• My family brought the same grocery list to Lidl and Publix to see which had better prices.
• The same or incredibly similar products were often at least 50 cents cheaper at Lidl.
• Overall, I found I could spend $40 less on groceries at Lidl than at Publix on this trip.

I’m always on the hunt for a bargain, especially with groceries for our family of four.

We often shop at a few places, but I’ve most recently been a huge fan of the discount Germain grocer Lidl because its prices usually seem lower than its mainstream competitors.

This week, I compared it to Publix — a smaller Florida-based chain popular throughout the Southeastern US that we also visit often. To do so, I took the same weekly grocery list to each store to see which offered my family more value.

Here’s what the trips to my local Lidl and Publix in Raleigh, North Carolina, looked like — and which chain was the clear winner.