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Is this the meat bargain of the year!

  • 06-12-2019 1:04pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,625 ✭✭✭✭


    Lidl are doing a "Waste not" promo.
    Meat that has an expiry date of today or tomorrow will have a green sticker
    on it with any price of €2, €1.50 or €0.90c on it.
    I got 6 packs of 2 Striploin steaks for €12 total, should have been €54! :D
    Turkey steaks for .90c, 4 Chicken breasts for €2, 4 Salmon darnes for €2 and
    a few other meats.
    All expiring tomorrow so freezer bound.
    Should be in all Lidl stores.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,428 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    The farmers will not be pleased, lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    My local one is cleared out by vulturladies


  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,395 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Basically the reduced section in Tesco?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,795 ✭✭✭sweetie


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Basically the reduced section in Tesco?

    Yeah but not as ****. The missus came home with reduced strawberries recently, still in good nick but when I pointed out she paid 2.65 for a punnet that were in the 2 for a fiver deal she wasn't best pleased.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    The farmers will not be pleased, lol.

    Well subsidised by Leedil;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Basically the reduced section in Tesco?

    Some call it Salmonella corner:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,113 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    is there anything wrong with getting this and putting in frezzer for later.


  • Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭DublinGirl738


    is there anything wrong with getting this and putting in frezzer for later.

    Shouldn’t be unless stated otherwise on the packaging.
    I do it all the time with Aldi red sticker stuff I get


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,113 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    Shouldn’t be unless stated otherwise on the packaging.
    I do it all the time with Aldi red sticker stuff I get

    Yea same as , ill be going in trying to get a bit of steak later .

    Thanks op


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭Thephantomsmask


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Basically the reduced section in Tesco?

    At least lidl discount it immediately rather than knocking a few cents off at a time as the day goes on.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,625 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    is there anything wrong with getting this and putting in frezzer for later.

    Absolutely not.
    The ones I got were OOD the next day so perfectly fine to freeze.
    Tesco mainly do stuff that expires that day at least Lidl are giving the extra day.
    They had a couple of Roast Beef joints for €2 as well but I would use instead of
    freezing that.
    For some reason they also had the 30% off stickers on some of the same meats with the same expiry date? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Is this in one specific section in the LIDL fridges or just stickers on random items of stock in regular location?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭mlem123


    M&S do great discounts haha if I'm ever near one in the evening I go for a quick look for the yellow stickers :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭seanl77


    At least lidl discount it immediately rather than knocking a few cents off at a time as the day goes on.

    The reductions in tesco are done gradually to give more shoppers a chance to avail of them, not all people want to shop at seven o clock in the evening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,547 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    seanl77 wrote: »
    The reductions in tesco are done gradually to give more shoppers a chance to avail of them, not all people want to shop at seven o clock in the evening.

    And also to get more cash for the product. They want to get as much as possible to reduce the loss.


  • Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭seanl77


    L1011 wrote: »
    And also to get more cash for the product. They want to get as much as possible to reduce the loss.

    Well of course they do, but the final reduction stock at seven o clock is all wasted an hour later. So reducing it gradually is the fairest way to do it. Otherwise greed comes in and people lose their minds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    My local lidl seems to work like this.
    A piece of meat which is gone off on the 7th of December would be reduced Today by 30%.
    Tomorrow night on the 7th they'd throw a €1 or €2 sticker on it.
    We got mince last week for the cats and it was fairly cheap.


  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭kurtainsider


    My local lidl seems to work like this.
    A piece of meat which is gone off on the 7th of December would be reduced Today by 30%.
    Tomorrow night on the 7th they'd throw a €1 or €2 sticker on it.
    We got mince last week for the cats and it was fairly cheap.

    "Gone off" is a bit of a strong term. "Use by the 7th" will have a few days built in so it'll be perfectly alright till the 9th or 10th and perhaps longer.

    Remember the scandal a few years ago where supermarkets were repackaging chicken at its use by date into new packaging with a new use by date?

    Let your nose be the judge of the use by date.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    "Gone off" is a bit of a strong term. "Use by the 7th" will have a few days built in so it'll be perfectly alright till the 9th or 10th and perhaps longer.

    Remember the scandal a few years ago where supermarkets were repackaging chicken at its use by date into new packaging with a new use by date?

    Let your nose be the judge of the use by date.

