To think that the Lidl Bakery beats Greggs hands down

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Especially for cakes and pastries.

Self scan in our local one too, quick and easy.

We have Cooplands bakery here too, they're as good as Gregg's

Nothing better than a stottie. They keep for a fortnight wrapped up in the fridge. They do not trigger my IBS. And they're perfect for a hangover bacon sandwich on a Sunday morning.

The only problems I have are that 1, I'm sure Greggs have made them smaller over the course of this year and 2, they're the wrong shape when cut into quarters for Lorne sausage.

Lidls doughnuts are 👌👌👌👌👌

Greggs is a bit shit now, they've taken the salt out of the sausage rolls so they are rank and they've stopped doing the vegetable pasties. I don't like steak bakes and the sausage and been ones have manky sausage, like tinned beans & sausages. It always pisses me off where they never have any hot. My local one seems to cook 3 of each pasty at a time and immediately sells out 🙄

Where I live if you don’t use tongs someone will immediately get their tuts out and put your firmly in your place! Unfortunately for me, my tong management skills are similar to someone trying chopsticks for the first time so I place a bag on my hands and pick the cakes that way instead. All their food is delicious and cheap so YADNBU however you failed to mention that their puff pastry is 85p. Last night DD mixed cinnamon and sugar in the pastry, rolled it and made 9 delicious cinnamon swirls for 90p. So Lidl has some strong competition there!

My post was referring to Lidl in case that wasn’t clear. Sadly, there is no Gregg’s within miles!😟

they're the wrong shape when cut into quarters for Lorne sausage

Give the sausage a quick reshape before you cook it, widen one end and pinch the other, and it's perfect.

My mum used to make egg and bacon stotties with chucky eggs (soft boiled egg mashed up with butter, salt, and pepper) and streaky bacon. Whenever I'm feeling sorry for myself I get a proper craving for one.

Greggs is palm oil laden crap and it tastes foul.

Lidl would be OK if they would cover the stuff and not let people snot and sneeze all over it. For that reason I avoid it, even the doughnuts. I don't know if it contains palm oil but probably likely as much of their stuff contains it.

Both need to display ingredients as you have to be a detective to find out what is in their stuff.

Many a time I have gone into Greggs with someone, and just looked in wonder at the absolute shit they sell before leaving.

I've not bought anything from Lidl bakery since I saw a lady pick up several items with her bare hands and put them back.

Our local Greggs was replaced with a scabby Milligan's. Their sandwiches and pasties are nowhere near as nice.

Many a time I have gone into Greggs with someone, and just looked in wonder at the absolute shit they sell before leaving

More left for the rest of us then

Ohh I love Lidl bakery, its one of those things I really missed having here.

Their pain au chocolat and cinnamon rolls were my favourite lunch guilty pleasure with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.

Local Lidls has pizza slices, belgian buns and doughnuts, thats about it from them, not exactly a massive selection.

My local one sells the pizza slices, various breads and rolls, a variety of donuts, chocolate twists, maple and pecan twists,pain au chocolat, Belgian buns, cinnamon buns, pastels del nata, cookies, apple turnovers, croissants and possibly few other bits.

I'm addicted to their vegetable pizza slices.

I just wish people in Lidl would use the flipping tongs that are provided. I see people just reach in and grab bread/pastry, not even being careful not to touch what they aren't taking. I also wish they would bring back cheese twists. I loved them!

YANBU. But round here (East Mids) we have a chain called Birds, which is better than both of them. Lordy you can’t beat a Birds sausage roll.

At least Greggs check that the sausage rolls are actually cooked when the oven timer goes off, unlike Lidl who just shovel them onto the shelves no matter what the state of under cooking they happen to be at.

Off the subject, but there used to be a pasty shop outside Ilford Station in East London and the pasties were out of this world. Herby, meaty, crispy and crumbly and the herbs!!!! Freshly made deliciousness! I still miss those many years later.

Yes I like Lidl’s bakery stuff but the lack of cover puts me off too. I don’t get why so many places do that? A Gail’s has opened in my area and it all looks delicious until you go in and there are flies crawling over the food 🤢

I will sound terribly uptight. But I like our local independent bakery best. I do prefer greggs for sausage rolls but don't tell Lynn!
We don't have a Lidl that close so yet to try their selection.

No Greggs here although there is a decent Lidl and Aldi.
Our local independent supermarket has its own bakery which is particularly good at Christmas. On 8th December, you get a free family size fresh cream Victoria sponge cake in a box when you present your till receipt to the counter. At the next counter, you're offered a free freshly made Irish coffee made with quality local whisky and cream and in a good size glass.
Various trays of savoury nibbles, mini sausage rolls and chocolates are handed out around the store.

It's my very favouritest day for shopping.

I went to Lidl's once and apart from thinking it looked like a jumble sale, I couldn't help wondering how many grubby hands had touched the pastries.

As for Gregg's sausage rolls, I watched a tv programme about Greggs and they showed the sausage roll conveyor belt - they extruded grey 'sausage' onto the pastry. The ingredients speak for themselves:

Water, Fortified Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Pork (20%), Palm Oil, Rusk (Wheat), Seasoning (Salt, Yeast Extract, Modified Starch, Pea Fibre, Sugar, Stabiliser (Diphosphates), Ground White Pepper, Barley Malt Extract, Acidity Regulator (Tartaric Acid), Preservative (Sodium Metabisulphite), Spice Extracts, Rapeseed Oil, Herb Extracts), Rapeseed Oil, Glaze (Water, Sunflower Oil, Milk Protein, Modified Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Mono- and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Acidity Regulator (Sodium Phosphates), Stabiliser (Carrageenan, Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, Cellulose), Colour (Carotenes), Skimmed Milk Powder), Isolated Soya Protein, Salt, Wheat Protein, Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids)

Thanks but no thanks - 20% pork - I make my own sausage rolls with 97%.

Hold up - do some of your Lidls do sausage rolls in their bakery section?!

Lidl pastries are horrible really greasy and leave a coating in your mouth.

There;s a Cooplands opening up over the road from where I work in the next few weks. I'm beyond excited.

Also a Greg's in walking distance.

Agree that with Lidl I have to not think too much about the slight aura of grubbiness. Not just the customers pawing at and sneezing over the food but the actual plastic trays the stuff is in often looks like it is well overdue a clean. I try and avoid stuff if it's actually touching the bottom.

Saw a huge blue bottle crawling over the pizza slices once which put me off for a week!

There;s a Cooplands opening up over the road from where I work in the next few weks. I'm beyond excited.

Get some cheese sticks. Five for £1 and so yummy.

As most have said, the hygiene in Lidl isn't great.
I've tried their muffins and cookies, and they're awful. None of the ones near me do pasties etc but I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole if they did sell them.