Lidl - best products and what to avoid (and is it really cheaper?)

silverwhistle

I'd definitely say Lidl (and Aldi) are cheaper than the other major supermarkets, and they're convenient enough for me to go there regularly. Both are fine for their fresh vegetables, maybe other branches have issues, but I don't buy something if it looks dodgy.

Parmesan, mascarpone, ricotta are all good value along with the yoghurts I occasionally buy. Continental meats, some of their special offers too, and although I cook a lot from scratch some of their frozen pies are great to have in the freezer for last minute meals, along with wild boar and venison. Organic milk is fine, although their flour for bread making could be higher in protein. Surprised no one has mentioned their chocolate, but I'm with you all in trying to be good!

Some of their standard range of wines are a bit flat (alhough I had a suprisingly good S. African red bought with a cooking sauce in mind), but some of their temporary ranges are both interesting and good, although I appreciate not everybody wants to pay £7/8+. Mind you, three drinks in the pub is a lot more than that. Luckily I can manage both occasionally!

Pop_Up_Pirate

The meat is cheaper in Lidls because its poorly farmed, poor fed, poorly raised 'meat' full of carp.

Livelongandprosper

Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

The meat is cheaper in Lidls because its poorly farmed, poor fed, poorly raised 'meat' full of carp.

And I totally disagree with you

Lidl NI only use either NI or Irish meat, all traceable

Where are you getting your information from?

Pop_Up_Pirate

Livelongandprosper wrote: »

And I totally disagree with you

Lidl NI only use either NI or Irish meat, all traceable

Where are you getting your information from?

Country of origin does not mean good quality.
Let's take beef as an example.

Are the cows fed purely on grass, which is the animals natural diet?
No.
They are fed on a whole host of things that are not natural such as rape and soya meal, maize gluten feed (the residue of starch extraction from maize or corn), spent grains from brewing and malting, and by-products of the baking, bread-making, and confectionery industries.
Some foods come from outside the UK such as cotton seed meal from China, soya from North America and palm kernels from Malaysia. Some of the imported foods are GMO.

Food isn't the only worry.
They are all given antibiotics every day.
Given hormones and muscle building drugs.

The ingestion of these unnatural products in meat causes chemical build ups in the human body, and contributes to chronic illnesses.

Only organic, grass fed meat is worthy of the title "good quality".