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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Aldi

Do you have an Aldi in your area? If so, do you go there? If not, why?! We do not have an Aldi in our town, but we do have one to the east about an hour in Springfield, MO, one to the north about 45 minutes in Carthage, MO, one to the south about 1 hr and 15 min in Rogers, AR, and we used to have one about 45 minutes away in Joplin but the tornado took it down :( I pray they are rebuilding it? Well, I just checked on their website and it's completed!

I have to wait till I have business to attend to in one of those cities before I can go to Aldi, but I look forward to the times I get to go. Yesterday we went and got some good deals. Pineapples were 99 cents each (big, juicy pineapples!) so we got 21 of them. Sweet potatoes were on sale for .25 a pound a few weeks ago, but now they are .33 a pound (which is still a great price). When we got them last time, I 'wished' I had gotten more because these things are YUMMY! and good for you too. I got 42 pounds this time. Sunkist oranges were 4lbs for $1.50. I only got 24lbs of them because we still have several pounds left from our bulk food order. They wont last long though. Bananas are going for .44/lb right now, which is pathetic if you compare it to a few years ago, but really good if you compare it to right now (.59/lb where we are). During the summer Aldis had cherries for .59 or .69 a pound, I forget which. Either way, it was a great deal. I bought a lot of them. A lot. Blueberries too ... .99 for 12oz. Grapes have been going for less than .80/lb but they just stopped that deal recently. We like grapes. A lot.

We like fruit. We like Aldis. Aldis is a good way to support our fruit habit.

Of course they have other veggies too besides sweet potatoes. Broccoli was less than a dollar a pound yesterday, but during the summer they had that and cauliflower for less than fifty cents a pound. I stocked up; chopped them and froze them all. I don't care much for frozen broccoli or cauliflower, but I really appreciated the price, so I'll just deal with the frozen part. Carrots usually go for .50 a pound, but I've seen them for .25 a pound.

Here is a link to the Aldi store locator. Check it out!!!

And in case you are wondering "wow, what do they do with all that fruit?!" the answer is, we eat it! We eat what we can raw, but then as it starts to get too ripe we freeze it and have it in smoothies.

And sweet potatoes ... I wash them, throw them whole (skins on) into the crock pot and set the heat to high. I let them bake about 3 hours, maybe four depending on the size, and then eat. YUM! The children like to put homemade applesauce (unsweetened) and cinnamon on top. I just like mine plain, but the other stuff tastes good on it too.

p.s. don't forget to bring your own bags and a quarter for the cart deposit!

7 comments:

  1. We LOVE Aldi! Their "cream of" soups are the cheapest anywhere as is most of their canned goods. They have wonderful spiral hams and cereals. Really nothing is bad there. We just found out that one is being built TWO miles from our house!!!!

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  2. Joanne,
    Thank you for successfully encouraging me to check out the Aldi in my own town...you did that before for me and I got out of the habit because I do not often carry cash with me at the right times. Now...I'm going back to Aldi. It sounds like a wonderful place to buy fresh produce and smoothie stuff in the winter! :-)

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  3. For me this issue is not easy.
    The conventionell agriculture has not developped in a godly way. Animals and soil and human beings are abused and there are used a lot of chemicals that waste our earth.
    Very cheap food is seldom organic and locally grown...but we too have a very little budget and have to make compromises.

    Greetings from Germany
    Cara

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  4. If I think too much about it, it almost seems like I cannot shop anywhere! So much corruption is intertwined with all aspects of the commercial world. It's rare that we are able to find something we can support and afford. (I pray that makes sense; don't quite know how to condense it well)

    I find it best to keep my focus on serving the Lord ... 'seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness'. He will take care of us. We may not have enough money to shop local &/or buy organic, but we do the best we can and are 'content in whatever state we are in'. The Lord knows.

    Love, js

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  5. Thumbs up for Aldi ! We have one 16min to the North of us and another one 35min South.

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  6. does Aldi's have organic fruit and veggies?

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  7. Once in a while, but not regularly.

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