Your favourite Lidl's recommendations please

[bandontherun]

Off to Lidls this ,what should I look out for that anyone could recommend please?

haven't been for ages - used to do a mean frozen south american steak!

gherkins

wine

try to ignore this week's offers - you'll only end up with a pile of weird crap that you don't really need. kind of defeats the purpose.

The frozen south american steak sounds nice

'twas.

very tender

Was wondering that,never usually buy frozen meat.

i used to love the half price veg weeks when i lived opposite a lidl as they are like real veg, none of the scary 'perfect' kind we normally see now.

dp's auntie told me recently they aren't great healthwise because of pesticides tho - don't know if that's true or not.........

the parmesan is a great bargain there.

aha, you were being sarcastic perhaps?

Second the parmesan....very, very good.

chopped tom, capers, tagliatelle pasta, olives, gherkins, parmesan cheese, yoghurts, coffee drinks, etc.

chopped tom, capers, tagliatelle pasta, olives, gherkins, parmesan cheese, yoghurts, coffee drinks, etc.

ooh, and olive oil

umberella, i thought the oil was weird and bitter but maybe i had an off batch.

herrings, for those of you like that kind of thing...

chocolate

harpomax-no was'nt being sarcastic,generally was'nt sure if it still stayed tender

aaah, yes.

lots of herrings.

the Chorizo is brilliant, dd loves it and we make a mean risotto with it and various veg.

very, bandontherun.

one lot i had was a bit flavourless but soft as butter still.

We just had one open near us and I thought the prices were brilliant first time I went. Sadly the quality isn't up to much.
I do buy their back bacon though. Very tasty and very cheap because they haven't trimmed the fat off.

Avoid their own brand butter. it was disgusting.

The smoked salmon and trout fillets are really good, and their cottage cheese actually tastes of something.

If you like fish (can you tell I eat bloody loads, suprised I haven't grown gills yet) the seafood pizza are very tasty...lots of smoked fish, mussels,prawns and garlic, yum.

tins of tuna with things mixed in. we like the nicoise and the mexican ones.

Yes, my friend got a whole lobster (frozen) in Lidl for a very reasonable price.

Ruddynorah, we bought those tuna mix things and they were all vile imo. All sour. Yuk.

however

i can't be bloody bothered with lidl anymore and i am on a tight budget

no shopping baskets
great big trolleys
no lights
no staff

everyone gets all excited about these weird dirt cheap 'gourmet' things

it's a dismal shopping experience imo

I agree harpo, it's such a miserable experience shopping in Lidl that it offsets any savings you might make. So you may as well go to Waitrose and have a lovely time shopping.

don't have a waitrose near me lyra - when i used to live in brighton i did but it was full of people who looked as though they'd never steered a shopping trolley before looking brightly at rows of food on shelves and wondering what they were supposed to do next!

my favourite moment was when a well know local addict lurched into the shop, grabbed a spoon and started helping herself to the salad bar..

have never touched one since.

if you shop at bargain-tastic Lidl,
Parmesan,
organic veg,
chocolate raisins,
olive oil,
smoked cheese,
horlicks,
fresh flowers,
you can afford to go wild in the aisles now and then at the fabulous Waitrose!