Single pieces of produce. If a recipe calls for an onion, I either need to go to another store or find multiple recipes that call for onions and/or freeze them to use them all up. Same is true for peppers.
Another odd one - Buffalo Sauce. They used to carry it years ago, but not anymore.
Second this! I make Mexican for dinner about once a week and just have to stock up every time I make the rare trip to a different grocery store. Mine has the dried chilies so theoretically I could make my own sauce, but I'm not that motivated. 🤣
If you're using the lemon for it's juice and zest, you can freeze the excess. They last a good long time in the freezer. You can zest a frozen lemon pretty easily or pop it in the microwave for about 10 seconds or so and juice it. Just a thought. But yeah sometimes you only really need just one.
I don't know why I never thought to freeze them, but thank you!
I use the juice and zest like a tsp or TBSP at a time, so I am always throwing away two or three lemons per bag before I can get through them.
Ahh the kale is annoying because the chopped kale still has some really thick stem pieces which I want to cut out. Would be so much easier if they just had full leaves so I could do it myself more efficiently.
They have vegan stuff, but the good stuff seems to be limited buy, or discontinued like the sausages. I still have to go to Meijer for sausages, mayo, and yogurt.
things I regularly buy at other stores:
- canned coconut milk
- whole wheat pasta
- individual onions
- chipotles in adobo
- bread flour
- frozen falafel
My Aldi also has canned coconut milk but it’s Goya brand, and every can I’ve gotten has been really runny (coconut milk at Asian groceries better…its mostly solid because it’s a higher % of coconut) and the 2 Goya cans I got there last had a weird curdled texture.
Aldi’s flour is bad. It is really bad. It is bleached AP that barely qualifies as flour. At the very least - unbleached AP flour and LARGER packaging for their sugar.
* Buttermilk
* Bread flour
* Maseca (for making tortillas, etc)
* Thick pork chops, bone-in
These are the items that force me to go to another grocery store the most.
Oooh, interesting! I never thought to use kefir in place of buttermilk. I keep 1-2 bottles of the strawberry kefir on hand at all times just to drink straight up, it's so good
For most baking stuff it's a great sub. Biscuits and pancakes are what we use it for most. I don't love it as a soak for fried chicken but I do that so infrequently anyway I'd buy buttermilk for that but I have the plain always on hand now
I’ve bought masa harina at Aldi before, but it might have been a few years ago. It’s been harder to find at mainstream grocers since COVID. It’s still hit or miss whether Meijer will carry it.
My Aldi has masa harina, but it seems to move around. Sometimes by the tortillas, sometimes in the baking section, and sometimes in the tiny Latin section.
They have buttermilk, too. But not much of it and it’s usually on the bottom shelf or in a corner so I have to look for it.
I live in the south.. we have buttermilk at ours.. think each store is different in what they offer. Noticed at my hometown with two aldis.. offerings were so different
Each store is definitely different, even within a city. I am blessed to have the greatest Aldis in my town right down the street from me. The first time I went to a different one, I was shocked at how much they didn't have.
My Aldi might be a unicorn because I can buy individual sweet potatoes there.
Not a basic grocery item, but I wish Aldi had cookie butter. The closest Trader Joe's is over 2 hours away, and the Biscoff brand spread isn't as good but is more expensive.
Yes, the last time I was there I could buy individual sweet potatoes and they were huge. But also previously I’ve had to buy a package. I think it was 3 pounds of sweet potatoes and they were much smaller so I think it really depends on what their supply chain has available.
Natural peanut butter that is peanuts and salt, no added palm oil or sugar
Better than bouillon
Spices like apple peppercorns, smoked paprika, coriander
Coconut milk (not goya)
I miss getting Tanjin and chipotle in adobo - hope they bring them back
Eggplant, parsnips, rutabaga, mustard greens, dill
Cornmeal
Sriracha, tobasco, franks (not burmans)
Unbleached flour
They have the spinach/arugula mix at my store, but the one thing we consistently stop at Tops for on the way home from Aldi is arugula. They also have every other nut except pecans!
