To ask you to tell me what's good in lidl?

[Cottonheadedninymuggins]

For the first time in about 2ish years (mostly due to the pandemic and shielding) I am going to be near a lidl tomorrow for an appointment and I'm already looking forward to a cookie and a warm cheese straw from the bakery 🤤

As its been so long I am wondering if there are any special secret items that I should get to try? Open to food, cleaning and other items as its been so long since I was there. I remenber the wash liquid was always a decent price and the butter ring biscuits were always melt in the mouth as they were my dad's faves.

I'm disappointed with our local supermarket deliveries (Asda and Sainsbury's, haven't been able to book a Tesco slot since feb) and paying more for less and less (and increasingly poor quality /poor dates) so ready for a change.

Thank you

What can beat the middle of lidl!

Cheese & onion quiche
Multivitamin juice
Tropical juice
Pasta sauces ( smooth tomato)
Pizza bases ( new- in fridge)
Tortilla chips
Cereal bars

The best part of lidl = the exit door

Their premium coleslaw (for a grand total of £0.79) is my DH's absolute favourite.

Formil washing powder

Anything in the deli section: chorizo, palma ham etc just way better than Tesco, Sainsburys etc makes sense I guess as they're also selling it in Italy, France, Spain etc

The garlic sausage. Also the cheese.

Coffee beans. They manage to be roughly the cheapest supermarket beans at the same time as being pretty much the tastiest.

I always find the veg of decent quality.

Love anything from the bakery, the sundries tomato, goats cheese and pesto pizza thing is lush, cinnamon rolls are good too!

The brownies they sell in the bakery are amazing.

The sourdough pizzas (fresh, not frozen)

The bolognese lasagne

And the tiramisu in the little pots,
Omg 😻

@Lottieskeeper

Coffee beans. They manage to be roughly the cheapest supermarket beans at the same time as being pretty much the tastiest.

I agree. I can't bear the queues so I go in very infrequently but when I do, I bulk buy coffee especially their Gold one (which is ground not beans but still yummy).

Pastel de nata from the bakery 😍 I could eat ten.

The ground coffee, columbian 500g bag £3.29, is the nicest coffee ever! Jam, nuts, half side of salmon, and the low GI bread from the bakery, to list a few.

I like the big fat salami roll, cost around £5. I like making salads with chunks of salami and not the thin slices so this salami tastes nice and I can cut it how I like.

They do two types of dishwasher tablets, I find the All in One type are brilliant.

Does anyone know if there is a good day of the week to go there for plants? They always seem to be sold out when I get there.

Their focaccia (I think) with pesto, cheese and sundried tomatoes. AMAZING.

Their Peach flavoured squash is the nicest squash ever.

The 8 low fat yogurts in a pack by Milbona. Especially the gorgeous Pear one.

I have teenage boys who go to the gym a lot and like expensive Protein Bars like Grenade. For the same cost as one of those I can get a box of 3 own brand ones from Lidl which they don't mind at all.

The brownies and the pastel del nata.
Great wine (for a mid range plonk drinker like me) and the gin, and the beer to be honest.
Someone else mentioned the parma ham etc, love the bread, the halloumi is much cheaper than other places.
I live in an area where things like aubergines and butternut squash sew hard to come by so I always get them.
The low calorie ice cream if you're watching calories, the fake Ben and Jerry's if you're not.
The meat for price and quality is better than the other places near me (not butcher obvs but good all the same).
Middle of lidl for toys for dgc.
Basic sauces, mayo, ketchup etc, so cheap.
I'm a fan, I do my main shopping there and top up with bits from Morrisons if I need to.

Does anyone know if there is a good day of the week to go there for plants? They always seem to be sold out when I get there.

They don't stock plants permanently, so you have to keep an eye on "the middle of Lidl" pages on their website, to see when they'll be getting them in. I just checked and my local Lidl is due to have indoor and outdoor plants for sale on Thursday.

www.lidl.co.uk/c/indoor-outdoor-plants/c1918/w2

The type of plant varies through the year, and although some will be available for several days it is always worth turning up on the day they arrive if there is anything in particular you fancy.

My favourite Lidl item is the mature Alpine cheese, which they only get once or twice a year (they get the mild stuff more often). It tastes like the stuff you get on holiday in Switzerland.

Fabulous! Thank you, I'm making a fast growing shopping list 😂 haven't hard a garlic sausage sandwich in years 🤤🤤

@cupsofcoffee

Their focaccia (I think) with pesto, cheese and sundried tomatoes. AMAZING.

Oh lord that sounds amazing! 🤤 I shouldn't have posted this when hungry 😂

Oh and my DH is an HP sauce snob. What he doesn't know is I buy Lidls Brown Sauce for about 60p and decant it into the HP bottle.

My son walked in on my doing it once and blackmailed me into giving him a lift into town or he would tell! Haha.

DH has never once thought to question it as it tastes EXACTLY the same.