Lidl Morning Goods: Cheese Roll, Chocolate Twist, Pecan Plait, Pain Aux Raisins, Pain Au Chocolat, Apple Turnover

29p for a fresh and yummy cheese roll. Wow. The roll is the one at the far end of the dish. It was light and fluffy in side, with a pleasant cheesy crust and a good cheese flavour. Nice one. Excellent value for money.

Score: 7/10


The chocolate twist was 45p - that's the long narrow thing on the right. Good bits of chocolate inside, though I felt the pastry was a little greasy. Nice, but not awesome.

Score:  5/10

The pecan plait is on the left, opposite the chocolate twist. It's fatter and shorter than the twist. Same price, 45p. Nice taste, but like the twist, not overwhelmed, and again a little greasy.

Score:  5/10

The pain aux raisons was also 45p - that's the one at the front on the left, next to the pain au chocolate. A juicy and pleasant pastry. Good value for money.

6/10

The pain au chocolat was 39p and tasted authentically French. Excellent value for money.

Score: 7/10

The apple turnover is at the back, to the right of the upright cheese roll - it sort of looks like a cheese pasty. I was charged 39p, though I think that was a mistake, and it should have been more. It's OK. Not as flaky or as filled with apple as I would have liked, and lacking a bit in flavour, but OK, and if the price is 39p, it's cheap enough!

Score: 5/10

Lidl Morning Goods: All Butter Croissant

Baked on the premises so they are fresh (rather than the part-baked approach taken by Aldi which results in an old tasting product even when heated up in the oven) these are both tasty and cheap. The family enjoyed tucking into these for breakfast. I like my croissants, and the all butter croissant (in the middle of the dish) was very tasty.  It's not huge, but neither is it small - it's a decent size, and holds together well, only flaking slightly.  I used a Lidl jam on it and was very happy. It's rare to get a decent tasting croissant in the UK, and this does the job for me. Cheapest fresh croissant I can recall eating anywhere.


7/10

Lidl Hatherwood Gnarly Fox Lager

£1.25 for a 500ml bottle of 4.5% beer is decent value, and there's enough of the Kent weed (and American and Continental variations)  in this beer to lift this "lager" into decent drinking territory. Decent clean body - not thin at all, even though 4.5%, so I wonder just how lagered this beer actually is. There's enough residual sweetness to convince most people this is a standard blonde ale. Solid, pleasant, easy drinking and tasty beer. Impressed.



Score: 6/10