Reason #52,491 that I love Aldi: Seasonal special buys.
With the winter holidays upon us, Aldi is stocked to the brim with speciality food items, baking goodies and a whole aisle of toys!
Today when I went to Aldi to do my weekly produce stock-up, I took some time to check out their special holiday items.
Although kosher-keepers can’t partake in Aldi’s holiday meat and speciality cheese selection, I was very impressed with the number of items I found that did have a hechsher on them (looks like I’m going to need to update my Kosher Aldi Database!).
Many of the Special Buy baking items are kosher, including my absolute favorite: Andes Creme de Menthe Baking Chips. (These make the best minty chocolate chip cookies.)
And of course, Aldi carries plenty of items that don’t require a hechsher — from paper goods to fresh produce to toys.
Aldi’s Seasonal Special Buys are priced extremely competitively, but you can save even more when you shop the Lower Price Red Tags.
Nearly all of Aldi’s Seasonal Buys get marked down even more following the “season”. The section below, for example, features post-Thanksgiving goodies for as inexpensive as $.25 (sadly none were hechshered).
I plan on visiting Aldi again in the days after Christmas to scope out the markdowns. In my experience, discounts range from 25-75% and the longer something sits on the shelves, the deeper the savings go.
Even if you’re not looking for a Seasonal Buy, I absolutely adore the everyday savings in Aldi’s produce section. Sales vary regionally, but at my store today, I was able to snag pineapples for $1.29 and a 3-lb bag of navel oranges for $.99.
I’m especially excited to see Aldi carrying more and more organic selections. My store had organic cherry tomatoes, apples, carrots and bananas — and with the exception of the bananas, those items are all on the Dirty Dozen list.
As we’ve talked about before, while I can’t necessarily afford to buy all my family’s produce organic, I do try whenever I can to avoid conventionally grown produce for those Dirty Dozen items.
Do you love Aldi, too? Perhaps you’d like to try out Aldi for the first time? You can find an Aldi near you on the store locator.
Two lucky KOAB readers will each win a $50 gift card to Aldi to splurge on some special seasonal supplies or to help cover their weekly stock-up. (We shop weekly at Aldi for produce, milk, yogurts and eggs and never spend more than $40, so if you win, your $50 should go a long way!)
Here’s how to enter the $50 Aldi Giftcard giveaway:
#1. Leave a comment on this post telling me what you love about Aldi. If you’re new to Aldi, just let me know that. This comment is required to be entered to win this giveaway.
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This giveaway is open only to residents of the United States who are 18 or older. Entries will be accepted until Wednesday, December 25th at 11:59 p.m. CST. The winners will be selected randomly and notified by email immediately. They will have 48 hours to respond. Good luck!
Disclosure: Aldi will provide the winner of this contest with his or her prize package. I was not compensated in any way for hosting this giveaway nor for sharing my (positive) opinions of Aldi.
Aldi sounds great!
I’ll find one in my area.
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I only went to aldi once, but would love to try again!
Aldi is an adventure! Since I don’t have a local Aldi, I have plan out the trip. You never know what interesting stuff is store when you shop there. Oh yeah, just don’t forget your shopping bags & a quarter for the cart!
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I like the everyday milk price.
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I love getting deals on produce and paper goods at aldi! And occasionally milk 🙂
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I love Aldi’s produce prices.
Never been, but I’ve heard good things!
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I like Aldi’s but I do not have one close by
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I just shopped at Aldi yesterday! Love getting milk for 2 bucks a gallon because we go through up to 5 a week! I like you on Facebook, subscribed to the newsletter, & follow you on Pinterest. Thank you for the awesome deals you find!
I love Aldi for all kinds of things – from $0.75 celery, $1.00 baby carrots, and even kosher cereal!
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I have never shopped at aldi’s but one is opening soon–would love to check it out with a gift card!
I love the random non food items that you can find there for cheap that end up lasting for many years. (examples: camera, fan, rice maker)
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We LOVE the produce loss leaders. 99 cent pineapples? Yes please!
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I have never been to Aldi and would love to try it out with the great gift card! Thanks for the opportunity!
I love Aldi. I can walk out with tons of produce for $20!
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I love their inexpensive wine and produce
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I love Aldi for the low produce prices (and cereal) It really helps for those of us on a super tight budget! I love that $50 will buy my large family’s produce for the week!
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I LOVE ALDI!!! I get my milk, eggs, yogurt and almost all of our school snacks there! I go usually once a week if not more. Do they have the O-U parve dark or white chocolate peanut butter where you live? It’s a seasonal product here and I’m in love!!!
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I absolutely LOVE Aldi. We did not really have access to a close Aldi in NJ and now in Ohio it is my go to place for basic produce and food basics from snacks to frozen pancakes. I’ve found so many cool products that are kosher that nobody else carries and they are dirt cheap. I keep spreading the word…love love love Aldi.
We like the chocolate chip cookies that are kosher and pareve. I also like the baking product like baking powder, flour, sugar and salt which don’t need a hechsher.