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Can I add a comment about Aldi? Their household cleaning range is all animal friendly.
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Well I got the Vax Hand Held Vacuum, but I've seen reviews that says the battery life is not very good on it due to a dodgy Chinese battery. No wonder it was £30 cheap.
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Good: Nothing
Bad: All of it |
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BTW their flat frozen pizzas are great. If you also like Dr Oetker ones try the LIDL vegetable or spinach for starters.
I also bought a satellite dish in there a few months ago.
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Good: Nothing
Bad: All of it |
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All stores should have their own instore bakeries by the end of this year. Hand baskets are also now becoming standard.
They have vastly improved their product range and indeed stores over the past 10 years. |
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I would say that 90% of stuff from there is good.
At lot of the stuff is made in Germany and you don't get made poor products made there. |
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Our Lidl's have finally got hand baskets.
![]() Used to have a Aldi across the road which was very handy. |
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Good: A lot deal of it.
Bad: some of their frozen prepared stuff. Evil: Their chilli sauce in a jar, stupidly hot and I really enjoyed it at the time, but gave me the scariest/hottest poo ever known to mankind the day after |
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I loved Lidl...especially during my student days....great stuff. You can get Kinder at a much lower price than Tesco or Asda. Fact.
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I just got around to trying their Bellarom Gold 100% Arabica coffee, which comes in a vacuum-packed brick. It was on offer last week and 'm glad I only bought one because it's horrible. I think I'll end up throwing it out.
I also tried their frozen chicken dippers. They weren't particularly good, tasting more of fat and gristle than chicken meat. I ate them all but won't buy them again. As for the in-store bakery, my local branch got one last year and I've tried a couple of things. I like the croissants, but they have a habit of burning them. I think maybe they're understaffed and no one has time to remove them from the oven once they're done. I tried a couple of loaves of in-store baked bread and they weren't nice. Very heavy and gummy. The other problem is flies crawling all over the exposed bread. I tend to pick up the croissants with my fingers as long as they haven't been out very long. It seems to me that as long as I'm only touching the croissants I'm buying, it's probably safer than using the tongs that have been touched by everyone and are probably never cleaned! I tried a couple of their pasta salads (tomato, and bacon & chicken) and they were nice, though perhaps expensive for 99p. I also notice the price of their fresh peppers has gone up, and is now the same as Asda and Morrisons. I still buy them in Lidl because I'm happier giving my money to them! Has anyone tried their cereals? They have a very impressive range, but how do they compare to Kellogg's? Their limescale remover is good, but I bought a packet of W5 WC-Tabs to clean the toilet and they're pretty poor. They work a bit but leave too much behind, and have absolutely no effect on the limescale around the waterline. Given that I had to go and buy something better to get rid of that, and properly clean everything else, I may as well have not bought the tablets. Their premium dry cat food is also very good, though expensive. I have an old cat who can't chew the big nuggets of dry food you get in Go-Cat, but it is able to eat the tiny doughnut-shaped Opticat food. |
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The Lidl mushrooms in jar of oil (not the Italian ones) are delicious. They are by far the cheapest tasty preserved mushrooms.... although the Polish delis offer a terrific range too these days.
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Jaffa cakes, way better than mcvities imo Fresh pizzas Bottled raspberries Some cereals, mainly muesli type Cheese or poppyseed twists Ham Dislike Majority of their meat Most of their veg Toilet rolls Tubs of shellfish (very salty for me) Booze is a hit or a miss |
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What is bad is that EVERYTIME I go there, there is a massive a queue AND ONLY ONE CASHIER!!!!
Grrrr *Rant over*
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Good: A lot deal of it.
Bad: some of their frozen prepared stuff. Evil: Their chilli sauce in a jar, stupidly hot and I really enjoyed it at the time, but gave me the scariest/hottest poo ever known to mankind the day after
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They do wraps which are good for 69p much cheaper than anywhere else. I like the cottage cheese, amaretto, german sausages and the vegetables are good value although sometimes they are a bit manky, you have to catch them at the right time I think.
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Jaffa cakes, way better than mcvities imo Booze is a hit or a miss You used to be able to get Raspberry and Cherry Jaffa cakes as well as orange, now you can only get orange. They used to sell about 3 different "own brand" bottled German beers, when I last went in they only had one. |
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Their vintage farmhouse cheddar is great. Crumbly and granuley if that was a word.
However, their parmesan is great and half the price of other supermarkets. Also, I got a bag of lemons for 75p, which were twice the size of other supermarket lemons. |
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They do an excellent can of coconut milk, it's in a black tin and costs 99p.
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Most of Lidls own brand cereals have no added vitamins in them, even the cereal aimed at kids..just look at the ingredients, they used to have different cereals with 7 added vitamins now they have none.
I think the Tesco value cereals are the same but the Lidl ones are a bit dearer. That is bad, it makes you wonder what else they have taken out off their food products or not added to save money. Aldis own brand cereals have 8 added vitamins and taste nicer too. Lidl have really been cutting costs it seems and you can tell by their products. |
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W5 Dishwasher Tablets - Do more harm than good |
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Just tried: Frozen jumbo fries, currently on offer - Very nice. 'Mister Choc' M&Ms - Not quite as nice as real M&Ms, but perfectly adequate and cheaper. Would be nice if they were less than 99p though. Chocolate covered raisins - Nice, better than most supermarket own-brand. But not amazing. Jaffa cakes - OK, but prefer McVities. I think the ingredients are all just as nice, but the problem is the ratios. There's not much biscuit and too much jelly, making them too sickly. If they had a thicker biscuit and just a small blob of jelly on top, like McVities, they'd be just as good. Shame I never got to try the other flavours others have said they used to do. Quote:
Most of Lidls own brand cereals have no added vitamins in them
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Jaffa cakes - OK, but prefer McVities. I think the ingredients are all just as nice, but the problem is the ratios. There's not much biscuit and too much jelly, making them too sickly. If they had a thicker biscuit and just a small blob of jelly on top, like McVities, they'd be just as good. Shame I never got to try the other flavor. They need more biscuit and slightly less jam. |
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W5 Dishwasher Tablets - Do more harm than good |
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only bought one because it's horrible. I think I'll end up throwing it out.
I was really hoping their better quality expresso would be on offer again so I could stock up big. I have favourite coffees get bored with even the best so I chop and change. |
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