Hi everyone welcome back to my kitchen we went to our very first visit at a grocery store called Lidl it's Lidl
It's a German grocery chain. That's just starting to
Come to the United States
And we have like four of them in our area the closest one to us is
About 20 minutes away so today we needed to go to the commissary and we decided to
Stop in so I thought I would just do an unpacking grocery haul and share with you what we got
All right, we're gonna get started and what I wanted to tell you was the bags you see are all the bags
I wanted to show them the thing but we shopped at this store
It's Lidl and it's another German grocery chain like I mentioned in the open
This is literally a magazine so I'm sure it's full of advertisements, but it's also full of like
ideas for the holidays so
The girls and I had a girls day
We went to lunch we went to little we went to the commissary and women grocery shopping
We don't very often do a giant grocery shop
But we really needed to do one this time so we did and Rick stayed home and watched his football game
it's mine, so I'm gonna start here because this what we're gonna have for dinner and
because the girls have a rule if we see orange chicken somewhere in the freezer section we have to try it so this is the
Little is very similar to Aldi in that everything is their own store brand also like Trader Joe's little had a lot more
Name-brand things and they did they had quite a few more name-brand things and all he does
But overall it's mostly their own house brand stuff and the milk was a dollar forty a gallon
We didn't get any but I will tell you about the organic free-range eggs because that cracks me up the orange chicken
we're gonna make - there's a one-pound package and ten ounce packages, so they're 26 ounces and
They were $4.99
They also had
general tso chicken and beef broccoli here, honey and
We're gonna have to give those try another time if we like these we desperately needed frozen vegetables
These frozen vegetables were 85 cents a bag so we got California blend
We got broccoli florets. I think we got two bags of everything yeah
California blends
not just sweet corn super sweet corn oh
I think we did get three bags of the broccoli because that's all that was in the box
and we got ravioli these ravioli were $2.99 a bag and we got the cheese they also had me and they had a
Mushroom ravioli that was five dollars a bag, but we didn't get any of those so the cheese ravioli
We're gonna give a try
And then we're gonna have to put easily
somewhere
No these out of the way, okay?
Like I said the I think I gave you prices the vegetables
We're all I think that the corn the California blend
Were 85 cents a bag and then the
Broccoli was a dollar nine a bag because we got the florets instead of the cut broccoli. I hate cut broccoli
I just I don't do it for
Pound bag of sugar was a dollar 39 and we got two bags of sugar I
Like I said, we're just doing an unpacking haul here. I got these
Tomato basil pasta sauce this is their house brand and these were a dollar sixty nine a jar
I was just thinking the other day
I wonder if I can find crostini anywhere because I have a great recipe for an appetizer
That's super delicious, and it takes crostini
So these are crispy thin breadsticks if you're not familiar, and I got coffee
We're running low on coffee so I got coffee I
Got these were
Fantastic price $5.99 for this one. Oh I got two panamanians
I didn't mean to get two Panamanians, but oh well. I got an Italian roast and this was
369 and I got a donut shop blend and that was also
369 they had a ton of different kinds of coffee they have espresso beans and
They're very very well priced. I have to say
Okay, I got this is a 2 pound bag of par-cooked rice
This is my favorite kind of rice you guys know that this was 99 cents
That's a phenomenal price because I can get a 2 pound bag of par-cooked rice at Walmart
and it cost me 269 so that's good I
Got a small bag of mandarin oranges this was
$2.49 I got 2 bags for the pant two boxes of this for the pantry
which is the deluxe pasta shells and cheese which is kind of like the Velveeta shells and
this is the white cheddar version and this was 85 cents a box I
Got some butter crackers because we're out of butter crackers these were a dollar fifty nine a box, so I got a couple of those
Knees just looked fun and yummy, and we love like gummy candies so we got these I got oh
This is called a skillet dinner, but you know what this is like pasta Roni, okay?
So we got
Butter and herb, this is telling you to add tuna
But we're probably gonna use this as a side dish
and
We got two of the fettuccine alfredo and two of the butter and herb you could add chicken or tuna and make it a complete
Meal throw some peas in there you're good to go
I don't usually buy those as I thought they were like a noodle mix and not a dinner mix
I guess I got excited and wasn't paying attention, but those were 69 cents
and
Then I got the eggs these eggs. Let me tell you these are organic free-range cage free brown eggs all right
these were two dollars and 69 cents a dozen I pay two dollars and
89 cents a dozen at Walmart for just
cage free brown eggs
the organic cage-free brown eggs are almost six dollars a dozen so 289 or
269 a dozen you betcha, I got a couple of dozen eggs because we're going into the time of year where you know?
