Christmas candy and treats
10Stopped at Aldi today for supplies and they had a lot of their Christmas special candies and sweets. Cherry Stollen bread, spekulatias cookies, truffles, fancy chocolates, milk and white chocolate coins, stuff with marzipan… it was a fun trip! We always ship out a box of treats with the main gifts to each remote family group. This year they’ll be going out early with the Advent calendars so they have them by December 1st.
Also ordered our annual cases of Sweets milk chocolate orange sticks and some other flavors for the pickier recipients (cherry and raspberry). They added a mango chile flavor this year so a couple of those are on the way too. You can only order the sticks once the weather is cool so they’ll survive shipping. When we were kids you could find these in local stores, and we started buying them for ourselves but also as gifts to family.
Wally world (soon to be on the annual shit list for stealing Thanksgiving from their employees again) had the Terry’s chocolate oranges; orange flavor infused in the chocolate. Those were favorites of our parents and grandparents, so one gets sent to each family group every year too.
Some traditions are just so tasty…
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The case of Lindt Classic Milk Chocolate with Pretzel bits I ordered for SWMBO arrived. Joyeux Nöel!
got some 100% cacao bars, all natural , only cacao and coca butter, unroasted chocolate,. so basically no carbs no sugar, woohoo
I like Russel Stover Santas but they don’t sell them around here anymore. When I lived in Norman, OK I’d head up to the outlet store in Moore and buy a bunch. Weirdly here they sell the hearts and bunnies at those holidays but not the santas?!? And they sell the dollar bills and mixed chocolate boxes, the chocolate and pecan/caramel round candies by that company at christmas. Makes no sense to me.
There is chocolate that is better (but more expensive) that I like but this brand is a good balance between cost and taste.
I haven’t been to a store with Russel Stovers recently. I think Walgreens used to carry them, maybe still do.
Lately we’ve been sticking to Aldi chocolates (German made and quite good) because I do the bulk of the shopping. Some gift items like the chocolate oranges above seem to be sold at different places each year.
Screw everyone else. Just in time to ruin my ski diet I ordered myself a 6 pack of Crunchie bars. I’m not sharing.
@cinoclav more weight = more speed on the slopes, n’est pas?
@chienfou With less maneuverability and more strain on my already dysfunctional knee. I’m less worried about top speed than I am the ability to wind through the trees, the crowds, and the pow.
Aldi’s is my favorite Christmas food store. Especially the round loaves of chocolate chip bread…delicious!
I sure miss aldis. I shopped there for years before moving back home where the nearest one is 5 hours away
@ivannabc WhooHoo! Just got one locally (35 minute drive) and super stoked. Spent $138 there this week buying stuff to take to the beach for our Thanksgiving trip with family. Used to buy stuff there each time we went to STL to see the fam so glad they are now in my neck of the woods.
We have been sponsoring a Saint Nicholas (vs. Santa Claus) party for the children in our church for the past few years. My wife raids a local Aldi and pretty much strips the shelves bare of certain treats just before the party. I can only imagine what this does to their inventory math for the next year, as it’s been a different Aldi from year to year. Not to mention the shoppers looking for just one bag of some treat for Christmas. I think I’ve convinced her to spread her shopping out between multiple Aldis this year, for the sanity of all.
@mehcuda67
/giphy Christmas spirit
where’s the christmas candy corn?
@carl669
FTFY: Where the fuck is the Christmas Candy Corn?
@carl669 @mike808 wrong! Just wrong!
@carl669 @mike808 @tinamarie1974 YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Candy corn outside of Halloween!!! Dreams do come true
@carl669 @Gypsigirl213 @tinamarie1974
Christmas, Gingerbread, Peppermint, and Egg Nog!
@carl669 @Gypsigirl213 @mike808
@Gypsigirl213 @mike808 @tinamarie1974 i want eggnog and gingerbread candy corn!
@carl669 @Gypsigirl213 @mike808 well you can have mine too!
Chocolate orange sticks, chocolate cherry sticks, chocolate raspberry sticks, and one box of chocolate mango chili sticks have arrived. Advent calendars in abundance are ready to ship. We have our shopping list for Thanksgiving and time to do it off from work! Costco had Creme Brules in stock. Aldi truffles are in abundance. The hard to find baking M&Ms and baking cranberries were in stock! The Holidays commence!
@duodec Life is good!
Dark chocolate covered marzipan
@CaptAmehrican yummy
@CaptAmehrican I used to hate marzipan, the type sculpted to look like fruit. But the cherry stollen bread and the mini yule log bars at Aldi have marzipan in them and have given me a new appreciation. I don’t think the bars are dark chocolate though.