Lidl and Tesco comparison

sleepless_saver

After a successful shop at Lidl today (38 items max cost £1.20 total £24.56!) I thought I'd compare the prices with Tesco where I also shop. I'm posting the results in case others are interested. I'll be doing more of my shopping at Lidl now .

It's too nice a day to sit going through the lot, but these are the first few on my list:

340 g tinned sweetcorn - Lidl £0.21 Tesco £0.60
Can Chopped tomatoes - 0.17 0.45
Hovis classic cut loaf - 0.64 0.77
4 pints milk - 1.07 1.25
kilo frozen peas - 0.65 0.85
Red grapes - 1.24 kilo 2.47 kilo
74% plain chocolate - 0.49 0.89
250 g cherry tomatoes - 0.39 0.68
Courgettes - 0.69 kilo 1.18 kilo
454 g Blackcurrant jam with 40g fruit per 100g - 0.59 . Nearest in quality is Tesco conserve at £1.29 for 340g

Lidl were more expensive for green tea - 0.69 for 25 teabags compared to £1.29 for 50 at Tesco, and about the same for flour and pasta.

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi sleepless saver

Lidls do have some great quality food at fab prices. I shop mainly at Asda and I pay:

SP Sweetcorn tin=19pence
SP Chopped Toms=17pence
SP Kilo Frozen Peas=46pence

I have tried all the tins in most supermarkets and the above 3 items taste no different and are of the same quality with nothing added etc. So you could shave a few pennies off there and to make it worth while going to Asda-stock up and buy a dozen of each :eek: The jam is lovely at Lidls as is the choccy and milk is slightly cheaper. Other items I rarely get so dont know the costs.

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

Ticklemouse

Hi

I posted a few weeks ago about shopping at Lidl's and Aldi's. I did a major shop and Aldi then a bit extra at Lidl (it was nearby and I wanted to have a look) From memory, on a £70 shop I saved £6-7 on the food alone and when I added in the booze, my savings came to c.£13. This was also taking the lowest prices on things like similar wines at Tesco or other items stocked by Aldi not Tesco. Therefore I am sure the true saving is more.

It's a bit further for me to travel so I don't go every week, but if I am in the vicinity on a shopping day, I do go there and top up elsewhere (Asda or Tesco) for the bits Aldi/Lidl don't do.

Chipps

It's not just the prices, but I think quality at Aldi & Lidl are often much better than the equivalent priced Tesco variety, eg Lidl's tinned tomatoes & Aldi's baked beans compare with Tesco blue&white value stuff, but there is no comparison with the quality.
I also have to travel quite a way for Aldi & Lidl (just over 20 mile round trip) so tend to go once a month unless I have to go to that town for something else - then I make an extra visit to thos shops as well!

ancasta_2

We have a local Aldi but we always try not to shop there as they dont take cards, and we rarely have enough cash on us for a full weeks shop and to go to the cashpoint is just adding time and miles onto our journey. For the things we buy, our sainsburys shop (cheapest makes usually) is quite comparable to asda but where we live the asda is alway VERY VERY VERY VER busy and unbearable and OH and i always end up fighting and customer service is dire, so we dont mind paying the few pennies, and yes we've worked it out, for *our* shop its pennies, to go shop in a usually empty shop were the service is a* and the car park is dead. My mams shopping is alot more expensive when she shops in sainsburys but each to their own eh?!

Im very interested in trying Lidl but its in the next village over and too far to carry shopping back on the bus and taxi would be about £5-6 so will wait for next weekend when OH is back from Bristol.

bunking_off

ancasta wrote:

We have a local Aldi but we always try not to shop there as they dont take cards, and we rarely have enough cash on us for a full weeks shop and to go to the cashpoint is just adding time and miles onto our journey.

Ancasta
Although they don't take Mastercard/Visa, they do both take Maestro/Switch, hence cash isn't essential.

ancasta_2

Dont have a Maestro or a switch card so i really do need cash.

Or aldi tokens as i call them.

Rave

We have a Tesco and a Lidl in our local town centre, so as far as I can (I'm pretty good at memorising prices) I buy whatever we need at the best price/quality ratio. Lidl mature cheddar for example is cheaper than Tescos and delicious, but as a snack I prefer Tesco value noodles at 8p a packet to the 15p ones in Lidl (though in fairness I think the Lidl ones are bigger). Tesco value apple juice is fine and cheaper than Lidl's. I tend to go to Tesco first and grab a couple of extra carrier bags so I don't have to buy one in Lidl;).

bunking_off

Rave wrote:

I tend to go to Tesco first and grab a couple of extra carrier bags so I don't have to buy one in Lidl;).

You do well....Tesco appear to have been cutting costs in this area and I find I'm lucky if they survive as far as the car nowadays! Definitely best to only put 2x2litre bottles in them, rather than 3 as used to be the case.

Somewhat perversely, cutting the thickness of them is bad for the environment....ours used to get re-used as rubbish bags, now they go straight in the bin.

italiastar

There just no comaparison between Tesco and Aldi, from my experience, one of them offeres excellent customer sevice, knowlegable and very help full staff and competively priced products that people want to buy - guess which one - ALDI, shame my nearest one is 15 miles away.

BWZN93

bunking_off wrote:

Somewhat perversely, cutting the thickness of them is bad for the environment....ours used to get re-used as rubbish bags, now they go straight in the bin.

I still use the bags as bin bags - they are great for bedroom and bathroom bins which tend to have lighter rubbish in them, and I must admit to liking the extra little flappy things that Tesco bags now have on them - I can tie both ways so they definately dont spill their contents everywhere!

Oh, and the bags without holes make great poop bags for getting rid of kitty litter tray stuff and taking on walks with the dogs - and im sure there are still a million uses for them! Oh - Hows about knitting them into a proper shopping holdall?? Anyone got a pattern??

Jo xx