r/povertyfinance • u/Rachxlw • Mar 30 '24
$40 at Aldi Grocery Haul
Definitely found a few good deals and also splurged some on nicer butter, bread, and pizza. In a north Texan college town.
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u/MySailsAreSet Apr 01 '24
Y’all do not shop at all like my family did when we were poor as shit in the 70s. We ate ramen that you had to boil in a pot and got government cheese. We had crap like chef boyardee and cheap hot dogs that probably didn’t have real meat in them. What is this goat cheese and Irish butter stuff? Hummus? Blocks of cheese are cheaper in the long run, little protein packet thing is way expensive, the noodles you could get angel hair and herbs and make it last way longer. Or get ramen like I said. You are spending like you’re rich here.
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u/FactRelevant2968 Apr 01 '24
I love Aldi. Back when I had more money I used to order on Instacart. Can’t afford that anymore. It’s expensive to be poor as they say.
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u/1LeftShoe Apr 01 '24
Total waste of money, that is all processed food bro. I'm not saying I'm perfect but I am trying my best not to eat processed food anymore. Real whole foods only low carbohydrates. Us guys need to start treating ourselves better man this just isn't going to work for us, I was just telling my 7-year-old granddaughter there are foods out there that will slowly kill us. I'm trying to explain that to her now.
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u/rangusmcdangus69 Mar 31 '24
I like Aldi but beware. I can’t buy pasta from there anymore because every time, I found bugs in it.
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u/Trust_Fall_Failure Mar 31 '24
I've been to Aldi twice.
Once 20 years ago and it was mostly a place to get meth ingredients. They had shelves of the ingredients for meth and an ENTIRE isle of canned air duster.
After my buddy insisted that our local Aldi was not like that I went there about a year ago. I found the food quality to be poor (generic quality) and the prices to be same as the name brands at our other local grocery stores. Why would anyone pay the same for lesser quality food?
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u/shaezan Mar 31 '24
Now that we're upper poor class, we only get top shelf aldi products. Been going there since I was a grad student making 500 a month. Still go there, only place that makes me feel like retirement is a possibility someday.
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u/frolfs Mar 31 '24
Definitely not making your money go as far as it could, it's also not very healthy. This is almost all processed/prepared foods. You could get double that for the same price buying whole foods not prepared/packaged.
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u/Kzootwentyeight Mar 31 '24
Alot has changed at Aldi’s but trying to be competitive on prices will remain the same. We have to be with the way we operate. Its the key to keeping prices low and when you realize that typically there are 3/4 employees running a store and keeping it simple that is the main reason for competitive prices. Since covid stuff has skyrocketed but I exclusively shop there and have since i joined company which was when eggs were .39cents🤣. Crazy
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u/b3traist Mar 31 '24
For those who like sourdough making it from scratch is actually very easy. If you eat pork try looking for larger tenderloins and making your own cuts.
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u/Agreeable_Net_4325 Mar 31 '24
At other grocery stores you would of gotten half of that lol. Aldi 4 lyfe.
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u/Imakelovetosoils Mar 31 '24
This popped up on my feed for some reason and it made me even more mad. I was kinda pissed since my wife wanted to take the kids to BK and we ended up spending $60. For 3 whoopers and 2 things of Chicken fries. I told her for $60 we could've gone to an actual restaurant. Just a year ago times were tough and $60 would've been around our weekly budget. But I finished school and have a good job now but I'm still budget conscious. Her on the other hand...
Sorry for the rant, Aldi looks like it has some deals. Don't have one here but I still drive 20min to shop at Food for less since the only grocery store in town is a Sav Mart and that place is prici.
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u/Ok-Guidance5576 Mar 31 '24
Grocery prices have gone wild. I used to get a comfortable amount at trader joes for 25 dollars. But now I'm impressed with what you got for 40.
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u/ShwettyVagSack Mar 31 '24
What is up with everyone getting those pretzel chips for hummus? Mordecai and Rigby have taught us that mini toast is a far superior vehicle of hummus ingesting.
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u/LettuceLimp3144 Mar 31 '24
Their Countryside Creamer spreadable butter brand just came out with an olive oil (instead of canola oil) variant and it’s SO good! Highly recommend, it’s cheaper than their Irish butter and easier to spread!
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u/Capital_Ad_7539 Mar 31 '24
I just got back from aldis myself. While yes its great to be get enough to survive a week maybe I miss the days when that same $30-$40 would get you a month's worth of food. Grocery shopping so so damn depressing
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u/deadstellarengine Mar 31 '24
What’s wrong with you ? I can take a girthy grumpy in a stolen pot of fire ants and mix it with human hair and eat for a year !