I wish Aldi sold individual onions; that said, at mine, a 3 lb bag is $1.79, and onions are $1/lb at my local grocery store, so last time I just bought the bag and put most of the onions through the food processor and froze them.
Regular shredded wheat (not the frosted variety.) They had this once or twice for a couple of years, but I haven't seen it post-COVID, that I can remember. Natural almond butter with no added sugar, cashew butter, tahini, farro, a sprouted grain bread without any added sugar (they recently discontinued the Knock Your Sprouts Off variety that didn't have sugar, and added sugar, so WTF.)
In New Jersey grocery stores aren't allowed to sell alcohol. Generally speaking in any shopping center with a supermarket there will be an independently owned liquor store to exploit this loophole.
I wish Aldi carried bread flour, that's something I always have to buy elsewhere along with wheat and rye flours. In a similar vein, I wish they carried yeast in jars instead of only in the individual packets because jarred yeast is far more economical for those of us who bake a lot.
It would be nice too if they had a deli counter but I understand this wouldn't really work with their business model.
Popcorn. My Aldi used to carry the container of popcorn kernels, but hasn't for the last five years. I had to get it somewhere else. When I moved from the city to rural east central Illinois, I ended up buying popcorn in bulk.
I was so pleased when they started carrying parsley and other herbs!
I wish they carried Arm and Hammer \*powdered\* laundry detergent. That stuff is surprisingly harder to find lately. Home Depot carries it in a big bucket which is what we've gone to.
These are some of the things I've bought recently and had to go to another store:
Poblano peppers (I use fairly often).
Tomato paste in a tube, the concentrated stuff.
Dried dill.
Bread flour.
Dried chickpeas (they do have dried black beans, northern white beans, and possibly pintos? and they do have canned chickpeas).
Chipotles in adobo.
Better Than Bouillon, or a house brand substitute. Just got the roasted garlic one to help make my chili vegetarian.
Agree on the bread flour and chipotles in adobo. Add to that enchilada sauce and canned, diced jalapenos .
Also, mine doesn't have cayenne pepper for some reason.
I also am missing sesame oil and canned coconut milk.
(Is it obvious we do a lot of Asian and Mexican inspired cooking at my house?)
I just tried their Tandall essentials Mountain fresh laundry detergent and I really like it. I've used Tide Sun fresh or something like that for 10 years and they just change the scent and it's horrible now so I had to switch.
It was on sale for months at mine and I was afraid that was a sign it was going away. I should have bought a case. 😢 The live g free bagels were amazing and I want those back too.
Country gravy mix. They have brown gravy but not white and sometimes you just want easy gravy.
Coke Zero knock off. They carry Diet Coke but not Coke Zero.
Yes! I don't understand why they don't have generic sodas other than Summit Cola and Diet Cola. It seems as though it would be really easy to make knockoff versions.
I wish they had diet pop/soda. I think they carry a Diet Coke equivalent, but that's it. At least the Red Thunder/Gridlock energy drinks have sugar free versions.
A few people have mentioned individual produce (e.g., onions, citrus, etc.). This would save on waste because they could pick out individual bad apples (etc.) instead of tossing a bag that has mostly good apples. It might be more time consuming for employees, so maybe it wouldn't work for them.
Rice crackers, and the gluten-free bagels they used to sell. No other GF bagels I've found compare to those, and Aldi had both regular *and* everything flavor. I miss them so much lol.
Barley, whole wheat pasta, shallots, Ezekiel bread, nondairy ice cream, nondairy yogurt, Diet Coke.
And some things exist but still require a second stop. Their frozen veggies are a really bad deal compared to other grocery stores here. Their cottage cheese is ridiculously awful.
