Aldi Breakfast Best Homestyle Waffles Vs Eggo: Which Is Better?

Welcome to Dupe Detective, a column where I'll be reviewing a name brand food product's competitor product to find out how well it compares to, or even beats, the original.

The Eggo brand is synonymous with the frozen toaster waffle, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's responsible the single best toaster waffles in the freezer aisle. In fact, The Takeout once determined that Annie's organic homestyle waffles are better than Eggo. Nevertheless, Eggo has been known to make a quality product — in a ranking of 10 frozen pancake brands, for example, Eggo landed in the number-three spot.

Food dupes from Aldi, meanwhile, have a relatively solid track record. Aldi's Red Thunder energy drink, for example, beat Red Bull in a head-to-head. With all of that in mind, I picked up boxes of classic Eggo homestyle waffles and Aldi's Breakfast Best homestyle waffles and tried them both in one sitting. Ahead is a rundown of each item, before my thoughts on whether or not Aldi homestyle waffles are actually better than Eggo.

While not all that impactful in the grand scheme of things, the first thing I noticed about my Aldi Breakfast Best Homestyle Waffles was that they were all aesthetically flawed — as I was looking for a good waffle to photograph, I found that each of them was warped and/or had a couple of little holes in it. After I tried a couple of Aldi waffles, those surface-level flaws didn't necessarily seem coincidental.

First I had an Aldi waffle plain. Beyond just syrup, there are at least eight ways to make frozen waffles taste better, but I wanted to start with a baseline. While I picked up a nice textural contrast between that first waffle's crispy outside and soft interior, its flavor was subpar. The main thing I tasted was whole grains, akin to health-oriented breads like those made by Dave's Killer Bread. Once I added maple syrup and butter to a second waffle, that problem persisted, the syrup failing to nullify its prominent whole grain flavor. While I got a sort of sense I was eating something natural, that wasn't at all what I was looking for. Waffles are supposed to be like a dessert that's acceptable to eat at breakfast. So, not just lacking inherent sweetness but actively detracting from the maple syrup I added, my Aldi waffles ended up pretty disappointing.

Eggo's Homestyle Waffles were bigger than Aldi's, but they also lacked a sort of browning that gave the Aldi waffles some extra color. That said, most of my Eggo waffles weren't warped like the Aldi waffles, so I found them just a tad aesthetically superior out of the box. When I ate my first plain Eggo waffle, the first thing I noticed was that its texture fell short of the contrast I enjoyed in its Aldi dupe. Whereas the latter balanced a crisp outside with a soft inside, that first Eggo waffle was just plain soft.

Even that plain Eggo waffle, however, tasted pretty solid. I picked up prominent doses of butter, sugar, and — perhaps a sort of placebo, based on my expectations of a waffle — maple. Then, when I added syrup, I noticed that it absorbed pretty quickly into my second Eggo waffle. Aldi's waffle, meanwhile, was firmer, the syrup remaining on top of its crisped-up outer layer. While the lack of visible syrup atop my Eggo waffle didn't look quite as nice, it tasted a lot better than what I had from Aldi. After absorbing the syrup throughout, what was already a solidly sugary treat became indulgently gooey and sweet. 

I did notice a sort of yeasty bread flavor beneath all the sugar, but only when I was really looking for it. In other words, it didn't detract from the experience of a waffle that basically met all of my expectations.

Aldi deserves some credit for its Breakfast Best Homestyle Waffles' consistency. After I toasted them for what I felt was a normal amount of time, they came out perfectly crisped up on the outside, while retaining a soft interior. A little bit of brown color absent from my Eggo waffles, combined with the fact their crispy exterior held pools of syrup better meant that, when plated, my Aldi waffles looked nicer. Unfortunately, those looks couldn't even begin to make up for the Aldi waffles' inferior flavor.

Simply put, I couldn't get past the fact my Aldi waffles tasted like whole grains. Aldi doesn't advertise its waffles as explicitly healthy or anything — and even if it did, the 10 unhealthiest whole wheat breads on shelves in 2026 prove that whole grains don't always equal healthier — so that flavor was particularly perplexing. 

The fact the flavor persisted even after adding plenty of maple syrup and butter was a significant issue. My Eggo waffles didn't blow my mind or anything, but they tasted good. My second Eggo waffle, which absorbed its maple syrup into its spongy body, was hands-down responsible for my favorite bites. There are some pretty great dupes of popular name-brand products at Aldi, but the Breakfast Best Homestyle Waffles are not one of them, falling short of the Eggo Homestyle Waffles they're emulating.

At my local Aldi, located in the Las Vegas-adjacent Henderson, Nevada, a package of 10 Breakfast Best Homestyle Waffles costs $2.15. At an Albertsons located about eight minutes away, in Las Vegas' suburbs, a 10-pack of Eggo Homestyle Waffles costs $3.29. Per waffle and per box, then, Aldi offers a considerably better deal.

Nutritionally, two Aldi waffles total 190 calories, 7 grams of fat, 1 gram of which is saturated fat, 5 milligrams of cholesterol, 480 milligrams of sodium, 28 grams of carbs, 1 gram of fiber, 2 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of protein. Two Eggo waffles, meanwhile, equal 180 calories, 4.5 grams of fat, 1 gram of which is saturated fat, zero cholesterol, 230 milligrams of sodium, 31 grams of carbs, less than 1 gram of fiber, 5 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of protein. The biggest difference between the two products, then, is their sodium content, with Eggo surprisingly trailing the Aldi waffles' total sodium by a large margin.

I picked up a box of Breakfast Best Homestyle Waffles from the Aldi closest to me in the suburbs of Las Vegas, before grabbing an equivalent 10-pack of Eggo Homestyle Waffles from an Albertsons on my route home. They both sat in my freezer for a full day before I tried them, so they started out at the same frozen baseline level.

That next day, I started by putting one of each waffle in my toaster — it's wide enough to accommodate two slices of bread next to one another — and toasted them at the same setting I use for bread. I kept an eye on them to make sure they didn't burn, and I found that they ended up coming out pretty perfectly. I tried both of those waffles plain, noting down my initial thoughts on each of them. Then I toasted one more of each waffle at the same setting. When they were done, I added equivalent quantities of maple syrup and butter, and had about half of each waffle while likewise writing down my thoughts. My assessments are based entirely on this experience, and not any past thoughts I may have had on the featured brands or products.