    Just because I use the word gone off doesn't mean I don't use my nose or appearance to judge food.
    It's just the word I use.
    We often buy stuff that is reduced to clear sometimes for ourselves and sometimes for the cats.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭lalababa


    Yeah let your nose & eyes be the judge. 🙂
    Imagine eating smelly rancid chicken just because it WAS in date!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    lalababa wrote: »
    Yeah let your nose & eyes be the judge. 🙂
    Imagine eating smelly rancid chicken just because it WAS in date!

    I have no idea how some people shops.
    They'd just lov anything into the trolley.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,625 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Is this in one specific section in the LIDL fridges or just stickers on random items of stock in regular location?

    Most of the ones I've seen were just green stickers on random items of stock in regular locations.

    My local lidl seems to work like this.
    A piece of meat which is gone off on the 7th of December would be reduced Today by 30%.
    Tomorrow night on the 7th they'd throw a €1 or €2 sticker on it.

    I'd say that was before they started this new campaign.
    If you buy something and don't like it, just bring it back to get a refund.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭banchang


    seanl77 wrote: »
    Well of course they do, but the final reduction stock at seven o clock is all wasted an hour later. So reducing it gradually is the fairest way to do it. Otherwise greed comes in and people lose their minds

    Much more labour intensive though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    My local lidl seems to work like this.
    A piece of meat which is gone off on the 7th of December would be reduced Today by 30%.
    Tomorrow night on the 7th they'd throw a €1 or €2 sticker on it.
    We got mince last week for the cats and it was fairly cheap.

    If it was gone off the cats wouldn't eat it, they are regularly used here for that purpose


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    If it was gone off the cats wouldn't eat it, they are regularly used here for that purpose

    As I said it's just a word I used. I've explained myself. Move on!

    I was just at Lidl everything was marked at €2 in the section. Stuffed turkey joints, salmon fillets and small pickers of diced chicken fillets.
    They were giving away some of the freshly cut flowers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    As I said it's just a word I used. I've explained myself. Move on!

    Meow


  • Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭seanl77


    banchang wrote: »
    Much more labour intensive though.

    100% agree with you


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭gobo99


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    Yeah same thing as Tesco and all major supermarkets
    Tesco at 7pm is unreal when the fella comes with the sticker gun for the final reduction everything goes to 10%
    I spotted a leg of lamb for €1.80

    The final reduction was known as "feeding time at the zoo" in tesco due to customers acting like famished animals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 974 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    is there anything wrong with getting this and putting in frezzer for later.

    Ya freezing beef in a domestic freezer happens too slowly which causes large ice crystals to form which breaks down the structure of the meat and turns it to mush. There are various work arounds but I wouldn't bother personally.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭kurtainsider


    As I said it's just a word I used. I've explained myself. Move on!

    I was just at Lidl everything was marked at €2 in the section. Stuffed turkey joints, salmon fillets and small pickers of diced chicken fillets.
    They were giving away some of the freshly cut flowers.

    You see the thing is freshpopcorn that the term "gone off" has a very distinct meaning. It means that the food is already spoiled and unusable. You used the word incorrectly so you can get as huffy and defensive as you like but your use of the word was just wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    You see the thing is freshpopcorn that the term "gone off" has a very distinct meaning. It means that the food is already spoiled and unusable. You used the word incorrectly so you can get as huffy and defensive as you like but your use of the word was just wrong.

    Oh “chill” out ffs

    Happy Christmas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    seanl77 wrote: »
    The reductions in tesco are done gradually to give more shoppers a chance to avail of them, not all people want to shop at seven o clock in the evening.


    :rolleyes:

    You do know that their motto "Every little helps!" refers to the Tesco bottom line, not their customer's?
    ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭PMBC


    okidoki987 wrote: »
    Lidl are doing a "Waste not" promo.
    Meat that has an expiry date of today or tomorrow will have a green sticker
    on it with any price of €2, €1.50 or €0.90c on it.
    I got 6 packs of 2 Striploin steaks for €12 total, should have been €54! :D
    Turkey steaks for .90c, 4 Chicken breasts for €2, 4 Salmon darnes for €2 and
    a few other meats.
    All expiring tomorrow so freezer bound.
    Should be in all Lidl stores.