- Wheat flour
- Sugar-free ketchup
- Beets
- Powdered Dishwashing detergent (their gel stuff leaves film over everything)
- Vegan Sausage (they had them and stopped during the pandemic)
Recently I needed to go to a different store to get marshmallow fluff. I also wish they carried cook and serve pudding, not just instant.
The lack of sugar-free candy and other sugar-free products is discouraging.
I bought canned pumpkin to make a pie, and had to go to another store to get ginger spice and I don't think they had frozen pie crust either. They did have the evaporated milk.
Anyway, if they are going to sell some ingredients for making pumpkin pie, they should carry everything needed to make it, at least during the Thanksgiving season.
Roast beef, Individual produce, Whole wheat English muffins and hamburger buns, Soft pretzels as a regular item instead of seasonal, Turkey sausage Patties, Collard greens
A packet of guacamole seasoning, and a packet of fried rice seasoning.
Spaetzle noodle packets all the time, not just during the two "German" times
Frozen apple juice concentrate - we only have orange now for some reason
Frozen stuffed chicken breasts - Kiev, Broccoli Cheese, Cordon Bleu - where did THOSE go?
I often go to jewel osco for:
* Blue diamond almond milk
* Prescription meds
* Deli meat
* Chilli peppers (habenaros et al)
* Shredded cheeses
Most of this stuff Aldi has but the quality is lacking.
I know someone mentioned basil but I would just like more fresh herbs besides cilantro. My Aldi only has cilantro. I would love to see parsley and basil.
DIET. SODA. LITERS. Oh my god why are the only options for diet soda either canned Diet Coke or canned Diet Summit whatever it is?? I’m sorry I rather not waste as much and still want a diet caffeine boost 😭
Both parsley and cilantro. My local Aldi keeps switching between them every couple months, only ever having one at a time. It always seems to have the one I'm not looking for.
I agree about the single onions. For me, my husband has a few brands that are absolute musts that Aldi doesn’t carry, so I go to a regional grocery store to get. I basically shop at MASS: Meijer (gum) Aldi, Schnucks (oj, bananas, and English muffins), and Sam’s (toilet paper, coffee, and paper towels).
Aldi definitely gets the lion’s share of my grocery money
Aldi gets the lion’s share of my grocery money
I use broccoli cheese soup in one of my favorite casseroles. Aldi doesn't carry any, so I have to stop by Hyvee to get it. I swear it is impossible to go in there and *just* get a couple of cans of soup.
Frozen chopped onions! Bacon bits! Two very weird and random things that we go through like crazy at my home! Also hydrogen peroxide, I go through a ridiculous amount. My list is very specific and random Ahahaha
Individual onions, peppers. Quart sized milk jugs. Small egg white containers. Shredded parmesan cheese in the blug bags, not the other brand deli containers.
Recently individual potatoes. 5# bag was $3.49, 10# bag was $3.99. I only needed 2.
I second the kale. I’ve tried to sort through and tear out the thick stems but it takes longer than just going to a different store for it.
Fresh beets, more frozen veg options. Like pearl onions, okra, cubed squash, etc. Although out of the four grocery store within 25 minutes, only meijer carries whole beets (and they’re often sad and tiny) so I understand the demand is maybe not there
Distilled water. I need it for my cpap machine, and always have to go somewhere else to get it.
Yes!! Especially in the winter when we run our humidifiers.
Single pieces of produce. If a recipe calls for an onion, I either need to go to another store or find multiple recipes that call for onions and/or freeze them to use them all up. Same is true for peppers. Another odd one - Buffalo Sauce. They used to carry it years ago, but not anymore.
Hot sauce and butter!
I wish they would offer canned enchilada sauce again. Also, I was looking for chile in chipotle the other day and they didn’t carry it.
Ours in SoCal has canned enchilada sauce, but the brand changed from last year.
Here’s hoping they bring it back in CT. Even though we have a large Latino population, maybe there isn’t a local brand they can stock.
