Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 10/30/22 – 11/5/22

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 10/30/22! Cook up everything from comforting oven baked chicken & rice to 30 minute kielbasa tortellini soup — and, so much more.

From baked chicken & rice to mushroom quesadillas, from tortellini sausage soup to Parmesan drumsticks… It’s all laid out for you below! As always, we’re cooking up six complete dinners for four: $70 out the door. Use our weekly menu plan to help bring your family together around home-cooked dinners, and save time & money in the process.

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Take any of these meal plans as a starting point, modifying your own dinners around what’s in stock or on sale in your area, what’s on hand in your pantry, and your own family’s dietary needs and preferences.

Free ALDI meal plan week of 10/30/22 – 11/5/22

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Before jumping straight into this week’s menu, though, let’s talk briefly about this week’s new ALDI Finds, fall recipes, and news.

Christmas decor, learning towers, and fall soups

ALDI Finds for the week of 10/26/22 include harvest chopping boards, box bags, stand mixers, nostalgic Christmas decor, crab cakes, and chai tea latte — plus, so much more!

• Check out all of my favorite ALDI Finds of the week here

Let me know what you’re picking up this week.

What else to make with your ALDI Finds and foods? Well, forget pumpkin spice: Fall is clearly soup season over here! Here are fifteen easy soup recipes for fall, to help get this autumn food party started.

Another week, another Caturday — but, every day is Caturday when you’re a sneaky lurker. (All cats are lurkers, but some are more lurker than others…)

Lastly, new on the Amazon front:

• Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds include Pac-Man leggings, hobbit slippers, and more!
• This HUGE list of HUNDREDS of subscribe & save filler items is updated every Thursday.

That’s it, so, without further ado, here’s your ALDI meal plan for the week of 10/30/22. *** Be sure to sign up for our weekly emails, so that you never miss a new one.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 10/30/22 – 11/5/22

Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday. As always, six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door.

• *** Print your meal plan summary + grocery shopping list below this week’s detailed plan, in Word, .rtf, or PDF format. ***
• I’m assuming that you have on hand some pantry basics like cooking oil, condiments, and spices. Read through the recipes before you shop, to make sure that you have the necessary pantry staples on hand for this week’s ALDI menu plan. *** The printable shopping list includes a separate section of needed basics for the week.

Six easy dinners from ALDI for $70

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 10/30/22

Sunday

• Oven baked chicken thighs & rice
• Make a side salad: Chop up half of the romaine and the tomatoes, peel and chop half of a cucumber, thinly slice some onion

Monday

• 30 minute kielbasa tortellini soup, topped with a little shredded Parmesan
• Heat up the baguette

Tuesday

• Italian chicken thighs with zucchini & red potatoes
• Make a side salad with the rest of the romaine, topped with the other half of the peeled & chopped cucumber and some chopped baby carrots

Wednesday

• Many mushroom quesadillas — Use the smaller-in-diameter 20 ct fajita tortillas, because the 12 ct bigger ones appear to be out lately, and serve with some salsa for dipping. (Reserve 16 oz salsa for Friday.)
• Southwestern skillet potatoes

Thursday

• Cheesy smoked sausage & rice skillet
• Slice up the mangoes

Friday

• Sheet pan Parmesan chicken drumsticks with carrots & potatoes (use red potatoes)
• Any leftover rice skillet from Thursday

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 10/29/22

*** Psst — check below this grocery list for easy one-stop Instacart shopping, as well as an easy-print version!

Dairy & refrigerated

9 oz Priano three cheese tortellini, $2.99
5 oz Emporium Selection shredded Parmesan, $2.49
16 oz Happy Farms shredded mild cheddar, $3.99

Grocery

24 oz Casa Mamita salsa, $1.95
Specially Selected French baguette, $1.69
3 lbs Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $2.29
48 oz value size Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.99
Can Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $.85
Pueblo Lindo flour fajita tortillas, $1.79
3 cans Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $2.37
1 can Happy Harvest whole kernel corn, $.59

Meat

5 lbs bone-in chicken thighs, $8.95
3 lbs chicken drumsticks, $6.87
2 packs 14 oz Parkview Polska kielbasa, $6.98

Produce

2 mangoes, $1.38
3 packs 8 oz white mushrooms, $5.67
16 oz baby carrots, $.79
1 cucumber, $.59
8 oz spinach, $1.49
3 ct romaine lettuce hearts, $2.99
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.99
3 heads garlic, $1.29
20 oz zucchini, $1.61
5 lbs red potatoes, $3.69
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.89
2 Roma tomatoes, $.44

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That comes to: $70.61

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 fruit market.

*** Add this week’s grocery list to your Instacart. ***

IMPORTANT! READ BEFORE CHECKING OUT:

1. You’ll need to check your pantry for staples not included in this Instacart list. See needed pantry staples below.
2. The list feature doesn’t allow me to add more than one of an item, or to change the weight of items. Before adding the list to your cart, change the following:
   1. Change the quantity of canned diced tomatoes to three.
   2. Change the weight on your bone-in chicken thighs to 5 lbs, your drumsticks to 3 lbs, and your zucchini to 1.25 lbs.
   3. Change the quantity of Polska kielbasa to two.
   4. Change the mangoes quantity to two, mushrooms quantity to three, and Roma tomatoes quantity to two.
3. Click “add” on any items you want to place in your cart; omit any items you don’t want or already have.
4. Add anything else you need for the week to your cart, and check out!

Add your list to Instacart is a newer feature I’m testing out, so please use at your own risk and always double check your cart against the recipes. It’s a work in progress! Note: Instacart prices are higher than in store, so your total will be higher than shown in the above grocery list.

** Pantry staples to check for before shopping: Olive oil, butter, smoked paprika, paprika, oregano, basil, parsley, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, chili powder, cumin, crushed red pepper, seasoned salt, sea salt, black pepper

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

Print this week’s meal plan:

• *** Download this week’s printable ALDI shopping list and meal plan in Word format.
  • Download in .rtf format
  • Download in PDF format
• If you don’t have Word, try opening in Google Docs or in Wordpad.

Edit and add in your own meal ideas, remove items you have on hand, and/or change regional pricing to match your own store. *** Day(s) next to each item in the printable shopping list show which nights use each ingredient, so that you can easily see what to delete if you’re skipping a night or modifying.

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 up, 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 10/23-10/29 in Sunday ad markets, and 10/26-11/1 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices are from my local store in the Chicago suburbs. Prices and produce deals *can vary* by location & region. In either ad market, shop any time through Saturday and start cooking on Sunday 10/30/22.

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Resources for meal planning & ALDI shopping

Let’s close out our week with some additional resources on meal planning & ALDI shopping:

• How to cook around grocery shortages
• Master list of meal planning resources
• Get cash back for ALDI shopping, with cash back offers on the Ibotta app and through the Fetch Rewards app.
• Pick up a pack of meal prep containers, & pack up any dinner leftovers for easy weekday lunches. Also useful: Two pack insulated grab bag totes, or two pack clip to cart bags.
• Check out these cute & handy ALDI quarter keepers.
• How fun are these ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys?!

Lastly: Access your current regional ALDI ad here.