Is Aldi food crap too?

[Anonymous]

Never understood the appeal of H-mart. They are always super dirty and their produce is often terrible. Fruits are always bruised or are old with skins already starting to wrinkle. The veggies are almost always wilted.

Ranch 99 is far better - way cleaner and higher quality produce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, the less you guys go to Aldi the better for me. Cooking the family a delicious beef stew tonight that cost probably $10 total to make. I can barely even find a package of stew meat for less than $10 at a regular grocery store.

Yep, tonight we had Aldi salmon, cauliflower, zucchini, and eggplant, with a sprinkle of Aldi Parmesan. Delicious!

I’m just as happy for snooty shoppers to stay away and keep from clogging up the lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aldi is disgusting. The food is bad enough but the horrible way they throw the food in a bin at checkout and make you repack it with no space to do so is demeaning.

I cannot understand who likes this place. I gave it a second shot and it was just as awful.

And the carts never work either.

I’ll happily pay slightly more at Trader Joe’s and enjoy my experience.

I don’t mind bagging my own groceries at all. But the check out at aldi is a mess and unless you’re super practiced at their flow the cashiers are nearly hostile if you take a moment too long to gtfo of their way. The flow is weird.

This is so true! I'm a DCUM poor so I'm happy to shop there but am embarrassed every time at checkout because I'm not quick enough at the flow. The cashiers don't like me very much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never understood the appeal of H-mart. They are always super dirty and their produce is often terrible. Fruits are always bruised or are old with skins already starting to wrinkle. The veggies are almost always wilted.

Ranch 99 is far better - way cleaner and higher quality produce.

Really, which H-mart is this? The one in Wheaton has very fresh produce, a huge variety not found at the regular store, and good prices.

[Anonymous]

Having awful memories of begging folks for a quarter there so I could have a cart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never understood the appeal of H-mart. They are always super dirty and their produce is often terrible. Fruits are always bruised or are old with skins already starting to wrinkle. The veggies are almost always wilted.

Ranch 99 is far better - way cleaner and higher quality produce.

Really, which H-mart is this? The one in Wheaton has very fresh produce, a huge variety not found at the regular store, and good prices.

+1

H Marts produce is always so fresh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We use Aldi as our main grocery store - I cook all our meals for our family of 5 from scratch, so I mainly buy ingredients, not processed things (other than whole wheat tortillas and pasta, for example). It's a much shorter list of what I can't get there (whole grain flours for our bread; I don't like their cheeses) that what I do buy there.

Junk food at Aldi is the same as junk food at Whole Foods. Organic or not, junk is junk.

What kind of meals do you make from scatch?

[Anonymous]

Junk food is junk food. You will find it in the finest store like Trader Joes and Whole Foods, that people rave about.

If I'm going to get junk food, I 'm going to get it at a cheaper place. I'm not spending $5 for a bag of junk food at Whole Foods while I can get the same junk food at Aldi for $2.

I can't stand Whole Foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never understood the appeal of H-mart. They are always super dirty and their produce is often terrible. Fruits are always bruised or are old with skins already starting to wrinkle. The veggies are almost always wilted.

Ranch 99 is far better - way cleaner and higher quality produce.

Your HMart must be an outlier. I have 2 near me and they’re both very clean with near-impeccable produce.

[Anonymous]

If you want to eat a largely clean diet, Aldi is good. If you want to stock your freezer and pantry with convenience items, it's hit or miss. Their frozen lasagna is awful, their ravioli is fine, jarred pasta sauce is good (the no sugar added one). Ice cream is no good. Their seasonal holiday cakes in the freezer are tasty.

But their produce (at my location at least), meats (I've tried their skirt steak, chicken, turkey, duck, grass fed beef & ground lamb), dairy, bread & grains, and spices are all good. Baking items are solid for making stuff from scratch.

Aldi is my main grocery store and I eat a high protein diet for weight training. When I need to go somewhere else, it's usually for herbs. Aldi only keeps cilantro & green onion in terms of fresh herbs.

[Anonymous]

It took me some time to get used to shopping at Aldi but now I love it. I buy my fair share of junk food there but it's great for healthier things too. I get the large container of mixed greens, berries, avocados, nuts, lentils, pasta for half the price of the regular grocery stores. If they sold Oat Milk/yogurt and Miyokos plant butter I'd probably stop shopping at Moms. I do buy almost all my meat from the farmer's market but I occasionally get organic chicken or turkey at aldi and it has been good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to eat a largely clean diet, Aldi is good. If you want to stock your freezer and pantry with convenience items, it's hit or miss. Their frozen lasagna is awful, their ravioli is fine, jarred pasta sauce is good (the no sugar added one). Ice cream is no good. Their seasonal holiday cakes in the freezer are tasty.

But their produce (at my location at least), meats (I've tried their skirt steak, chicken, turkey, duck, grass fed beef & ground lamb), dairy, bread & grains, and spices are all good. Baking items are solid for making stuff from scratch.

Aldi is my main grocery store and I eat a high protein diet for weight training. When I need to go somewhere else, it's usually for herbs. Aldi only keeps cilantro & green onion in terms of fresh herbs.

Their sensitive pasta sauce is better than Rao's and half the price

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is junk food. You will find it in the finest store like Trader Joes and Whole Foods, that people rave about.

If I'm going to get junk food, I 'm going to get it at a cheaper place. I'm not spending $5 for a bag of junk food at Whole Foods while I can get the same junk food at Aldi for $2.

I can't stand Whole Foods.

So true. Chips, pretzels, cereal, canned pasta sauce, peanut butter, jam, milk, yogurt, butter...etc. Some of it's junk food, some of it's staples, it's all cheaper at Aldi.

I can't stand Whole Foods either. I don't mind spending a little more for better quality, but Whole Foods is prestige pricing at its highest...literally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It took me some time to get used to shopping at Aldi but now I love it. I buy my fair share of junk food there but it's great for healthier things too. I get the large container of mixed greens, berries, avocados, nuts, lentils, pasta for half the price of the regular grocery stores. If they sold Oat Milk/yogurt and Miyokos plant butter I'd probably stop shopping at Moms. I do buy almost all my meat from the farmer's market but I occasionally get organic chicken or turkey at aldi and it has been good.

Mine does sell oat milk and cashew milk!

[Anonymous]

Aldi pesto is so good!