{"id":19865,"date":"2026-05-22T03:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/19865\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:14:50","slug":"i-buy-can-after-can-of-this-1-aldi-dinner-staple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/19865\/","title":{"rendered":"I Buy Can After Can of This $1 Aldi Dinner Staple"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There\u2019s nothing like a fresh tomato for a BLT sandwich<\/a>, but there are still a few months to go before peak tomato season hits. Lest you think that that means meals in my house are tomato-free, I simply rely on canned tomatoes in the interim. Practically every grocery store sells canned tomatoes, but for the past (cough, cough) 12 years, whenever I\u2019m at Aldi \u2014 the fast-growing discount chain<\/a> \u2014 I make sure to stock up on Happy Harvest diced tomatoes.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s So Great About Happy Harvest Diced Tomatoes?<\/p>\n

Aldi sells a few styles of canned tomatoes, including crushed, sauce, and paste. I could build a pretty strong case for keeping a can of each on your pantry shelf, but if there\u2019s one style that I can\u2019t live without, it\u2019s diced tomatoes. In fact, canned diced tomatoes are often a better choice for cooking than their fresh counterparts because they\u2019re already peeled and diced for you. Plus, canned tomatoes are shelf-stable, so you don\u2019t have to worry about them spoiling on your counter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aldi\u2019s Happy Harvest diced tomatoes are packed in 14.5-ounce cans, which is the same size as most name brands. The price of these tomatoes is what makes a strong case for this find (and dozens of Aldi groceries I rely on every week<\/a>). Each can costs just $0.95 at Aldi, while at my local grocery store in the Tampa area I\u2019d have to pay $1.35 for the store brand or over $3 for the name brand.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the Best Way to Enjoy Happy Harvest Diced Tomatoes?<\/p>\n

Many of the recipes in my weekly dinner rotation<\/a> all have one thing in common: canned diced tomatoes. These stuffed bell peppers<\/a> combine the tomatoes with ground meat, cooked rice, and gooey shredded cheese. This recipe for one-pot chili mac<\/a> gets rave reviews every time I make it. These tomatoes can be used to make your own marinara sauce<\/a>. (Remember to pick up four cans of diced tomatoes for this recipe to substitute for the two 28-ounce cans of whole peeled tomatoes.)<\/p>\n

Try making your own homemade salsa with canned tomatoes. This easy blender salsa recipe<\/a> calls for canned tomatoes, white onion, jalape\u00f1o peppers, and cilantro. On Fridays we make our own pizzas, and that means I need to have pizza sauce<\/a> on hand. It\u2019s simple to make with just a few ingredients, plus extra sauce can be frozen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Find it in stores: Happy Harvest Diced Tomatoes, $0.95 for 14.5 ounces<\/p>\n

What Aldi groceries have you been buying for years and years? Tell us about it in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We independently select these products\u2014if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21128],"tags":[21143,309,22950,22221,21144],"class_list":["post-19865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-aldi","tag-aldi","tag-budget","tag-kitchn-love-letters","tag-product-review","tag-sud-nord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}