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:
#2. Join the nearly 8,000 people who like Kosher on a Budget on Facebook. Then come back and leave a separate comment on this post telling me that you have done so. If you already like KOAB, thank you — please leave a comment to that effect.
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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.
I love the fresh fruit and low prices.
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I would love to win and give the gift card to my grandmother who looovvvves aldi
I like the low prices at Aldi, especially on yogurt, produce, and lactose-free milk. I need to remember to bring bags when I go there.
I love that I can visit Aldi to stock up on basics and stretch my grocery budget a little further.
I like Kosher on a Budget on Facebook. It’s a great page.
I just subscribed to the KOAB newsletter. I love your website. When I was at Target a few months ago, the guy behind me jokingly asked if I had a coupon for what he was buying since he saw me with so many coupons. (I had also printed the Target Mobile coupons and the Target Cartwheel list, since I don’t have a smartphone.) I mentioned your website to him, and he said that his wife might be interested in it.
I have never been to Aldi, but maybe now I will.. 😉 thank you!
I love Aldi because they have the best real fruit popsicles 4/$2 and we love them for a once in a while treat! Although we have an Aldi right around the corner, I don’t venture in as often as I could. I liked COB, and newsletter-ed, and Pinterest-ed! Pick me! 🙂
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Aldi has many crackers that are OU pareve, and their produce is very reasonab le
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I get your newsletter and read from top to bottom
I love Aldi’s produce and lots of their brands of crackers.
I follow koab on Facebook and shop at aldis
I’ve never been to aldis but would love to check it out!
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I will have to try out the Aldi in my area!
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I love Aldi’s kosher Greek yoghurt because it’s good and relatively inexpensive.
I also enjoy getting great buys on fruits and vegetables and even found a seedless watermelon today in their store and it’s the end of December!
I love, love, love the weekly produce deals, as they save our family of six a lot of money every month.
I already subscribe to KOAB. I really enjoy getting it and often take advantage of the deals described in the posts.
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Just went last week for the first time!
I love love aldis! I found great Chanukah gifts for my kids and the shopping is cheap an we found pretty good quality!
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New to aldi but would love the oppurtunity to try them out!
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I love finding produce at the lowest prices available locally at my Aldi! Great store!
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Thanks for offering us a way to make shopping at Aldi even more affordable. Like you, I go there for their low cost/high quality produce.
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Staying away from Pintrest for now as I’ve seen how addicting it is for others!
Have a good Shabbos!
Their prices and are terrific and I enjoy shopping just to see what I’ll find!
I like Aldi’s prices.
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I’ve never been to Aldi but from you post I checked and see quite a few stores near me. I’d love to go check it out with a gift card!
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I try to go every week. I love the low prices on some produce like bananas and clementines, the chips, cookies cereals, and coffee creamer. I have gotten some great kitchen ware as well. This week I found puffed corn (corn pops) that was OU for around $1.19.
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