Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/5/17: 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 recipes too often, 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 planning week of 3/5/17 – 3/11/17
Six complete dinners for a family of four for $60.00
Prices here are collected from this week’s ad and my local store in the Chicago suburbs, but may vary by location & region. I’m assuming here that you already have pantry basics like olive oil, vinegar, and spices on hand.
Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00
- Sunday: Lemon chicken thighs with asparagus & potatoes (cut red potatoes into smaller chunks since you’re not using baby potatoes, and use 4 chicken thighs & 1.5 lbs potatoes). Side: Carrot & celery sticks with hummus (reserve enough carrots and celery for Thursday’s soup).
- Monday: Mushroom, kale, & white bean pasta with fried egg. Sides: Sourdough toast and orange wedges.
- Tuesday: Sheet pan chicken thighs with green beans & red potatoes (use other 8 chicken thighs; eat one sheet’s worth tonight and save the rest for tomorrow). Side: Veggie pasta salad. (Cook up other half of the rotini, drain, rinse in cold water and let cool. Toss with diced tomatoes, diced cucumber, broccoli florets, black olives, chopped red bell pepper, and Caesar dressing, all to taste, then chill while your chicken is cooking. Add a little Parmesan cheese on top before serving, if desired. (Reserve some veggies for Friday’s salad.))
- Wednesday: The other half of your sheet pan chicken thighs with green beans & red potatoes. Side: Orange wedges and cantaloupe.
- Thursday: Smoked sausage & spinach soup. Sides: Italian salad, sourdough toast.
- Friday: Lemon yogurt baked salmon. (Season salmon with sea salt & pepper. Mix yogurt with the zest of one lemon and a little dried dill and spread about half on top of salmon fillets. Bake at 400 degrees on parchment paper lined baking pan for 10-12 minutes or until salmon is cooked through and flakes easily with a fork.) Serve fish with the rest of the yogurt dip, lemon wedges, kale Caesar salad topped with hard boiled eggs, any leftover veggies from Tuesday, & Parmesan cheese (use other half of the kale), and oven baked red potato wedges with a little olive oil, garlic, Parmesan, & sea salt — just put potatoes in oven about 30 minutes before you put in the salmon.
- Saturday: Leftovers, or date night!
Shopping list
Dairy & refrigerated
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99
Dozen Goldhen large eggs, $.79
Friendly Farms plain Greek yogurt cup, $.65
Little Salad Bar hummus, $1.99
Grocery
16 oz SimplyNature organic whole wheat rotini, $1.29
Dakota Cannellini beans, $.65
2 cans Dakota Great Northern beans, $1.18
Specially Selected sourdough bread square, $2.99
SimplyNature organic Caesar dressing, $1.99
32 oz SimplyNature organic chicken broth, $1.89
14.5 oz can Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.89
Tuscan Garden black olives, $1.19
Meat & seafood
~7 lbs chicken thighs, $4.83 (you’ll want 12 thighs total, so count before buying)
20 oz Sea Queen wild salmon fillets, $5.99
Parkview 14 oz Polska Kielbasa, $1.99
Produce
SimplyNature 12 oz organic chopped kale, $2.69
8 oz white mushrooms, $1.29
8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $1.49
1 lb bag organic lemons, $1.79
3 heads garlic, $.99
5 lb red potatoes, $2.49
Bag Italian salad, $1.49
5 oz SimplyNature organic baby spinach, $2.49
1 lb asparagus, $1.29
1 lb green beans, $1.69
3 lb bag yellow onions, $1.29
2 lbs carrots, $.99
Celery, $1.19
4 lbs navel oranges, $1.99
16 oz mini cucumbers, $1.29
16 oz Roma tomatoes, $1.19
16 oz broccoli crowns, $1.49
One red bell pepper, $.49
Cantaloupe, $1.89
That comes to $59.81.
You can adapt this ALDI meal plan
If one or more of these recipes aren’t to your taste or if you have other ingredients to use up, just adapt this ALDI meal plan to your own family’s preferences. Or, use these ideas 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 of the weekly ALDI meal plans here *** note: prices may have changed since originally posted.
Clearissa Coward
Friday 3rd of March 2017
I love your site. I shopped at Aldi last year around Easter time and I got the best deal on a ham ever. So good until we bought 2 and put one in the freezer. Unfortunately, I haven't been back since. I am going to have to put them on my radar.
Kelly
Friday 3rd of March 2017
Inexpensive AND easy?! I love this! I want to go there today and give this a try! Thanks so much for sharing!