The 5 Produce Items I Always Buy from Aldi

Aldi is known for a bunch of things. To name a few: yummy chocolate and coffee, low prices, and its decent produce selection (both organic and conventional). I find myself there about once a week — half because I want to check out their snacks (chili-lime cashews!), and half because I need to stock up on the store’s super-inexpensive fruits and vegetables.

While my shopping list for my mainstream grocery store tends to change from trip to trip, there are five fruits and veggies that I almost always get during an Aldi run. The prices can’t be beat and the quality is legit.

Here’s what I get.

The conventionally farmed baby carrots are consistently 99 cents at my local Aldi, whereas they’re only ever that low at my mainstream grocery store if there happens to be a sale. I like to dip carrots in a bit of ranch dressing or peanut butter (don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!) for a daily snack, so I prefer to save when I can.

It’s rare that I can find avocados at another grocery store for less than a dollar each. Aldi sells bags of four organic (!!!) avocados for $3.99. Not only is the price just right, but I also find that four is the perfect number of avocados. (Versus, say, a bulk bag from a warehouse store with five or more avocados, some of which go bad before I can eat them all.) I start with the softest one and by the time I get to the last one, later in the week, it’s ready to eat.

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A lot of people say button mushrooms are boring, but I just recently convinced my husband to start eating them. Right now, we’re loving them sautéed and stirred into pasta, or just sliced up into a salad. And they’re more than two bucks cheaper per pound at Aldi versus my other local grocery store!

I know everyone loves to talk about the bananas at Trader Joe’s (they’re $19 cents each), but they’re actually cheaper at Aldi. One of our writers did the math and it comes out to about $0.57 per pound at Trader Joe’s and it’s only $0.44 per pound at Aldi.

We go through a lot of lemons in my house. I squeeze lemon wedges over roasted vegetables and bowls of raw vegetables (aka salads). I add slices to water. And I clean with them. So a two-pound bag gets used up in practically no time.

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What about you? Are there any produce items you always pick up at Aldi?