Lidl - yuck

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I'm all for bargains and I buy from them all but dear god.

Lidl beef Wellington - disgusting. Utterly utterly disgusting.the 'jus' was a salty slime with more than a hint of thyme.

Vile vile vile

I buy 90% of my shop at Lidl and rarely have a duff product - but I never buy any ready meal type food from them.

Wish they would do more meat without them having put sauce/flavouring on it for you as I can do it better myself and these are usually the duff items.

I think the things they sell in the random aisle tend to be over priced. Primark for example is a lot cheaper for clothes actually I wouldn't be surprised if Lidl make most of their profits from the impulse buying of crap that nobody wants

In the frozen range their dauphinois potatoes with broccoli are the bomb! They also do a really nice massive apple strudel for 90p. Frozen breaded fish ok too.

I love Lidl, I just go in, get what I want without having to keep a close eye on all the prices and it still comes out way cheaper than Sainsburys. If I occasionally have to do the shop at Sainsburys, it's always much more even buying the cheapest products, and then the cheapest products are much lower quality. Lidl is also much faster because I don't have to walk around a whole aisle of soups looking for what I want.

To all those horrified yes of course I cook from scratch normally - but on the odd occasion I confess to warming up m and s or wait rose. And having been impressed by their basics ...

I tried
They failed .

Nowt about being middle class, rather being too lazy to make one yourself.

No BW tastes better from frozen than home made.

Mightyweaze and confused Is that why there are none on the shelf?

Last three weeks and none there. [sob]

I buy tinned tuna, chocolate and ready bagged almonds there and nothing else, even the dog doesn't like their food. I have found that their fruit and veg goes off really quickly and have found bits of bone in their premium mince.

In Aldi I buy milk, cream, cheese, butter, bacon, ham, bread, brioche frozen peas and pet food.

Get everything else in Waitrose which has fab fruit/veg, lovely polite staff and decent meat. I love the free coffee and newspaper and if I stick to the offers and avoid silly stuff I don't overspend.

Trial and error, really nice things from the freezer; Indian snacks,garlic baguettes,potato wedges, steam fresh tomato and basil chicken pasta ready meal thing (random punt on lunch...£1.39 and lovely) horrible things;hash browns,normal oven chips. I do a big shop there most weeks, mostly very happy

thenightsky and londonrach same deal this week in Spain, we got the £7.99 long secateurs (sp?) for our out-of-control lemon tree

Not far from us are Lidl and Aldi NEXT YO EACH OTHER

I wouldn't buy a ready meal from anywhere, so can't comment on them.

Lidl pretty much sell the same oddities every year and some fab bargains or stuff you just wouldn't find anywhere else for a good price.

I do like shopping there as I can get a full trolley for £30 most times and with impulse food buys.

Although I have picked up packets of fruit and found rotten ones lurking in then so always check it.

Well, our entire Christmas food came from Lidl so I am going to say YABU
It was absolutely delicious - I had planned to get the 'boring' basics from there and then hit M+S on the 23rd. But, oh my, enabled by my drooling mother we just bought every last thing from there. I shall do so again this year.

Now, marzipan eggs, you say, hm?

I have got dodgy stuff from there too in the past, but on balance the good outweighs the mouldy IME.

The Aisle of Oddity is my guilty pleasure - love it

Lidl Christmas was amazing. Was disappointed with Waitrose in comparison.

And the staff in our local Lidl are very polite and honestly nicer than the Waitrose staff.

I love the weird crap you get in lidl and Aldi.

I went to lidl for some nappies and came home with wine, snails and an ice cream maker.

That middle aisle always gets me

I love Lidl but I wouldn't buy frozen beef wellington from anywhere TBH.

I buy olive oil, cheese, curd meats, smoked salmon, bread, butter, pasta, cleaning products, toiletries. The vegetable crisps, nuts and Greek yogurt
are all good.
The lucky dip section in the middle is usually good value as long as you choose carefully. I bought an oil filled radiator last winter and it was a bargain.

Pfft, their BBQ ribs are gorgeous - the ones with the separate sachet of sauce. And two proper potions in the box, unlike some other supermarkets I'm looking at you Co-Op

I am kicking myself for not getting the Vileda robot vacuum cleaner the other week. £65

Ooh I need some new secuteurs! I love Lidl, I prefer it to Aldi (except nappies and chocolate). I think the veg is really good (never had this problem other people seem to have of it going off quickly), the bakery is good, the tinned stuff (especially the butter beans) is good. I get nearly everything from there now.

Last time i went in lidls there was so much rotten and out of date food. Yuk. Sticking aldis.

YANBU. Everything I have ever bought from Lidl/Aldi has been thrown in the bin. The only decent thing I have found there is nappies. The nappies are much better than Pampers and half the price :)

Taste tests have shown time and time again that people only think Lidl/Aldi food is crap when they know where it is from.In blind taste tests they beat Saisbury's Morrisons Tesco etc hands down and quite often give M&S and waitrose a run for their money.

At Christmas their Chateaubriand joint was amongst the best beef we have ever had and Which voted Lidl's Primadonna extra virgin olive oil the best of all the supermarket ones. Their chocolate is also wonderful. I can live without Beef Wellington, their meat in general is first class as is the bread.

I get cashews, dark choc., Greek yog., Emmenthal, fruit, fresh bread and a few other things from Lidl- all delicious, but their jars of pate are vile and mostly contain fat.

The ready meals are terrible.
But all the other basic are excellent.
Their dishwasher products are the only ones that are not leaving scratches to my glasses.
Fruit and veggies are great, meat is OK. Deli is great, choice is not overflowing so I don't have to spend 3 hours of my weekend and a small fortune for a weekly shop and I can have "luxuries" for a pound or two.
I imagine over the time I will get bored with the limited choice but so far the weekly savings I'm making are keeping me happy.

It's ALDI and LIDL
I have done my weekly shop in aldi for 7 years and no complaints. I just can't like lidl. The shop is drab and dark and just shite!