Help a Lidl virgin – What's good?

Get with the branding Dez! 😉

Full fat yoghurts

Slices of funny Euro-cheese with the holes in.

Giant Yorkshire puddings

Never!

Oh, the Greek yogurts (4 in a pack) are nice too.

Love their luxury fruit and nut muesli

It actually looks like the picture on the bag and isn’t just dust.

Luxury stucky toffee pudding is nice too.

Amongst many other things mentioned, we have a thing for their frozen croquettes 😳

Saw somebody chucking near enough a whole leg of that LIDL serrano ham at the tip the other day. Were they £100? Must have been £75 worth left- mouldy as **** in his defence.

The Lidl deluxe jam is good 75% fruit.

Hang on, I’ll just instruct Caruthers to go and quiz the oiks on the* estate

You rang m’lud?

the muesli is good – but check out the sugar content

Risotto rice,£1.80 a kilo. As others have said, veg really good value,occasional specials, pasta,fresh meat, booze, can virtually do a weeks shop there.

I know in malvern link there are more waitrose bags in Lidl’s than there are in waitrose.

What about dried pulses, do they have decent bags of lentils etc.?

we have a thing for their frozen croquettes

Ooh, the jalapeno and cheese ones! Lovely 🙂

What about dried pulses, do they have decent bags of lentils etc.?

They have red lentils, and split peas, and broth mix I think. I’ve not seen any other dried beans, at least in my local Lidl. Also have tinned kidney beans, they are fine, cheap enough.

Luxury stucky toffee pudding is nice too.

it is, they do a gooey chocolate thing in the same range which very nice too. Also the “proper” OJ is fabulous for the money, if you can get it, they sell by the crate here 😯

The trouble with Lidl and Aldi is that any savings I make on the shopping get offset by my inability to stop buying stuff like digital vernier calipers and sets of o rings.
The missus sent me to our local Lidl yesterday for cereals ( our kids are addicted to the Choco Shells) and I ended up coming back with 3 boxes of cereal and a pillar drill……..

The random selection of stuff in the middle of the shop are called “magic beans”

Their new ‘own brand’ ales are really nice.

The choc cornettos are great too.

And they often do 2 baguettes for a quid, which are a cut above the other supermarket versions.

Interesting to see the comments on their Fruit & Veg. Round here the quality of F&V at Lidl is awful.

I tend to prefer Aldi for pretty much everything. Their Weetabix is definitely better!

Weetabix is gross. Not just Lidl, all of it.

Nobeerinthefridge – Member

Weetabix is gross. Not just Lidl, all of it.

+1000 the smell is rank & working in a flour mill it just reminds me of compressed wheatfeed, the waste product we send to feed mills for bulking up animal feed.

As a general rule:

Ingredients = good
Ready meal type stuff = bad
Anything involving marzipan = amazing

Pretty much spot on.

Although I do like the stuff pasta and I find the wine a bit hit and miss.

As far as I can tell, they tend to do only one big restock at the start of the day, so sometimes the shelves are a bit bare come 8pm.

Ready meal type stuff = bad

Except the lasagne is great.

Their new ‘own brand’ ales are really nice.

+1

Lidl used to be bad for bread, and bad for fruit and veg – they’ve sorted that out and I find it really good for both now. Always been good for cold meats, continental type cheeses, really cheap for beans, tomatoes etc – decent wine. The ‘deluxe’ filled pasta is really good. Habanero flavoured almonds, mmmm…..

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3093017/Lidl-retains-crown-best-value-wine-M-S-branded-poorest-latest-league-table-experts.html

+1 on the stroepwaffles and plain chocolate, especially eaten together

Mmmmmm

Protein rolls, oatcakes, muesli, fresh fruit & veg, nuts, cheese, cured meats. Some of the own brand ales are pretty good as well.

My mum shops there.

The chocolate spread is horrible, nothing like as good as Nutella
The ketchup is nothing like as good as Heinz
The crunchy oat cereal is nothing like as good as Jordan’s

Those that like the Lidl stuffed pasta should try the Giovanni Rana stuff, always cheap at Iceland and way way better.

Those that like the Lidl stuffed pasta should try the Giovanni Rana stuff

That is also very nice – Iceland though…

I’ve kinda given up on Aldi due to little car parks and a refusal to queue.

Maybe you’ve moved, but the Aldi in Blackwater always has loads of car park spaces 😀

The little snack packs of crayfish tails are excellent, only about 99p and really fresh tasting.

The mens aftershave stuff is exactly the same as Hugo Boss, and the womens perfume thing is exactly the same as Coco Mademoiselle. I saw it on a TV show about 4 years ago and it was the reason I first went there. They are £4 each instead of £30-40 for the real thing, and I repeat are EXACTLY THE SAME.

Once they were on sale for £2

Other than that,

Stroopwaffles
Stolen
Cheddar
Fromage Frais yoghurts for the kids
Imitation hula hoops and skips
Bread
All the Veg
I want to say schnitzels, but I think they are just at Aldi

Stolen
Cheddar

If you steal the cheddar it’s the same price everywhere!! 😀

The Onken cherry yog for 99p/pot that they have in this week is nice with the luxury fruit and nut muesli (blue bag) for brekkies BTW.

Cepa Lebrel Rioja Reserva 2010 Is my default red wine. The bakery is great. We love their fresh cookies at work and the new pain aux raisin are as good as Waitrose. Their mozzarella is much better than the bland stuff sold by most other supermarkets too.

The Low GI instore baked loaf is awesome. I don’t give a monkeys about the GI bit – its simply the nicest bread around.

Also the french speciality cheese when on half price is a total steal.

Fruit & veg – choice of ‘exotics’ gets better all the time
Pastries are brill
Dried fruit & nuts
Olive oils
Tinned goods – chopped toms/ pulses etc
Deluxe crisps
Unsalted butter
Massive pots of Greek yoghurt
Continental cheeses – all sorts
Own brand mayo/ ketchup
Foil/ kitchen cleaning stuff/ washing liquids etc
The specials e.g Greek week when you can get massive tubs of feta or Italian when they do huge pasta varieties are fab
Can buy a trolly load of stuff in Lidl & then spend exactly the same amount in Waitrose for stuff that all fits in one basket…oops