    I read by this that once you freeze the meat, the expiry date is no longer relevant except to the extent that the freezer life of the meat is, perhaps, 3 to 6 months.
    Is that true?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭adam240610


    The lidl near smithfield seems to just be putting 30% discount stickers on instead of these green ones, wonder if they're meant to do that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    PMBC wrote: »
    I read by this that once you freeze the meat, the expiry date is no longer relevant except to the extent that the freezer life of the meat is, perhaps, 3 to 6 months.
    Is that true?

    A lot of stuff says freeze on date of purchase and consume within one month from what I've seen.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Aceandstuff


    This has been going on in my local Lidl for a few weeks now. When I say "local", I mean it's about 50 metres from my front door.

    90 cent trout. 90 cent sushi. Boxes of lamb mince and chicken breasts for 90 cent. Sliced chicken, turkey, and ham packs for 20 cent. Chocolate cream dessert yokes for 20 cent... You get the picture.

    I spend my evenings pacing around Lidl waiting for the staff to wheel the little cart of discounted stuff up to the fridges, and thinking about meat... Like some sort of vulture person. Nothing will fit in the freezer anymore, not even steak. 20 cent cream it was, yesterday. Not meat. Is cream a vegetable? Who knows?

    All I know is meat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,613 ✭✭✭wassie


    Good meat 'deals' to be had up round the border this weekend.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2019/1207/1097645-container-theft-armagh/


  • Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,842 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quackster


    Clearly it's only in specific stores as any Lidl I've been in recently is still just applying the regular 30% discount.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,822 ✭✭✭stimpson


    . 90 cent sushi.

    I like a bargain as much as the next man, but even I draw the line at discounted sushi.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,625 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    Quackster wrote: »
    Clearly it's only in specific stores as any Lidl I've been in recently is still just applying the regular 30% discount.

    I was in 6 Lidl South Dublin shops last week and without looking for them specifically, saw the green labels on meats/fish in 4 of them.
    Would assume it would be in the larger stores where they would have more stock and might also depend on time of day and demand?
    I've seen them just after opening and close to closing time in stores.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭jeffk


    Lidl swords and couldn't see anything outside the orange stickers and great deal on goujans for a euro


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭KOR101


    Let your nose be the judge of the use by date.
    Swollen salad/cheese/pasta bowls are another sign. Often well before the date, and with the 30% sticker already on it.


  • Site Banned Posts: 880 ✭✭✭whiteshorts


    I bought some many €1 steaks in last few days, my OH has banned me from buying any more as we won't have room in the freezer for Christmas :rolleyes:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Quackster wrote: »
    Clearly it's only in specific stores as any Lidl I've been in recently is still just applying the regular 30% discount.

    I've seen both in store but these new stickers only appear late at night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭dowtchaboy


    jeffk wrote: »
    Lidl swords and couldn't see anything outside the orange stickers and great deal on goujans for a euro
    I had some of those last night. Not great. They didn't even seem right with BBQ sauce or Mayo on them - odd texture. YMMV.
    I won't buy them again. (and I buy bargains I don't need or really want all the time!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭jeffk


    dowtchaboy wrote: »
    I had some of those last night. Not great. They didn't even seem right with BBQ sauce or Mayo on them - odd texture. YMMV.
    I won't buy them again. (and I buy bargains I don't need or really want all the time!)

    Dinner for tomorrow so hopefully the experience is better

    If they're not nice then I won't bother myself, especially with Iceland on my doorstep there's more freezer choice now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭johnnykilo


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    They aren’t proper goujons they are much the same as cheap chicken nuggets shaped and formed to looked that way

    Yeah, I noticed the word "Formed" on them and gave them a miss! Worth paying the extra euro for something that hasn't been scraped out of a machine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Aceandstuff


    Someone set the alarms off in Lidl last night when I was at the fridge. I was fully expecting to get arrested. Still not sure I'm not hallucinating some of these labels.

    4x Muller Greek-style fat free yoghurts for 20c, and some nice German salami packets I've had my eye on for weeks now, also 20c. I bought a few days' worth of dinners from the 20c fridge on top of these, but I'll still be over there later to see what's on offer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭taytobreath


    What would the optimal time to be going to Lidl to acquire these bargains?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    What would the optimal time to be going to Lidl to acquire these bargains?

    Every Lidl is different in my local one I'd say about 8pm. However it depends on the staff members who's on.


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