What are the best items (quality) to buy at Lidl

[Anonymous]

What items do you buy at Lidl that you consider good items to buy there or quality items (types of cheese). Do you buy any Lidl brand items.

[Anonymous]

In my experience the dairy items are cheaper and no different than the name brands. Block/Sliced/Shredded cheese, sour cream, yogurt, soy/almond/cows milk. Eggs are generally cheap. Fruit and veggies are cheap and good qulity. Anything from the bakery. Lidl brand cereals are great.

[Anonymous]

Crab meat for crab cakes. They have the same as at grocery store but cheaper.

[Anonymous]

I shop at Lidl about once a week. The produce is much better, and cheaper, than my local Safeway, so I get some of my produce there.

I regularly buy organic tomato sauce, canned beans, canned cherry tomatoes, bread (though I make my own bread a lot of the time), organic milk, Irish butter, buttermilk, cream, cheese (English cheddar, halloumi, feta, parmesan, etc), organic chicken, ground lamb, organic beef, blue corn tortilla chips, sugar, Bratwurst, Italian deli meats, sour cream, dried fruit, nuts, olive oil, avocado oil, and fresh salmon. Some of these are Lidl own brand goods.

There's really no difference in quality between what I buy at Lidl and what I used to buy at Safeway or Giant.

[Anonymous]

My Lidl sells short-dated half and half and heavy cream, so keep an eye on that.

The whole milk yogurt is fantastic, Greek and regular.

They have the best dang bran flakes.

The bakery is pretty universally great. I am such a sucker the the custard tarts.

Really good marmalade, and under two bucks a jar!

They sell these frozen thick steak-style fries imported from Belgium that are really nice. Also good in the frozen section: cheap pastry sheets.

If you like English food, they have great knock offs of Jaffa Cakes, Hobnobs, and Digestive biscuits. A couple times a year they get in tins of English style baked beans for only 69 cents each and the last time they had a Spanish food event, they actually had little pots of sardine and tomato paste! I was so unreasonably excited 😊

[Anonymous]

German Christmas cookies and Easter Belgian chocolates. Fun advent calendars and ours had a fantastic Valentine's v fresh flower selection. I enjoy their Italia. Food and pasta selection as well. Got a really great French Bordeaux superoxide and they sometimes have nouveau Beaujolais in the spring? Fall? I forget.

[Anonymous]

Grass fed steaks/beef
Coffee creamer
Oranges, fruits
Free range eggs
Wild salmon frozen
Vegetables

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Lidl sells short-dated half and half and heavy cream, so keep an eye on that.

The whole milk yogurt is fantastic, Greek and regular.

They have the best dang bran flakes.

The bakery is pretty universally great. I am such a sucker the the custard tarts.

Really good marmalade, and under two bucks a jar!

They sell these frozen thick steak-style fries imported from Belgium that are really nice. Also good in the frozen section: cheap pastry sheets.

If you like English food, they have great knock offs of Jaffa Cakes, Hobnobs, and Digestive biscuits. A couple times a year they get in tins of English style baked beans for only 69 cents each and the last time they had a Spanish food event, they actually had little pots of sardine and tomato paste! I was so unreasonably excited 😊

Agree about Bakery. I will have to check out the bran flakes.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much anything. Definitely chocolate.

Cheese and bakery are amazing. Organic chicken.

[Anonymous]

Bronze cut spaghetti
Salad dressing
Dairy
Produce
Gelato

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I shop at Lidl about once a week. The produce is much better, and cheaper, than my local Safeway, so I get some of my produce there.

I regularly buy organic tomato sauce, canned beans, canned cherry tomatoes, bread (though I make my own bread a lot of the time), organic milk, Irish butter, buttermilk, cream, cheese (English cheddar, halloumi, feta, parmesan, etc), organic chicken, ground lamb, organic beef, blue corn tortilla chips, sugar, Bratwurst, Italian deli meats, sour cream, dried fruit, nuts, olive oil, avocado oil, and fresh salmon. Some of these are Lidl own brand goods.

There's really no difference in quality between what I buy at Lidl and what I used to buy at Safeway or Giant.

I want to eat at your house!

[Anonymous]

Lots of good tips here already. I’d add: Greek frozen savory pastries. They come in 2 or 3 times a year and only last for a few days. Keep an eye on the weekly ad. Gelatelli ice cream (lidl brand) especially the salted caramel cones - probably not in season yet.
The farmer’s bread in the bakery is my favorite, although the whole bakery is amazing.