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.
For up to three additional entries, you may do any of the following:
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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.
Never shopped at Aldi, would love to give it a try. Just looked and there is one fairly close by to my apartment.
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I love the great prices at Aldi especially on their fruit!!
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I love that we can get inexpensive produce, cottage cheese, quick oats, and generic Chex-like cereal at Aldi!
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My favorite products so far at Aldi are the Greek yogurts and the almond milks. I also really like most paper products I have tried.
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Have been getting your e-newsletters for awhile now!
I just found you on Pinterest! Trying crockpot recipes soon 🙂
I’ve never been to Aldi, but just looked it up and see that there is one not too far away. Will definitely give it a go.
I love shopping at Aldi’s for the specials on vegetables that I use and for their cottage cheese too. I have been shopping there now for about a half a year at the store in Hatboro, PA.
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I like their produce section.
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Not able to shop at Aldi’s much since there is not one very close to me, so the gift card would def be worth the drive!
I love the prices. Thanks for introducing me to the store.
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Love their inexpensive veggies!
I love the inexpensive produce and healthy snacks like dried fruit and nuts.
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Love their pricing on avocadoes
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Hi! i’m new to Aldi & am looking forward to having a lovely & long relationship.
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I just returned from “liking” Aldi on FB.
I am already a subscriber to Kosher on a Budget and I am so glad to be able to say so.
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I have never been to Aldi but I will go now!
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I don’t get to Aldi often but do love the prices and the number of kosher snacks they sell.
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Can’t wait to go with my 50 gift card
I have only been to Aldi’s once or twice, but have been hearing great things about them recently.
I LOVE Aldi because of the $.50 kosher Greek yogurt and the $.39 kosher regular yogurt! And don’t forget the $2.99 kosher yogurt tubes – my kids can’t enough of them! We also buy the kosher mini croissants and make home-made egg and cheese croissants for dinners! I LOVE that store!
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I like their price of baking supplies.
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I am a faithful Aldi shopper, loving the prices and quality of goods. I have received and enjoyed the KOAB newsletter for some time.