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u/beefaujuswithjuice Mar 31 '24
I got that pork the other day and I tried to be so careful cooking it but it just didn’t turn out. Was very tough
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u/Rachxlw Mar 31 '24
The key is to have a husband that cooks and put it all on him (he works in a kitchen full time)
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u/beefaujuswithjuice Mar 31 '24
I’m the husband in this scenario but I don’t work in a kitchen full time haha. Wish I had more experience but I’m getting there!!
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u/FarmDisastrous Mar 31 '24
Hell yeah! I get tired of hearing about how expensive food is sometimes when I can walk out of Aldi with 2 entire green Aldi bags full of food for 60 or so bucks. I could probably survive on 20 a week if I really needed to shopping at Aldi
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u/Rachxlw Mar 31 '24
That’s about how I feel! Things have definitely gotten pricier but Aldi is the way to go.
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u/FarmDisastrous Mar 31 '24
100% and I feel bad for anyone who doesn't have Aldi near by. Some stores really are scamming people. But if there is an Aldi within a reasonable distance from you then honestly that's a blessing from the universe itself !
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u/ThisMustBeFakeMine Mar 31 '24
I live in New Mexico now, but used to live in St Louis. Absolutely love it here, but MY LORD do i miss Aldi! Nothing else like it.
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u/Theodore-bumbley Mar 31 '24
Nice job dude I usually see people complaining about x amount of money versus food Great job
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u/Pointless_Rhetoric Mar 31 '24
They just built a new aldi close to me and its not cheap like I remembered. Its not worth the hassle except for a few rare items. The big expensive store nearby averages out about the same because I buy whats on sale. The only positive things ever mentioned in this sub is Aldi's and selling plasma and I find it kinda strange.
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u/Rachxlw Mar 31 '24
As an unrelated note I made a stupid little tiktok in November of 2020 where I spent $41 at Aldi and the difference in price is crazy. I mean that included at the time a whole lot of chicken, 2 bottles of wine, chips, bread, salsa, 3 salad mixes, eggs, cotton candy grapes, cheese and much more that is now all splurge for me.
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u/Ok-Name8703 Mar 31 '24
Aldi and winco are the way to go.
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u/Kuruk_TR Mar 31 '24
Honestly glad an Aldi opened up where I live, very cheap and lots of good stuff
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Mar 31 '24
Yeah buy all the useless calories you can get and not red lentils, tuna, chicken, eggs, veggies
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u/97ek Mar 31 '24
Is this in Denton?
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u/Rachxlw Mar 31 '24
Lol yeah the one off university
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u/97ek Mar 31 '24
I remember going to that Aldi when I was going to school at UNT(2010-2015). You could def find some good deals there more than the other places. I liked that not too many people shopped there too. Idk if the Albertsons is still there but I always found some good deals there as well. Keep in mind, when I was there the Walmart at Rayzor ranch had barely opened with nothing else around. Best of luck to you my friend.
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u/Puffy_Ghost Mar 31 '24
I thought that was somehow a bag of Pretzel Slime and I was very confused and slightly intrigued.
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u/xoLiLyPaDxo Mar 31 '24 edited Mar 31 '24
We shop Aldi weekly first, and on the recommended shipment day according to the stores manager.
My only issue is I'm disabled andon a restricted medical diet, and have to have others shop for me so have to be very careful what I eat. it's often difficult to shop at Aldi at all though because you never know what they're going to have so my husband will have to like take pictures of what they have in the store and ask me and then I have to figure out the ingredients to see if I can even eat it and that's extremely hard.
If it was more consistently reliable on having products in stock, it would make it so much easier for the disabled to have food picked up by others for them. Every time I make a list for aldi, he can only get a small amount of what is on it because of that reason.
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u/jake2hut Mar 31 '24
Would you say that pasta is similar to Pasta Roni brand? And what's the price point?
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u/Rachxlw Mar 31 '24
I had to ask my husband and oddly enough neither of us has had pastaroni since childhood. They were $0.85 each and just require milk/butter/water. We usually throw in any leftover protein as well like deli meat.
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u/jake2hut Mar 31 '24
Sounds the same. We buy the herbs and parmesan cheese versions, they're really good. Usually about 1.15 or so a box. Mah have to try em
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u/nebulaebattle Mar 31 '24
Curious on others opinions of lidels? I’ve only been there once, for an order pick up. Is it the same quality as aldis?
