New Lidl - what do you recommend?

scrimperjan

Lidl have opened a new store in my nearest town. I had a quick recce, but I didn't buy much 'cos I wasn't confident about trying all the unknown (to me) brands. I suppose it will be a case of trial & error in the end, but has anybody got any recommendations, or general opinions about the quality of their products?

calleyw

I have just done a quick search on this board and found this

Hope it helps.


Yours


Calley

Smashing

Big fan of Lidl here. Some past threads to get you started -

What/what not to buy at Lidl/Aldi/Netto

Discussion of the best products at Lidl/Aldi/Netto

At-a-glance recommended products list

Tell me about shopping at Lidl

Lidl's fruit & veg

Which is better - Aldi or Lidl?

Should be plenty there to keep you busy.

Contains_Mild_Peril

I normally only go there when they do their half price fruit & veg. If you haven't found out yet, check if they have baskets. No, seriously, the one near me doesn't. Some lunatic actually designed a supermarket without baskets, and I only found this out after I went in (for just a few things so I didn't take one of their humungous trolleys) and when I tried to sneak out the "in" door in order to get to a trolley easily, I set off an alarm and a harsh recorded voice told me not to exit via the entrance!
Their bacon misshapes are a good buy at £1.15 a 1kg pack, though.

Smashing

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote:

If you haven't found out yet, check if they have baskets.

None of the Lidl stores have baskets - just grab an empty box of the hundreds they have. Trolley's require a £1 deposit. Don't foget to bring your own bags either as they charge for them.

Specials begin on Mondays and Thursdays so expect them to be busy in the morning. Certainly don't go in a rush hour - they rarely have more than one or two checkouts open. They also have a tendency to 'fling' your stuff through, so have your bags at the ready.

Rallya

Lidl sell the best chocolate ever, better than Lintd and Thorntons. Every thing I've tried from there has been superb value for money, just done try the baked beans, they are horrid

Lord_Gardener

They are now doing heavy duty bags for 99p - you can carry out even more! Yes' they do fling stuff through the tills - they have a target of 36 items per min!!! No credit cards also!

dorry_2

hi , :wave:

there chicken korma and madras are really nice and for £1.19 each including rice, extremely good value. :money:

love dorry

Contains_Mild_Peril

Smashing wrote:

None of the Lidl stores have baskets - just grab an empty box of the hundreds they have.

My Lidl has no easily accessible boxes to use instead of baskets - all the empty boxes are behind the checkouts. I assume the theory behind it is that if you have to get a trolley when you only wanted a basket, you'll finish up putting more stuff in it. Unfortunately there is no warning about the absence of baskets, so new customers naturally assume they can pick one up inside (as in any normal shop) then finish up stuck without a basket and so buy only what they can carry easily. Given that they're competing with a Morrisons which is within 5 mins walk, it's a somewhat foolish strategy.

Rallya wrote:

Lidl sell the best chocolate ever, better than Lintd

Is that the stuff where you get 3 skinny bars in a pack for 99p?

OK_Sauce

CHOCOLATE!

Cook_County

It is all good high quality - mostly German - products. In Germany it is illegal to add vegetable fats to chocolate (which is done in all UK and US chocolate). Consequently the only fats are cocoa fats. This tends to make the chocolate much higher quality than British, because the vegetable fats used as fillers in the UK are not added.