Is this the meat bargain of the year!

okidoki987 · 06-12-2019 1:04pm #1

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!

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.

Atlantic Dawn · 06-12-2019 1:06pm

The farmers will not be pleased, lol.

zell12 · 06-12-2019 1:09pm

My local one is cleared out by vulturladies

Mickeroo · 06-12-2019 1:11pm

Basically the reduced section in Tesco?

sweetie · 06-12-2019 1:12pm

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.

vicwatson · 06-12-2019 1:16pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The farmers will not be pleased, lol.

Well subsidised by Leedil;)

vicwatson · 06-12-2019 1:17pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Basically the reduced section in Tesco?

Some call it Salmonella corner:p

the whole year inn · 06-12-2019 1:55pm

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

DublinGirl738 · 06-12-2019 2:00pm

the whole year inn wrote: »

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

the whole year inn · 06-12-2019 2:01pm

DublinGirl738 wrote: »

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

Thephantomsmask · 06-12-2019 2:05pm

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.

okidoki987 · 06-12-2019 3:51pm

the whole year inn wrote: »

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?

odyssey06 · 06-12-2019 5:17pm

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

mlem123 · 06-12-2019 5:26pm

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

seanl77 · 06-12-2019 5:44pm

Thephantomsmask wrote: »

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.

L1011 · 06-12-2019 5:46pm

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.

seanl77 · 06-12-2019 6:03pm

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

freshpopcorn · 06-12-2019 6:29pm

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.

kurtainsider · 06-12-2019 8:01pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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.

freshpopcorn · 06-12-2019 8:06pm

kurtainsider wrote: »

"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.

lalababa · 06-12-2019 8:09pm

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

freshpopcorn · 06-12-2019 8:11pm

lalababa wrote: »

Yeah let your nose & eyes be the judge. ðŸ™‚
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.

okidoki987 · 06-12-2019 8:13pm

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.

banchang · 06-12-2019 8:33pm

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.

tabby aspreme · 06-12-2019 8:53pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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

freshpopcorn · 06-12-2019 9:17pm

tabby aspreme wrote: »

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.

tabby aspreme · 06-12-2019 9:19pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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

Meow

seanl77 · 06-12-2019 9:58pm

banchang wrote: »

Much more labour intensive though.

100% agree with you

gobo99 · 06-12-2019 10:15pm

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.

redarmyblues · 07-12-2019 10:10am

the whole year inn wrote: »

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.

kurtainsider · 07-12-2019 8:44pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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.

vicwatson · 08-12-2019 5:06am

kurtainsider wrote: »

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

GrumpyMe · 08-12-2019 9:00am

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?

PMBC · 08-12-2019 9:08am

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!
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?

adam240610 · 08-12-2019 9:14am

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?

freshpopcorn · 08-12-2019 9:33am

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.

Aceandstuff · 08-12-2019 10:45am

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.

wassie · 08-12-2019 11:27am

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

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

Quackster · 08-12-2019 1:18pm

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

stimpson · 09-12-2019 11:39am

Aceandstuff wrote: »

. 90 cent sushi.

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

okidoki987 · 09-12-2019 12:05pm

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.

jeffk · 09-12-2019 12:14pm

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

KOR101 · 09-12-2019 12:20pm

kurtainsider wrote: »

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.

whiteshorts · 09-12-2019 12:54pm

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:.

freshpopcorn · 09-12-2019 2:35pm

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.

dowtchaboy · 11-12-2019 12:19am

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!)

jeffk · 11-12-2019 12:21am

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

johnnykilo · 11-12-2019 10:56am

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.

Aceandstuff · 11-12-2019 12:13pm

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.

taytobreath · 11-12-2019 6:48pm

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

freshpopcorn · 11-12-2019 7:59pm

taytobreath wrote: »

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.

Is this the meat bargain of the year!

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