food: hey ALDI, whither the rice cakes?

To the litany of ALDI raves, today I reluctantly add a mini-rant.

I'm frightened and angry.  OK, not really, but I am more than a little peeved.

So:  ALDI sells rice cakes.  They come in two flavors:  Lightly Salted, which is a funny joke because actually they have no salt at all, like literally 10 mg/cake; and Caramel Corn, which we never buy because then we'd eat 500 cakes per week instead of only a few dozen.

Oh - and at about $1.39 for a bag, they are, as usual, less than half the price you'd pay at Jewel.

So there we are, the kids and I, happily plowing through 40 or so rice cakes a week between the five of us.  We enjoy them in the following ways:
--Cottage cheese, freshly ground pepper, & dill;
--Peanut butter w/thin slices of apple or banana;
--Peanut butter with just a wee dusting of sugar, tapped off in the sink.  The house favorite
--Toasted (great) with a tiny bit of butter;
--When no one's looking, spread with gross leftover Duncan Hines frosting and quickly gobbled before anyone comes in.

I literally buy them 8 bags at a time every few weeks.  I walk out of there looking like an octopus.

But then one day...they're not there.  I think, "no biggie, they probably just haven't put them out.  Oh hey, here are those little mini rice-cake thingies, white cheddar and what-have-you."  I don't want those:  they're more expensive and you can't top them with anything, plus they have more fat and calories.  I hold my panic in check.

But then, they aren't in two other ALDI stores either.   Now I'm panicking a little bit.  What will we do?  Where else am I going to get a salt-free, whole-grain, 35-calorie thing that our kids can attack when they get home from school?  We already eat carrots & stuff.  I'm talking about something crunchy that won't wreck their dinners.  And there's no way I'm paying $2.50 for what amounts to 25 grains of rice and some air.

I miss my little peanut butter/sugar rice cake.  D: