Aldi’s McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish Copycat Is Back on Shelves This Week

Every Christian knows that when the Lenten season rolls around, our eating habits will be changing slightly for those 40 days leading up to Easter. Maybe you also give up sweets or drinking pop, but we all know the one hard and fast rule: no meat on Fridays.

Being from Western Pennsylvania, you’d normally find me at a Friday fish fry enjoying a colossal fish sandwich and some pierogies, but since moving away, I’ve had to make do with what I’ve got. Luckily, however, because Christians are meant to abstain from meat on Fridays and any holy days during Lent, but can still eat fish, there seems to be an abundance of seafood at grocery stores and restaurants from February to April.

Even fast food restaurants join in on the fish craze for a limited time. I would know because, at one time, I tested them all and found one resounding winner: Wendy’s Crispy Panko Fish Sandwich.

But, sometimes, I don’t want to hit the drive-thru and buy one sandwich when I could have a whole box of fish filets for the same price. That’s why I load my freezer with Aldi’s Fremont Fish Market Pollock Portions for easy fish sandwiches at home.

The Aldi Fish Sandwich Portions I Stock up on for Lent Are Back on Shelves

Aldi’s breaded fish filets hit shelves this Wednesday as a limited-time Find in two varieties: Original and Dill Pickle Style.

Each box includes four frozen sandwich portion filets that are breaded and ready to cook, straight from the freezer, in the oven or air fryer. The filet is a white wild-caught Alaskan Pollock that’s ideal for the classic fish sandwich—like you’d get at a drive-thru or fish fry.

It’s a copycat for my favorite fast food fish sandwich—especially when you add cheese, lettuce, tartar sauce, and pickles—that actually might be better homemade. Some fans have also called Aldi’s version a copycat of McDonald’s beloved Filet-O-Fish sandwich.

And, because I love Wendy’s sandwich for the added pickle and dill tartar, the Dill Style fish filets are already one-upping the competition. Those filets include hot sauce and dill spices in the ingredients.

Aldi’s Pollock Portions cost $4.99 per box, which is cheaper than most fast food menu items, and you can find your sandwich toppings at Aldi, too, for relatively low prices.

More Seafood Options at Aldi This Week

If you aren’t a fish sandwich person, I get it, but Aldi is offering other seafood Finds this week for the first Friday of Lent. You can get boxes of Dynamite Shrimp and Honey Walnut Shrimp, which give copycat P.F. Chang’s and Panda Express vibes, for $5.99 each, a bag of Swai fillets for $7.99, or Red Lobster-branded Cheddar Bay Biscuit Cod and Cheddar Bay Biscuit Shrimp for $6.99 a piece—all in addition to Aldi’s everyday selection of seafood.

Heck, even if you aren’t abstaining from meat, you still might want to check out Aldi’s freezer Finds section this week.