Lidl wonderful Lidl!

[hanadr]

As you can guess, I shop at Lidl. I was doing it before it became fashionable. I'm Czech born and love the continental products available. and the smaller size of the store, I get lost in Tesco. I buy fresh food and cook. I went in last week and filled my trolley with fresh veggies and salads and some meat. I looked around at tthe "Specials" those strangely selected goods that appear in the middle aisles. Everything from undergarments to office equipment and garden furniture. Nothing I needed
Then I spotted what appears to be a jar of jam labelled Fruit dessert sauce. I read the panel 29% carbohydrate and loads of lovely sounding fruits, including sour cherries. Anyone who hasn't had Lidl's Maribel morello cherry jam, hasn't tasted ambrosia. ( I've given it up)
Anyway, 1 pot of the sauce, 500g contains only 145g of carb. so I bought the pot.
On Lidl's wonderful Greek youghurt, a couple of spoonsful makes the most delicious low carb breakfast. I didn't weigh it, but the secret is in the portion size. 29% of a couple of spoonsful isn't much carb.

 

[sixfoot]

Handadr, i share your enthuseasm for the store and was using it before it was popular. I find it is almost as good as your average deli but cheaper.

Dave P

 

[wiflib]

I'm a Lidl fan too!

I love their Bratwurst. One brand is labeled as having no carbs. They also do a rather interesting large bucket of yoghurt with small, unsweetened chocolate flakes in. Now I've not had it for a while, but I'm almost sure the carb count was fairly low in comparison to other yoghurts. Problem is, I'm not good at restricting the portion size!!!!!

Their fresh fruit and veg are fantastic and incredibly cheap. They also do some of the very dark, heavy breads such as rye. Still carb laden but lower than average and I defy anyone to eat more than one or two slices. Unless smothered in butter. And some nice, hard cheese. And a pickle or two.

B****r, guess where I'll be stopping on my way home from work.

Wiflib

 

[sixfoot]

When i was stationed in Germany in the 70`s i used to quite like the Pumpernickel bread but your right couldnt eat a lot of it

Dave P

 

[Dennis]

I think Lidl offer tremendous value for money, particularly their fresh produce, but there is one thing I would be wary of as regards their prepared foods. When the government a year or so back was seeking undertakings from supermarkets that they would voluntarily ban trans-fats from their products, Aldi and Lidl both said that they couldn't comply because so much of their produce comes from abroad and they have no control over what goes into it.

 

[hanadr]

If you don't eat ready meals or margarine, you can avoid trans-fats

 

[TROUBR]

Then I spotted what appears to be a jar of jam labelled Fruit dessert sauce. I read the panel 29% carbohydrate and loads of lovely sounding fruits, including sour cherries. Anyone who hasn't had Lidl's Maribel morello cherry jam, hasn't tasted ambrosia. ( I've given it up)
Anyway, 1 pot of the sauce, 500g contains only 145g of carb. so I bought the pot.
On Lidl's wonderful Greek youghurt, a couple of spoonsful makes the most delicious low carb breakfast. I didn't weigh it, but the secret is in the portion size. 29% of a couple of spoonsful isn't much carb.

Hi I picked up some of this at the weekend. Can't wait to try it, it looks yummy

 

[Dennis]

If you don't eat ready meals or margarine, you can avoid trans-fats

Not quite Hana,
You also need to be wary of cakes, biscuits, breads, in fact any pre-prepared foods.

 

[hanadr]

to Dennis
I'm low carb, so I don't eat any baked goods, although I remember that lidl's are good

 

[Dennis]

Hi Hana,
Please don't get me wrong. I'm not doubting that they do taste good - they wouldn't sell too many foul tasting ones after all - I am just reiterating what Lidl themselves said about not being able to control whether their pre-prepared foods contain trans-fats. They are a food retailer not a manufacturer and they have no control over the manufacturing of the many branded products they sell. Unlike Tesco who are big enough to be able to say to a manufacturer "we want to sell your product so here's what you will make it from"!!

 

[hanadr]

We have a new Tesco near us and I might brave it sometime, but it's just too huge.

 

[Katharine]

I love Lidls too.

Favourites are:

smoked salmon
smoked trout
ready cooked bacon
black pudding
Thai green curry (very high in carbs - so don't eat all the rice that comes with it)
cream cheese with garlic plus celery sticks
chocolate and almond vanilla ice lollies ( 29g each)