up with the pushchair but for this occasion we took the car so that we could use the MyBuddy-Box and take the challenge. I also took this opportunity to do a shop of some of my absolute favourite Aldi items that I always get and document the items here on my blog.
Here’s some of our shop. It’s a medium sized shop for us with some treats and some bits for the home that we needed. 
The #AlternativeAldiChallenge was a success! I easily finished packing the shopping away into the MyBuddy-Box before it was time to pay. I’d forgotten to take a trolley coin with me but if I’d had a trolley I would have been even faster. Having a box like this makes it really quick and easy to put your items away.
When you put your shopping on the conveyor belt you can even put the heavier items first and the light, delicate ones last to make it even easier. 
Another thing about the MyBuddy-Box that is great is that you can just put it straight in the boot of your car from the trolley. No organising needed. The box protects your shopping and removes the risk of bottles rolling around and bags falling over spilling the shopping as you drive.
The MyBuddy-Box is also great to use to sit in when eating your rice cakes.
My Aldi Favourites
What did we buy? After the recent Aldi Baby & Toddler Event, we are still stocked up on our favourite nappies and wipes that we usually buy when we go to Aldi. These Mamia products are definitely part of my favourite items from Aldi, but we didn’t need any more on this occasion.
- Double Length Toilet Tissue 6 Pack £1.95 — We’ve been using this toilet roll for years now and it’s great. Super soft and great value. It was tested on Channel 4’s Superscrimpers and it was the winner of their test.
- Junior Mini Rice Cakes £0.59 — Review here. My daughter loves these!
- Pistachios £1.25 — Delicious and such a great price!
- Breaded Camenberts 4 pack £1.89 — This is my absolute favourite Aldi product! They are so tasty and addictive. At the end of my pregnancy, I stocked up on these to eat after giving birth. I really struggled going 9 months without these! Everybody loves them. We eat ours with jam. I want some now…
- Herbs £0.41 each — We use a lot of basil and oregano in our house because we love Italian food. These herbs from Aldi are great quality and amazing value.
- Orange & Almond Dark Chocolate £1.19 — This is something I buy a lot! The dark chocolate available in Aldi is very tasty and this packet contains five mini chocolate bars so that helps if you struggle to not eat it all… The Mint one is another one of my favourites.
- Beer, San Miguel 660ml £1.25 — Aldi makes a really nice french lager in small glass bottles that we usually get but on this occasion we spotted these very large San Miguel bottles and San Miguel reminds us of our last holiday so we thought they were suitable for the heatwave. Great value again!
- Crème Caramel 6 Pack £0.68 — This is a new bargain favourite. Crème Caramel reminds me of childhood desserts but I’d not had one since becoming vegetarian at the age of 12. I was pleased to see that these do not contain gelatine nor eggs (I don’t like eating eggs) so we bought some. Very tasty, simple and not too indulgent — perfect when you’re craving something sweet. The whole family loves them and they only cost 68p for six!
- Anti-bacterial Wipes Pack of 40 £0.75 — We use these all the time to clean all kinds of surfaces in our home. I even took these with me on holiday to sanitise the aeroplane and the highchairs in restaurants when our girl was a baby.
- Anti-bacterial Cleaner Spray £0.49 — Another cleaning staple in our home. We use this in the kitchen to clean the work surfaces, our table and the sink. Sometimes I use it for the floor. It’s available in a Lemon scent too.
Those are our favourites! This shop only cost £13.36 — what a bargain. What do you usually buy from Aldi?
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I don’t have a Aldi near me :(
Oh no! Hope you get one soon! :) x
ham and eggs
Usually fresh veg and chilled deli items such as meats and cheese.
Vegetables, they have excellent prices x
The marzipan chocolate bars!
What ever is on offer
Chicken and meat are reasonable
This looks fab! Would love to win x
Mostly household stuff like cleaners etc. I also stock up on cereal – love their version of bran flakes.
I recently brought some Chinese style pork chops for the barbecue and they were delicious
I don’t usually shop from Aldi but I occasionally go in there fro fruit and veg and the special buys.
