Lidls Offers 21-27 Nov & 23-24 Nov

Turkishdreamer

marris wrote: »

as above in Glasgow but we got Mull of Kintyre extra mature scottish cheddar £1,44 300g instead of brie

Is it the orange coloured cheddar? Did you happen to notice which Oatcakes were on offer by any chance. It might be worth me making a trip.
Thanks in anticipation.

VfM4meplse

Ken68 wrote: »

Loads of Brie still here, and best sell by date 26th Dec.

Out of interest, is it in a wedge or a small truckle? If its a truckle I'll get some to bake for a Crimbo treat, yum.

John_Pierpoint

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

...................and next weekend's back page "half price" offers are :

A. Pork Shanks with peppercorn sauce (£3.48 a kilo) What is the bone weigh as a % of the total?
B. Baby plum tomatoes ( £1.76 kg).
C. Scottish Oat Cakes ( £1.30 kg ) I find this "hard tack" (*) invaluable as emergency travel sustenance.
D. Produit en France Brie ( £2.45 kg) buy with care. it might be the dried out sort or does it have a problem staying inside its skin at room temperature ......:T Yummy
Fat reduced version also available as an alternative (yuck ?)

(*) Hard Tack was essentially a gruel preserved by being dried on a hot rock, in situations where a oven was an unimaginable luxury.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruel
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35339
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46037-2004Dec8.html

The oatcakes are these ones, they are more "solid" that the better known Nairn ones.


http://tracker.dailyburn.com/nutrition/mcallisters_mcallisters_lidl_scottish_oatcakes_calories

The Brie is mild and young, but very pleasant no suggestion of shrinkage or the ammonia smell that comes off Brie that that has been kept too long.

There is a school of thought that says that cheese, like tomatoes, should not be refrigerated but that is perfection. I have kept a wedge of Brie out all day in the kitchen and it is soft but still not running.
It is hard to say if it will mature further BUT at a price that is cheaper than the cheapest rubber Cheddar, it can be used for all sorts of applications:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/brie_cheese

I think I will try for some more tomorrow.

karlie88

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Out of interest, is it in a wedge or a small truckle? If its a truckle I'll get some to bake for a Crimbo treat, yum.

It's a circular wedge.

Ken68

The cheese is wedge shaped and twelve make a circle.

Sequeena

Got 2 packs of the pork shanks today