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

Drasticplastic

Individual Beef Wellington (frozen)
Lamb Shanks - 3 types(frozen)
Tortellini mushroom/truffle/salmon 99p! with a selection of sauces - beautiful.
Lemon Sole and Sole goujons - whatever they are(?) Posh fish fingers - beautiful.(frozen)
all veg needs to be picked carefully but at 49p upwards - you should complain?
They are popular all over Europe; I understand why. ( Notice the excellent use of the semi-colon.)

Mary_Hartnell

the lidl beans taste of soap powder according to OH and he loves any beans usually.....................
.......................so do the aldi beans avoid like the plague.

"Made in Italy for Lidl Stiftung & Co"

The Continent's favourite beans are Haricot Beans, the sort we bake in UK tend to be Navy Beans from USA.

They are popular all over Europe; I understand why. ( Notice the excellent use of the semi-colon.)

Drasticplastic, welcome to MSE, you don't have to be dishlexic on here but most of us find it helps.
(You are not vegetarian; the sort of person who eats shoots and leaves;))

Mary_Hartnell

I noticed today that Lidl are pushing "Branson" (as in pickle?) Baked Beans.

Their own brand as above is 0.70 GBP per kilo "Branson" is 1.40 per kilo

SazM030306

Do you mean Branston?

candygirl

SazM030306 wrote: »

Do you mean Branston?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:great minds;):D

catkins2

Lidl
The 95p sausages are fairly good My tip is Do a couple of packets of them on the Lidl £1.30 disposable barbecue.
The Moordale Gourmet Burgers are good too.
The Feta Cheese is nice.
The Large Tin of Ravioli is excellent.
The Tinned Tuna in Sunflower Oil is good.
The Chicken and Veg Cup of Soup is good.
Their Yoghurt is usually good and decent value
You can pick up a a four pack of the probiotic stuff for around 80p
The 12 pack Lidl Sondey chocolate butter bisuits are delicious exactly the same as the more expensive Bahlsen 9 pack you get from other supermarkets.
The Maionaisse is great.Their soups are excellent and cheap too.
You can pick up Branston Baked Beans 4 pack for £1.
Currently you can pick up Six Cans of Pepsi for £1.You can't knock that sort
of offer.I know a guy who has a fish and chip shop and he shops in Lidl
because in some cases it's probably cheaper than the Cash And Carry
At the same time though some things in Lidl aren't so cheap so shop around
Even Sainsburys can have cheaper offers at some points.

AnotherMakes3

We've found the Ravioli bolognese in a big tin from Lidl's lovely, even the kids eat it!

Also cheese and onion sandwich filler
the cold meats are excellent
the big fresh lasagne
the 12 little fromage frais for the kids, they are brill and very good value at £1 odd.
strawberry jam
peach and passionfruit big pot of yoghurt
their own Disorano (amoretto) is actually really nice too
frozen fish fingers are much nicer than the bisdseye ones
kids toothbrushes are only 80p or so for 3 and are bright and fun for them
cheese and chive waffle crisps, great
choc raisins are good as are all their own brand choc equivalents (mars, bounty, snickers)

God reading that back all we buy is rubbish:rolleyes::A

chriskross

Have to say I'm disappointed with recent moves by Aldi and Lidi towards big brands. There were reports a few months ago that the big names (P&G/Unilever, Coke, Pepsi etc,. were pressuring them in Germany where customer preferred lower bills to big names. I started shopping there precisely because there was little choice in other supermarkets - the same products in all. It was exciting seeing the wider choice of brands from differenr parts of Europe. But they've been succumbing to pressure: several items I got used to in Lidl have disappeared. Most recently we started buying litre cartons of smoothies, made in Germany. Then Innocent started crowding them out and now the German ones have gone- even though they were half the price of Innocent! So I refuse to buy these big brands. Alongside is now a large area of Tropicana, even though there are already excellent German juices.

But most serious of all: what's happened to the glorious (and cheap) Bourbon vanilla ice-cream (the 2.5 l blue tubs)??!! Maybe it's just temporary while they have some special Italian ice-creams, but as it coincided with the arrival of lots of rubbish Walls and Cadbury products I suspect not. Perhaps it's just regional?

I do object to these big companies muscling in and denying me choice.

Stompa

chriskross wrote: »

Have to say I'm disappointed with recent moves by Aldi and Lidi towards big brands.

Hmmm, tbh I've noticed very few 'known' brands in Aldi so far thank goodness.

nickyvicar

Noticed http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090927.index.ar4 offers for the 28th Sep at Lidl - anything there of note Schamansky?
Or should I just stick with the Aldi Wheat Beer?