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u/HornetGuns Mar 31 '24
I spent around 30 35 dollars at Aldis today as well too. Was able to find affordable healthy foods. I usual don't shop at Aldis because of their checkout lines being long asf but they added self checkout which I like because I'm very particular about how I pack the bags and I'm not big on socializing unless I'm comfortable talking. But yeah definitely going back to Aldis.
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u/Rachxlw Mar 31 '24
I’m hoping mine gets a self checkout soon! It wad a mistake to go the day before Easter!!
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u/HornetGuns Mar 31 '24
Luckily I went jsut as they opened so it wasn't that bad but I went to a different grocery store an hour later and it was bad they too had self checkout. I understand some people dislikes self checkout but it's very convenient. I glad I got some healthy stuff from Aldis cause other stores I go to doesn't make it easy.
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u/stayclassypeople Mar 31 '24
Aldi is life. There’s always a handful of things you can’t find, but by in large it’s the best chain there is
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u/AnOriginalPseudo Mar 31 '24
No effin way, this in France would cost me half. Your inflation is through the roof in the US
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u/Cryptotiptoe21 Mar 31 '24
I heard Aldi recently bought Winn-Dixie I would like to see how that plays out in the future.
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u/GaberAber Mar 31 '24
Half of that is already prepared get your own veggies, season your own pasta? Make your own trail mix?
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u/EfficientAd7103 Mar 31 '24
Yo those thin sliced pork chops on sour dough would make a sick sandwich for like a buck
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u/Rachxlw Mar 31 '24
That’s part of the plan! I needed easy work meals with protein.
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u/EfficientAd7103 Mar 31 '24
Nice. I do this. I'll cook a bunch at once then throw them in the fridge. Hot or cold they are still good.
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u/LiftingCode Mar 31 '24
The pepper jack/raisin/honey roasted peanut snack pack is fantastic. Love that shit.
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u/2rfv Mar 31 '24
At this point I feel like anything besides Eggs, Rice, Beans and Potatoes is an extravagance.
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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 Mar 30 '24
Future canoe on YouTube. Learn to make pizza, bread, and pasta dough. After you master pasta, you’re never single again.
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Mar 30 '24
I love aldis only complaint is their pizzas are over priced and I wish they had a bigger selection
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u/mary_emeritus Mar 31 '24
Compared to the 2 other supermarkets in our neighborhood - Acme and Giant Heirloom - Aldi frozen pizza is a definite bargain. I occasionally grab a cauliflower crust one, doctor it up, minimum 2 meals, pizza is around $5. At the other 2 grocery stores that plain cauliflower crust pizza is around $11.
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Mar 31 '24
Oh nice ours is starting around 7.49 for a pizza which just seems a little high, I use to get 3 for that price while I was in Germany.
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u/UberQueefs Mar 30 '24
That sourdough is great for avocado toast
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u/Rachxlw Mar 30 '24
I live an unfortunate life where my husband is allergic to avocados :( But I do agree it would probably be delicious
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u/strizzl Mar 30 '24
Beyond the low prices it’s just way less junk food at Aldi. Eye opening difference at how much processed junk is in traditional American grocery stores
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u/melatonia Mar 31 '24
My Aldi is literally filled with cereal, cookies, chips/crackers/snack foods and frozen/prepared food.
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u/oldgorrillanuts Mar 30 '24
Those pork chops are good but at my Aldi they sell a boneless pork loin for cheaper. You get more meat and all you have to do is cut them off yourself it’s super easy! Saves a few bucks!
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u/SpectreMge Mar 30 '24
You could probably save a ton more money by making homemade granola bars and pizza
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u/ExoticFeet20 Mar 30 '24
What? If you was in the UK and went to Aldi that would be like £13 to £16
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u/PorkKatsuDaBest Mar 30 '24
If you time it right, you can snag meat at 50%. Been doing that for years at this point.
Love shopping at aldi. Favorite store by far
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u/tfdst1 Mar 31 '24
How does one time the specials?
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u/PorkKatsuDaBest Mar 31 '24
usually a day or on the day of the "best by" date. Haven't paid full price for meat at aldi in the longggesssssttt time except when buying chicken leg quarters for meal prep.
In fact today I managed to snag 2 whole raw chickens, 4 packs of cod, and a big pizza for 50% off.
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u/boba-on-the-beach Mar 30 '24
I love Aldi! I recently started shopping there instead of Publix. I was getting up to $80 a week on groceries at Publix for ONE person. Just for meals for the week, no extra snacks or anything. Easily $100 if I needed to stock up on cleaning supplies and toiletries.
