Whats Good Value At Lidls?

calleyw

flea72 wrote:

whoever it was recommended the cherry jaffa cakes, i thank you

Talk about, 'When Harry met Sally' lol

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! Glad you like them but you are horrid person as I am on a diet and all the shops are shut.

Yours

Calley

toozie_2

Whole Lidl chicken in the slow-cooker now! Bought yesterday for £1.69, should do Sunday Roast, Monday Curry (or salad) and Tuesday Soup-with home-made bread...all for 4 of us, although one sprog will eat very little meat!

I have been trying in include the "5 fruit and veg" in my diet for the last 12 months, most of it comes from Lidl, the fruit is more varied than the veg. But I manage to have two large fruit bowls filled and emptied every week, and the same with the salad drawer.

When mango's are 1/2 price, they make a lovely chicken & manago curry-very cheaply.

Lidl fruit is grat for making a massive fruit salad, with the juice from a lemon, tiny bit of sugar and hot water (all then cooled) poured over it all, stored in the fridge in a big tupperware box. Meant to last 2 to 3 days, usually it's gone in 24 hours!

chickadee

My favourite Lidl best buys are:

Sweet & sour sauce 75p - better quality than any other I have tried and low-fat too!
Strawberry jam ( & other flavours too) 59p and the continental type with a high fruit content & slightly more runny than Robertson's
Ham and other cooked meats V good quality & price
I love their herring fillets in different sauces - they come in a flat oval tin and are 59p. They are perfect with salads.
Fruit juice is very good value (orange juice 1 litre 33p) and better quality than other 'value' brands.
Their Special Muesli is brilliant. It costs £1.49 for 750g which isn't particularly cheap but it has 50% fruit and nuts which tastes really great.
Their wines are also worth checking out. I like their Chianti which I think is £3.99 but better quality than most £4 wines I have tried.

I agree that it is difficult to do a full shop there. Bread isn't great and fruit and veg is good if they have lots of stock but they do tend to sell out of quite a lot so sometimes you will need to supplement it with and Asda shop.

By the way, coffee is great but don't bother with their tea bags. Stick with Yorkshire tea!

jenpoptab

the nappies from Lidl are excellent, much better than the big brand names but at a fraction of the cost.

domestic_goddess_wanabee

This probably isnt the place to post this but I really fancy one of their pressure cookers in this weeks special deals at £19.99. My mum does fab things in her pressure cooker - great stews, steam puddings and when we used to go camping with mum and dad, mum cooked new potatoes amazingly quickly on the campstove - absolutely delicious.

Katinkka

There are a few regional differences though. Sadly, you can't buy vanilla sugar in this country, but it is very cheap in the German Lidl.

I bought some of this in Waitrose although I dont think it was cheap!

Js_Other_Half

We bought some of the Pool shower gel from Lidl this week - I think it was 40p for 300ml - 4 different types, including one for sensitive skin (which I haven't reacted to! )

AndyMG_2

domestic_goddess_wanabee wrote:

This probably isnt the place to post this but I really fancy one of their pressure cookers in this weeks special deals at £19.99. My mum does fab things in her pressure cooker - great stews, steam puddings and when we used to go camping with mum and dad, mum cooked new potatoes amazingly quickly on the campstove - absolutely delicious.

We brought it when they had this same deal some 2-3 months ago and there was a problem with the pressure so had to return the same (Refunds with lidl takes quite sometime you get a cheque from their headoffice after they confirm the defect ). You can get a decent quality pressure cooker form Argos for £25 (Its 4 liters though).

trace-j

Js_Other_Half wrote:

We bought some of the Pool shower gel from Lidl this week - I think it was 40p for 300ml - 4 different types, including one for sensitive skin (which I haven't reacted to! )

Was that the honey and milk one? Was v impressed, reminded me of Parmolive. Would buy it again.

Js_Other_Half

trace-j wrote:

Was that the honey and milk one? Was v impressed, reminded me of Parmolive. Would buy it again.

Just checked - the one I used was 'milk and silk' 2 in 1 shower and lotion; the other one we have is the energy upload one - a sort of citrus fragrance - very unisex and useful for helping us wake up in the mornings.