I got some apricot preserves these were a dollar ninety-nine, and you know there's like no high fructose corn syrup
No synthetic colors, and I believe most of this stuff is GMO free so that's pretty cool. I
Don't think most apricots are going to be a problem. Anyway. We got four cans of the solid white albacore tuna
This is the little brand. This is the same price that I pay at
Aldi for this you know a similar product so dollar Oh dot or nine a can for that
I got some hoity-toity
French mustard, so that's just like Dijon mustard. What is imported, and then I got some
Whole-grain mustard these are 69 cents a jar
And then I got a couple of really fun things this looked so good. This was 229 a jar
It's a for fruits jam and it's got sour cherry strawberry red currant and raspberry in it, and it's a fruit spread
So it's low sugar. It's just got fruit and citric acid and pectin
That's all that's in here so this may be going into
A baked good a cookie a cake. I'm not sure yet, but it looks fantastic
And then I got I saw these and I thought oh
I am just gonna get those because they look so good these I think were like
The thick spread this is a green fig and honey spread
And it was a dollar fifty nine and then this red pepper spread was also a dollar fifty nine
Right, but I thought these would be this would be fabulous on a cheese board
And this would be fantastic poured over a brick of cream cheese served with crackers
so
You know when the holidays roll around its really great to have stuff like this on your pantry shelf and to make sure you have
Those little things like cream cheese or extra butter on hand because you can whip up a compound butter or you can throw some?
cheese on up on a board with some crackers and some crusty bread and this jar of
fig spread you can put in a little dish with a spreading knife, and you know you're gonna serve a
Fantastic upscale hors d'oeuvre and people are gonna. Love it and they're gonna just
kind of be super impressed with you so and
Then I have the produce that we got
Their produce was really nice
great
Doesn't have great ingredients. Well. That's good. Molly's. Just saying that the orange chicken has great ingredients. Oh, yeah
I saw these and got him for Rick. They're
Chocolate-covered peanuts, and I think of the things we bought this was kind of pricey this was 399 and so
But he likes them, and he doesn't get them very often
Molly is a nanny for a family and they have three children so these were
Were they 99 cents so we got these for them, so you can do what you're gonna do with those
Okay
These are the same
little mix heirloom tomatoes that we get at Sam's Club only in a smaller package
And I think it was a dollar ninety-nine to fourteen was it 249 this one was a dollar ninety-nine
And these are a dollar forty nine. Okay, Micah likes these little orange Tomatoes quite a bit so she picked those up. I
Have a recipe coming up that requires some really really great fresh vegetables
It's an appetizer dish, and I'm excited to share it with you
It's gonna be part of our mmm, right
it's gonna be a part of our make ahead Thanksgiving, so I needed green peppers these were forty nine cents apiece and
These tricolor peppers Molly
These
They were three twenty nine
Yeah, yeah, okay?
3:29 for that I think were these two forty nine
The cucumbers Spurs to twenty two twenty nine. I'm close guys
And then this was the last minute as we were walking out. I saw the asparagus
those are 290 they were $2.99 apiece and these are I think they are one-pound bags and
They're nice, and thin. They're not too thick I like
pencil-sized asparagus
So I
Don't know how much you think I spent for all these groceries, but there's four pounds of coffee. There are several bags of frozen vegetables
organic eggs a lot of great produce
and I
Have to tell you I was really impressed even Molly when she when she heard how much we spent where we were like wow
We'd spent a hundred and nine dollars
and I think that's really great and that included a dinner for tonight a full dinner for another night and not to mention all the
Great ingredients that we have here that are gonna see us through several holiday videos
Some snacking and some just you know regular everyday life, and I'm really looking forward to using it so
If you have a Lidl coming to your area, honestly. I think they're only on like the eastern seaboard
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina
and
Maybe Washington DC. Is there one in Washington DC
So if you have one near you and you've not gone go ahead and give it a try
I was really kind of impressed with it. They had a lot of great frozen items. They had beautiful
Imported cheese that was really good price their meat was beautiful
And they have a lot of beer and wine both imported and domestic and it's very well priced
one of the things I went there for they were out of they had whole chickens for 69 cents a pound and
The case was empty, and I was really sad because that's a really good price
I haven't seen chickens for 69 cents a pound and I can't tell you how long
Because it as much as I like using boneless skinless chicken
I much prefer to cook my chicken with the bone-in because you get so much better flavor that way
And I think you're getting even more nutrition when you roast it on the bone
So that's my little haul. I hope you enjoyed it
If you have any questions leave them in the comment section down below
And I'll do my best to answer them for you and again if you have a little in your area
Go ahead and give them a try
I think you're gonna find them to be quite impressive, and I think you're gonna
Love it you may not shop for everything there
But I definitely think that you can round out your grocery trip on a budget by shopping there
They also have a weekly ad and they do weekly specials, and if you sign up for their app on your phone
They do send you clickable coupons that you can use when you check out and like
The orange chicken I didn't have the app at the time
But the orange chicken
had we had the app we would have gotten an additional dollar off of that that were already on sale for $4.99 a bag and
if we had had
The app we could have scanned it at the checkout stand and it would have given us an additional dollar off per bag
so it was totally it is worth it to go ahead and get the Hat and
Again like Ollie you got to take your own bags
Or you got to pay for him so and you have to bag your own groceries which I don't mind doing it all
Because frankly when I beg my own groceries can make more sense of how they're packaged so that's it
I'm gonna leave you with that. I hope you loved it, and if you give it a try
Let me know and until next time. I'll see ya
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