mgcvk

It is a bit like shopping when on holiday in Lithuania but I think Lidl is great. I find the fruit and veg on the whole pretty good for the price and fresh breads are excellent. Good prices on booze and lots of good stuff you don't find in main supermarkets. Aldi has best oven chips in UK though, straight cut ones in the blue pack at 99p per bag so I have to go there for those.

ScoobyWon't

All old people smell of **** and biscuits, skint or not.

jasey

Lidl's great

JTaylor

Cadbury's Wholenut

Hazelnuts 16%, Cocoa Solids 20% minimum

£1.97 for 230g from Asda.

Fin Carré Wholenut

Hazelnuts 27%, Cocoa Solids 32% minimum

89p for 230g from Lidl.

http://m.ciao.co.uk/Reviews/Fin_Carr...712701/Start/1

Only a mug would shop elsewhere!

jonc

Shouldn't that be a McCock with cheese.

markjmd

iTrader: (11)

at some of the comments in this thread.

Possible legitimate reasons not to shop at Lidl:
1. Nagging rumours of some fairly shoddy treatment of employees (this might be the exception and not the rule, it's never easy to tell with these things).
2. Lagging behind in some areas for 'ethically sourced' products, if that kind of thing bothers you (fair-trade coffee or choccie, freedom-food meats, etc.)

Other than that, some real bargains to be had, as the OP points out.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

The missus went the other day, I like their stuff but for years aave not been near Aldi or Lidl as it reminds me of being skint, I did my time going to Aldi at Old Trafford and then going to Iceland for the offers, driving a bloody Metro. I remember my middle boy asking for a glass of "Apfelsaft", poor kid hadnt seen English food for years

Thing is, I am kind of over it, have three lads aged 12,14 and 16 and they at like horses and we are getting through vast amounts of cash so I have said we will do a few trial Lidl shops as am spending getting on for £150, possibly more each week. I like their stuff, you get some alternative flavours, it is kind of like being on holiday !

JTaylor

ScoobyWon't

1. They won't be the only company.

2. I don't think 'ethically sourced' is anything special. If the companies really cared, all products would not be produced by humans but by machines (and packaged by monkeys ).

Lidl here I come.

dpb

bouncing off other fat foookers?

JTaylor

I am not fat, but even if I was the way you have written this sentence means that it doesn't really follow-on from my post. Nonetheless, it's good to see you trying to get involved, Duncan.

Dingdongler

If you like it JT then dip yer bread mate. Nothing wrong with trying to get a bargain and saving money, look after the pennies and all that.

Personally though I'm not wandering around a shop designed for the lowest socioeconomic demographic

dpb

We go there, as well as Sainsbury Morrisons and co op ,it's just across the road from the rest and cheaper for some stuff.
Eg a third cheaper for same packet pitta bread , madness

fawor

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+1 welsh,english,irish and others i main german store

ScoobySteve69

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But are they quality Ghana cocoa beans or cheap, non fair trade Ivory Coast ones?

L.J.F

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The state of some of the people who shop there puts me off plus they locate their stores slap bang in the middle of a area where the residents struggle to write their own name........

I personally would rather do shopping online but her indoors is intent on using Sunday to go shopping at either Spasda or Tesco.

Hysteria1983

They get moist at a man who knows how to spend his money wisely though.

Less money spent on branded goods means more money spent elsewhere, clothes, shoes and a scent of better calibre than Joop.

Ant

Who give a $hit if it's half the price and tastes better.

Hysteria1983

I do my fair bit of shopping about, mostly Morrisons, Lidl an Aldi. Usually Alsi is the first choice as its about 5 mins drive after I have dropped the children at school. I don't have a Tesco particularly close and Asda is next to the Wolves ground and the uni, so it's like visiting a third world county!

All the stuff I buy for the childrens lunch boxes is less than half the price of what I would get in Tesco or Asda, and the veg is much fresher than the main supermarkets.
I find that is I shop there I save 1/3 of what I would going to Asda, I just dont have all the branded goodies that I might usually pick up.

I don't shop there out of necessity, the few people who know me a bit more personally know i'm not a foreigner (unless you count Welsh?!LOL) and i'm not old and smelling of ****.
I'm just not a brand snob who feels food is automatically better because I paid more or has Heinz or Birdseye stamped on it.
In fact since I started shopping about I have made more fresh meals as there isnt a lot of selection when it comes to TV dinners.

I bet if some of you lot tried it for a couple of months, and mingled with the manky soap dodgers you would be amazed at the results.

Hysteria1983

To be honest, its not that I don't care, but who here bothers to investigate if any of the stuff in the main supermarkets IS fairtrade??

The last I heard most of them were saying it was without actually having to give any legal proof that is was.
This was last year though, so maybe by some miracle the main suprmarkets have all had something enforced to prove their fair trade stamp???

Now I am thinking about that tasy block of milk chocolate in the fridge!!!

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Thats one way to sort out the gold diggers.

I'd rather pay for a hooker than fund another gold digger. The latter is more expensive and moans alot more (and when I mean moan, I mean nagging).

Pick up a girl who is a Aldi/Lidl shopper, then you can treat her by buying a Marks & Sparks microwave meal for two....cheaper than a take-away and more classy than a Maccy D's

Hysteria1983

LOL!!!

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Lewis loves a bargain from lidl. I'm surprised this thread has not lured him out of his wee soaked bed to comment.

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Turbohot

I won't mind saving a few pennies, but I don't like the way they display food and stuff at Lidl. Their lighting is a bit dismal as well. If they glam it up a touch, I may go there a bit more. Food hasn't been too bad for the times I have been there and got some bargains in. I had their pre-packed Indian food a few months ago. it had more chicken bits than the one in Tesco. The ones who go there may like to try their chocolate coated icecream with almond flakes (fake Magnum). its cheaper than Magnum and a bit tastier as well.

Luan Pra bang

The art to gold diggers is to bang them silly for the price of a few champagne dinners or nice days out then watch them vanish when they realise that you won't be buying them anything expensive.

borderlinechris

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i just got some folding axle stands from lidl for a tenner which i thought was great...

Dingdongler

Why not just get yourself a nice high class hooker instead? It might cost a little more but at least you get to pick exactly what you want and you don't have to talk to them over dinner.

I'm with Ali B, I'd feel more of a useless c8nt banging a gold digger than a hooker

(Though as I'm drop dead gorgeous I've never had to do either)

ditchmyster

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I like them, it's no frills shopping and some decent bargins to be had, as has been said, i do quite a bit of my shopping there as i have a local one here in croatia, the bottled water is a third cheaper, my water for washing and cooking comes off the roof and i don't have the courage to drink it straight, especially since i get the odd dead lizzard in the tank

Their bourbon vanilla ice cream is to die for, and it's the only place i can get spicey food because the croats are a bit meat,potatoes and bread.

The meat there is not so good so i use the butcher, which is better and cheaper same as in the uk

The ice field frozen veg is also very good, the peas with carrots in particular, and the pollock fish fingers are better than birdseye, i also use the packet soups to make pasta sauces as a useful alternative to cream which goes off if not used straight away.

Food snobs make me laugh, people brag about a good deal on clothes, cars houses ect, but shy away from sensible food shopping.

Ant

This is SN you'll always get the ivory tower massive come our their holes when in truth half of them are no richer than you they just like to portray they are.

jonc

Says he with his iProducts.