"I want an Oompa Loompa now!" ~ Veruca Salt -- Table Salt

Salt, the oldest of man's spices. Awww who am I kidding, I don't know if that's true. I'm no food historian. Is that even a thing? That would be an amazing job. ALDI if you're reading this, I want to apply for any Food Historian positions you have open. So today's post is.....Stonemill Essentials Iodized Table Salt!

Boring but salty and only $.35!!

What can I say about this?

Mini Bread Bowls - Spinach and Artichoke Edition

 

I bought these Appetitos Spinach & Artichoke Mini Bread Bowls with hesitation. I just couldn't imagine how these could be good and $3? That's pricey for ALDI. My hesitation followed me home and this item sat in my freezer for a month at least. I was imagining a chewy, salty, mouthful of processed dough and grease. 

Cleanliness is next to ALDIness Part II -- Glass Cleaner and Paper Towels

I know you've all been waiting on pins and needles to read another cleaning product post so let's get to it! Another twofer is on the way. Ladies and gentlemen I give you.....Freshine Glass Cleaner and Boulder Paper Towels!

Reunited and it feels so good.

As you may recall, there are some products that I buy based solely on price. Well for those of you keeping a list of those items, you can add paper towels to dish washing detergent and laundry detergent. However, when it comes to multi-use cleaners, I was born a 409 man and I'll die a 409 man so the Freshine made me a little nervous but....

Cleanliness is next to ALDIness -- Laundry Detergent and Dishwasher Soap

Before I get to the review I'd like to apologize for the Lady's use of this sacred blog to promote her non-ALDI Arbor Mist agenda AND ALSO buzz market her Coach Paul Johnson buttons. I would however, like to give her a shout out for making a sweet new header for this blog, adding the A.L.D.I. scale and a label cloud for easy reference LOOK------------>
and a disclaimer at the bottom of this page so ALDI doesn't sue me and take all my stuff and build a new ALDI where my house once stood. Now, on with the show....

If you're a dedicated reader of this blog and live in Maine, a state I love but which has no ALDI's, then you might think all that ALDI has to offer is great bargains on food. Well you'd be wrong my dear Pinetree State friends. ALDI has great bargains on EVERYTHING. Everything. Including pet stuffs, health care items and today's blog items - cleaning supplies. Since there's just not a lot I can think of to tell you about cleaning products, I'm going to review a couple here and a couple in my next post. So I give you a twofer ..... Tandil laundry detergent AND Reeva dishwasher soap!!

Conjoined

Do you think ALDI and IKEA use the same company to name their products? Tandil? Reeva? I feel like they're both just a random K and an umlaut away from being sold at IKEA. In fact, I think I own a REËVAK table and some TÄKNDIL chairs. Anyway...

Arbor Mist Tasting Party

This is a pretty controversial post. You cannot buy Arbor Mist at ALDI (at least not at mine). But I think that an Arbor Mist tasting party fits perfectly within the milieu of this blog. GC thinks that talking about groceries not purchased at ALDI violates some unwritten agreement we've made with the reader. As the starter of this blog and the female in the relationship, I win. (High fives all around!)

We drank a lot of Arbor Mist that night - I think we went through nine bottles of "wine" and two bottles of "champagne."

Flatbread Melt

Annnnndddddd I'm back!  I apologize for my extended absence but I recently became the proud owner of every season of Gilmore Girls on DVD, so you can imagine how busy I have been.

In order to make it up to you I bring you a very special entry: Bremer Selects Chicken Quesadilla Flatbread Melt!

This is the ALDI item that started it all. On my first trip to ALDI, I was marveling at all of the neat little prepackaged meals like this. GC warned me that I "would be sorry" if I ate any of them. Not one to back down from a challenge, I cased all of their frozen foods and picked the Chicken Quesadilla Flatbread Melt as my test.

Stop, Pizza Time! Oh, oh , oh.... -- Stone Baked Margherita Pizza

My apologies to MC Hammer who, due to recent monetary setbacks, probably shops at ALDI too. Anyway, we all love pizza. LOVE IT! I'm always on the lookout for a delicious frozen pizza - which might be an oxymoron. At any rate, I'm always eating frozen pizza, to the point that I fancy myself somewhat of an expert on the subject. So when I saw that Mama Cozzi had a stone baked variety for a mere $2.99 I was pretty exicited, but I've been fooled by Mama before so it's with a bit of trepidation I give you Mama Cozzi's Stone Baked Margherita Pizza -

Imported From Europe (NJ)

This pie claims to be "Imported From Europe" which seems sort of suspicious to me. I mean it's clear they want you to think "ITALY" so why don't they say Imported From Italy? For all I know this pizza was slapped together in some slave wage kitchen in Serbia or Croatia. It's made with real cheese whatever that means and has 0 grams of trans fat. As I recall, Margherita was the only flavor of the stone baked variety that ALDI was selling. It's got lots of diced tomatoes and it's liberally sprinkled with what I assume is the traditional Margherita topping of lime and salt...er, basil. It's a pretty thin crust too which is usually a good sign in the frozen pizza world. A quick math lesson for frozen pizza buying. Because the crust is usually the weakest part of the pizza the less of it you have to gnaw through the better so....thinner > thicker. I tossed it in the oven at 425 for 12 minutes per Mama's instructions and....

Cheese and Crackers and Crackers and Crackers... -- Port Wine Cheese Cup, 6 Cracker Assortment and Salt Pita Crackers

As you all know from our earlier posts, the Lady hosted an Arbor Mist tasting party. Assuming that anyone who would attend had no food or drink dignity, I decided to stock the party with ALDI snacks. So this review is a three-fer. Happy Farms Port Wine Cheese Cup, Savoritz 6 Cracker Assortment and Savoritz Sea Salt Pita Crackers.

Pita Crackers + Cheese = TADAAAA!!