The 62 Lidl products that shoppers love – and the ones you should avoid
Snack-size cucumbers get a thumbs up while fresh fish is best left on the shelf, customers say
THE best and worst products at Lidl have been revealed by savvy shoppers who know the store inside out.
Snack-size cucumbers were surprisingly named as the best item overall, while fresh fish, cleaning products and some of the supermarket's own-brand cereals were given a thumbs down from customers.
The discount supermarket is as popular as ever in the UK, with more than 700 stores in the UK after opening its first in 1994.
Shoppers rave about the quality and affordability of the products on social media, and there are Facebook groups set up to discuss the best and worst ones.
Now a list of the items to snap up and the ones to leave on the shelf has been collated by
They gave the supermarket's 35p tomato soup a rave review, as well as approving its limited-edition £1.99 créme brûlée ice cream, which often sells out in days.
But not every product on Lidl's shelves is worth picking up, according to the shoppers.
The 44 best Lidl products
THIS is a list of the best Lidl own-brand items at the discount supermarket, according to shoppers on social media:
- Mini Oakland cucumbers
- Newgate tomato soup
- Duc De Coeur crème brûlée ice cream
- Brunswick ham and all fresh meat
- Deluxe barista premium coffee
- Bakery items, including cinnamon buns, croissants, pain au chocolat, pain au raisin, apple turnovers, iced doughnuts and cookies
- Continental cold meats/ham
- Lupilu 12 months+ ready meals
- Pastel De Nata Portuguese custard tarts
- Cheese selections
- Baresa dried pasta
- Deluxe and Mexican coleslaw
- W5 washing up liquid
- W5 bleach
- Dulano frankfurter sausages
- Sourdough bread
- Freeway diet coke
- Freeway diet lemonade
- Aura perfumes
- Lupilu nappies
- Nocciolata chocolate spread
- Italiamo coffee ice cream
- Fresh baked soda bread
- Mini baguettes
- Simply sumptuous ranola
- Greek plain and strawberry yoghurt
- Frozen chicken steaks in breadcrumb
- Naturis smoothie cartons
- Firenze apple strudel
- Belbake salt and pepper croutons
- Deluxe Madagascan vanilla ice cream
- Fairglobe white chocolate and cranberry cookies
- W5 dishwasher tablets and limescale remover
- Deluxe teas
- Fresh blackberries
- Fresh ginger
- Nuts selection
- Greek savoury pastries with cheese and spinach
- Baresa ready-made pasta sauces
- Ready to roll pastry
- Sodney jaffa cakes
- Iced coffees
- Christmas stollen
- Frozen spicy bean burgers
Some of the social media gurus said you should Lidl's £1.89 own-brand Weetabix-style cereal, as well as its 30 baked beans and 89p Cien shampoo.
Lidl's frozen pizzas, malt loaf and fresh lettuce were also given a thumbs down by some.
There were more top-rated products than ones to avoid when shoppers gave their verdict, though.
Other quality products include Lidl's Nutella-style Nocciolata chocolate spread, which contains crunchy pieces of hazelnut.
The 18 worst Lidl products
SHOPPERS also gave their verdict on 18 items to avoid at Lidl:
- Fresh fish
- Cleaning products
- Crownfield honey hoops cereal
- Crownfield "Cornflakes"
- Crownfield "Weetabix"
- Crownfield "Shreddies"
- Towergate digestive biscuits
- Towergate custard creams
- Fresh lettuce
- Fruit malt loaf
- Frozen fish fingers
- Crownfield Muesli
- Newgate baked beans
- Deluxe sticky toffee pudding
- Manor House stewed steak
- Frozen battered fis
- Cien shampoo
- Frozen pizzas
And shoppers also rated the supermarket's bakery items, particularly its Portuguese custard tarts and its croissants.
Cleaning products were said to be best avoided at Lidl, according to some shoppers.
But others rated the supermarket's W5 washing up liquid, bleach, dishwasher tablets and limescale remover, showing that some people have different taste.
We've asked Lidl for a response to the shopper survey and we will update this article if we hear back.
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