Posted on 06/11/2015 2:14:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I purchase about 90% of my groceries from Aldi and the rest from HEB and Kroger. I can’t beat their house brands and produce for price and quality.
I am retired and cook from scratch so most of what I buy are basic foods, cooking ingredients, and produce. I try to stay away from the prepared stuff as I am too tight to buy something already prepared. I do see the welfare crowd loading up on the frozen stuff, meats, and pastries and driving away in their new SUV’s. It must be nice, but I can prepare the same thing for half the price and it’s fresher.
I also find Auldi’s products aren’t as adulterated. I do avoid any meat products except the name brand frozen turkey patties and deli meats. BTW I have seen no horsemeat although I hear the French love the stuff.
Overall, I like Aldi and think you will too if the price and quality are not beyond your expectations. Aldi is NOT a high end store where they have thousands of high dollar items from which to choose. But it serves my needs. I don’t think the Beav’s mom would be found shopping there, but you never know.
BTW the only complaints I have is that the don’t stock my V-8 juice or equivalent and there are never enough Handicap parking spaces because the able-bodied welfare people with their new SUVs have taken them.
Hi Dawn, I too, along with yardstick am interested in where you buy your meat on line. I’d like to get a better quality than what I usually get.
It’s tough to do a weekly shopping trip at Aldi. Between the wide range of quality and limited choices, it’s only good for about 1/2 of what is needed.
Cheap prices and edible on snacks, some baking goods, vegetables, fruits and some dairy. Canned goods are mostly from China along with the seafood. Frozen food choices and a lot are from China also. Meats are pre-pack and limited selection.
Defiantly not a one stop shop but good enough to swing by and load up on select items.
How are they suppose to stop them?
Legally, not some fantasy.
Aldi has some very good products. I love their spiral cut ham.
Bobby is just being Bobby.......
yep. Trader Joe’s is NOT cheap.
I have mixed feelings about Aldis when I live in Dresden. Hopefully they won’t be employing the angry German type that just keeps pushing groceries down the line literally pushing them off the bagging area. Very unforgiving.
It is sweeter then sugar syrup so you use less and lower in calories and has a lower glycemic index.
Actually they are owned by 2 brothers and their families.
Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord. Guess they had a fight years ago about selling certain items (tobacco?) and split.
Their hams are great. Been getting them for the past 5 years or so and haven’t had a bad one yet.
You forgot the 99 Cents store where I got decent biscotti.
Chicago (Batavia is HQ) is where I first ran into Aldi and at least 2 stores are in sketchy ‘hoods. Back in the early 90’s the cashier’s had to memorize all the prices they didn’t use labor to mark each item. Now they use scanners.
I don’t know. I might buy cheapo plastic things at a 99c store, but I don’t think I’d ever have enough courage to buy food at a 99c store.
Before TJ he opened “Pronto” markets 1958, and the first TJ was opened in 1967.
As a kid I shopped at the Pronto in my neighborhood strip mall of the era.
My town got a TJ by the early 1980s, I recall.
You’re really missing out. I bought several of the best looking, biggest avocados I have ever seen at the 99 cent store.
Agave nectar is good for people concerned about the glycemic index. It is a rather tasty natural sweetener.
Publix ground beef is cheaper than Walmart most of the time. Higher on just about everything else.
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