shopping at Lidls

hazzie123

My LIDLS has baskets! Yay I feel special now.lol

iceicebaby

Maxitrat washing tablets at lidls are probably the best i have ever used and i only use the 1 tablet not the recomended 2. They do bio and colour versions. I used to be apersil snob aswell!

Other than this they are brilliant for fruit and veg (as long as u use it quite quickly) jars of pasta sauce/curry sauce/cook in sauces. Cold meats are way cheaper than anywhere else. Cheese, yoghurts, coleslaw, tins of beans and tomatoes are all fab.

Bread tends to be not so good, i find it only has a day or 2 left till the date is up, ok if you are going to use the whole loaf quickly.

N9eav

The biggest down side with Lidl and Aldi is hey don't take credit cards. I like to charge everything and get cashback on my cards. LIDL only take debit or cash, so I have to pay straight away.

oldandhappy

and the only supermarket around this way that stocks PART boned chicken breasts these days......tastier than breast fillets

mirry

well we went, spent £66 but should last 2 weeks.
I got almost everything mentioned, the yogurts are lovely.
Got the Jam which is very nice. As for the bread, the one we picked up seems nice.....my kids tell me it nice (im on a yeast free diet).
I couldnt belive how cheap the chickens were, worried whats wrong with them ? My hubby has lost the reciept..thinks its in the car somewhere so will try to find it.
We got things like batterys , toothbrushes etc.
The spag bol sauces were cheap at 60p....I usually buy dolmio at £1.29 so big savings made.

thanks everyone!

zappomatic

The Dessa 3-ply kitchen roll that comes in a 4 pack is brilliant, even stronger than the likes of Bounty.

Blairweech

I :heart2: Lidl.

There is a 'Great Whats Hot/Whats Not at Lidl/Aldi/Netto Hunt around somewhere...*wanders off to find it*

My favourite buys are:

- 1KG tubs of yoghurts - I think theyre called Yogisan or something - I ate a whole tub of strawberry in one sitting last time :drool: - £1.25 each

- Raspberry/Cherry/Orange cakes - gorgeous. Have been eating these, then opened a pack of Mcvities and they are disgusting in comparison - all claggy cake and no flavour - £0.75 per pack (I think you get about 24 cakes?)

- Cheese - Mature White Cheddar - £3.34KG

- Frozen Greenland prawns - £3.98KG

- Crunchy Oat Cereal - a very nice granola. £0.99 a pack (I think 500g)


Things I dont like

- Milton Gate Premium Smoked Rindless Back Bacon - £1.49 a pack (8 slices) - thick, tough and tasteless

jackieb

Depends on what time of the day you go, but there are often 'soon to be out of date' stuff which is free to take. In our shop they're placed behind the tills, but i've seen people just come in, walk through the tills (as they've bought nothing) and literally fill their boots with the freebies!

yorkie007_2

they do packs of icecreams like magnums only a bit smaller, very nice also yoghurt drinks in big bottles with fruit on label very good, frozen tuna steaks also recommended, beware of stange german meaty sausage products - half the fun of lidl is you often have no idea what stuff is but its usually so cheap its worth risking

li'l_p

LIDL is fab, and like others have said you can't do ALL of your shopping there but you can get quite a lot there. We got our LIDL a few months ago much to our local residents opposition (...much to do with snobbery that it was "cheap" store, than anything else!) and we tend to live there. The rest of our shopping is done at Asda or Tesco, as there are things we can't get at LIDL.

One product I would recommend highly is LIDL 'denatlux' toothpaste - available in herbs or freshmint; of which we have a tube of each on the go. They are only 49p per sqeezy tube. We've just recently replenished our stocks and won't buy anything else now. We were paying £2-3 for branded toothpaste in a solid tube (unless I got it from Poundland now and then), so it's a big saving and we haven't seen a difference in quality either. Well worth a try at 49p.

LIDL are German origin so they tend to have some lovely cakes/biscuits, the 'Liebkuchen' being one of my favourites. That's what I love about LIDL and ALDI, you're not being seduced by labels and you literally pay for the products you buy, not the brand name!