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Free ALDI Meal Plan Week of 3/18/18 – 3/24/18

Looking for a March 2018 ALDI meal plan? You're in the right place! Here's your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/18/18-3/24/18: Six complete dinners for four, $60 out the door! Save time and money with meal planning, and find new free ALDI meal plans each week.

Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/18/18: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday!

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But back to this week’s ALDI meal plan…

Let’s get ready to make six complete dinners for a family of four, just $60.00 out the door! Hope you find the free ALDI meal plans useful.

ALDI meal planning week of 3/18/18 – 3/24/18

I’m assuming here that you already have pantry basics like cooking oil, condiments, and spices. 🙂 *** Read through the recipes before you shop to make sure you have the necessary pantry staples on hand.

Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00

ALDI meal plan — Start cooking 3/18/18

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 3/17/18

Dairy & refrigerated

Dozen Goldhen eggs, $.78
16 oz Countryside Creamery heavy cream, $1.99
8 oz Happy Farms block cheddar, $1.79
8 oz Priano mozzarella, $2.79
Priano Parmesan wedge, $3.79

Grocery

Specially Selected naan, $3.49
Specially Selected Italian bread, $1.69
Tuscan Garden mild pepper rings, $1.49
Burman’s BBQ sauce, $.99
Chef’s Cupboard plain bread crumbs, $.89
Two 32 oz boxes SimplyNature organic chicken broth, $2.98
7 oz La Moderna small shells, $.33
8 oz Happy Farms tomato sauce, $.29
Dakota’s Pride Cannellini beans, $.65
Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69

Meat3 lb Jennie-O ground turkey, $5.99
5 lb Never Any! whole chicken, $7.45

Produce

2 lbs carrots, $1.09
5 oz SimplyNature organic baby spinach, $2.49
Green leaf lettuce, $1.29
1 lb asparagus, $1.49
8 oz mushrooms, $1.49
Two 16 oz strawberries, $1.98
Cilantro, $.69
3 lb yellow onions, $.99
3 heads garlic, $1.19
5 lb red potatoes, $1.49
4 sweet potatoes, $3.16
Celery, $1.29
16 oz green beans, $1.59
24 oz vine ripe tomatoes, $2.49

That comes to $60.79.

Or, maybe less… 🙂 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, pantry staples you picked up on sale, produce you already have on hand, and/or sale produce from your local produce market. Let me know if you give it a try!

*** Download this week’s shopping list in Word format so that you can edit and add in your own meal ideas, remove items you already have on hand, change regional pricing to match your own store, etc. *** The day(s) next to each item show which meals use each ingredient, so that you can easily see what to delete from the shopping list if you’re skipping a night.

Things to know about the ALDI meal plans

A couple of notes

  1. I try not to repeat main dish recipes more often than once a month, but you will see favorite easy recipes come up again in these weekly ALDI meal plans as the same meats and produce items come up again on sale. Part of the fun of meal planning lies in mixing old stand-bys with something new each week.
  2. If one or more of these recipes isn’t to your taste, or if you have other ingredients to use, you can adapt the recipes in this ALDI meal plan to your family’s preferences — or just use the ideas here to supplement your own meal planning. See: Pantry staples to stock up on and how to modify a meal plan for your family.

** Ad markets and dates

This week’s ALDI meal plan reflects prices from the current week’s ad (running 3/11-3/17 in Sunday ad markets, and 3/14-3/20 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 3/14/18 at my local store in the Chicago suburbs, but non-advertised prices and produce deals *may vary* by location & region. In either ad market, shop any time through Saturday and start cooking on Sunday 3/18/18.

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Happy ALDI shopping and cooking this week, everyone!

Useful resources for meal planning + ALDI shopping

Before we get started this week, here are a few resources to help you out with your meal planning and ALDI shopping:

You can also access your current regional ALDI ad here.

Kristina Mullen

Wednesday 21st of March 2018

Have I told you lately how much I appreciate this weekly resource? I loathe meal planning and always over buy at the grocery store. This is the perfect solution. Your recipes are a hit 99% of the time (discovered my family does NOT like poblano peppers) and always affordable. I love the variety you help us bring and the money and time you help save! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Samantha Shourds

Friday 16th of March 2018

I am so happy I stumbled upon your site! We are trying to pay off the last of our debt in the next 4 months. We've trimmed the fat, as they say, but I've realized even that's not enough right now. It is such a blessing to have your meal plan delivered right to me every week. I'm reducing spending and stress :-)