Aldi Selling 20-Piece and 30-Piece Meal Prep Containers for Easy Meal Planning

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated for 2025. 

If you’re trying to eat healthier or better manage your time, it can help to plan meals in advance and do some prep work ahead of time. That might mean doing some cooking or chopping produce at the start of the week and packing it all in individual daily portions, so you have meals ready to go — or ready to take to work or school — each day.

Or, you might just like eating out of containers that look like they came from your favorite local takeout restaurant.

Either way, Aldi sometimes sells plastic stackable meal prep containers that are perfect for packing individual lunches, dinners, or snacks.

What We Know:

 

Crofton 30-Piece 2-Compartment Meal Prep Containers and Crofton 20-Piece 3-Compartment Meal Prep Containers cost $4.99 in both August and December of 2025. We have previous records going back to 2021 of Aldi selling these types of sets for the same price.

The 30-piece set comes out to about 33 cents for a complete container, while the 20-piece set is about 50 cents per container. You probably won’t find at better deal than that based on other meal prep container sets on the market.

These are an Aldi Find, which means they’re only in stores for a short time. Each store is supposed to get one shipment, and after that sells out, they’re gone until whenever Aldi decides to bring them back. (And Aldi won’t ship them to you after they sell out at your local store.)

Fortunately, Aldi seems to sell these at least once a year, if not more often. So if you miss them, you probably only have to wait a few months to find them again.

Here’s more information on the meal prep containers:

• Choose 30-piece set with 2 compartments or a 20-piece set with 3 compartments
• Perfect for on-the-go meals
• Easy, on-the-go meal preparation
• Ideal for meal planning and portion control
• Stackable and reusable
• Microwave safe (base only)
• Freezer safe
• Dishwasher safe

These don’t appear to come with a warranty or any kind of after-sales support, but I wouldn’t expect them to for the price.

What We Don’t Know:

We have not yet tried the Crofton 30-Piece or 20-Piece Meal Prep Containers, so we can’t speak to how well they work or how durable they are. Our goal with open thread posts such as this one is to offer a space for readers to talk about their experiences with an Aldi product.

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Have you used the Crofton 30-Piece or 20-Piece Meal Prep Containers? Share your thoughts in the comments below.