I love Aldis too. I wonder, do they accept coupons?

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Hmmm I don't know. that is a good question. Anyone know?

Thanks 2nband. I have never seen anyone do this, maybe becuase they are not needed. Anyone?

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Luke, 2nband -

To the best of my knowledge, Aldi does not accept coupons. Stands to reason... Almost everything they carry is their own house brand, that's one part of their business model that allows them to maintain their price point.

BTW, Aldi's house brand products are at least as good as any national brand item. I've tried virtually everything they sell, from diapers to meat to canned goods. I've only found two products that I don't like:

Belmont coffee: It's actually very good Arabica coffee. It's just not to my taste. I drink Columbian. If you happen across Belmont Columbian Coffee, that is to my taste, and is very tasty, indeed.

Their house brand John Wayne toilet paper. 'nuff said.

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I like everything there just about except their produce, but it is getting better.

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I have an Aldis, in my area, too. ALSO have a place, called Sharp Shopper. It's just like Aldis. Not 'name brand' stuff...but, I'm not 'into' 'name brand' stuff anyway. Seems like I buy alot of items from them and hardly pay anything!!

Thank God there is stores like that sdchargers63. Where I grew up there was a sav a lot...seems like the whole town went there instead of Krogers ( a big super store).

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We use Save A Lot here in MI for staples - frozen veggies, canned fruits (their canned veggies are cheap enough, but the quality isn't that great - last batch I got tasted funky), milk, eggs and such. It's always cheaper.

I don't know if anyone newer here has looked at my blog - my last post (about a year ago, I know, gotta get back to it) was about how to save money at the grocery store...hope it helps!

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If you use coupons regularly, this is a great site: couponmom(dot)com. It's free to join and you can get lists of the best deals at the stores in your area (most areas). The lists show the current sale prices of items along with the coupon to use to maximize your savings. There are also a couple of great ebooks (free) on the site that give very good advice about how to do your shopping to always find the best deals.

Another site that I use is thegrocerygame(dot)com. This site does charge a fee for membership. The fee varies depending on how many stores you want to get lists for. The first store is $10 every 8 weeks, and each additional store is $5 every 8 weeks. But you can get a 4 week trial to as many stores as you want (depending on your area's availability) for only $1. This site also has lots of hints about how to maximize your savings. Even though the membership costs money, I have found this site to be the most helpful. The lists are color coded and easier to read. I have saved a lot more money using the lists than I have spent for my membership.

Hope this helps someone!

I've been using the grocery game website. I am 2 weeks into the trial and I think the site is very useful. Basically the way it works is you are paying people to study the general grocery price trend for a particular store in your area and then match coupons with sales prices to give you the rock bottom deals of the week. The list saves the end user a ton of time by doing all the research for you. You then go out and stock up on those items. After a few months you will have a solid stockpile of bargain priced items in reserve so you won't need to pay a premium for those items weekly.

If you decide to try it you will need to get 2-4 weeks worth of coupons first. I would also recomend getting 2-4 sets of those coupons so you can get multiples of the really cheap and free items. Quite often you will find an item on the list that is on sale and matched with a coupon that came out over a month ago. This occurs because the stores operate on a sales cycle. First they run a wave of coupons for a month. Then they run a wave of sales the next month. The gorcery game is all about maximizing those sales mixed with a great coupon.

I'll chime in and ring the "All Hail Aldi's!" bell as well. I do all my main shopping at Aldi's which is in the town that I work in Monday-Friday. I only run into other stores when I am short on time or back at home in my small town that doesn't have an Aldi's, or obviously on the weekends when I am not in my "work" town. Shopping there has cut down SO much on my impulse buys, I used to wander around WalMart, Gerbes/Kroger, Hyvee etc for ages just chucking things into my cart. Now it is a quick spin around the four aisles filling up with exactly what I need. I usually don't even look in the first aisle where all the crap junk food is, cookies, chips, wine etc. On top of my health and weight being so much better now, it has saved on my bottom line at the register as well. I have learned to always bring my own bags, I was terrible about that for a while.

Trader Joes is a couple hour drive from us now, where I lived before was one of the original stores and I used to do almost all of my shopping there. BUT there is a lot of useless, crap junkfood there too, so it takes a strong will not to fill up on that stuff. But there prices for natural peanut butter, nuts, dried fruit and all sorts of frozen meats are really good. The BEST thing they sell there are the dried bing cherries ... I could eat a whole bag but I force myself to ration them out to a few a day and a bag will last me a few weeks.

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Unfortunately I don't have an Aldi's anywhere near me anymore. I use to shop there some when I was living in another city. I would recommend that people check out couponmom and thegrocerygame websites still though if they don't mind messing with coupons and want to save a ton of dough. Couponmom is free and thegrocerygame cost a little bit of money. Even if you just keep tabs on the couponmom website it can save you some cash.

Here are a couple great deals I found by using thegrocerygame:

Meijer had pasta on sale last week at a price of two boxes for $1. Normally they are about $1 per box so you are already saving 50% but meijer also had a printable coupon on their website for $0.50 off each box and you could print and use as many as you wanted. This meant you would get each box free. I picked up 20 boxes which would have cost me $20 full price but I paid nothing. The sale is still on this week but the price changed slightly to where each box cost 17 cents now.

Walgreens has Powerade drink on sale this week at $0.89 limit 6. Normally they are $1.69 so the savings is already 40% but Sundays paper had $1 off coupons per each. I had 6 sets of coupons so I got 6 bottles of powerade and Walgreens paid me $0.66 to take them home. I bought other stuff too so that 66 cents actually subtracted from my total but I walked out getting around $40 worth of stuff for $4 which is 90% savings.

I don't think we have Aldi's in Southern California, so I've never been in one. Too bad, it sounds like a good way to save some money!

I do use couponmom and the grocery game, as I stated in a previous post, and they are great for saving money. I like the grocerygame better since it's easier to read though. But Ralphs recently changed their policy to only doubling coupons with a 50 cent or less value instead of $1, so I'm finding that I'm not getting quite as great of deals anymore with the grocerygame site.

Yeah I like the grocerygame better than couponmom also. The format is much easier to read and manipulate at thegrocerygame but it does cost a minimum of $10 every 2 months for 1 store. If you want extra stores then its $5 additional every 2 months.

This is the first time I've taken the time to read this post! WOW what great information. We have been trying SO hard to reduce our food cost, we have shopped at Aldi's, but I've been afraid to try things like the can goods, but from what you guys are saying they are good. I have also been trying to figure out coupons, I've never much for that, (might be part of why we never have any extra money), I normally shop every 2 weeks at Wal-Mart, but I think it would be better to shop weekly and watch ads and specials at a variety of places, at least that's what it looks like your all saying. Please chime in and let me know your thoughts about Wal-Mart vs other chains and weekly special, I hoping this can become a new hobby, rather than worrying about my bills!! Reny