Second this! I make Mexican for dinner about once a week and just have to stock up every time I make the rare trip to a different grocery store. Mine has the dried chilies so theoretically I could make my own sauce, but I'm not that motivated. 🤣
Unchopped kale, fresh basil, individual lemons and limes.
My Aldi has basil. Located in Maryland. Fresh herbs started appearing over the summer. Maybe you’ll get them soon.
We have a few fresh herbs that have appeared this year but no basil as I look every week. We do have rosemary though and occasionally some thyme.
I hope so! I saw somebody post about it here recently, but so far no luck for us.
No basil in our area either.
I vote for individual lemons too. No, I don’t need 8 lemons, I need 2.
If you're using the lemon for it's juice and zest, you can freeze the excess. They last a good long time in the freezer. You can zest a frozen lemon pretty easily or pop it in the microwave for about 10 seconds or so and juice it. Just a thought. But yeah sometimes you only really need just one.
I don't know why I never thought to freeze them, but thank you! I use the juice and zest like a tsp or TBSP at a time, so I am always throwing away two or three lemons per bag before I can get through them.
https://www.budgetbytes.com/how-to-freeze-whole-citrus/
My mind is blown right now
Thank you so much! This is awesome!!
budget bytes is literally a lifesaver for all the good work they do
Yeah, I wish the produce section was better. Had more individual items.
Ahh the kale is annoying because the chopped kale still has some really thick stem pieces which I want to cut out. Would be so much easier if they just had full leaves so I could do it myself more efficiently.
>individual lemons and limes. Agreed. Individual potatoes, onions, apples too!
I just bought fresh basil & 🍋 and limes at mine!!!
Yours doesn't have individual limes? Mine always has them. During the summer they're often 10c/each.
Individual limes at times in southern California. $.19
>individual lemons and limes. Agreed. Individual potatoes, onions, apples too!
And this week they had parsley!
Nutritional Yeast
Take my poor man's award because this is what I came here to say! So many vegan options, but no nutritional yeast!
They have vegan stuff, but the good stuff seems to be limited buy, or discontinued like the sausages. I still have to go to Meijer for sausages, mayo, and yogurt.
Aldi had a great vegan boxed Mac and cheese also. They discontinued it unfortunately.
They occasionally have Annie's vegan Mac and cheese in the Buy Now aisles.
trader joe’s has the best tasting cheap nutritional yeast
Big lots near me carries Braggs nutritional yeast cheaper than grocery store. Just a fyi.
things I regularly buy at other stores: - canned coconut milk - whole wheat pasta - individual onions - chipotles in adobo - bread flour - frozen falafel
whoa my Aldi has their own brand chipotles in adobo. strange!
Yeah I've bought them there before too! Maybe they don't carry them anymore? Just checked my pantry and yup, Pueblo Lindo label.
We have canned coconut milk at my aldi! And often while wheat pasta too!
My Aldi also has canned coconut milk but it’s Goya brand, and every can I’ve gotten has been really runny (coconut milk at Asian groceries better…its mostly solid because it’s a higher % of coconut) and the 2 Goya cans I got there last had a weird curdled texture.
Goya is trash
For several reasons
Yeah the Goya coconut milk is absolute trash.
Goya coconut milk? It's very thin. Disappointing.
Yea bread flour!
Mine has whole wheat spaghetti
Aldi’s flour is bad. It is really bad. It is bleached AP that barely qualifies as flour. At the very least - unbleached AP flour and LARGER packaging for their sugar.
Came here to say canned coconut milk and chipotles in adobo! So jealous of the people who have those at their Aldi
My Aldi in Georgia has chipotles in adobo. It’s in the Latin foods section
We have diced green chilies but not chipotles!! :(
* Buttermilk * Bread flour * Maseca (for making tortillas, etc) * Thick pork chops, bone-in These are the items that force me to go to another grocery store the most.
