Aldi grocery store - favorite foods!

Their frozen whole green beans are incredible!! Nice and skinny, tender beans - very close to "garden fresh." Also, my hubby has to have chocolate chip cookies at least once a week, and nothing pre-bought either! Aldi's semi-sweet chocolate chips are SO MUCH BETTER than Nestle. It's like they have a stronger chocolate liquer or something... calorie content is the same, so I'll never use Nestle anymore!

Every time I go I try to pick out something new and try it. I've had an Aldi in town ever since I can remember, and I always drove past it. This past year I decided to check it out - sure am glad I did!! Now I just wish that I'd REMEMBER to bring my grocery bags all the time - LOL!!

Kerr, for the longest time I didn't know about it either! Oddly enough, I found out while I was going to EMU. A girl I knew that was from Ann Arbor said she loved coming to the Dearborn area, because she could go to the one at Telegraph and Van Born. She raved about their prices as well. There's another on Eureka in Southgate, and another in Lincoln Park near Fort and Southfield. The newest one is in Wyandotte at Fort and Oak. With several locations around our old stomping grounds, I'm surprised we never heard of it!

Anyhow, since moving back to the area I've shopped there sporadically. I went there last week actually, to get items for a pot luck dish because I was low on cash. It reminded me that I should start shopping there more often because of the awesome prices! You've never heard of most of the brands they sell, but the quality is definitely on point. I was telling my mom that I would rather by Aldi no brand stuff over WalMart no brand stuff, because it's more consistent from Aldi.

All the prices are lower than other places, but some are lower than others. I bought a box of granola bars (100 cal, not 90) and they were like $2.29 or $2.49, which is what I pay at any other store... but you get 10 instead of 8. Milk was like $2.49 I think, which is pretty standard... but other stuff I bought like canned things and tortilla chips were definitely on the cheap. I got my can of diced fire roasted tomatoes on sale/clearance for only 59 cents!

As far as produce, everything looked ok to me -- the only fresh thing I bought was green onion and they were just fine. I checked out the bell peppers and they looked pretty good too, but I didn't get any because I didn't really need them. The only downside to buying produce there is that you can't buy individual items like you can at Meijer. I usually buy one white onion and one red onion when I shop at Meijer... if I wanted either kind of onions at Aldi, I would have had to buy an entire bag. That sucks when cooking for one, because I won't use that much before it goes bad. This is a great place for frozen stuff though... if you want to buy a frozen pizza, frozen dinner or Taquitos or something, they're all significantly cheaper than other stores and the taste is great!

Overall, Aldi is pretty friggin awesome. Food is really good, prices are even better and it's nice to be able to shop without spending 3 hours wandering around the expansiveness of Meijer. (;