A new Lidl opened in Dereham last month. Excited shoppers queued in the rain [not me, I was in Manchester that week] It's a lovely big store, with good car parking, an instore bakery and lots of extra features [like a self scan checkout area]
I've been in there two or three times, and I like it. There's more space in the aisles, and a wider variety of products. Early on Monday I was in there getting eggs and milk, and also picked up one of the Too Good To Waste boxes. It cost me £2 and I am really pleased with what I got for my money. I do not often post 'shopping basket' pictures on the blog, but decided this was worth sharing. I separated out the items and priced them up
The bananas will need to be eaten up fairly promptly [or used in banana bread, smoothies or a pudding] but everything else will keep OK in the fridge for a few days,
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This strikes me as very good value.
The boxes are kept on the far side of the tills - so you inform the assistant that you would like one, she adds £2 to your bill, then you collect it as you leave the store. This is a good system. It stops people handling the produce or swapping out the contents of their boxes, exchanging leeks for more easy peelers!
What is the best thing you ever discovered in one?



I have never seen these boxes in our local Lidl store despite asking a few times.That was a very good value box you bought-just stay away from the middle of Lidl. Also-have you downloaded the Lidl plus App? Catriona
ReplyDeleteThe Lisl.app is very useful and alerts me to bargains . And Bob likes the Tool Offers!!
DeleteI love these boxes! I sometimes buy one just for the fun of working out how to use unexpected items.
ReplyDeleteIt's a cheapskate alternative to fancy delivered veg boxes
DeleteThose bargain bags are an excellent way to avoid food waste. Our corner shop does them too, I think there's an app where local shops can post if they have bargain bags on offer
ReplyDeleteThey do that here, but the offers tend to be late in the day, and it's not worth the trip into town only to discover they've all gone.
DeleteI love them but I rarely see them nowadays at the Lidl near school. I've had an amazing amount of produce in them before!
ReplyDeleteI have always been pleased with the quality and variety
DeleteI have bought them but our local store has stopped doing them. My best haul was one that had three large boxes of strawberries plus other fruit. I had strawberries and yoghurt for breakfast first several days. Lovely
ReplyDeleteThat sounds delicious!
DeleteThey do have them here in France, but I'm not sure if people do a bit of a sort after they've paid, as often one box seems to have kilos of very brown bananas, and another five or six cauliflowers...I have had one which was good value (I can't remember exactly what was involved now) but needed a lot of work to preserve all the items before they went bad!
ReplyDeleteI think the way they space them out along the shelf, and watch the customers carefully means it is harder for veg-swappers now! I think that only the bananas needed prompt consumption, and we ate 4 of them yesterday.ππππ
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