I really need to go to Aldi's more. You know how you go to a wholesale club like Costco or BJs and the final bill is kind of...staggering?
I got a good enough amount of healthy food at Aldi's and the bill came to...$18.
I won't buy 80% of the stuff they sell there that's processed or has various ingredients like preservatives or high fructose corn syrup, to name a few, and I also shy away from canned foods due to BPA lining in most of them and even plastic containers. I look for paper or glass packaging. A little limiting, yes i know.
However, I bought 2 half gallons of organic soymilk for $1.99 each, which is really a great price. I also got a small bag of 6 red onions for $1.99, a fresh pineapple for $1.29, grapefruit for .89 each, a small bag of sweet potatoes for .89, an eggplant for $1.29, organic arugula for .98, a carton of kiwi for $1.99 and both blackberries and raspberries, non-organic, 6 oz containers for .99 each. (Last winter I relied more on frozen organic berries, which can be had for a good price at BJs, but truth be told, I don't like them frozen in my cereal.)
And now they take credit cards.
On a sad note, I only today learned that Sicily Yoder, the Amish fiction writer who liked to post here, passed away 3 years ago from the flu, shortly after asking us here which photos we liked best for her upcoming book.
I'm just shocked. She was only 44. I only learned of it because someone here left a comment on a blog post (causing the entry to show up as a message in my email) where someone in Sicily's family, probably a daughter, told of her passing a few months earlier, after her last post here, in 2014.
Grocery shopping satisfaction
January 2nd, 2017 at 05:41 pm
January 2nd, 2017 at 06:17 pm 1483381026
I have to check out Aldi's, I have a friend who swears by that place.
It sadden me as well to find out about Sicily. Though we all haven't met, I feel like I know each and every one of you, and that we share a friendship like no other.
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January 2nd, 2017 at 08:44 pm 1483389887
Sad to hear about Sicily Yoder. And definitely worried about Ima Saver (Julie)...her last journal entries mentioned a non-healing foot injury or something like that. Worrisome.
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January 3rd, 2017 at 02:31 am 1483410711
I wish Aldi could be here in California. I wonder if they have a sister store?
January 3rd, 2017 at 03:44 am 1483415084
January 3rd, 2017 at 02:30 pm 1483453852
I hadn't realized that Sicility passed away. I remember her posts from years ago. Hope Ima is alright! Though I tend to be sporadic in my posting, it's crazy to think many of these members have been a part of my life for over 10 years...
January 4th, 2017 at 03:02 am 1483498957
I like Aldi's much more now that they accept credit cards.