Im new to Lidl and Aldi at Christmas .

Very funny Greengran78

Sillynanny65
Do Lidl actually make the bread in-store (mix dough/prove/shape etc) or simply bake pre-made goods?
I suspect the latter.

I hate Lebkuchen. Don't eat Christmas pud, cake, meat, game, alcohol, salmon, paté, dips, stollen, pannetone, gerkins, mince-pies, in fact 90% of Christmas food items mentioned here.
I do love most vegetables so I only have those for lunch and possibly home-made trifle or chocolate tart for pudding. No Aldi or Lidl within 20+ miles so I shop at independent stores for cheeses, chutneys, dairy, breads and fruit and M&S and Waitrose for anything else

We eat a lot of Aldi’s Roquefort and feta cheeses and they are very good.

Has anyone tried the Christmas Dinner in a Yorkshire wrap from Lidl? They sold out quickly near us.

Oh, and their rice cakes, which are topped with pink yoghurt (apparently).
It tastes like nice strawberry flavoured chocolate.
Quite moreish.

Aldis malted brown loaf is lovely.

Aldi continental cheeses, especially Gouda and Manchego - much cheaper than e.g. Waitrose, and better flavour. No one's mentioned the alcohol - fantastic wines for around a fiver, and the best value (and delicious) champagne. Lidl gin is brilliant, and both Aldi and Lidl have well-known beers cheaper than anywhere.

Lidl now do sourdough bread which is very good.

I like Aldi and Lidl, but I do prefer Lidl. In their Bakery dept where they bake their own bread, they make a Low GI bread and rolls. They are very tasty, brown bread, with nuts. Also at Christmas their choice of goodies are great. The Marzipan Stollen, and Stollen bites are very tasty. Also the Christmas puddings. They also do small Mince Pies, just enough for a taster. I am a very happy customer

Ooh thank you ladies.
Loads of great food suggestions. I am actually making a list. On paper. With a pen.

A couple of years ago, I bought quite a few packs of Christmas Goodies from Lidl. Unfortunately, they weren't to our taste. I found them to be very 'spicy' in a gingerbread-y way. I presume it was because they were very much of the German Christmas Traditions.

I can also, honestly, say that I'm one who can't abide Panetonne either - I just don't see the point in it at all .

I didn't buy them last year - and won't be buying them again this year, either.

Christmas starts when my DGD and I make up the Lidl gingerbread house kit! It is about a fiver, easy to use and very impressive.

You must listen to "The ballad of Lidl and Aldi!"
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Very funny.

Lidl's three fish roast is delicious, it is a solid block of fish with a lovely cheesy sauce topping and their multi-grain brown cob bread is very good too.

Aldi mascarpone lemon cheesecake is to die for, their greek style yogurt with ginger, honey, coconut or lemon is delicious as is the irish whiskey fruit cake.

So many goodies, so many savings to be made. We've shopped at both these places for years and noticed with wry smiles how many posh cars are in the car park!

Lidl do delicious dark chocolate, rum flavoured marzipan chocolates. I happened to also have some Niederegger marzipan chocolates (vastly more expensive) and prefer the Lidl ones.

Mary, I love that. It reminds me of my Grandma who spoke Doric and had many brilliant phrases.

LuckyFour, it must be a Scottish expression.

Mary doll? "That put his gas at a peep".

Never heard this phrase before, but will be using it in future!

My son gave me a bottle of Aldi's Christmas edition gin last (sorry can't remember which one) which was really nice. It was a little stronger than expected though - hic!!!

If you try Aldi Irish Luxury Layered yoghurt you will never want to eat ordinary yoghurt again! It is wonderful!

Those cherry liqueurs are yummy, Teacheranne. They probably are the same as M and S. We spotted a Battenberg cake in Aldi with all the others and it was wrapped in an M and S wrapper. The ingredients were identical. I don’t expect the price would be though.

I love the Lidl Christmas Stollen bites.

I am a real fan of Lidl. Started using them when redundant but food is good quality and much cheaper. Have found the Christmas biscuits, stollen etc very good and the same as you would find in Germany. DH likes looking at their gadgets (different every week) and these are good value too.

Aldi do almond milk and non dairy yoghurt both good, they also have a wine advent calendar - very tempting.