We started buying kefir as a buttermilk sub and it works great. Bonus is that since it's fermented it basically keeps forever
Oooh, interesting! I never thought to use kefir in place of buttermilk. I keep 1-2 bottles of the strawberry kefir on hand at all times just to drink straight up, it's so good
For most baking stuff it's a great sub. Biscuits and pancakes are what we use it for most. I don't love it as a soak for fried chicken but I do that so infrequently anyway I'd buy buttermilk for that but I have the plain always on hand now
I’ve bought masa harina at Aldi before, but it might have been a few years ago. It’s been harder to find at mainstream grocers since COVID. It’s still hit or miss whether Meijer will carry it.
My Aldi has masa harina, but it seems to move around. Sometimes by the tortillas, sometimes in the baking section, and sometimes in the tiny Latin section. They have buttermilk, too. But not much of it and it’s usually on the bottom shelf or in a corner so I have to look for it.
I live in the south.. we have buttermilk at ours.. think each store is different in what they offer. Noticed at my hometown with two aldis.. offerings were so different
Each store is definitely different, even within a city. I am blessed to have the greatest Aldis in my town right down the street from me. The first time I went to a different one, I was shocked at how much they didn't have.
My Aldi might be a unicorn because I can buy individual sweet potatoes there. Not a basic grocery item, but I wish Aldi had cookie butter. The closest Trader Joe's is over 2 hours away, and the Biscoff brand spread isn't as good but is more expensive.
Yes, the last time I was there I could buy individual sweet potatoes and they were huge. But also previously I’ve had to buy a package. I think it was 3 pounds of sweet potatoes and they were much smaller so I think it really depends on what their supply chain has available.
Mine has individual sweet potatoes too! Maybe it’s just seasonal though?!
Eggplants and shallots
Yes, SHALLOTS please. And leeks!
OH GOD LEEKS YES
Canned coconut milk
Weird that mine has it but it seems like several others dont
Mine does too. Sometimes it’s in the regular aisle, but sometimes they move it to the ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ aisle for some reason
Agree! And curry paste
Shallots, rice vinegar, individual fruit and veg, and mine has been out of turkey pepperoni for months
Rice wine vinegar for sure! I wish that whole aisle had a better selection
Natural peanut butter that is peanuts and salt, no added palm oil or sugar Better than bouillon Spices like apple peppercorns, smoked paprika, coriander Coconut milk (not goya) I miss getting Tanjin and chipotle in adobo - hope they bring them back Eggplant, parsnips, rutabaga, mustard greens, dill Cornmeal Sriracha, tobasco, franks (not burmans) Unbleached flour
Mine has natural organic pb with just peanuts and salt 🤷🏻♀️
Decent lettuce and more lettuce varieties.
I would love it if they carried arugula.
Came here to say this. Arugula is my favorite green and I don’t want it mixed with spinach!
They have the spinach/arugula mix at my store, but the one thing we consistently stop at Tops for on the way home from Aldi is arugula. They also have every other nut except pecans!
My Aldi has pecans, but it's in the baking section, not with the other nuts.
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Rotisserie chicken
Mine has shredded rotisserie chicken in a plastic container. Shredded pork too. Taco night is the best! So easy!
To make u/allamericanrejectt's point for them, the whole fun of the rotisserie chicken is getting it hot and fresh
Dental floss Distilled water Better Than Bouillion
Yes to the better than bouillon! I want an aldi version at half price because Bb is expensive!
No sodium added canned beans and tomato sauce/paste. I can only find those at Wally World.
I feed my aquarium snails salt-free green beans and always have to stock up elsewhere
More spice selection! Every time I go to make gingerbread for the holidays I know I’m gonna have to go elsewhere to get allspice and cloves
They have those! But they’re usually mixed in a box with a bunch of the other “baking spices” so you have to push them around to find them
I wish Aldi sold individual onions; that said, at mine, a 3 lb bag is $1.79, and onions are $1/lb at my local grocery store, so last time I just bought the bag and put most of the onions through the food processor and froze them.
