Good and Bad Buys at Lidl and Aldi stores (***Please don't expire***)

Cornucopia

New product at Lidl:-

High Protein Part-baked Rolls.   Very nice wholemeal rolls to bake at home with added flaxseed and sunflower seeds.   

Not cheap, though.  4 rolls for £1.49.  300g.

Rosa_Damascena

Cornucopia said:

New product at Lidl:-

High Protein Part-baked Rolls.   Very nice wholemeal rolls to bake at home with added flaxseed and sunflower seeds.   

Not cheap, though.  4 rolls for £1.49.  300g.

Bread is one of the products that get people through the door, I think there is a high reliance on impulse purchases by all supermarkets.

Its very rare I buy any bread at full price. Aside from cutting down on my consumption of bread products, they are easy enough to find yellow stickered - and also readily available via Olio. It might not offer the gourmet experience but it is certainly edible.

Murphybear

Cornucopia said:

Doc_N said:

Cornucopia said:

Doc_N said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Why would anyone spend money on something they think might be a foodstuff yet know is basically rubbish? At least when I buy confectionary it’s in the full knowledge that it is bad for me, and not disguised as a major ingredient for a meal.

Sadly, a very high percentage of everything sold in supermarkets (barring the basic raw ingredients) is ultra-processed and now reckoned to be unsafe to eat on a long term basis. Whether that analysis proves correct in due course remains to be seen.

I'd be more persuadable if it was clearer what "ultra-processed" actually means.   I'm always a bit wary when someone presents some "science" that isn't very well-defined.

Where do you start?

https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-077310

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/health/nutrition/the-10-worst-ultra-processed-foods-you-can-eat

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/behind-the-headlines/ultra-processed-foods

Thanks for that - I didn't see a definition in the BMJ article.   The BBC article is both most useful for its simplicity, but also contains foods that are eaten very rarely (Hot Dogs), and foods that are very common but whose UPF status will depend on the ingredients.   The advice to eat the best (most expensive?) bread you can afford is all very well, but those will generally be fresh bakery items where the ingredient list may not be readily available.    There's an overall lack of practicality that is most unhelpful.  

I also expect that there may be some statistical contamination between UPFs and foods high in fat, sugar and salt.   I'd be more persuaded by toxicity studies that specifically and definitively ruled certain ingredients "potentially harmful", so that companies, consumers and ultimately governments could exclude them.

I gave up on the BMJ one after this “ Objective To evaluate the existing meta-analytic evidence of associations between exposure to ultra-processed foods”   

KxMx

Wagu beef meatballs from Lidl- absolutely delicious and I hope they stock them permanently. 

Brie

Daz2009 said:

This might seem a silly question but with the Lidl plus app you have to nominate a store.
If you shop at another Lidl store do the coupons still work ?

On my app it shows what time I can get a big discount buying their fresh baked products at my store only.  I believe that if you end up at a different shop you can always switch but have never bothered to try that myself.  

Must admit I've stopped buying a lot of that stuff as the food bank where I work gets what a local Lidl doesn't sell.  They bung it all in the freezer and deliver it twice a week to the FB.  As does Sainsburys and a local artisan bakery (the sort that sells a loaf for £6, granted it's lovely).  Occasionally we are completely overloaded, no room in the freezers and the clients only want or can carry so much.  Net result is there are left overs that need to be removed from the building and it's better that the volunteers take something rather than it go in the bin.  Small reward for a lot of hard (& sometimes dangerous) work.  

PLRFD

I was i.n Lidl this morning lots of things reduced by 20% is this new ? I thought lowest was 30% ?

Rosa_Damascena

PLRFD said:

I was i.n Lidl this morning lots of things reduced by 20% is this new ? I thought lowest was 30% ?

Yes. 30% is now 20%, 60% is now 50%. I haven't seen a green 20p sticker for months!

HillStreetBlues

I wonder if the 20%/50% will last, or Aldi will copy it.

General_Grant

HillStreetBlues said:

I wonder if the 20%/50% will last, or Aldi will copy it.

If they can still shift stuff with the higher price (because of the lower discount), they will continue with the new percentages.  (Just as they haven't brought back the 20p and, was it (?) 90p and £1.50 stickers.)
I don't shop at Aldi (not convenient location) but see no reason why they would not follow Lidl.

Rosa_Damascena

General_Grant said:

HillStreetBlues said:

I wonder if the 20%/50% will last, or Aldi will copy it.

If they can still shift stuff with the higher price (because of the lower discount), they will continue with the new percentages.  (Just as they haven't brought back the 20p and, was it (?) 90p and £1.50 stickers.)
I don't shop at Aldi (not convenient location) but see no reason why they would not follow Lidl.

I think they know that some of us are magpies for the YS (or orange, in the case of Lidl). Its not even the reduction I'm interested in, its the perception of the small "win" that I find compelling. I am a sucker for a psychological boost!