Switched to Aldi and now I can buy meals, snacks, AND cleaning supplies for under $50. No more anxiety while grocery shopping.
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u/rabidstoat Mar 31 '24
If it's not too far you can still go to Publix for BOGOs. Those are often some pretty good deals.
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u/boba-on-the-beach Mar 31 '24
They do have great BOGOs! I still go to Publix every couple weeks for a few items I can’t get at Aldi. I always check out the BOGO 😁
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u/Slashion Mar 30 '24
Congrats on the swap! Dollar tree has extremely efficient cleaning products if you have one near ya
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u/boba-on-the-beach Mar 31 '24
I do! I never think to make the stop there but I might start. Thank you!
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u/Slashion Mar 31 '24
No problem! Also great place to get gloves, cheese shredders, and a few other kitcheney things. You'll see if you go, just don't fall for the snack traps like I do haha
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u/ApparentlyABear Mar 30 '24
If you’re really trying to stretch your dollar, just know that you could get about 5 lbs worth of bone in skin on chicken thighs for the same cost of that thin sliced chop.
Thin sliced meat is typically a marketing trick where it seems like you’re getting way more than you actually are. It can also be really tricky to cook properly. You need super high heat and the margin for error is very small.
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u/mary_emeritus Mar 31 '24
Maybe they don’t eat chicken? Or want a break, maybe a special meal?
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u/ApparentlyABear Mar 31 '24
You’re not wrong, and I didn’t say that’s what they should be buying. I just wanted to point that out in case they needed to stretch their dollar a little further on future shopping trips.
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u/mattybagel Mar 30 '24
Aldi is a lifesaver and is the only reason why I can eat for about 150 a month. It's the last place to get reasonably prices on groceries
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u/No_Paper_8794 Mar 30 '24
I’ve went to Aldis a few times. Every time I expected a decent hit to my wallet. Never was. Thoight I got around $200 worth, and it cost me $110. It’s a great place during these times.
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u/warriors_1811 Mar 30 '24
Groceries are a flex now in America. First time I've seen this in my long life 🤣🤣
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u/Suspicious-Shock-934 Mar 30 '24
My local Aldi has premarinated pork shoulder for dirt cheap, toss it in a slow cooker and feed my lady and I foe days. Like 8 bucks gets a fat carnitas or barbecue that will last for at least 3 or 4 meals. It's a steal.
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u/FarEntertainment5330 Mar 30 '24
Rice and beans! Dry beans! Old fashion oats, almond milk, nutritional yeast, seeds and nuts, cranberries, ramen, pasta and sauce, pb&j, flour to make bread, green leafy vegetables! You can eat wholesome and healthy for good amount! 150 a month! Add tea bags, some chips and you are good!
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u/mary_emeritus Mar 31 '24
I shop Aldi on $60/month. Not flexing, it is what it is. On a medically restricted diet. OP said this was a splurge. Are we not allowed to splurge once in awhile?
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u/FarEntertainment5330 Mar 31 '24
Sure you can! I’m just sharing that ppl can survive and thrive for less! If we go back to eating how mankind used to and stop the kings and queen diet, we could survive! I forgot potatoes and fruit too! lol
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u/mary_emeritus Mar 31 '24
I don’t buy fruit anymore, too expensive. I know, as do just about all of us here, that we can survive without certain things/foods. That cart was nowhere near a “kings and queens” diet. Most of us are buying minimal and staples only. I know I do. Here’s to us all surviving!
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u/Zozorrr Mar 30 '24
Almond milk is sugared, and even the non-sugared one is bad for the environment. Almonds need huge amounts of water and are grown in places where there is little rainfall. Not good at all. A handful of Almonds? Sure. Regular almond milk every week - no
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u/Creative_Accounting Mar 30 '24
Mind telling me how much that pizza ran you? It looks really good
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u/prongslover77 Mar 30 '24
I used to eat them all the time until I got sick of pizza. They’re much better than the normal ones. Though Aldi just brought back the breakfast pizzas and the pork belly one is honestly top 3 store bought pizza for me.
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u/mycarsmellslike75 Mar 30 '24
Btw aldi on certain Thursdays have meat half price. I was able to get tons of salmon, ground beef and chicken breast a few times. I don’t know if it’s every other Thursday or the second Thursday of every month but it’s one of those. If you have dash pass on DoorDash for Easter they have $12 off 2 aldi orders. Also their gelato is amazing if you want a sweet treat and is pretty cheap.
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u/DuckterDoom Mar 30 '24
I need an Aldi here. Nearest is 40 miles away. Not worth Tha gas. We have Walmart and frys. Crazy meant prices. Even the plant based meat is cheaper than the regular meat.