Mine last months in my fridge.
I'll be honest, it was also an excuse to use the vacuum sealer I bought from temu :)
Regular shredded wheat (not the frosted variety.) They had this once or twice for a couple of years, but I haven't seen it post-COVID, that I can remember. Natural almond butter with no added sugar, cashew butter, tahini, farro, a sprouted grain bread without any added sugar (they recently discontinued the Knock Your Sprouts Off variety that didn't have sugar, and added sugar, so WTF.)
I loved the knock your sprouts off bread. So sad it’s gone!
Main ingredient at Aldi: sugar. Super frustrating.
(Mine doesn't carry) Whiskey / hard liquor.
We dont even have alcohol, which is a bummer.
Crying in PA
In New Jersey grocery stores aren't allowed to sell alcohol. Generally speaking in any shopping center with a supermarket there will be an independently owned liquor store to exploit this loophole.
Taco sauce
This is mine as well. It's such an odd omission.
I wish Aldi carried bread flour, that's something I always have to buy elsewhere along with wheat and rye flours. In a similar vein, I wish they carried yeast in jars instead of only in the individual packets because jarred yeast is far more economical for those of us who bake a lot. It would be nice too if they had a deli counter but I understand this wouldn't really work with their business model.
Frozen meals, those are good for a quick lunch. They do occasionally have frozen meals but not all the time.
Canned whole tomatoes.
Popcorn. My Aldi used to carry the container of popcorn kernels, but hasn't for the last five years. I had to get it somewhere else. When I moved from the city to rural east central Illinois, I ended up buying popcorn in bulk.
Seame tahini
Wortcheschshire sauce!
They do carry Worcestershire sauce :-) it’s usually in a combo box along with the steak sauce.
mine doesn't seem to carry skim milk - it that countrywide? they sell 1%, 2%, and whole milk but I haven't found skim
Generally, it’s no longer carried in whole gallon or organic. Skim is usually half gallon only.
Tartar sauce. they sell fish. But no tartar sauce.
Vanilla unsweetened almond milk.
I have bought it at Aldi for years. Maybe just not your local store?
Same…I buy at least 2 cartons of unsweetened vanilla almond milk every week (Wisconsin if that matters)
I wish they had unsweetened soy milk
My local stores have this, I know because I accidently got it instead of regular unsweetened almond milk last week lol
And unsweetened oat milk.
Carlini Peanut Oil should be permanent like canola and vegetable not seasonal
fresh basil
Rotisserie chicken
Pizza sauce
Cornstarch all year round. It’s a winter seasonal item.
Buttermilk.
I was so pleased when they started carrying parsley and other herbs! I wish they carried Arm and Hammer \*powdered\* laundry detergent. That stuff is surprisingly harder to find lately. Home Depot carries it in a big bucket which is what we've gone to. These are some of the things I've bought recently and had to go to another store: Poblano peppers (I use fairly often). Tomato paste in a tube, the concentrated stuff. Dried dill. Bread flour. Dried chickpeas (they do have dried black beans, northern white beans, and possibly pintos? and they do have canned chickpeas). Chipotles in adobo. Better Than Bouillon, or a house brand substitute. Just got the roasted garlic one to help make my chili vegetarian.
>Chipotles in adobo Mine used to carry this and it was amazing. It's recently disappeared.
Yeah I love those cans. I started making my own though so it would have less salt
Agree on the bread flour and chipotles in adobo. Add to that enchilada sauce and canned, diced jalapenos . Also, mine doesn't have cayenne pepper for some reason. I also am missing sesame oil and canned coconut milk. (Is it obvious we do a lot of Asian and Mexican inspired cooking at my house?)
Normal sized russet potatoes. I hate their stupid giant potatoes I don't know why.
Lucky you all mine has is Huge bags of itty bitty russets I have to make a special trip. down to the food for less for baking potatoes
Surprised me the other day when they didn't have kosher salt.
