Posts Tagged ‘calories’
01/07/2018
January 7, 2018
This is a very nice cheese with a very good flavor. The cheese is sharp, but I wouldn’t call it extra sharp as the label does. The cheese is nicely aged to a crumbly consistency. The cheese should be good for cooking as it melted nicely with a quick microwave test. Per the label, the cheese is produced by a farmer’s cooperative, which is nice to know in this age of mega-scale industrial food production. As a domestic cheese from the Northeast, it’s reasonably priced to boot.
Price $6.99 per pound Calories 110 per ounce (28g)
Tags:cabot, calories, cheddar, cheese, extra sharp cheddar cheese, food, nutrition, price, review, reviews, tj, tj's, trader joe's
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01/02/2018
January 2, 2018
This is a fairly spicy chili leaving a lingering heat at back of the roof of the mouth. However with the heat are overtones of sweet. There’s a lot of tomato sauce in this chili, giving it a different flavor profile than most of the usual canned chili suspects on the supermarket shelves. Along with the meat are two types of beans in the chili. Jalapeno is listed on the label, which also helps explain part of the different flavor profile. If you’re open to a different flavor in your chili, you might like this. If you have a favorite brand of chili that you love, this may not be to your liking.
With recent low temperatures here at around -22 C (it always seems much colder using Celsius), this is a good winter warmer-upper. For the environmentally inclined, chili with beans may also be a potential untapped source of a recycled fossil fuel. And it may be the all-convincing proof that global warming really is man-made.
Price – $1.99 per 15 ounce can
Calories – 210 per serving (about 2 servings per can)
Tags:beans, beef chili, calories, food, humor, nutrition, price, review, tj, tj's, trader joe's
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01/02/2018
January 2, 2017
Crumby, Crumbly, Caramba!
This is something that’s been in our freezer since around Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, ALDI only seems to stock their fruit pies for the year-end holidays. So you may need to wait for this to show up again. When it does make its appearance again, this is a good one.
The “crust” is what makes this pie. There are plenty of crumbs that cook up just perfectly in the oven. This crust is nothing like the usual freezer pie crust that tends to be somewhat industrial. Even the bottom of this crust is crispy and crumbly, tending to break into pieces as it’s extracted from the pie pan.
The filling is good, with small pieces of apple mixed in with a sweet thick apple syrup. I would’ve preferred more and larger pieces of apple and less of the syrup, but as noted above, this pie is all about the crust.
Calories 320 per slice, 9 slices per pie
Price – lost receipt, probably around $5
Tags:aldi, belmont, calories, dessert, dutch crumb apple pie, food, pie, price, review, reviews
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12/20/2017
December 20, 2017
Don’t open this in the presence of law enforcement. There’s enough powered sugar loosely coating this cake to make your kitchen look like a coke lab.
The cake part is a little dry and tasteless. The raisins are sweet and moist. The marzipan and small pieces of candied fruit are even sweeter. When you get enough fillings with the cake in one bite, it all comes together in the mouth. While this cake is not bad, unless you really like this kind of cake it might be better to save your calories for something else.
Price $3.49
Calories 340 per 1/6 slice of cake
Tags:cake, calories, food, germany, holiday, marzipan stollen, nutrition, price, review, reviews, tj, tj's, trader joe's
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12/09/2017
December 9, 2017
ALDI has some surprisingly good chocolates. This is one of them. Without saying another word about these, they are really really good.
If you’re on a budget pick up one of these as a holiday present for your kid’s teacher. If you’re not on a budget, get two. They’re worth half a grade point on the kid’s next report card. Cheaper than a tutor!
Price $3.99 per box
Calories 190 per 3 piece serving (16 pieces in the box)
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Tags:aldi, calories, candy, chocolate truffles, confection, food, moser roth chocolate, nutrition, price, review
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12/09/2017
December 9, 2017
The box says, ‘with 11 vegetables’. How do they fit them all in a 4 inch diameter circle?
One good thing, you can actually see the little veggies in the circle. Being that the veggies are of a size that makes them visible, the burgers tend to fall apart if handled too much while cooking. Like many veggie burgers, the flavor of these is on the bland side. I saw the word chipotle through the glass freezer case, but somehow when I got home they had changed to just plain veggie burgers. I’ll look twice the next time.
Along with the bland flavor, these tend to dry out while cooking in the microwave. Both problems can be overcome with the use of condiments. For my purposes I topped with a spoonful or two of pickle relish which added a little flavor pop and also some needed moisture. Problems solved.
While comparable to other veggie burgers on the market in texture and taste, these are also labeled ‘certified vegan’. What’s also nice is they’re in the ALDI freezer case, meaning you won’t have to go elsewhere looking for a vegan veggie burger. Now the potential downside is, I don’t know if these are a special item which will soon disappear or whether they’ll be a regular item in the freezer case.
