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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 10/17/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 10/17/21: This week, we’re cooking up everything from a comforting roasted chicken dinner with potatoes & mushrooms, to easy sheet pan gnocchi with sausage & veggies — and so much more!

Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 10/17/21: Six complete dinners for four, $65 out the door!

Welcome back to this latest free ALDI meal plan, everyone! As always, you’ll find a brand new variety of ALDI recipes — and a brand new chance to save time & money with meal planning. Get dinner time covered, and try something different with your family.

Use this menu plan as a starting point, modifying it as necessary according to what is in stock in your area, what you have on hand in your pantry, and your own family’s dietary needs and preferences.

Free ALDI meal plan week of 10/17/21 – 10/23/21

Use these meal plans to help reclaim some of your precious time, and you may no longer dread the perennial question: What’s for dinner?

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But first, what’s new this week?

Halloween Pizza, GNOCCHI, and more ALDI Finds Fun

halloween cheese at aldi

Halloween pizza, Halloween cheese, gnocchi, garlic bread potato chips, and so much more — Check out my top 25+ ALDI Finds of the week, and let me know what you’re planning on picking up!

And since the question has come up again recently, let’s revisit a post from last year: Are Your Recipes Healthy? (Hint: It’s complicated!)

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 10/17/21.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 10/17/21 – 10/23/21

Pick up everything on the shopping list below, and start cooking on Sunday: As always, six complete dinners for four, $65 out the door.

  • I’m assuming that you have on hand some pantry basics like cooking oil, common condiments, and spices.
  • *** Read through the recipes before you shop, to make sure you have the necessary pantry staples on hand for this week’s ALDI menu plan; see a summary in the printable grocery list below.
  • Print your meal plan summary + grocery shopping list below this week’s detailed plan.

Six easy dinners from ALDI for $65

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 10/17/21

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  • Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells nice big take-and-bake deli pizzas), or order in.

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 10/16/21

Note: You’ll end up with several leftover jalapeños, but they freeze nicely!

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.95
8 oz block Happy Farms mozzarella, $1.95
5 oz Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

Pueblo Lindo flour fajita flour tortillas, $2.29
1 can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.59
Priano potato gnocchi, $1.69

Meat

Parkview Polska kielbasa, $2.39
4 lbs bone-in chicken thighs, $5.96
3.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs, $6.27
16 oz Fremont Fish Market flounder fillets (frozen), $6.99

Produce

2 lbs green grapes, $1.70
24 oz dynamic duo potatoes, $2.99
2 lbs lemons, $3.29
3 packs 8 oz white mushrooms, $2.97
16 oz broccoli crowns, $1.69
1 head cauliflower, $2.49
12 oz bag Simply Nature organic chopped kale, $2.99
8 oz bag spinach, $1.49
1 lb asparagus $2.79
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.29
3 heads garlic, $1.29
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.99
8 oz jalapeños, $.69
2 avocados, $1.78
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.89
2 Roma tomatoes, $.40

That comes to: $65.80

Or, maybe less…! These meals can run 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.

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

print this week's ALDI meal plan

Print this week’s meal plan:

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 these 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 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, 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 & dates

This week’s ALDI meal plan reflects prices from the current week’s ad (running 10/10-10/16 in Sunday ad markets, and 10/13-10/19 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices are from 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 10/17/21.

Stay in the meal planning loop

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Resources for meal planning & ALDI shopping

master list of meal planning resources from Mashup Mom

Let’s close things out with just a few resources to help you with your meal planning & ALDI shopping:

Lastly: You can always access your current regional ALDI ad here.