Their version of baileys :) xxx
I love that too! I always buy it around Christmas! :) xx
Thanks for the excellent comp and blog….due to the recession I have stopped sainsbury shopping for aldis and I basically buy everything from there now!
They do a lovely chicken and mango salad!
I love the chocolate & confectionary deals.
I buy a lot from Aldi, I can spend 30 on four bags of shopping, enough for two weeks without counting the little bits like bread and milk!!
I love their specials, most hobby stuff comes from Aldi.
everything
I do most of my shopping their, so everthing from biscuits to cold meats, from dog food to yogurts.
everythink I do my weekly shop there x
vegetables
I usually buy their meat
We buy all sorts from Aldi But we love their Ribs!!
They have the nicest BBQ ribs.
Well most things, but we do love their pasta and their ice cream. Their huge bags of crisps are a big favourite too. :)
veg and salad stuff x
I love Aldi nappies, baby wipes and yoghurts
Very excited as an Aldi being built near us #cantwait
Wonderful news! :)
Don’t shop at Aldi but might take a trip there and see what they have to offer
Gluten free sausages and fresh meat,the price and the quality is amazing.
eggs and milk
Chocolate biscuits marzipan
I love the selection of Cold meats they stock and also the fruit and veg
Vegetables – they have such a fresh and wonderful selection at great prices. Also flowers and milk!
i like to buy my tinned bits from aldi and snacks x
Fruit and veg and also nappies and wet wipes I find them very good value.
Fruit and veg, the prices are brill
I buy cut herbs, Parma and Serrano ham, honey,malted what’s. Good products at great prices
I do a monthly shop at Aldi. My favourites are sliced meats, cheese, beer, laundry detergent, hand wash and cereal
Currys to away in my caravan and fruit juice.
I love the lighter than light mayonnaise and their nappies
I’d don’t do my regular shopping at Aldi as it isn’t near me but do regularly visit family and friends where a store is on the route home. We always pop in and I must say, we always grab some sensible bits and pieces but (*the shame*) are drawn towards the wine and beers!
Snackrite crisps
Everything.x
A whole range of stuff for our weekly shop.
I do all my fresh meat shopping at aldi. The quality and price are great. Also their frozen stonbaked pizzas are to die for
We usually buy all of the essentials from Aldi – you just can’t beat them for price!! And then we will supplement the shop with a few bits from Tesco that you can’t get at Aldi. :)
The marzipan chocolate bars!
apple juice!
everything i love aldi x
we buy most things from aldi as it is so much cheaper x
Everytthing
their nappies are fab!
Their chocolates
I love their chocolate and their own brand fruit flakes
I buy everything from there, apart from baked beans!!
Cheese and chocolate
I love Aldi for meat because it’s British and it’s very good value. Used to like it for my fruit and vegetables but our local Aldi seems to keep their produce out until it’s literally rotten so I’ve stopped buying those.
Fruit and veg
i always do my weekly shop there
We love the steak and fruit and veg
fruit and vegetables :)
we do our full weekly shop there but are favourites are the titan bars, chocolate crunch cereal, the split pot yogurts and the cheesey rolls!
We do our full weekly shop at Aldi we especially love their drinks ;)
I buy the mamia range… love the wetwipes
After being a washing up liquid snob for years I tried the Magnum brand & it’s really good. I’m a convert!
I think the quality of their fruit and veg is great
My weekly shop – love their chocolate, flowers and plants when I want to treat myself.
beer
Nappies
Unfortunately we don’t have an Aldi – but the Buddy Box looks fab x
their fruit and veg. absolute bargain
we buy everything at aldis, I love this idea x
We don’t have an Aldi nearby sadly but I used to in my uni days…when I mostly bought cheap wine and microwave meals haha
I do all my shopping at Aldi – my other half’s favourite imitation of me is ‘if Aldi don’t do it you can’t have it’! :)
I love going to Aldi to do my weekly shop. They have everything I need.