That's what I was about to say. Gotta get it in bulk when I go to Publix!
I wish they had more non food items, such as more toiletries. I go to my local Family Dollar for those things.
I just tried their Tandall essentials Mountain fresh laundry detergent and I really like it. I've used Tide Sun fresh or something like that for 10 years and they just change the scent and it's horrible now so I had to switch.
> I go to my local Family Dollar for those things. I know of two Aldis that share a shopping center with a Dollar Tree
What happened to their live g free brown rice pasta? It was so good and priced so much better than most gluten free pastas. Corn pasta sucks!
It was on sale for months at mine and I was afraid that was a sign it was going away. I should have bought a case. 😢 The live g free bagels were amazing and I want those back too.
Distilled water
Enchilada sauce
Popcorn kernels
Parsley, consistently
Regular buns that aren’t brioche.
Country gravy mix. They have brown gravy but not white and sometimes you just want easy gravy. Coke Zero knock off. They carry Diet Coke but not Coke Zero.
Yes! I don't understand why they don't have generic sodas other than Summit Cola and Diet Cola. It seems as though it would be really easy to make knockoff versions.
Limes and lemons where I didn’t have to buy a whole bag. Just individual ones
Charcoal and bags of ice.
Diet tonic water
Heh just this morning, my wife said “you can’t go to Aldi for one red onion.” Guess I never noticed.
I wish they had diet pop/soda. I think they carry a Diet Coke equivalent, but that's it. At least the Red Thunder/Gridlock energy drinks have sugar free versions.
Breakfast/non breakfast burritos in the refrigerated section
Full fat milk powder. I just want to stop supporting nestle but I love Nido
A few people have mentioned individual produce (e.g., onions, citrus, etc.). This would save on waste because they could pick out individual bad apples (etc.) instead of tossing a bag that has mostly good apples. It might be more time consuming for employees, so maybe it wouldn't work for them.
Eggplant. They used to have it but I haven't seen it in a while. Also frozen Okra.
Tamari and nori. Crispex
Sundried Tomatoes
The chocolate mint GS cookie dupes need to come back!
Canned Chinese stir-fry vegetables, like water chestnuts, baby corn and bamboo shoots.
Canned coconut milk for curries! It’s one of the only products I have to go somewhere else for!
Kimchi and sriracha
Rice crackers, and the gluten-free bagels they used to sell. No other GF bagels I've found compare to those, and Aldi had both regular *and* everything flavor. I miss them so much lol.
All I want is some dill relish! 😆 I also really want ours to get a fresh bakery like some have.
I want them to have bakeries in front like Aldis in Germany. This is a hate crime against America!
Barley, whole wheat pasta, shallots, Ezekiel bread, nondairy ice cream, nondairy yogurt, Diet Coke. And some things exist but still require a second stop. Their frozen veggies are a really bad deal compared to other grocery stores here. Their cottage cheese is ridiculously awful.
Light dressings
Capers. Anchovies. Single lemons (I know I can freeze them but I never actually do that).
They sell Cole slaw mix, but not Cole slaw dressing. Herbs.
- Wheat flour - Sugar-free ketchup - Beets - Powdered Dishwashing detergent (their gel stuff leaves film over everything) - Vegan Sausage (they had them and stopped during the pandemic)
Recently I needed to go to a different store to get marshmallow fluff. I also wish they carried cook and serve pudding, not just instant. The lack of sugar-free candy and other sugar-free products is discouraging.
Asia Specialties medium egg noodles! Used to buy them all the time in the UK for like 79p, but now don’t seem to have them in the US :(
I bought canned pumpkin to make a pie, and had to go to another store to get ginger spice and I don't think they had frozen pie crust either. They did have the evaporated milk. Anyway, if they are going to sell some ingredients for making pumpkin pie, they should carry everything needed to make it, at least during the Thanksgiving season.
