Lidl Finds July 2025This month in Lidl seems to be Thai month which is exciting because we love Thailand. We've visited three times and lived in Bangkok for a month (it went so fast!). We love the Thai people, the language, and the food. It will be hard to exercise self control and not pick up every Thai grocery item at Lidl this month. Vacationing in Portugal? Looking for on-the-ground Portugal cost of living information? This series is for you! Updated throughout the month with new finds and honest reviews. Vitasia Thai StylE Curry Pastes
Here's the line up: Pasta de CUrry/Caril Rojo/Vermelho (Red Curry Paste)A classic, Thai red curry is the one i usually reach for, I think because i find it most pleasing aesthetically. Full Review & Cook Along: Coming soon! Pasta Para CUrry/Caril Tom Yum (Tom Yum Curry Paste)First Impressions: A bit confused because there are no cooking instructions on the jar. Is this paste a base for the amazing Thai Tom Yum soup or a Tom Yum flavored curry? Full Review & Cook Along: Yum, Yum, On the way! Pasta Para CUrry/Caril Massaman (Massaman Curry Paste)My mother-in-law's favorite! Massaman curry is a milder curry that makes a perfect cozy meal on a cold day. Load it up with comforting potatoes and optional peanuts. Full Review & Cook Along: Still Simmering! Pasta de CUrry/Caril Verde (Green Curry Paste)First Impressions: Curious to see if this will be the spiciest of the 4 Thai Curry Pastes at Lidl this month. Full Review & Cook Along: Coming soon! Vitasia Thai Style Red Curry Kit (Includes Coconut Milk, Curry Paste, Spices)
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Lidl Solevita Fresh JuicesWe're doing battle of the Solevita juices this month!
Snack Day Leitão Batatas Fritas (Potato Chips)
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Pierogi. Ravioli. Empanada. Dumpling. Momo. Khinkali. Gyoza. Nearly every nationality has a version of some type of dough stuffed with a delicious filling and then cooked in some way - deep fried, steamed, boiled, and so on. Today we try some Japanese inspired gyoza from Vici brand, purchased at Lidl grocery store. This post is part of a series: July 2025 Lidl Grocery Store Finds • Japanese Food in Portugal More Easy Air Fryer Cooking Ideas |
| Learn Portuguese: Verduras - vegetables Picantes - spicy What does Gyozas de verduras picantes mean in English? Spicy vegetable gyozas! Learn Portuguese Category: In these posts you will learn some Portuguese vocabulary! |
Cooking Instructions & Nutrition Info for VIci Frozen Gyozas
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English Ingredients for Vici Spicy Vegetable Gyoza
You can find an English ingredients list on this package. After the ingredient list you will find more detailed cooking instructions.
How to pan fry dumplings (Gyoza):
How to steam dumplings (gyoza)
How to microwave dumplings (Gyoza)
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"Put dumplings in a suitable dish with water (dumplings completely covered). For standard 700W microwave, heat for about 5-6 minutes."
How to cook dumplings (Gyoza) in the oven"Cover the dumplings with sauce and cook in the oven (preheated to 200C/395F for about 15 minutes)"
... Not sure what kind of sauce you would be cooking these in though tbh....
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How to cook frozen Gyoza (Japanese dumplings) in an air fryer
Despite the package having instructions for not one, two, three, or four, but FIVE cooking methods... we opted do none of those and instead try cooking Vici gyoza in our air fryer!
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We arranged 14 gyoza in our air fryer and spritzed with cooking spray. We air fried them at 200C, the highest temp on our air fryer, for about 10 minutes and checked for internal temp and color.
Can you cook frozen gyoza in an air fryer?
Absolutely! This is an easy way to cook these little Japanese parcels of joy. As you can probably tell from the photos, the dough is quite crispy.
More often when you have gyoza the dough is soft and starchy with one side having a nice crust from being fried in a pan. So this is a different experience, for sure.
Vici Gyozas de verduras picantes Review
We have repurchased these at Lidl multiple times and they are great to have on hand for a busy night or when you're too tired to cook.
See how they turn out when cooked in a pan... ( Cook along coming soon!)
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We recently shared a drinkable Skyr product review and today we are sharing a squeeze pouch which will bring out your inner child.
Milbona Skyr Iceladic Style Vanilla Flavor
As mentioned in the other article, Skyr has a much higher protein content than similar dairy and yogurt products as it takes 4 cups of milk to make 1 cup of Skyr.
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We picked up these Vanilla Skyr pouches at Lidl in Portugal.
Lidl Vanilla Skyr Ingredients and Nutrition Information
The package contains ingredient listings in an impressive 5 languages.
As well as the nutritional information. As you can see, Milbona Icelandic Style Skyr has 9 grams of protein per 100g pouch!
Milbona Strawberry Skyr Icelandic Style
We also grabbed a package of the strawberry Skyr pouches from Lidl.
