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Reimagining Childhood Snacks
Who says your snacks have to look like others’? Since you may not be able to eat what they are eating, you can make new creations.
Lettuce Cups from NutFreeWok
These Lettuce Cups are an adaptation of a traditional Asian dish, from NutFreeWok.
Granola -- The Healthy Snack
Packaged granola often contains common allergens and looks more complicated than it is. But you can make granola at home with whatever healthy morsels you want!
Sweet & Salty Marshmallow Carob Chip Cookies
Carob comes from the pod of a carob tree, a small Mediterranean shrub. The pods are dried, roasted, and ground into carob powder before being made into chips or used in other applications.
Sweet Potato and Eggplant Curry
For this recipe, feel free to swap the sweet potato and/or eggplant for other vegetables, and add spinach in at the end if you want more greens!
Tex-Mex Quesadillas
What is Tex-Mex, you may ask? It is a blend of Mexican, Spanish, and American flavors. Here is my recipe for my famous quesadillas!
Gluten-Free Vegan Pumpkin Chili
This Vegan Pumpkin Chili recipe is adapted to be gluten free & allergy friendly thanks to our board president, Alicia Poole!
Oat Flour Pancakes
Oats and oat flour are great sources of soluble fiber. Soluble fiber can help to lower cholesterol by trapping cholesterol and preventing it from being absorbed by the body. These pancakes are easy to make with oat flour.
Emily's Tomato Soup
This tomato soup recipe comes from our founder, Emily Brown, who initially got it from her mother back home in Texas.
Spaghetti Squash Shrimp Scampi
I see spaghetti squash pretty much year round at Aldi. This is a simple, tasty gluten-free recipe for the shrimp lovers out there.
Easy Veggies and Chicken Stir Fry
This stir fry recipe is so easy and delicious, and you can adapt it to whatever items you have on hand.
Tilapia Tacos with Cabbage Slaw
My family loves fish, and since Aldi stocks fresh tilapia and salmon fairly frequently, this week I decided to do a tilapia taco with an easy cabbage slaw.
Pumpkin Pie Bites
This pumpkin pie bite recipe requires so few ingredients and only takes 5-10 minutes of work before putting them in the oven.
Zucchini Fritters & Kidney Bean Salad
The kidney bean salad and the zucchini fritters were delicious! The salad would be a great side dish for a cookout.
Chicken Enchiladas
This was my first time making enchiladas, but my mom bought some gluten-free tortillas at the store, so I figured now was the time to try.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Everyone who tried these liked the flavor. The grated apples were a nice touch because it felt like the apple flavor got distributed better than with some other recipes.
Salmon Burgers
These salmon burgers are delicious, and very simple to make, plus they don't contain a lot of common food allergens!
Muffin Tin Frittatas
I couldn’t decide between tuna or bacon for filling, so rather than choose, I simply made mini frittatas of both!
Polenta Pizza Crust
Rather than go the vegetable route, I used polenta to form a surprisingly sturdy and delicious pizza crust.