Ours has a bakery, the blueberry muffins are fab, Rolls nice too as long as you eat the same day.

They have a frozen Eaton mess which ok. I normally make my own but this is ok to keep in the freezer.

I tried their take on Baileys, which wasn't to bad and at half the price I'd buy again. I find their fruit and veg seem to last longer than Sainsburys or Tesco's.

That may be the case but as I said I very rarely go there and I don't think I've ever bought any of their food products. However, the quality of this advertising has tempted me to at least take a look next time I'm near a branch.

Can you recommend any? The few other places I have remembered to look did not have vegetarian !
'Sainsburys Basic' frozen makes a good base so maybe that is the route to go.

I think Aldi did a vegetarian one which, last time I tried, was awfully dull.

Not frozen but I had a Morrisons own fresh veggie pizza the other day and it was tasteless.
No where near worth the £2.50 (or £2.80) I payed for it.

I had a frozen vegetable pizza from Morrisons today(£1.50) and it was delicious.

I just buy a simple Margherita pizza and add my own toppings. Much nicer than the tired pre-packed stuff, and you can add whatever you like. I often use something from the Lidl jarred antipasto range on pizzas - some olives, sundried tomato, aubergine slices .... A little drizzle of the oil from the jar is nice on the pizza too

Has anyone tried the expensive wines Lidl occasionally do?

This week they have a few supposedly up-market wines for up to £20 per bottle. Are these as good as the same varieties and vintages you'd buy in a proper wine shop, or do they still taste cheap?

Apart from sherry and port, which I tried recently, I've only tried the Lidl wines that cost £4-5, and I've always found them worse than Aldi equivalents or (some of the) special offers in Asda for the same price.

Even as a Christmas indulgence, £20 would be a lot to waste on a bottle that tasted no different to a £6 bottle from Aldi's "Exquisite Collection".

I buy the Asda frozen veggie pizzas now and add goat's cheese - very tasty!

I just bought a 7 kilo leg of Serrano ham for 40 quid. Can't wait to get stuck in!

Mini bockwurst - They are like frankfurters/hotdogs but slightly thicker and are more dense.

Nice flavour. Not as nice as Herta frankfurters though.

I used to like the stollen bites, but got some in Aldi the other day and they are way better.

I bought a pack of two smoked gammon steaks last week and they had a very strange smell.

When I first opened the pack I thought they might be off.
I left them standing for an hour to let the air get to them and they did smell better so I decided I would keep them.

I ate both in the same week and even though I wasn't ill I doubt i'd buy them again.
I think subconciously I didn't enjoy the meals because of them.

Lots of meaty things smell weird when you open them. If you read the fine print on some pork products they tell you to remove it from the packaging and leave out for 10-15 minutes (found out the hard way when opened a pork joint, sniffed it, reeled in horror then checked the packaging for sell by date only to read little words. After 10 minuted it smelt fine.

That would be fine if I had the same experience with ALDI, ASDA, Morrions, Tesco and the local butcher.

These ones from LIDL had quite the stink which is what surprised me.

I bought a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape for £10.49 a week or so ago, down from £12.49, and it was nice. I've tasted nicer but not for that price. It was the 2012 rather than the 2011.

For Christmas I bought a bottle from Aldi on special offer for £8.99, assuming it'd be just as good but it wasn't. It tasted like a £4 vinegary wine to me, so I shan't be buying that again. The Lidl one I will, for special meals.

I also bought a bottle of their Gold Advocaat with amaretto, and it's nice. Better than Aldi's but also more expensive (and stronger). I bought the last bottle in the shop and now wish I'd bought a couple more before they ran out. Aldi's is still nice enough. There's plenty of the chocolate & mint advocaat on the shelves though, so I assume it's not nice.

That's for the colour to return isn't it? I've never read anything about foul odours

I was looking at that but I chickened out and got the plain one- which was very good.

Also good are their 3 pack of sweet peppers-green , orange and red- half the price of M&S and they last longer in the fridge than the M&S ones.

Had two of their French petits pains for lunch today. Truly the only supermarket-bought bread in Britain that compares with French boulangerie-baked bread. Crispy on the outside, light and bubbly on the inside.

A bit late, but today I tried their 10 year old Tawny Port.

It was brought into Lidl for Christmas, and they had loads of 750ml bottles for £9.99, but I never bothered until now, and they only have a few bottles left.

It's definitely nicer than their usual ruby port for £6.25, though it's more 'different' than 'nicer'. Their normal port is good enough for the price, just sugary sweet (Aldi's is 'honey' sweet), but the 10 year old one tastes like liquid raisins or sultanas. Definitely worth £10 because it tastes naturally sweet, not chemically or artificially sweet. It's no substitute for normal red wine because of the intense sweetness, but as a port it's fantastic for £9.99. It's kind of like how I remember Emva cream as a kid, but with this big 'raisin' after taste.

After shopping in them both for a few years, I've come to the conclusion that Aldi is better for cheap wine, and Lidl is better for their premium wines. A £3.50 bottle in Aldi is palatable whereas there isn't a £4 bottle in Lidl worth buying twice. But the Châteauneuf du Pape in Lidl for £12.49 (I got it for £10.49 at Christmas) is miles better than the £10 bottles in Aldi.

Unrelated, but baking power and sodium bicarbonate is the same in Aldi and Lidl, but the lids on the Lidl tubes are a lot easier to open.

This week, Lidl are doing 1L bottles of olive oil for £3. It doesn't taste as nice as Aldi's 'Specially Selected' olive oil, but for basic things like coating pasta after it's boiled & drained, or frying bacon and eggs, it's a bargain.

Lidls hazelnut and vanilla icecream, omg, its bloody lovely
bought it before xmas,its one of their delux range,
wanted to buy more today, not there, gutted

Lidl - bad is their prices. They are now no cheaper than Sainsburys, only with inferior products.

If I could only go to one supermarket it would be Aldi -and no, I have no connection with them whatsoever.

Really? I find the fruit and veg in particular far far cheaper in Lidl than Sainsburys.

Haggis is 454g sacks is £0.99 in Lidl.

454g Haggis is £1.67 in ASDA, £2.50 in Sainsburys, £3.55 (500g) in Waitrose

I don't shop there regularly enough to compare them to ASDA or Aldi, but I did pop in there a couple of weeks ago to pick up some butter on offer for 58p/250g, that's a very good price. Also, they have sausage (polish smoked) that I really like. Picked up some tinned sardines and kippers too, excellent prices on those, 40p each.