Frozen Foods You Should Never Buy From Aldi

Making a trip to the supermarket is rarely friendly to your wallet. It seems like every time you walk up to the cashier and they start scanning your goods, you stare in horror as you watch your total cost climb higher and higher. It's never fun to leave with a chunk of your bank account depleted. But there is one option that can help take some of the load off of your funds. If there's an Aldi nearby, you can get at least most of what you need there for a fraction of the price you'll pay at another chain grocery store.

While Aldi doesn't carry the huge variety of items you find at other larger supermarkets, it's a great place to go for your basic needs. If it's specifically frozen food you're looking for, Aldi has a decent selection of stuff to stockpile your freezer. But a decent selection certainly doesn't mean every single item is worthy of your attention. So if you're penciling in a trip to Aldi in the near future, make sure to avoid the frozen items on this list.

Starting the morning off with a breakfast sandwich seems like a great idea, right? You get all your favorite breakfast foods – eggs, cheese, sausage, and bacon – nicely nestled between two pieces of bread for a handheld vessel with a mission to get you stoked for the day ahead. But if you're thinking about investing in the Breakfast Best Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Croissant at Aldi, you'd better think again.

Let's start with the taste. First, you expect a croissant to have a delicate texture, thanks to the butter and lamination, but these are frozen – when they cook, the bread becomes tough and crumbly. The cheese has a plastic-like quality to it, and both the egg patty and sausage disc are beyond rubbery. It also warms up unevenly, so you have these off-putting cold spots peppered throughout. If that's not enough, the nutrition here is abysmal. One sandwich has 28 grams of fat, 10 grams of saturated fat, 30 grams of carbs, and almost 1 gram of sodium. Avoid these at all costs.

When your appetite is calling for a hot slice of pizza, there really is no other food you can supply it with that'll scratch that itch. Pizza time is serious, so having a few frozen options in your freezer on hand alleviates all the traveling you have to do to cop a fresh pie. However, if you're at Aldi and you see a box of Reggio's Sausage Pizza staring back at you, you pass that box right on by. This is one frozen pizza that definitely doesn't earn its place anywhere in your freezer.

Now, these pizzas are "dinner size," which means you can pretty much put away a whole pie if you're really hungry. Well, your body definitely doesn't want or need 18 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 49 grams of carbs, and over 700 milligrams of sodium. On top of that, the texture of the sausage is rubbery, and the cheese is rather bland.

When hunger strikes, it comes in all kinds of forms. Sometimes it's the kind that only requires a small snack, but other times the belly beast kicks in with the force akin to what Harold and Kumar felt when they made their incredibly arduous schlep to White Castle. Well, if you get smacked with Harold-and-Kumar-level hunger that only White Castle will stave off, you can simply cop yourself a box of the frozen White Castle Cheeseburgers for convenience. But just because you can doesn't mean that you should.

Now, it's no secret that fast food isn't the pinnacle of healthy eating. Far from it. And that's why these frozen cheeseburgers don't belong in your fridge. Each box comes with three two-burger plastic sleeves, making two burgers one single serving. Along with both of the slider-sized burgers is 18 grams of fat, 8 grams of saturated fat (40% of your daily value), 1 gram of trans fat (the worst kind of fat), and over ½ a gram of sodium. These things are miniature vessels of unhealthiness; leave them out of your shopping cart.

While cream cheese and jalapeños might at first seem like an odd combination, once you actually try it you realize the cream cheese does a great job of coating your mouth with a cooling sensation to offset the spicy kick of the jalapeño. Now add a deep fryer to the whole mix and you have yourself a super solid appetizer for parties. However, best to avoid the Appetitos Stuffed Jalapenos with Cream Cheese at Aldi for a couple of different reasons.

Let's start with the nutritional content. Now, once you start combining a heavy cheese and a deep fryer, you automatically know you're not dealing with low-carb cuisine. So, it shouldn't come as a huge shock that in only three of these stuffed peppers lies 230 calories, almost ⅓ of your daily saturated fat intake (29%), and 25 grams of carbs. Even if you can stomach all that, the flavor here lacks as well. The cream cheese often comes out runny, which is very unappealing, and the outer breading burns easily. If you're looking to get your stuffed jalapeños on, this is not the way to do it.

The best part of diving into a freshly made chicken pot pie – other than the delicious flavor, of course – is that the first time you break open the buttery crust on top, your nostrils are inundated with those rich smells that erupt from out of the flaky opening. That burst of steam is so packed with scents you can almost taste them as they waft by. This is what makes the Bremer Chicken Pot Pie such a bummer.

Let's start with the pastry pie itself. Flaky and buttery it certainly isn't. The edge around the pie comes out hard as a rock and crumbles everywhere when you try to bite into it. Once you break through to the pie's edible innards, you're not met with a rush of great smells. There's a thick off-putting heaviness that leaves you suspicious about the quality of the ingredients used. It might very well have something to do with the fact there are just under 10 grams of saturated fat (almost ½ of your daily value), 410 calories, and 790 milligrams of sodium in each pie.

If you're after rich, vibrant, and umami-packed flavors, you may look to Asian cuisine to find dishes packed with tastes and sensations that render your tongue numb with satisfaction. Take pot stickers, for example. These bite-sized dumplings are encased in a super delicate wrapper that allows for the maximum flavors of the meat and vegetable stuffing inside to hit your palate. However, the Fusia Asian Inspirations Pork Pot Stickers at Aldi manage to do the opposite.

The pork filling in each pot sticker is juicy, but not in a great way. It feels like you're biting into a juicy, warm loaf of compact sodium. Gross. The dumpling casings are very delicate, but the pleasant mouthfeel they cause is instantly canceled out by the off-putting saltiness of the pork. In terms of nutritional value, there's nothing here to boast about. Tossing back three pot stickers (and you'll likely need a whole lot more than that to fill up) nets you just under ½ a gram of sodium, 150 calories, as well as some sugar. When it's time to enjoy Asian food, this isn't the way to do it.

Cheesecake is the kind of dessert that can push you into a food coma in the most delicious way possible. If you eat a huge dinner but can still fit a bit more before your stomach waves the white flag, cheesecake is the perfect food to get that flag frantically shaking back and forth. Aldi sells assorted varieties of Belmont Cheesecake, and even though each slice hits those rich and creamy notes really well, the nutritional value in them would make any doctor furious.

If you take down one slice – which is super easy to do, because the flavor and texture of each slice is great – and you'll be hammered with 320 calories, 100% of your daily sugar intake, and over ½ of your saturated fat intake (9 grams). It's easy to brush these facts off once you take a bite because each slice erupts with sweet flavors. If you're looking out for your health or watching your sugar, then leave the Belmont slices far away from your freezer.