Lidl Strawberry Skyr Ingredients and Nutrition Facts
Milbona Icelandic Skyr Review
We only discovered Skyr during our time in Portugal and we have grown to love it as it is an easy way to get more protein in and it tastes great!
Milbona Icelandic Style Skyr from Lidl is thick and creamy and we think it's really good. :)
50/50 on the format - one of us does not prefer the pouch format at all and would rather have a more liquidy version like this but both of us are happy to be getting 9 grams of protein so easily - YAY!
We rebuy these almost every week. You can always find skyr in our fridge. Go ahead and give them a try.
FYI they do have sucralose, which you'll recall from this battle of the juices taste off is not my favorite.
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Top Questions:
- When to eat Skyr? You can eat skyr any time. We love it as an easy breakfast, mid afternoon snack, and it even is great to eat skyr before bed.
- Is Milbona Skyr good? Yes!
- Is Lidl Skyr worth it? Yes!
- Which Milbona Skyr flavor is best? Totally subjective, of course, but I would say Blueberry, then Strawberry, then Vanilla. We buy them all though - variety is the spice of life! :)
- I like Yogurt, will I like Skyr? Yes, very probably so.
- I don't like yogurt, will I like Skyr? You may or may not, but be brave and give it a try ;)
Solevita Multifrutos ACE vs Limonada de Mirtilo – Lidl Portugal Juice Taste Test & Comparison
8/7/2025
Time to taste-test and review two popular Lidl Portugal juices – Solevita Multifrutos ACE and Limonada de Mirtilo. Which one is more refreshing, flavorful, and worth your money? Find out in this juice showdown.
Solevita Multifrutos ACE Sumo
First up we have ACE multifrutos sumo (juice) from the brand Solevita, purchased at Lidl in Portugal.
Learn Portuguese words in this post!
What's in Multifrutos ACE juice from Solevita?
The carrot (cenoura in Portuguese) juice is accompanied by apple juice, and white grape juice to make a delicious, smooth juice packed with vitamins A, C, and E as the name suggests. ;)
Limonada de Mirtilo
Next up is the Limonada de Mirtilo, or Blueberry Lemonade also by the brand Solevita and purchased at Lidl Portugal.
What's in Solevita Limonada de Mirtilo?
Solevita Limonada de Mirtilo Ingredients and Nutrition Facts:
A crisp lemonade is always refreshing in the summer time and who wouldn't love the extra antioxidant punch of blueberries and spirulina?
Which Juice IS Best:
While the lemonade is refreshing and I'm sure I will pick it up again from time to time, my personal pick is the Multifrutos ACE juice. I love having some carrot juice and combining it with apple and white grape makes it so smooth and enjoyable!
Also I'm not the biggest fan of the taste of sucralose (Splenda) so it's always the first thing I taste when it's in a beverage like this blueberry lemonade. I appreciate it can take a lot of natural sugar to balance a lemonade and that isn't suitable for everyone, though.
Multifrutos ACE juice for the WIN! :)
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Top Questions:
- Is Solevita Blueberry Lemonade Good? Yes. Is Solevita Multifruit ACE Juice Good? Yes. :)
- Is Solevita Multifrutos ACE better than Limonada de Mirtilo? Acho que sim. I believe so, yes.
- What is Splenda called in Portugal? In Portuguese Splenda is sucralosa. Sucralosa is the Portuguese word for sucralose - the sweetener known by the brand Splenda in the yellow packet.
Continente Mini MagnÃfico Pistacio Framboesa Review – Raspberry Pistachio Ice Cream Taste Test
8/7/2025
Continente Mini Magnifico Pistacio Framboesa Ice Creams
The other week we snagged a box of these raspberry pistachio ice cream bars (minis) from the Portuguese grocery store continente.
Mini Ice Creams Are The Cutest
These mini ice creams on a stick are so cute. Each box comes with eight ice creams. The mini size makes them a sensible treat for anyone.
Continente Mini Magnífico Pistachio Framboesa Ice Cream - Ingredients & Nutrition Facts
You can find the ingredients list both in Portuguese and English on these Pistachio & Raspberry ice cream treats.
White Chocolate Dipped, Pistachio Encrusted Ice Cream bar
One bite, everyone knows the rules...
Pistachio Ice Cream with Raspberry swirl
Mini Magnífico Pistachio Framboesa Review
Whereas this pistachio ice cream was covered in white chocolate. The salty roasted pistachios embedded in the white chocolate added a nice balance as did the raspberry swirl.
Overall we enjoyed the mini magnifico pistachio framboesa ice creams more than these other pistachio ice creams (coming soon).
Bonus points for being adorable and tiny. :)
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Sliced Mozzarella Cheese - Better at Continente or Lidl?
