Great What/What Not to Buy at Lidl, Aldi and Netto Hunt

valk_scot

I've copied one of my posts over from the Grocery Challenge thread because I think it has relevance here too, but apologies if cross posting like this is against forum etiquette!

"After having said that I didn't need any more shopping this week I realised we'd run out of butter, so went into Lidl on my way home from slimming club last night. Got the butter and some Stork and glace cherries (found three tins of pineapple and a half tin of golden syrup in the larder...that ==== pineapple upside down cake to me!) so that was another £2.55 spent. BUT since it was late in the evening, they had a pile of groceries behind the checkout which were FREE on a "help yourself " basis because their date codes were about to expire. Got two packs of fruity tea cakes, two loaves of bread for the freezer, cream (there goes slimming club), two packs of fresh fruit salad, pack of chops, pack of mince and some flapjacks. The checkout staff were urging me to take more, because I'm a familiar face, but there was mostly bread left and I either didn't want it or I didn't have freezer room. But it was a good bag of shopping for £2.55!

So just a tip in case folk see this happening in their local Lidl....as you go in, glance at the packing shelf on the "out" side of the check-out. If there's a little heap of groceries out there on its own it's free stuff but won't be there long, so grab the nearest bit of your shopping list, get through the checkout and get your share before it's gone. You can always go back in again for the rest of your shopping list. My Lidl seem to do this on a completely random time basis over the day, however, so you just have to be lucky."

flyer

Smashing wrote: »

Have Lidl stopped stocking their 99p 1kg boxes of cous cous or is their just a shortage in my area?

Slightly off topic, what do you do with cous cous to make it more interesting?

tight_hass

Always make it up with stock, not water.
Any tomatoey or youghurty sauce is great with couscous:

Put spicy ratatouille on it.

Bake Salmon steaks with lemon and olive oil. Add garlic purée, chopped fresh mint + seasoning to greek yoghurt and pour over Salmon/couscous

Ditto for Lamb/Chicken kebabs

littleowl

LIDL - The new offers - available Monday 12th include the following and I wonder whether anyone has bought them in previous years and can recommend any/all of them?:

Barbary Duck Breast Fillet
Vension Steaks
Whole Duck
Pheasant

BexTech

Duck was excellent.

Can't remember if they had venison or pheasant last year, I know they had goose.

Duck, venison and pheasant and game we can get from Birmingham Food market.

littleowl

Thanks BexTech

It's the duck so far then.

I bought a lobster last week and, while it was quite good, if a little tough, it was very small so wanted to check.

crispeater

i agree the duck was lovely! i hope mine get some in

crispeater

slightly ot but can someone have a look at this and tell me whether they think it would be suitable to put up on a wall or not

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20071112.p.Display_Unit.ar1

thank you

crispeater

while looking at the site i remembered my mum had the goose last year i think it was and said it was good

Schamansky

stamford wrote: »

The mugs queue up to fall for it though no wonder Tesco & Co are laughing all the way to the bank

Tesco, but also and Sainsbury's and ASDA etc., always do it, in particular on their packs of 6 or 8 little bottles. I assume that's aimed at blokes coming home tired from a long day's work, dropping in and picking up a beer or two for the evening to relax.

And that way, they extort something like £2 a litre from these hard working blokes, at so-called "half price" :mad:.

Smarten up, mates, don't fall for that any more and put an end to this. Your local corner shop does it cheaper. When at supermarkets, go for the 2 for £16 deals and strock up.