Lidl - recommendations

Love their Deluxe linguini. Very tasty and cooks extremely well

I just popped a bottle of the Spanish range cider and it's really nice.

Kat1170 wrote: »

I hope you did it surreptitiously this hour of the night .

I coughed loudly to cover the pop

On the subject of the Sol Y Mar stuff, got the patatas bravas, garlic prawns and iberian croquettes as well as a sauce which I can't remember the flavour. Pretty underwhelming tbh, patatas bravas fairly bland and need a sauce. Prawns probably worse again, tiny and little flavour, could make my own in less time and be twice as tasty. One good thing is they come with 2 little tapas bowls which are pretty nice and will come in handy down the line. The croquettes are fairly nice, fried them as packaging said and they are tasty but wouldn't eat a huge amount of them in one go. Got a bottle of the Iberian cider as well to wash it down, not bad for the price but I'm not really a cider drinker so can only say it tasted ok to me, not as sweet as bulmers or anything like that.

Overall i'd probably steer clear of this range in future, pity as I was excited to try it. I won't end a post without a recommendation; the "flats" i think they're called bread things are very nice. Think theres six in a pack and come in wholemeal/multigrain varietys. Lovely toasted.

The spanish range crisp breads are class and the Goats cheese and sun dried tomato foccia is unreal .... The low carb diet suffered a heavy blow this week :P

I really liked that goats cheese/tomato focaccia when I tried it, it was still warm from the oven though, the second one I tried was cold and wasn't as tasty. So in future I'll be warming them up in the oven before eating

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I really liked that goats cheese/tomato focaccia when I tried it, it was still warm from the oven though, the second one I tried was cold and wasn't as tasty. So in future I'll be warming them up in the oven before eating

Yeh unless their fresh just pop em under the grill for like 2 mins their unreal

Thargor wrote: »

Just had a ridiculously smooth shave with the Lidl 3 blade system, €2.79 for the razor and 2 blades, the orange and black ones, packs of 10 replacement blades for the same price. If the edge holds up for any length of time they'll be completely superior to premium brands for a tenth of the price...

The 5 blade with the trimmer is unreal aswell , usualy gt about 3 - 4 shaves per blade , bout the same as what i was getting with the Gillet blades but a 1/4 of the price

the beer revolu wrote: »

How do those razors taste ?

Bloody good...

I tried the pastry olive and cheese swirls and I would say it was like a strong tapenade with a lot of cheese. This was in the Greek range. i only managed to eat one as it was so filling. Maybe someone else with different taste might like them more.

The sprats and mackerel were fantastic imho.

They have frozen veg cakes on offer at 77c the cauliflower and cheese ones are gorgeous

I quite like the instant Lattes. I'm having one now, I think there's added sugar but the Cappuccino ones definitely don't have sugar if people are worried. Something else I like is the caramelised onion hummus found in the salad area. It's got lovely flavour.

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I can tell you one thing I definitely don't recommend....

The fresh pizza in the blue box (Italiamo range?) - I got the meaty one, and it was ROTTEN. Really odd-tasting meat on it (I don't think it was gone off, but it had that taste about it), the cheese was like rubber (like a pizza that had been left in a warming oven for an hour, but it was just out freshly cooked), dry tasteless crust. Most of it went in the bin.

Never again!

I find Dry Cured meats can, to me at least, taste"gone off".

The Baklava and Eridanous Sweet Jelly Cubes are nice. Although they're not great they're very different to anything you'd normally get. Worth the €4 and €1.50 imo.