Frozen Food

 

 

The ALDI formula Aldi is world-famous for its fantastically successful formula: high quality + low price = tremendous value. It's a formula our buyers live by. They seek out the best suppliers to ensure that we only offer you the very best produce for the best possible price. And our frozen food is no exception.

In your Aldi freezer section, you'll find a comprehensive selection of day-to-day meats, fish, vegetables, family favourites, ready meals and desserts, together with an exquisite range of luxury specialities – all packed with flavour and natural goodness, for a very cool price.

Frozen assets – the advantages of frozen food Dovetailing perfectly with today's busy, modern lifestyle, frozen foods more or less eliminate the need for preparation (saving you time) and bring cooking cycles down to a minimum (saving you money).

Food manufacturing has become increasingly sophisticated to satisfy changing customer tastes and values. Today you can enjoy a wider selection of frozen food than ever before, so you can sample something different from the freezer every night. Best of all, with tighter portion control, there's virtually no costly waste.

Cool nutrition – it stays nice in ice Many foods today are 'rapid frozen', which means that the water in the food is frozen into smaller ice crystals, minimising cell structure damage. Foods which are 'rapid frozen' when they're at the peak of their flavour retain higher nutritional value and don't need any other method of preservation. Storage at temperatures below -18°C slows the natural degradation processes to practically zero, because the bacteria that cause deterioration and poisoning simply cannot grow.

It is an acknowledged fact that frozen vegetables are just as good for you as 'fresh'. They are, after all, washed, blanched and frozen within hours of harvest whereas 'fresh' vegetables may have been stored for days prior to sale.

Garden peas lose between 10-20% of their vitamin C content within a day of picking. Peas are commercially frozen within 2 or 3 hours of harvesting.

Guidelines – freeze with ease Always buy frozen foods at the end of your shopping run just before the checkout and pack them together. Put them in the freezer a.s.a.p. Make sure your freezer temperature is operating at -18°C or below. The temperature should not go higher than -15°C. As a rule of thumb, if the freezer can't keep an ice-cream block solid, the temperature is above the recommended level.

Keep your freezer full for best results.

Even well-frozen food will deteriorate and become unpalatable when it exceeds its 'Best Before' date — but it will remain safe to eat.

5 a day – chilled-out choice The World Health Organization recommends that we all eat 5 portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables each day. And of course frozen fruit and vegetables are just as good (if not better) than 'fresh'.

What's a portion of fruit?
1 medium apple, 1 medium banana, 2 satsumas, 3 dried apricots

What's a portion of vegetables?
3 heaped tablespoons of cooked carrots, peas, sweetcorn, 1 cereal bowl of mixed salad (potatoes do not count because they are regarded as starchy foods)

Check out the freezers in your local Aldi store for loads of ways to get to 5 a day.