When you stop into Aldi, you never know what you’re going to find. Sure, you can count on them to have all the cheap staples you traditionally buy—yogurt, cereal, cheese, etc.—but there’s always new stuff to check out, too. Seasonal snacks. Weird flavors of cheese. Of course, if you get too attached to something tasty you found in the Aldi Finds aisle, you could be setting yourself up for heartache if it’s a one-off—even the best Aldi products have a tendency to periodically disappear from shelves. Still, that hasn’t kept us from digging a quarter out of our wallets every few weeks and checking out what’s new—and which Aldi products we may have missed along the way. These are the best Aldi products we scored in 2024.
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This isn’t a new Aldi product—it has a dedicated fanbase, in fact—but it’s new to us, and, dammit, it deserves a shout out. Season Choice’s frozen sweet potato casserole is definitely intended to be served as a side dish with dinner, but it’s so indulgent that you could honestly eat it for dessert. It’s sweet, perfectly spiced, and sprinkled with a praline topping that’s delightfully crunchy, even out of the microwave. Eat it with turkey or eat it with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream—dealer’s choice.
Every month, we round up the newest and most exciting products heading to Aldi’s shelves, and there’s almost always some new, wild frozen pizza in the mix. Mac n’ meat pizza. Indian butter chicken pizza. Something called “queso pizza.” But when we sat down to taste and rank more than a dozen Aldi pizzas, an ordinary ol’ pepperoni pizza was our favorite. Okay, it’s not ordinary—it’s knuckle docked (ooh la la), meaning the dough was perforated by hand to prevent big air bubbles from forming in the crust. Now, we sort of doubt the crust this pizza is built upon was actually docked with human knuckles, but we love that it has the right amount of chew and a nice, crispy bottom. The crust is what makes it better than a lot of other Aldi pizzas, but we certainly didn’t mind that there’s a lot of cheese on this pie. We’ve haven’t seen this Aldi product at our local store in a while, but we’re holding out hope it returns.
Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks.
Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown.
What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction.
Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home.
Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.
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Gwynedd Stuart
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