Jives, Titans, love their dark chocolate too – ohh and their Oatie biscuits are too addictive!
Fruit and vegetables, can’t go wrong! :)
Nappies, wipes and wine
I don’t have an Aldi near me so only get to go couple times a year.
Last time I visited was to buy spirits (gin and vodka) to make homemade gifts. Ofc I came out with a whole trolley of other stuff too!
They have amazing meat!
Fruit and veg.
I get my fruit, veg and milk too x
I usually buy nappies and baby wipes
Fresh fruit and veg
Thanks for adding your competition to this weeks #Competitionlinky
Half of the shop!! I am forever going in for a few pieces and coming out with a full trolley
frozen pizzas. and a lot of things I didn’t go in to buy but which caught my eye.
I usually buy Cereal from Aldi and a selection of treats! Getting stuff for the kids lunchboxes as they are always at good prices!
Fruit, veg, meats and oh did I mention CHOCOLATE!
Their chocolate is soooooo gooooood! :)
it is great value for money and the products are always the best
Meat, fruit, veg, cereals, just about everything lol
We get most of our weekly shop in Aldi now
Everything! Their fruit & fibre cereal is amazing
White wine
Eggs, fruit, yoghurts, crisps
Pretty much everything, I don’t buy my daughters dairy free milk and yoghurts or her nappies as she doesn’t get on with them but everything else I get from there
sirloin steak , and washing powder
We now do pretty much all of our shopping at Aldi
Lacura body lotiomn
Fruit, veg and meat.
I do most of my shopping there. I love there fruit and veg, fresh meat and pie and there cooked meats. x
I love the Aldi version of Baileys, mostly at Christmas, not the cheapest one, the next one up, I think it’s about £7 which is an absoloute bargain.
The one with whiskey not wine! It’s lovely :) I always buy that too! :)
Most of my shopping but I really love their lamb shanks in mint gravy
Their fruit and veg and their cook in the bag chicken is a real bargain!
I like their wines and chocolate
We love your Salmon wellington, mushy peas are the best …crisps very good value and variety and freshness….fruit and veg and some of your pickles
There isn’t an Aldi where I live
Olive Oil
I usually buy their meat
Vegetables they are very nice and great price . Bonus point that rhymes
various things but the meat is good stuff :)
Fruit and Veg
usually fruit and veg, well i say i buy my hubby does the shopping so he does it
I buy cheese and vegetables and whatever else catches my eye! I think I’m a supermarket’s dream lol.
Nappies!!
Nappies and wipes
I buy almost all my weekly shop at ALDI,only since recently as ive noticed a big difference in how much i get for my money there :) I get my pet food,cleaning products,frozen food,fresh fruit and veg,beauty products,all sorts :) x
Fruit and Veg
Pretty much everything especially nappies and wipes
Chocolate and vegetables!
Nappies and wipes and snacks for my baby.
Toilet roll
We always buy their brioche burger buns – they turn a standard burger into something special!
They sound great! I need to try them :)
Everything! We do our big shop there!
Usually buy bits and bobs. I don’t do my main shopping there as my nearest is a bit far away, but I pop in when I’m in the area.
My weekly fruit and veg
Vegetables
Yoghurt rice cakes
Cereal and yogurt
Nappies and wipes… Even better when it’s the baby event :D
Their Lacura range of beauty products are great.
Everything, just great value!
Aldi’s cookies, crackers, cereal, cereal bars, cheese & cleaning products are great. It looks like I only buy things that start with c but they’re the first things I thought of that I’ve bought recently & are Aldi own brand!
fruit, veg and ANGUS BURGERS!
Unfortunately nothing as we dont have one in N.Ireland.
I do my weekly shop there although I do pick up different stuff like clothes toys household items etc x
I do most of my shopping at Aldi,great value and good quality.
I’ve only bought cleaning products and non-perishable / canned goods
Nappies :)
I do most of my weekly shop at Aldi and buy all of our frozen items in addition to fresh dairy and cheese. I love their special weekly bin buys that are always changing.
nappies and chocolate