Five Lidl products that will save you cooking at Christmas

The proximity of the festivities sets in motion the Christmas machinery whose central point is meeting family and friends. The “chefs” of each house are already preparing their menus for Christmas and New Year’s Eve dinners.

Many of them are already shopping in advance to avoid rising prices in the run-up to the holidays. According to a purchasing habits survey carried out by Uber Eats, 53% of Spaniards will buy fresh produce in advance this vacation. Buy now and freeze It can mean significant savings for consumers’ pockets.

As the Consumers and Users Organization (OCU) warned, typical foods on these dates increased by an average of 5.2% compared to last year's price. Increases predominate and are important in meat and seafood, they are a little milder in fish, But this year the strong rises in horticultural products stand outas the OCU warned after comparing the prices of 16 typical products at the end of November with those recorded last year and in 2015.

The biggest increase is in red cabbage 32%, followed by hake 16%, turkey 14%, roast beef, pineapple and barnacles (13%) and prawns (11% more than in 2021).

Prepare a list of the products needed to prepare the Christmas menu and following it also helps when saving on expenses. Additionally, if you cook at home, you must take into account electricity and gas prices, which can increase household expenses.

For many saving time is also a priority and buying already prepared food is an option for Christmas parties. In addition to restaurants offering take-away menus, many supermarkets and grocery stores offer prepared and ready-to-cook products for sale.

This is the case with Lidl's sausages. The German supermarket has already put its De Luxe products on sale for Christmas, foods that are already prepared with original recipes and just put them in the oven to cook.

In this way, this year it is now possible to buy in the supermarket chain stores Chicken stuffed with apple, boletus and white wine, between 1.4 and 1.8 kilos, with a price of 7.99 euros per kilo. Furthermore, it offers whole chicken stuffed with goat cheese and tomato jam, which costs 8.99 euros per kilo. Another option, although more expensive, is the Pork loin stuffed with boletus, mushrooms, dried apricots and spices, priced at 10.99 per kilo. Lastly, the Chicken roti stuffed with bacon and cheese with a weight of 540 grams it costs 4.99 euros and the traditional beef and pork with raisins, dried apricots, pine nuts and pruneswith a price of €7.99.

To accompany these roasts, you can make a pear sauce, some boiled potatoes or some stewed vegetables.