ALDI is one of our favorite stores for precisely this reason! We can fill our car with groceries for $150 and that's including really nice things like dark chocolate. While it's not vegan, we also enjoy being able to get things like kefir and really good cheese. The quality of the products at Aldi have increased by leaps and bounds in the past six years - our theory is that they are beginning to claim the niche vacated by Trader Joes as that store became more expensive and high end. Their gluten free and organic items are really good and reasonable - they even carry the grass-fed beef on occasion. Excellent!

We can get garlic but not ginger at our Aldi. We can also get fresh cilantro, though we wish they would also start carrying fresh parsley.