Aldi All Natural Chicken Drumsticks

My family has gotten away from eating as much beef and red meat in recent years, opting for other types of protein instead, including chicken and fish. Grilled chicken or oven-roasted chicken are common on the dinner table in my house.

Aldi has sold a variety of poultry options over the years, from conventionally raised chicken to organic whole chickens. Their conventionally raised chicken comes in a range of cuts, including breasts, thighs, wings, and drumsticks. The drumsticks are a favorite in my house.

Aldi All Natural Chicken Drumsticks are Regular Buys, meaning you’ll find them all the time at Aldi. They’re stocked in the refrigerated section with other fresh meats.

These come in regular-sized packages or large family packs. The packages currently are labelled a little differently depending on which size you buy. The smaller packages bear the Kirkwood Aldi house brand. (Kirkwood is not a company, but instead it is the name Aldi puts on its poultry products, which it may source from different suppliers.) Meanwhile, the large family packs are unbranded and do not have the Kirkwood name on them.

I usually buy the more economical family pack and cook it all at once, or I freeze half of it to cook later. So, this review deals with the chicken that doesn’t have the Kirkwood label. I feel like it’s pretty much the same chicken whether it’s the family pack or the regular-sized package, though.

These will vary in price depending on the size of the package you buy, and depending on where you live. In January of 2025, my local store was selling large random-weight family packs for $1.19 per pound and regular-sized random-weight packages for $1.89 per pound. I bought a 5.14-pound family pack for $6.12. Your mileage might vary, but the pack I bought had 12 drumsticks.

The drumsticks contain up to 4% retained water. The only ingredient is chicken, and it has no preservatives.

The package says the chicken was hatched, raised, and harvested in the U.S. For more information about how Aldi sources its products, you can read our post here.

I did find a packing plant number (P-325) on the sticker on my chicken package, and it took some digging online to figure out where that is. According to ProPublica, the chicken package I bought was packed at a Tyson Foods plant in Center, Texas.

The package says 4 ounces is one serving, which has 150 calories, 7 grams of total fat (9% DV), 2 grams of saturated fat (10% DV), 85 mg of sodium (4% DV), 0 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of sugar, and 21 grams of protein (42% DV).

Aldi’s chicken drumsticks are a convenient option when I want a lot of a certain cut of chicken — in this case, drumsticks. I can’t tell a difference between Aldi’s chicken and other traditional grocery store chicken options. My family likes when I use Aldi’s drumsticks to make oven-fried chicken or moist drumsticks.

If you prefer organic, check out the whole organic chicken Aldi also sells.

The Verdict:

Aldi’s All Natural Chicken Drumsticks are comparable to other conventionally raised grocery store chicken options in terms of quality. They’re an economical choice and a main component of many favorite family recipes.