Both Lidl and Continente have a similar packaging for their cheese slices. A plastic package that does not re-seal. *eyeroll* It's a great way for cheese to get dried out and weird quick.
Continente Queijo Mozzarella
Continente Mozzarella Cheese slices were inconsistently sliced, a sort of square-ish shape, and in this case those indents are just because this slice was on the bottom of the package.
Milbona Sliced Mozzarella Cheese from Lidl
Blind Taste Test Results
In the blind taste test we assumed the creamier cheese with less flavor was Lidl brand and the slice with more robust flavor was Continente's. We preferred the more flavorful slice.
In reality, the more flavorful slice belonged to Lidl's Milbona brand!
Therefore Lidl brand wins this taste off!
Which Mozzarella Cheese Should YOU BUy?
In the grand scheme of things, both of these are nice slices of mozzarella cheese which are tasty to eat on their own and melt well in, say, a grilled cheese sandwich.
After doing this taste test we repurchased Continente's because we happened to be at that grocery store when we needed more mozz. However if we were going to both stores we would pick it up at Lidl instead. :)
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In this cook along, you'll see one quick and easy way to cook these glass noodles.
Vitasia Glass Noodles
Vitasia Glass Noodles Ingredients + Nutrition Facts
The Vitasia Glass Noodles from Lidl have 2 simple ingredients: amido de milho and amido de ervilha, that is corn starch and pea starch.
How to Cook Vitasia Glass Noodles
Instead, simply boil water and pour it over the noodles and allow them to sit for 6 minutes before draining.
I actually used an electric tea kettle. :)
Serving Vitasia Glass Noodles
In this case, I divided the noodles into two bowls as a base for a chicken curry made with Vitasia Thai Red Curry Paste. (See Thai Curry cook along here- coming soon!)
Vitasia Glass Noodle Quick Review
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Continente Cookie Wookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Enter Continente Cookie Wookie Ice Cream Sandwiches - 4 pack. By the way, no, not a star wars themed ice cream sandwich.
Continente Cookie Wookie Ingredients and Nutrition Facts
Continente Cookie Wookie First Impression
I have high standards for chocolate chip cookies and naturally one lowers said standards for a store brand ice cream sandwich, yet I must admit I am immediately skeptical.
Ice Cream Overhang
It Nearly Brought Me To Tears...
Sad, sad, sad, sad, sadddddd ice cream sandwich experience.
Problems with this ice cream sandwich:
- Cookie texture is not bueno. Crumbly and with very mediocre flavor.
- The cookie sticks to your fingers in a weird, uncomfortable way. Blech.
- Cookie-to-ice-cream ratio is off, especially given the mid-ness of the cookies themselves.
This last point is especially unfortunate because the ice cream actually had decent flavor and thanks to the aforementioned over-hang we could get a taste of it untainted by the crumbly blah-ness of the cookie. Sadly this element is completely lost because of how bad the cookie "bun" is. I hope Continente reworks this product.
Skip This!
On the other hand, A Very Good Ice Cream Sandwich:
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Continente Skyr High Protein Drinkable Yogurt
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How to Pronounce Skyr
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How Much Protein?
Worst Skyr Flavor: Banana Flavor
It's overall fine and I would drink the banana flavor again, but if strawberry or frutos do bosque were options, we would always choose them first.
Also, somehow the tang of the cultured dairy product is more pronounced in the banana than the other flavors which is less appealing.
A Classic: Strawberry Skyr
The Best Skyr Flavor: Frutos do Bosque
What is frutos do bosque in English?
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The day had come to try Continente's Mint Chocolate Gelado (Ice cream) and we went for the domed lid edition. (The chocolate swirl did me in!)
Continente Menta e Chocolate Gelado (Mint & Chocolate Ice Cream)
The packaging looks impressive with creamy mint ice cream surrounded by chocolate swirls and chocolate shavings.
Expectation Vs. Reality:
First Impressions: I'd say the expectation was realistic! The ice cream looks really creamy, has plenty of chocolate shavings on top, and you can see the chocolate sauce ribbons at every valley.
Continente Menta e Chocolate Ice Cream Review:
From the first scoop this ice cream is a winner. If you like mint ice cream, you'll be happy to find this in your freezer. It is indeed very creamy while the mint flavor is extra refreshing on a hot day.
The chocolate ribbons really only run from the top down the sides, not throughout the center of the ice cream.
Still, I think the amount is acceptable!
The chocolate shavings are pretty, but I am always team chocolate swirl/chocolate sauce/fudge in ice cream as opposed to chewing bits of chocolate.
Migraine Tip: Are you prone to migraines in the heat? Some find eating cold foods can take the edge off. Cold ice cream combined with the cooling effect of mint may give you a blissful bit of relief from your summertime migraine. YMMV, but it's worth a try isn't it? :)
Want the cooling effects without the dairy? Try a peppermint migraine roll on stick
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