Four Reasons I Shop at ALDI

When Drew and I were married five years ago, I was not too concerned about saving money at the grocery store. I had a full time job that paid well. But when our daughter was born I cut down my hours and worked PRN, money became tight, so tight that at one point, we only had $5 in our bank account. We had expenses that needed to be paid. On Wednesday nights, Charis and I attended prayer meeting. I was thrilled to discover that there was an ALDI on the way home from prayer meeting, so I started doing our weekly grocery shopping there. 6 months ago, an ALDI opened up less than 2 miles away from our apartment. ALDI is one of my favorite grocery stores; we do the bulk of our grocery shopping there.


My top four reasons I shop at ALDI:

1. Cost of food at ALDI is cheaper than other grocery stores. Last winter before our local ALDI opened its doors, one week I had to shop at our local Shoppers. Even though I bought less at Shoppers than what I would buy at ALDI, I spent at least more than $30 there than I would have spent at ALDI. We are on a tight budget. We live in the DC Metro area; my husband makes about $40,000/year, but we have my husband's tuition every semester, our out of pocket health insurance, about $5000 that we need to pay to the hospital for the priviledge of delivering my son there, plus other expenses.

2. Seasonal buys. They always have necessities, but I enjoy their seasonal buys. For the last few weeks, they have had Jaffa cakes, which is one of my favorite biscuits that I always bring home from Northern Ireland. Another current special buy is canned pumpkin, so this is the time of year I stock up on canned pumpkin.

3. Quality. Even though almost everything at ALDI is off brand, I find the quality is the same as the brand name item.

4. SimplyNature products. As of 2013, this is a new product line at ALDI. I like this brand because the ingredient list is simple; I have actually heard of the items listed in the ingredients.

Have you ever shopped at ALDI? 

ALDI has NO idea who I am. 
I am just a loyal customer that shops there every week.