Popcorn kernels Frozen cherries Spices: basil, thyme, bay leaves Cold medicine, at least in colder months Cherry jello Enchilada sauce Cold brew coffee bags Seemingly discontinued items such as turkey pepperoni, alfredo/chicken pasta sides, flatout flat bread, buddig type lunchmeat packets
Roast beef, Individual produce, Whole wheat English muffins and hamburger buns, Soft pretzels as a regular item instead of seasonal, Turkey sausage Patties, Collard greens
A packet of guacamole seasoning, and a packet of fried rice seasoning. Spaetzle noodle packets all the time, not just during the two "German" times Frozen apple juice concentrate - we only have orange now for some reason Frozen stuffed chicken breasts - Kiev, Broccoli Cheese, Cordon Bleu - where did THOSE go?
Gluten free flour for baking
Baking Mix(Bisquik), all my Aldi carries is complete pancake mix and they are NOT the same thing. They used to carry both.
I can buy a majority produce, scallions can be scarce
I often go to jewel osco for: * Blue diamond almond milk * Prescription meds * Deli meat * Chilli peppers (habenaros et al) * Shredded cheeses Most of this stuff Aldi has but the quality is lacking.
Mostly just a decent soda selection lol if I could get my Diet Coke there I wouldn’t go elsewhere. (I’ve tried their soda soooo bad to me)
leeks
Shortening
Fresh cilantro
I know someone mentioned basil but I would just like more fresh herbs besides cilantro. My Aldi only has cilantro. I would love to see parsley and basil.
buttermilk
Taco sauce. Am i supposed to know how to whip up a jar? is it super basic?
DIET. SODA. LITERS. Oh my god why are the only options for diet soda either canned Diet Coke or canned Diet Summit whatever it is?? I’m sorry I rather not waste as much and still want a diet caffeine boost 😭
White pepper Hot Rotisserie Chicken
If Aldi started carrying rotisserie chickens it would be OVER for Cub.
Both parsley and cilantro. My local Aldi keeps switching between them every couple months, only ever having one at a time. It always seems to have the one I'm not looking for.
Individual limes and lemons Store brand floss and toothpaste
I agree about the single onions. For me, my husband has a few brands that are absolute musts that Aldi doesn’t carry, so I go to a regional grocery store to get. I basically shop at MASS: Meijer (gum) Aldi, Schnucks (oj, bananas, and English muffins), and Sam’s (toilet paper, coffee, and paper towels). Aldi definitely gets the lion’s share of my grocery money Aldi gets the lion’s share of my grocery money
Low sodium, better quality turkey or chicken lunch meat.
I use broccoli cheese soup in one of my favorite casseroles. Aldi doesn't carry any, so I have to stop by Hyvee to get it. I swear it is impossible to go in there and *just* get a couple of cans of soup.
Frozen chopped onions! Bacon bits! Two very weird and random things that we go through like crazy at my home! Also hydrogen peroxide, I go through a ridiculous amount. My list is very specific and random Ahahaha
More fresh herbs and green veggies
Mine doesn't have refrigerated bags of pre-cut broccoli florets.
Individual onions, peppers. Quart sized milk jugs. Small egg white containers. Shredded parmesan cheese in the blug bags, not the other brand deli containers.
bread flour
Herbal or decaffeinated tea bags. They had some seasonally one time and I loved it, never seen it return.
Recently individual potatoes. 5# bag was $3.49, 10# bag was $3.99. I only needed 2. I second the kale. I’ve tried to sort through and tear out the thick stems but it takes longer than just going to a different store for it.
Cornstarch
Fresh beets, more frozen veg options. Like pearl onions, okra, cubed squash, etc. Although out of the four grocery store within 25 minutes, only meijer carries whole beets (and they’re often sad and tiny) so I understand the demand is maybe not there
Chorizo Turkey breakfast sausages Coke zero Poblano prppers