Calories 90 per burger – 4 servings per container (10 oz. total – 284g)
Price $2.49 per box
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ALDI customer contact URL – https://www.aldi.us/en/contact-us/
Tags:aldi, calories, earth grown, food, nutrition, price, review, vegan, vegetable burger, vegetarian, veggie burger
Posted in ALDI, Recipes, food, cooking and related items, Vegetarian | 10 Comments »
12/02/2017
December 2, 2017
The corn is there. The dog is almost there. This dog will hunt.
I’m always on the lookout for a veggie meat substitute. More specifically, I’m always looking for a good veggie meat substitute. The best I’ve found so far is Trader Joe’s Soy Chorizo. These veggie corn dogs aren’t quite up to that standard. But still, they’re pretty good. What’s better than that is, they’re pretty good veggie “junk” food.
The texture of the dog is just about right. Even the color is about right. The taste is more of a neutral taste than a real hot dog. The fatty moisture from a real hot dog is obviously missing. However as long as it’s not overcooked, the dog remains fairly moist. Watch the time in the microwave, just a little too much time (even just 10 or 15 seconds) dries out both the dog and the corn.
Overall, just like a real corn dog, the corn bread makes up around half of the taste and texture. The veggie dog in the center adds some flavor and texture, but more importantly does not take much away in the form of negatives.
These are slightly smaller than a standard corn dog and missing the animal fat, so the calories are lower. Unfortunately, the sodium content is relatively high just like a real corn dog. They’re labelled as meatless and veggie, but not vegetarian. So check the ingredient label to make sure this conforms to your personal vegetarian standards.
Price $2.99 (4 veggie corn dogs, 10 ounces )
Calories 160 per veggie corn dog
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11/29/2017
November 29, 2017
Crispy is the key word on the bag. Pay attention.
Homemade might be another word for the bag. What’s meant by that is; not your homemade, nor grandma’s homemade, but my homemade. Cookies and my oven don’t get along. I blame it on the oven, of course. Any kind of cookie I’ve ever attempted came out thin and so crispy that they bordered on just this side of burnt. That’s the feeling I got with these oatmeal raisin cookies from our favorite Trader.
The cookies were so thin that the pretty much hard and dried out raisins tended to pop out of the cookie on their own leaving small holes in the cookie. Look in the bottom of the bag for the raisins. The cookies were crunchy, as most things toasted beyond tan tend to be. Now of course, even in their current condition, I ate them up, because any oatmeal raisin cookie is better than none. But if you prefer the softer thicker chewier kind of oatmeal raisin cookies, like I do, pass these up.
Price $3.99 (7 ounce bag)
Calories 130 per ounce (2 cookies)
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11/17/2017
November 17, 2017
Unexpected? You bet it was unexpected. After months of searching for this on the top shelf where all the other Cheddars live, I found this in with the Bries, Camemberts and who knows what else.
TJ says there’s a touch of Parmesan in the taste which makes this Cheddar unexpected. By my taste buds, I didn’t detect any Parmesan. And also by my taste buds, this doesn’t really taste like other Cheddars. But the taste of this cheese is very nice, having a touch of tanginess mixed with a touch of sweetness. The texture is similar to other TJ cheese blends, firm but tends to crumble when cutting. That’s not a negative, just an observation. In the mouth, there are a few bits of what seem like cheese crystals characteristic of an aged cheese. Whatever the blend of cheeses here, or whatever the process that went into making this, this is a nice cheese, perfect for enjoying by itself or even better with a glass of wine.
Price $3.99 per 7 ounce package
Calories 120 per ounce
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11/05/2017
November 5, 2017
Almost burnt pumpkin pie crust, that’s what these taste like. You know, no matter what we do, some part of that pumpkin pie crust is going to be burnt. Now I’m not talking about the stuff we buy from the store. That never seems to have burnt edges. I’m talking about the stuff that comes out of our oven. Whether it be a store-bought frozen pie cooked at home or a from-scratch homemade pie, once it gets in our oven there’s some part of that crust that’s going to be burnt. Wrap the edges with foil or stick a pin in a voodoo doll, some part of that crust is going to get burned. The oven makers must program that into their ovens. There’s no avoiding it.
These chips don’t taste like the absolutely burnt portions of crust, but like the almost burnt pieces next to the very burnt stuff. More specifically, it’s the parts of the crust where the filling overflows onto the edges. You know what those are. In fact, those pieces of crust are actually the pieces I break off and eat first. They sort of build anticipation for the rest of the pie with the pumpkin filling covered with whipped cream. Hmm, sounds like I know what I’m having for dessert tonight.
But enough about pumpkin pie. The first ingredient on the label of these chips is corn. So these are mostly corn tortilla chips with pumpkin puree used to add some pumpkin flavor. The back of the bag suggests these will hold up to any salsa. I have no reason to doubt that since they are very stiff chips. But it’s the taste of most salsas I question. It seems to me that what’s needed is a pumpkin pie dip/salsa to make these complete.
Price $1.99 – 7 ounce bag Calories 140/ounce (28g) (about 8 chips)
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January 7, 2018
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