My Lidl bargain!

Doodledog

They are for sale because they will go off soon, not donations to a foodbank!

I know they are not donations to a food bank, but there are people shopping in Lidl who are on very tight incomes. I have seen people handing items back because they do not have enough money.

This comfortably off person shops in Lidl because it is the supermarket nearest to my house, only a couple of hundred metres away and the other supermarkets in the town centre are not as big and do not have the same range of goods.

I do mop-up shopping at Waitrose, M&S, Iceland and Pound Stretcher, depending on what item it was I could not get at Lidl.

In the area of the country we lived in previously I shopped almost exclusively in Waitrose, the local market and farm shops. Waitrose was in the town centre while other foods shops were scattered all around the place in remote locations. Where we are now the town centre is well supplied with food shops, but the market is poor and expensive and there are a lack of farm shops in the immediate vicinity.

My only consideration when doing the weekly shop is convenience.

Our Lidl is excellent for fruit and veg. I haven't seen the boxes for a long time. Maybe they've stopped doing them.

We have a 'community fridge' in our town where for £1.50 you can fill a supermarket basket with whatever goods are about to go out of date. It's not just for those on low incomes. It's also so prevent food waste.

I sometimes pick up an M&S sourdough loaf or some exotic food stuff. There were dozens of tubes of truffle pate once.
I don't feel guilty at all. We are saving it from landfill.

Primrose53

Grandmadinosaur

It’s not often I see them when we’ve been to Lidl. I wouldn’t dream of buying more than one.

Why not?

Because I’d only buy what I could use and one would be sufficient for our needs. I also think it’s a little bit greedy ie last week in Asda there were 4 tins of soup reduced to 11p. I bought 2 and left the rest for someone else.

And doesn’t everyone love a bargain? Surely that might explain why ‘the comfortably off’ would be shopping in Lidl.

Our Lidl must be very different then. The boxes are of very poor quality and nobody wants them . They are frequently there in the evening when I shop. The quality of vegetables and fruit in our shop is not great so the boxes are full of very over ripe bananas and sprouting potatoes with broccoli and several packs of lettuce. People used to buy them at £1.50 but not £2. I like Lidl for everything else just not fruit and veg.

They are for sale because they will go off soon, not donations to a foodbank!

Grandmadinosaur

It’s not often I see them when we’ve been to Lidl. I wouldn’t dream of buying more than one.

There were a lot there though and may have been dumped if not all sold?

Well done!! X

Grandmadinosaur

It’s not often I see them when we’ve been to Lidl. I wouldn’t dream of buying more than one.

Why not?

Well done, Sago. I love a bargain (even though we’re ’comfortably off’ Monica).

We get them all the time. Tgey are amazing 🥰

It’s not often I see them when we’ve been to Lidl. I wouldn’t dream of buying more than one.

I see those boxes in Lidl, but I have never bought one because we are comfortablly off and I feel I ought to leave them for families for whom these cut prices boxes are a godsend when they are struggling to manage on a small income.

However, if I saw them at a Garden Centre I would probably snap one up.

Love a fruity bargain, well done , save a lime to slice into a nice cool drink too!

Oh, I love a bargain like that! Our local garden centre sometimes sells what they call 'soup boxes' for £5, which are full of veg - and sometimes some fruit - which is past its best, but still edible. I made two huge pots of soup from the last one - one leek and potato and the other butternut squash and sweet potato - as well as using the other veg in meals over the next couple of days, and chopping the remainder up to freeze.