Here is your easy ALDI meal plan for the week of 10/9/16. Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday! Hope you find it useful.
Note: I try not to repeat the same recipe here more than once a month, but you will see favorite easy recipes come up again on these weekly ALDI meal plans as the same meats and produce items come up on sale again. ?
ALDI meal plan week of 10/9/16 – 10/15/16
Six complete dinners for a family of four for $60.00
Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00
- Sunday: Sunday “brunch” breakfast for dinner — A six egg omelet with mushrooms, cheddar, & broccoli. Sides: Sausage patties (slice and fry up the sausage roll), toasted Italian bread, strawberries, and breakfast potatoes (make with red potatoes, green peppers, onions, minced garlic). Also cook up a pot of rice to have ready for Monday’s dinner.
- Monday: Veggie fried rice — Saute up diced carrots, chopped broccoli florets, diced onion, and 1-2 minced garlic cloves in a little oil in large pan over medium heat until tender, then stir in the rice you cooked on Sunday. When rice is heated through, push to sides of pan, add a little oil to the center, and pour in two beaten eggs. Scramble eggs with spatula while cooking, then stir them into rice and season with soy sauce to taste (Optional: Add in a little chili garlic paste if you like some heat.) Remove from heat & top with chopped green onions. Sides: Tomato cucumber salad, organic mixed greens salad topped with diced tomato & green pepper w/ Italian dressing, and clementines.
- Tuesday: Salsa skillet pork chops. (ALDI only sells salsa verde as a special buy and doesn’t carry this week, so modify the original recipe by using half the jar of chipotle corn salsa + the can of black beans here to create a quick & delicious salsa pork chop dish w/ corn and beans.) Sides: Rice and steamable veggies.
- Wednesday: Slow Cooker Italian Beef made with whole garlic cloves, served on ciabatta rolls with provolone + the peppers, garlic, and juice from the pot. [Yes, we had this a couple weeks back — but it’s SO good, and chuck roast is still on sale & back in stock at my store, finally.] Side: Organic mixed greens salad with chopped carrots, diced tomato, sliced onion, shredded Parmesan, and Italian dressing, plus oven roasted diced red potatoes.
- Thursday: Use your last four eggs to make this Carnitas Hash, but as Italian beef hash using leftover Italian beef & potatoes + green pepper & onion. Sides: Italian bread toast, clementines, apple slices.
- Friday: Slow Cooker Italian chicken & carrots — Pour 1/4 cup Italian dressing into the bottom of your slow cooker. Season chicken with Italian seasoning, salt, & black pepper, and place on top of dressing. Chop a few carrots and place on top of chicken. Pour on 3/4 cup Italian dressing, top with 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan, and cook 6 hours on low. Sides: Sauteed mushrooms (in a little butter + olive oil w/ one clove minced garlic, salt & pepper, & herbs of your choice — thyme is nice!), and apple slices.
- Saturday: Leftovers — or date night :)!
Shopping list
Dairy
Sliced provolone, $1.99
Sliced cheddar, $1.99
Dozen eggs, $.88
Shredded Parmesan, $1.69
Frozen
Season’s Choice steamable veggies, $.85
Grocery
Ciabatta rolls, $1.99
Beef broth can, $.49
Tuscan Garden pepperoncini, $1.49
3 lb Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $1.29
Tuscan Garden Italian salad dressing, $1.29
Loaf of Italian bread, $1.69
Jar chipotle corn salsa, $1.69
Can SimplyNature organic black beans, $.79
Low sodium soy sauce, $1.29
Meat & seafood
2.5 lb chuck roast, $7.50
Appleton Farms pork sausage roll, $1.99
3 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, $4.50
2 lbs assorted pork chops, $3.98
Produce
Three pack garlic heads, $.99
Green onions, $.99
Two bags SimplyNature organic mixed greens, $3.58
2 lb bag of carrots, $1.29
5 lb bag red potatoes, $1.29
3 pack green peppers, $1.99
3 lb onions, $1.69
Two packs 8 oz mushrooms, $1.38
2 lb Honeycrisp apples, $2.29
Strawberries, $1.89
One lime, $.19
Broccoli, $1.49
1 lb Roma tomatoes, $1.09
Cucumber, $.59
3 lb clementines, $3.99
That comes to $60.42
You can adapt this ALDI meal plan
Adapt this ALDI meal plan to your own family’s preferences or use it to supplement your own meal planning for the week. These meals will likely run you even less if you supplement this week’s ALDI purchases with clearance meat you already have in your freezer, produce you have on hand, and/or sale produce from your local produce market. Let me know if you give it a try!
Browse all the weekly ALDI meal plans here, noting that some prices may have changed since originally posted.
Denise
Friday 7th of October 2016
Carnitas HASH. LOVE THAT. Adding to a future menu.
Also, last week's menu inspired me to shop Aldi last week, forgoing all other couponing excursions (except my beloved CVS, of course) and it was awesome. I just used the meat already in my freezer and picked up the stuff I needed to flesh out the menu but I spent less than $50 and it was fabulous.
I'll be traveling off and on for the next few weeks but in November, I'm definitely going to create an Aldi meal plan or two. It cuts down on shopping time and planning time, quite a bit -- and during the holidays, I'll take that extra time back for other things.
rachel
Friday 7th of October 2016
I've been doing a LOT more shopping at ALDI lately -- it's so much easier. Definitely try the carnitas hash -- I've made it with leftover pot roast, too, and it's pretty adaptable. :)