Here's my meal tonight, 85% Aldi ingredients. Greek green beans, black eyed peas with bacon and spinach, and ciabatta on the side.
Gross, isn't it?
Hey, feed the troll, he'll bite ;) If you really want me to critique your dinner, I can....
On nutrition, ciabatta is a white flour bred and thus mostly devoid of nutritional value outside of basic protein and (high-glycemic) carbs. Whole-grain breads are much more nutritious, and can be made quite easily. It costs me ~$0.70 of ingredients and less than 10 minutes hands-on time to make each loaf of delicious, crusty whole wheat bread we eat, and unlike "whole wheat" boughten breads, the recipe works with 100% whole wheat, instead of the more typical 51/49 mixtures required to brand it as whole grain.
Green beans - never heard of a greek green bean variety, so I'll assume that means they come from Greece. Insanity! Why the eff would you ship green beans halfway across the world? They're one of the easiest things to grow pretty much anywhere with adequate water. Ideally, yourself. Second-best, buy them by the overflowing bag from a local farmer, trim, blanch, freeze in desired portions. Wash/reuse the freezer bags. Not sure if they still do this, but when I used to shop at Aldi, the beans were shrink-wrapped (non-recyclable) around a styrofoam base (barely recyclable, and only in certain places).
Spinach - out of season, very energy intensive to ship because of the cold-chain necessary. You can freeze it when in season. You can also dry greens and powder them into smoothies and soups to get the complete nutritional value minus the visual appeal and texture.
Black eyed peas - likely from a can, as Aldi by me never carried dry. Yes, steel cans are recyclable, but the lining materials still have to be smelted out. Better to buy dry. Also, the weight of canned goods is almost all metal and water, which means you're paying to ship weight that's not caloric.
I'm not claiming I'm perfect - I'm definitely not - but I try to eat
both nutritiously
and sustainably as best I can, laid out in books like "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" and "Radical Homemakers", among others. Nutrition is possible at Aldi, though I found it difficult even with several months to adapt to their selection. Sustainability? Forget it.
I don't idly say Aldi is gross. I gave it a really good shot before I realized how critical sustainability is.