I have not seen them reduced in the 8 years that i've been buying them.
excellent price for the black sliced olives - I use them when I hack the aldi 3 for $6 cheese pizzas, or when having Tacos.
Link for green stuffed olives = $3.33 a Kilo
Link for black sliced olives = $3.49 a Kilo (product of Spain)
I suppose if you like the taste of salt in a spongy otherwise tasteless medium, then these types of olives are OK. But really, it would be much cheaper to just add salt to whatever you're cooking and the taste would be virtually identical, in my humble opinion. I urge anyone who is into these types of olives to make a conscious effort to try and acquire a taste for 'proper' olives, i.e. Italian or Greek ones, which are made in such a way that the flavour of the actual olive itself is detectable, as are the flavours of the ingredients included in the pickling. There is simply no comparison. Spanish olives are essentially used as 'filler' or for visual effect in products such as pizzas etc., while Greek and Italian olives are a delicious food. It's actually a good way to suss out whether a pizza-joint will serve you up a decent pizza or not, if you've never been there before. Ask them if they use Spanish olives, or Greek or Italian olives. If the person taking your order claims not to know, or looks a bit embarrassed and quietly says 'Spanish', you can bet that all the ingredients on your pizza will be the cheapest versions available on the market, and the pizza is likely to taste like a home-brand frozen one. If they look a bit offended and proudly declare that they use "Italian olives of course" (this is usually what happens in the Italian pizza joints in Melbourne, if you ask them this question), or that they use Greek ones, then you can bet their other ingredients will probably be good too.
Anyways, all that aside what are these "Aldi 3 for $6 cheese pizzas" you speak of Altomic?!? THAT sounds awesome. I've found that hacking reduced/bargain-basement frozen pizzas from my local WW is a great way to minimise/eliminate food waste in my household, but there is sometimes a problem with the strategy in that often the knocked-down ones already have a bunch of over-processed/tasteless crap on them (think 'meat-lovers' overloaded with tasteless 'ham', etc.). These Aldi cheese pizzas for $2 each seem like a good option to try. I'm sure the cheese will be completely tasteless, but that can be fixed via the addition of a very light sprinkling of finely grated Parmesan, which can be conveniently stored frozen in individual pizza-sized portions. I'm goind to go to Aldi tomozza, and seek them out. That's normal price right? Or is it a special /temporary price?
Aldi 3 for $6 cheese pizzas
at aldi in the frozen section with the other pizzas. box of 3 pizzas for $6. they are like a Dr Oetker pizza.
I've had a couple "just as they come" and they are very reasonable. miles ahead of the mccain and other other elcheapo pizzas.
I've been buying them for 6 months or so.
I made a post about them about hacking them.
Awesome Altomic, this is great (the Aldi pizzas, not the Spanish olives). As I suspected it sounds like you need to add some 'proper' cheese (and some herbs) to bring up the taste, but that can actually be done very cheaply via a small amount of a relatively cheap but strong-tasting cheese. I.e using the consistency provided by the (tasteless) cheese that's already included in the $2 base, and fortifying the taste of that cheese with a few grams of pre-grated Parmesan. What I do with the discount frozen/tasteless pizzas I buy (sometimes as cheap as $1, but only available about once a month at that price) is use a sprinkle of the 1-kg bag of Parmesan I buy at 'Basfoods' once a year during 'AmEx Shop-Small' for about $7 (and keep portions of frozen), and a liberal sprinkle of 'mixed herbs' also bought in a large tub once a year from BasFoods for just about nix during AmEx Shop-Small.
Then, using that as the 'standard base' I utilise just about any sort of left-overs that we generate that are vaguely amenable to pizza creation (think roast chicken, baked vegetables, bacon/ham, etc.). The strategy is also good if you come across something on sale in a larger portion-size than you would otherwise be able to use, that has been 'knocked down' to just about free because it is on its last day of 'best-before' (especially if it is something that is hermetically sealed like a jar of eggplant/olives/sundried tomatoes etc).
Great, thanks 'Aldi-mum' ;)
If these bases 'stack up' I won't even bother checking WW for reduced-price/short-dated bases any more (there is an Aldi right next to my local WW).
I'm assuming the size (diameter) of these Aldi ones is ~normal (about the same as 'Dr Oetker' etc.). I'm not asking you to answer this question amigo, I will check myself tomozza. It has been years since I was even tempted to consider converting to Aldi for any regular staple, because I get most stuff from markets/KFL/BasFoods/my garden/friends/trees/etc., but these $2 bases could be quite a revelation.
I'm Excited!
Also the Homebrand Olives Green Whole Unpitted 450g are reduced - I prefer these to the green stuffed ones.