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The Heat-And-Eat $3 Aldi Staple Customers Say Is 'Horrible' By Dennis Lee Dec. 7, 2025 6:00 am EST
Aldi is a great discount grocery store for some things, like Aldi dupes that are better than name brands , but there are admittedly a few products that aren't so great. Every now and then, store-brand items from the chain won't execute on their promises, and the quality of one particular heat-and-eat item has started to bother customers a bit. In early 2025, a Reddit user posted a thread about how their go-to microwaveable rice, the Earthly Grains 90 Second Microwaveable Jasmine Rice, has seemingly gone downhill.
They wrote, "Anyone else have a bad experience with these recently? ... The last several times we've bought them, they just smell really s

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