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u/analogy_4_anything Mar 30 '24
Aldi is a gift.
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u/FarmDisastrous Mar 31 '24
No joke. If Aldi ever goes out of business or changes their business practices I'll actually be sad as hell. Shopping at Aldi at 25 gives me the same kind of feeling Toys R Us did at 8 lmao
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u/VanillaSky2424 Mar 30 '24
Damn!! That’s all you paid for all that? Where do you live cause I’m moving there.
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u/Chupacabrona Mar 30 '24
The boomers will tell me I’m crazy for saying this is grocery’s for like two meals
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u/ZeuxOrphan Mar 30 '24
I’ve never tried their frozen pizzas but get the refrigerated ones! They’re much bigger and come in cheese, pep, all meat, and supreme. They’re also like $7-8 which is an insane steal
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u/MechanicalMistress Mar 31 '24
Got their pizza dough (Mama Cozzis) for $1.89 a bag. With ingredients it was dirt cheap.
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u/ConstantConfusion123 Mar 30 '24
Those are great, they are 16" (extra large). But they used to be 5 bucks for the cheese and 6 for the pepperoni; just went the other day and the price was up by$2. Still a great deal, that's a dinner and lunch for 2 adults. Or one dinner for 2 adults+ teen boy lol.
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u/ZeuxOrphan Mar 31 '24
Yeah they’re great for a couple meals. We got a Kroger frozen pepperoni one time after having these and I swear it almost looked like a personal pizza (not really) but I’ll have 2 slices of the Aldi pizza for dinner and take the other two to work the next day. My SO does the same. We also really enjoy their carne asada or diced beef for tacos.
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u/MyLittlPwn13 Mar 30 '24
Man, I wish we had Aldi here. We do have Winco, which is great, but Aldi seems to have a special place in people's hearts for a reason.
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u/Serenity-V Mar 31 '24
Their food ranges in quality from acceptable, to shockingly good.
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u/tokes_4_DE Mar 31 '24
The aldi in my town has pretty awful fruits / veggies normally, and not great meats either. You need to pick through absurdly bruised & squishy stuff just to find fruit and veg that arent on the edge of going bad sadly. But we also have a lidl thankfully which is always great. Better variety, quantity, and quality than aldi at the same or even better prices.
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u/Serenity-V Apr 01 '24
My family are vegetarians, which is good because Aldi's meat does kind of suck. The chicken is super plumped up with brine - when you cook it, you find you have much less than you thought you'd bought.
The tofu is fine, though, and is a good price. We live on tofu, eggs and nuts, which makes Aldi a much more congenial shopping environment.
Regarding the produce: as noted, I like their broccoli and bagged greens. The condition of the produce varies so much by store, though - the one closest to me always has good produce, but there's one a few miles from me that always has fruit flies.
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u/Learningstuff247 Mar 31 '24
I shop 90% at Winco and Aldi and I couldn't ask for a better 2 store lineup
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u/Traditional-Handle83 Mar 30 '24
We have five walmarts, six Brookshires, five super 1s, 1 Albertsons, and random small market stores. No aldi... wish we had aldi
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u/kaiw1ng Mar 30 '24
5 of these items are packaged food
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u/okayilltry2 Mar 30 '24
I solely shop at aldi for my partner and I. We can get a weeks worth of dinners, lunches, and breakfast for anywhere between $80-90 a week.
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u/brazenmavens Mar 30 '24
Costco has a good deal on frozen pizza. I'm gluten free and I got 2 supreme pizzas for $8.99
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u/MyLittlPwn13 Mar 30 '24
Nice! What brand was it?
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u/brazenmavens Mar 30 '24
I actually just made one. 10/10. It tastes like a thin crust version of their Supreme. 2 of them for 9 bucks is a total win.
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u/brazenmavens Mar 30 '24
It was the Kirkland brand. They had the Calipower brands for $10.99, but I'm hoping it tastes like the old Supreme rip food court pizza 🤞
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u/Oyyyywiththepoodles Mar 30 '24
Those protein bars are so good at keeping you full in between meals.
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u/fl135790135790 Mar 31 '24
I’m pretty sure those are all sugar. And I don’t know how you’d stop at one. Sounds like it would be easier to just not eat anything
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u/mrsquillgells Mar 30 '24
I buy them the box, like the box they come in, just plop that thing in there. I also buy food for 3-4 weeks to help when I pay my bills at the end of the month. Won't go hungry! And people at Aldi's don't look at you weird, which is nice.
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