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The Scoop on Aldi + This Week’s Aldi Deals
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Teresa B. |
July 13th, 2009 |
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Teresa Britton is a married mom of three who runs the sales and freebies site Moms Who Save. She has great deals, coupons, coupon codes and more daily. Also check out Teresa on twitter at @MomsWhoSave.
This week, I decided to write about a grocery store I don’t see mentioned a lot, yet when I check their map of locations, they are in about half of the country. I’m talking about Aldi.
All About Aldi
I have lived in a couple of cities with an Aldi or two and never set foot in them. I drove past one every Monday through Friday (actually twice a day) taking my son to and from school where I live now and never even thought about going in until about a year ago.
Then I heard Clark Howard talking about them on the radio. He has a show about how to save money that’s now on CNN every weekend too.
He mentioned that his family did a lot of shopping at Aldi and thought many of their products were as good or better than name brands.
If you haven’t been there, here’s the scoop on Aldi stores: they are not that big, they have “their” brand of products, along with some name brands, but they are very cheap. You bag your own groceries, and you bring your own bags or get charged something like a nickel per bag—a good reminder to bring along your reusable shopping bags.
You won’t find everything you want at any given time at Aldi, but I like to go get the things I know my family enjoys because they are just so much cheaper. For example, corn and other vegetables are always 50¢ a can. They are just as good as what you get at the other stores too.
They have a large bag of caramel rice cakes that one of my sons loves, and it’s much cheaper than the regular supermarket. We always grab a few bags of those to repackage in smaller bags for school snacks.
Apple juice, cereal, pop tarts, and syrup are cheaper and you literally cannot tell the difference in taste. In fact my kids like the Aldi pancake syrup better.
In the frozen section, I often find Stouffers and other brand name frozen products. By the way, they have a wide selection of frozen fruits—great for smoothies.
If you haven’t tried Aldi, I really encourage you to check out a few products. That’s what I did. I think it was their cereals first, which the kids liked, then I moved on to more and more products.
Let me know if you’re an Aldi shopper, what you like, or how you started.
Aldi Deals This Week (7/13/09)
Here are a few of Aldi’s advertised offers this week, but their regular prices are probably the real reason to shop there!
- Red Baron flavored crust supreme pizza – price $3.29
- Fresh Gourmet croutons – price 99¢
- Blueberries – price 99¢/pt.
- Cantaloupe (large) – price 99¢
- Whole Watermelon (regular or seedless) – price $2.99
- Peaches – price 25¢ ea.
- Happy Farms shredded cheese (12-oz.) – price $1.99
- Fresh Gourmet tortilla strips – price $1.49
- Freshine automatic bowl cleaner (3 pack) – price $1.29
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I am a huge Aldi fan, and I have been interested in this store since I first visited Germany, years ago. Their products are Awesome. I shop there once a week, and the price differences that you can save on chips, eggs, milk, canned goods, some frozen items, ect are well worth going there for!!!
BTW……..The chocolate candy bars are from Germany, they are Wonderful!!!!!! As are some other items.
I hope that anyone who has wondered about Aldi’s will now shop there, as some of the foods are better than most stores, and its a Great Value!!!!!
Save your money and eat well!!!
I too fell in love with Aldi. But I have a meal rotation now so there is little difference in the budget for each week- especially because we’re a family on EBT and WIC- and Aldi doesn’t take WIC. The only (and I stress ONLY) thing I get over with them is that you can have a fantastic product one week, but not the next week, or for months. Especially with their meat department. If I knew that I could find a pot roast on the week that I’ve planned for it, I’d stick to them. They’re at least 98% private label (generic. store brand), but sometimes better than their national brand counterparts… and lots of imported items… their chocolate is fabulous.
Thanks for the tip on the chocolate! I had no idea, and I am a huge chocolate lover. I will definitely buy some on my next trip!
I did know they were from Germany and heard they were “the” big store there.
Thanks again!