The Aldi Project: Reviewing Aldi Australia Sauces, Dips & Spreads
From Italian, to Asian to morning spreads and the usual fruit offerings Aldi offer various sauces, dips and spreads often with both a standard and premium offering.
Sauces are versatile and with a an accompanying selection of cheap meats and some frozen vegetables it’s not hard to quickly whip up office lunch for the week for under $10. Spreads go great with Aldi’s offering of breads and Sauces add a bit of zing to anything.
Remano Garden Vegetable Pasta Sauce
I’m of the belief that nothing compares to homemade pasta sauce but let’s face it, sometimes you just can’t be bothered. That’s when pasta sauce in a jar comes in handy.
Remano Garden Vegetable Pasta Sauce is saucy and has a decent amount of vegetable chunks in it but it lacks a distinct tomatoey richness. The sauce tries to compensate with salt or perhaps an artificial tomato flavour, similar to the difference in taste between canned tomato soup and the powder stuff.
Having said that it I’m not suggesting it tastes bad. If you’re on a budget and don’t mind the tomato flavour cutback then at $1.60 a jar Aldi pasta sauce is a bargain.
Manufactured: Australia (from local and imported ingredients)
Asia Specialties – Soy Sauce
I found for dipping this soy sauce was a tad too salty and tasted a lot like sea water with a tiny hint of soy. For cooking though it’s fine but at $1.49 for 625ml any Asian grocery store should be able to offer you a premium soy sauce for about the same price. I’d give this one a miss.
Manufactured: Indonesia
Bramwells Choc Hazlenut Spread
I’ve yet to taste anything that comes close to the richness of Nutella so I was aprehensive about trying Bramwells offering. As expected it doesn’t match the taste of Nutella. The best way to describe the taste is to imagine eating belgian milk rich 30-35% cocoa chocolate, that’s Nutella. Now imagine eating cheap nasty easter egg chocolate, that’s Bramwells choc hazlenut spread.
It does taste decent enough on bread but the rich chocolatey flavour is noticeably lacking instead it feels like you’re eating melted down cheap easter eggs. Probably one to miss unless you’re not particular fussy when it comes to chocolate.
Manufactured: Germany
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