The most common sliced cheese you’ll find at Aldi is sold under the store’s Happy Farms private label. You’ll find a wide range of cheese flavors, including Colby jack, mozzarella, pepper jack, provolone, Swiss, Muenster, and mild, medium, or sharp cheddar. They’re great for adding to sandwiches. The only problem is that their packaging is annoying. The plastic packaging promises to be resealable, but it doesn’t reseal well and I usually end up putting the cheese in my own resealable container at home.
There is another sliced cheese option at Aldi. It costs considerably more than the Happy Farms sliced cheese, but it comes in plain-looking Ziploc-style clear bags that are much easier to close after you take our your serving of cheese. This sliced cheese is not imprinted with any kind of Aldi dairy house brand. Instead, it’s simply called Aldi Deli Sliced Baby Swiss or Aldi Deli Sliced Provolone with Natural Smoke Flavor. These cheese packages look a lot like what you might get if you purchased custom-sliced cheese from the deli counter at a regular grocery store where they slice it in front of you, except that Aldi does not have a deli counter like that.
Aldi Deli Sliced Baby Swiss and Aldi Deli Sliced Provolone Cheese are Regular Buys, meaning you should be able to find these at Aldi all year. These are stocked in the refrigerated aisle with the other cheeses and lunch meats.
These cost $3.75 for an 8-ounce package at my local store at the time of writing. That comes out to about 47 cents per ounce. Each package contains 11 slices of cheese, which comes out to about 34 cents per slice.
For comparison, I can buy Happy Farms sliced cheese in assorted varieties for $1.89 at my local store for a 7.5-ounce package with 11 slices at the time of writing. That’s about 25 cents per ounce or about 17 cents per slice. Ingredients for a package of Happy Farms Colby Jack sliced cheese I bought recently are pretty similar to the Aldi Deli Sliced cheese, with the primary ingredients being cultured pasteurized milk, salt, and microbial enzymes, plus annatto (vegetable color).
Provolone on the left, Swiss on the right.
The packages for the Deli Sliced cheeses state these are best if consumed within five days of opening, which is similar to the Happy Farms sliced cheese.
If you’re looking out for allergens, these contain milk.
Keep reading for more information about each cheese variety.
Aldi Deli Sliced Baby Swiss:
Swiss cheese nutrition information and ingredients. (Click to enlarge.)
I like this Swiss cheese. It seems to have more holes and looks more like a classic Swiss cheese than Aldi Happy Farms sliced Swiss cheese. In fact, when I buy this Deli Sliced Swiss, my Aldi receipt calls it “lacey Swiss.” It also tastes like I expect Swiss cheese to taste like.
Ingredients are cultured pasteurized milk, salt, and enzymes.
One slice has 80 calories, 7 grams of total fat (8% DV), 4 grams of saturated fat (19% DV), 40 mg of sodium (2% DV), and no carbohydrates, dietary fiber, or sugars. One serving also has 6 grams of protein, along with 190 mg of calcium (15% DV).
Aldi Deli Sliced Provolone Cheese:
Provolone cheese nutrition information and ingredients. (Click to enlarge.)
This is a good Provolone cheese. It tastes as expected. Whether it’s worth the higher price tag compared to the Aldi Happy Farms sliced Provolone may be a matter of personal taste.
Ingredients are cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, and smoke flavor.
One slice has 70 calories, 6 grams of total fat (7% DV), 3.5 grams of saturated fat (18% DV), 150 mg of sodium (7% DV), and no carbohydrates, dietary fiber, or sugars. One slice also has 5 grams of protein, along with 160 mg of calcium (10% DV).
The Verdict:
Aldi Deli Sliced Baby Swiss and Aldi Deli Sliced Provolone Cheese with Natural Smoke Flavor look like the types of cheeses you might get custom sliced in front of you at a deli counter, except that Aldi does not have a traditional deli counter like that. These taste good, and we especially like the Swiss cheese. These cost more than other sliced cheeses at Aldi and they have limited cheese flavor varieties, but if you prefer no-nonsense packaging, these are nice.
It’s probably because of the plastic containers, but the standard Happy Farms sliced cheese is flavorless and waxy. I buy my sliced cheeses from Food Depot (don’t laugh it’s cheaper, plus they have a better selection) and Lidl. Both of which have the vacuum sealed packaging which is resealable.
Agreed – both are totally tasteless, like chewing rubber. I’ve had great sliced provolone lately from the TOPS deli counter and it’s night and day.
I love the Deli Sliced Honey Ham – it’s very good. Cheeses, I didn’t care for the Swiss myself, but my husband liked it. I still like their prepackaged Havarti, even though now I have to repackage it at home in a ziplock bag.
Yes, their deli sliced lunch meat, in packaging similar to this sliced cheese, is very good! Look for a review of the deli sliced lunch meat at some point in the future!