Welp, everyone’s favorite weather prognosticating rodent saw his shadow this morning, which means we’re settling in for six more weeks of winter. That’s the bad Groundhog Day news. The good Groundhog Day news? Aldi has a bunch of new products arriving this month, so at least you can enjoy some new (cheap) goodies from the comfortable confines of your couch cocoon. Here’s what’s on our Aldi shopping list this month.
Specially Selected Seafood Bisque (Available Feb. 4; $8.99)
This creamy seafood soup has scallops and shrimp in a creamy “shellfish bisque-style sauce” sprinkled with parsley and cheese. It looks like it comes in a 12oz tub for nine bucks, and while there’s an alarming amount of sodium per serving, it also has 42g protein! That’s what we call balance in the biz.
Specially Selected Smoked Mozzarella Ravioli (Available Feb. 4; $2.99)
A 14oz bag of frozen ravioli for three bucks seems like a really good deal, right? You get pasta packed with both mozzarella and ricotta cheese, flavored with black pepper and parsley. These sound like they’d be really good with one of our favorite Aldi pasta sauces, the Priano Rosso Pesto, which contains sweet sundried tomatoes to complement those salty cheeses.
Priano Italian Style Cookies (Available Feb. 4; $3.89)
These cookies come in three varieties: Italian Style Cookies with Amarena Cherries, Italian Style Cookies with Lemon Creme, and Italian Style Cookies with Almond. I guess I’m most interested in the lemon creme cookies because they look like halved hard boiled eggs—arguably unappetizing, but undeniably intriguing.
Sundae Shopped Gelato Cups (Available Feb. 4; $3.99)
From the looks of these, you’re getting soft serve gelato and chocolate sauce in vessels you can simply take out of the freezer and stick a spoon into. These come in three flavors—Cappucino, Pistachio, and Chocolate Hazelnut—and if you live somewhere that isn’t experiencing sub-zero temps, you just might want to give them a try.
Breakfast Best Stuffed Waffles (Available Feb. 11; $5.89)
Look out, Jimmy Dean. Aldi’s Breakfast Best brand has some weird, frozen, hybrid breakfast foods coming down the pike. Instead of being savory-sweet waffle sandwiches, they just went ahead and stuffed all the stuff inside the bellies of the frozen Belgian waffles. These come in two flavors: Chicken Sausage, Egg, and Reduced Fat Cheddar inside a Maple Brioche Waffle and Bacon, Egg & Reduced Fat Cheddar inside a Maple Brioche Waffle. It’s like a breakfast Turducken and, at this point, why the hell not?
Bake Shop Paczki (Available Feb. 11; $3.69)
If you’re Polish or you’ve ever lived in a city with a large Polish population (like Chicago), you know that Paczki Day is on its way. It’s a pre-Lent tradition that involves eating sugar-coated, custard- or jelly-stuffed doughnuts, and even though we aren’t religious, we can get behind most doughnut-related holidays.
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