What/What Not to Buy at Lidl/Aldi

To be fair some small local shops (around our way at least) were selling NI (e.g. Strathroy) milk cheaper than the larger retailers years ago.
 
I know what I'd LIKE to buy in LIDL and ALDI and it's their bread mix!
After years of being bombarded with bread making machines I finally gave in and bought one. For a while all was rosy. I was in fresh bread heaven evry morning for breakfast.
NOW CAN'T GET BREAD MIX, THEY STOPPED DOING IT!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tesco and Dunnes mix consists of flour and baking powder. I'm actually a qualified baker and let me tell you that very little you can buy in this country actually qualifies as bread, most of it is either usefull for scouring pots or re-lining the brakes on your car, just don't eat it. And don't even get me started on food in general in Ireland.
Along come two chain of German supermarkets and supply me with bread mix actually containing rye flour, yeast and sour dough. The way it should be. The proper way.
But it was just a big, horrible tease to get us all hooked and to spend money on some machines that probably are the remnants of scrapped russian tanks.
Now proud owner of large, ugly doorstop that's completly useless, all I get from ALDI, LIDL is deafening silence.
I guess my main complaint is the way goods appear/dissappear from the shelves in a completely random and arbitrary manner without one iota of thought for the customer, as long as they make their money they're ok and sure, what else counts?
 
JStacker said:
I And don't even get me started on food in general in Ireland.
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Have to agree , bread , sausage etc. MANUFACTURED to the English "standard". What does surprise me is a baker using bread mix ?
pjq
PS if its a question of flour , try the polish shops .
 
JStacker said:
I know what I'd LIKE to buy in LIDL and ALDI and it's their bread mix!
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Why do you need to use pre-mixed flour etc to use in a bread machine? It's very simple to either use the recipe booklet that comes with all bread machines or adapt your own? Most days I make different types of bread and cake with lidl's bifinett machine and havn't had any complaints yet!
 
JStacker said:
I know what I'd LIKE to buy in LIDL and ALDI and it's their bread mix!
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I was in my local Lidl (Drogheda) this evening and they had several packets of bread mix in various flavours (multi grain, sesame seed....)
Get them while they're hot!!
 
The frozen lamb shanks in Aldi are great value at 5.99 for two.

In individual bags in a mint sauce they can be boiled in the bag microwaved or roasted in the oven.

They look quite small but as the price of lamb is crazy there is a lot more meat on them as you will get on cutlets or chops and they are delicious.
 
Well, I could of course easily make bread myself, however there is a problem.
First you need wheat flour. No problem there. Dried yeast. Easy enough to come buy. But then it gets tricky.
Rye flour (Not shredded rye) is virtually unknown here. Dried sour dough unheard of. Easy enough make white bread, no problem, but the German variety near impossible, unless you want to buy shredded rye (but where?), run it through a mill, set some of it aside, mix it with water, wait for it to turn and use it a sour dough.
And so the entire operation has spiralled from emptying a packet into a machine into a full-blown process over several days to get a loaf of bread.
I have actually imported some proper bread mix from Germany and so far it's happiness all round.
Haven't been to my local LIDL, so will check to see if they got some.
Just don't ring their (lack of) service line.
 
Defending LIDL crappy call line

I got a Satellite box from LIDL 2 years ago , when it broke down I left a message on their line , they called me back and one day later the German manufacturer called and told me where to ..... send it for repair .
pjq
 
Hi JS,

My local Lidl (Greenhills Road, Tallaght) is still stocking the bread mixes (thought they have moved them to a new place in the shop - they're now beside the teas and coffees near the checkouts). I do agree that Lidl and Aldi are very unpredictable about what they stock (but then so is my local Superquinn who are regularly out of such 'exotic' things as rocket, basil, beansprouts and baby spinach, not to mention tinned tomatoes and wholewheat pasta!)

But you can find all the ingredients to make your own bread without resorting to mixes in Dublin. I know that health food shops (The Hopsack in Rathmines being my local) stock rye flour (and lots of other types of flour), fresh yeast and sourdough starter.

I'm just now listening to my Lidl breadmaker churing away making a seed and grain molasses bread for my lunch. Yum!

Happy baking!

c
 
gipimann said:
I was in my local Lidl (Drogheda) this evening and they had several packets of bread mix in various flavours (multi grain, sesame seed....)
Get them while they're hot!!
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Lidl in Blanch and Moore Street always seem to have these bread mixes.
 


Nice one! I would have previously said that if I find sour doe in Ireland I will cut off my right leg and beat myself to death with it, so thank God I didn't!
Will go and check it out.
My problem is I'm in Clare and the shops here are stocked for "country gentleman", i.e. Hang Sangers and manure and anything more exotic is the preserve of speciality food stores and health food shops.
As the say in Germany "Was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht"
(What the farmer doesn't know, he doesnt' eat)
But it's improving all the time here and Limerick city is somewhat better stocked and has lots of Polish, Russian, etc... shops, so will go hunting today!
 
How much did the lidl bread maker cost and are they still stocking them?
The price of bread is getting ridiculous and would like to start baking.
Bought their 34c pans, just to feed the dogs mind as i don`t like.
The granary pan at 99c is nice.
What about the cook in oven baguettes 6 pack.....i tried some but felt the iinside didnt bake as well as outside...maybe my oven isn`t hot enough.
Oh got the californian depitted prunes 2.49...very nice.
Have decided to avoid their delicious cheap choc bars as i get toothache...i guess its the pleasure and pain thing!
The panetto cakes..are they worth buying?
 
I think Aldi better than Lidl, they used to stock a french beer , i think it was 12 bottles for 6 euro. It was a real french brand (brasserie)and was very nice. Now they have stopped selling this and their french beer is specially brewed and packed for Aldi. This is not as nice even though a bit cheaper. All the supermarkets do not stock genuine french brands, just french beer brewed especially for each supermarket. Its a pity not possible to get this brand again
 
ClubMan said:
You don't knead, sorry - need, a dedicated bread maker to bake bread.
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HI clubman...you were obviously dying to get that pun in!
I am a bit lazy and would like to try out the bread making machine and would appreciate peoples experience of it.
 
Me again! JS, happy hunting. I know some of the health food and 'gourmet' deli's stock Blazing Salads breads which include a few sourdough varieties too.

Sunrock, Lidl breadmaker c. €35. I've used mine for a few breads and it seems to work pretty well. You do end up with big holes in the bottom of the loaves from where the kneading paddles go in which is a bit of a downside with a breadmaker. But it is a pretty handy yoke for baking yeast bread especially, as yeast breads take a long time with all that kneading and proving. I have noticed it can chop up seeds and fruits during the kneading process but that's not a biggie as you'll probably mangle them a bit when you cut the bread anyway.
 
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