{"id":4022,"date":"2024-10-12T18:13:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snarklesauce.com\/blog\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:36:30","slug":"aldi-gyro-sandwich-kit-bremer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarklesauce.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/12\/aldi-gyro-sandwich-kit-bremer-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldi Gyro Sandwich Kit (Bremer) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author\u2019s Note: The following review is my own silly opinion. I don\u2019t work for Aldi<\/a>. Or Costco. Nobody paid me to write this review. I have no affiliation with Bremer brand nor Aldi. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s all about the sauce.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Is this a terrible meal? Not entirely<\/em>. Was it amazing? Also no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought this frozen Chicken Gyro Sandwich Kit<\/a> from Aldi several months ago, and I am just now getting around to trying it. It comes in a big-ish box, and that box was taking up far<\/em> too much space in my poor freezer. And that’s my entire reason for eating it. I need freezer space. And I was hungry. The end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s in the box?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The meal kit is frozen, and inside the box is a plastic bag of 5 flat bread loaves, a pouch of tzatziki sauce, and a block of chicken gyro meat. You will need your own lettuce, tomatoes, onions or other veggies. Unless you don’t want any veggies. You monster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How long does it take to prepare?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This was actually a quick meal to prepare, EXCEPT you have to plan ahead and thaw it about 24 hours in advance. The package says “thaw overnight,” but mine was still half-frozen 12 hours later. So, try a full 24 hours instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once thawed, the bread and meat heats in a skillet in just a couple minutes. It takes another few minutes to prepare the veggies and assemble it all together. So, pretty quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gyro meat reminds me of bologna. But like, textured chicken bologna. It is pre-sliced, but vacuum-packed into a block shape. I had some difficulty separating the slices from the block \u2014 mine were tearing and falling apart. This didn’t actually upset me, because I torn mine into pieces before adding to my sandwich anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Looking for another family-size frozen meat option? Check out my review of Costco’s Beef Meatballs<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does it taste like?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My gyro<\/a> tasted pretty sad. At first, I thought it was the meat. But I nibbled a piece of meat by itself, and it wasn’t really that<\/em> awful. I finally decided it was the tzatziki<\/a> sauce. The sauce is gooey and “creamy,” but doesn’t taste like yogurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was so<\/em> icky, I had to throw away the rest of the pouch after eating just one gyro. It had a strange, slimy texture. I felt sick just looking at my pictures of the sauce that had dripped onto my plate. Ugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway. That tzatziki had a yucky texture, but it also<\/em> wasn’t zesty or flavorful. Double-whammy. It was just sort of bland and slimy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think the lack of zestiness was my biggest disappointment in this meal. The meat is bland. The sauce is bland. The bread is (obviously and appropriately) bland. It was all just bland sadness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, some people like bland. Some people like slimy sauces. Maybe you are one of these people. Maybe you would love this meal. I wish I could send you my leftover gyros. Alas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I ended up making my own sauce for the remaining 4 sandwiches, using full-fat Greek yogurt, garlic, and lemon juice. This made an enormous difference! It was like night and day. These are reasonably tasty gyros with the right sauce!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pita Bread<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pita bread is possibly the strongest part of this meal. Mine came out the the bag feeling gummy and soggy. But, the loaves toasted nicely in a hot pan, and quickly turned into a fluffy, fresh-tasting bread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cooked mine for longer than the box recommended, because I like my bread a little crisp, and I wanted to get rid of all<\/em> potential sogginess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How big are the gyros?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These are pretty generously-sized gyros. They’re significantly larger than Costco’s Gyro Meal Kit (you can read my review of it here<\/a>). I was full after eating one<\/em>. I would hazard there are truly 5 reasonable servings in the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I liked that the gyro meat isn’t oily after cooking. The box had a warning not to cook it too long \u2014 because it would become dry or tough. The chicken is already pre-cooked, so it only has to be briefly warmed on each side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are cooking the entire package at once, I can see it being inconvenient to heat each strip evenly on each side. I was only able to fit one serving in my large skillet at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a side note, the instructions said to use 5 meat strips for each gyro. I did that for the first three sandwiches, and then realized I only had 8 left for the last two sandwiches. Not a huge deal, but there weren’t 5 strips for each gyro. Oh well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ingredients in Aldi Chicken Gyro Kit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are the ingredients, from the label:<\/p>\n\n\n\n