Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 1/21/18: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday!

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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:

• Come join us in the new Almost All ALDI Facebook group, where we are sharing and chatting about recipes, meal planning ideas, ALDI food finds, and more.
• Check out my Amazon shop, which is full of cooking-related gift ideas plus some of my favorite useful items for your own meal planning!
• Pantry staples to stock up on
• How to modify a meal plan for your family
• Cute & handy ALDI quarter keepers
• Two pack insulated grab bag totes, and two pack clip to cart bags.
• This week’s ALDI ad
• Almost All ALDI, the eBook

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 1/21/18 – 1/27/18

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

*** Note: This week, the meat special buys differ from the in-store preview ad, as well as regionally — In case you’re wondering why this week’s meal plan doesn’t make use of them, as it usually does!

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ALDI meal plan — Start cooking 1/21/18

• Sunday: Lemon chicken skillet madness (reserve 1/2 cup artichokes for Weds). Serve with red lentil “mashed potatoes” (be sure to add the optional seasonings).
• Monday: Slow cooker chickpea lentil stew (use red onion). Serve over cooked rotini, with sliced pineapple on the side.
• Tuesday: Easy beef enchilada pie (substitute a can of diced tomatoes with green chilies for one of the cans of tomato sauce and omit the diced green chiles, since many ALDIs no longer carry; use red onion instead of yellow). Serve with lazy almost guac (mash up an avocado with a little lemon juice & sea salt to taste) and quick pickled red onion (this is great to make the night before and keep in the fridge til ready to use).
• Wednesday: Greek style pepperoni naan pizza (use the new flatbread, and cut each piece in half so you end up with four individual pizzas!). Have sliced mango on the side.
• Thursday: Easy chicken fajitas (cut chicken down to 1 lb & substitute about 1 Tbsp lemon juice for lime, red onion for yellow). Serve on corn tortillas + the rest of your pack of flour tortillas and top with sliced avocado.
• Friday: Greek tortellini salad (cut up the rest of your pepperoni, and substitute it for the salami).
• Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 1/20/18

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz Happy Farms block cheddar, $1.79
8 oz Priano fresh mozzarella, $2.79
Happy Farms preferred 4 oz feta crumbles, $1.99
20 oz Priano three cheese tortellini, $3.99

Grocery

Specially Selected flatbread pizza crust, $2.49
12 oz jar Tuscan Garden quartered artichoke hearts in water, $2.69
Tuscan Garden mild pepper rings, $1.49
Specially Selected 6 oz Kalamata olives, $2.49
32 oz SimplyNature organic vegetable broth, $1.79
Reggano 12 oz rotini, $.79
Can Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $.49
1 can Happy Harvest corn, $.48
2 cans Dakota’s Pride chickpeas (garbanzo beans), $1.30
28 oz can Happy Harvest crushed tomatoes, $.95
6 oz can Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.39
1 can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69
8 oz can Happy Harvest tomato sauce, $.29
10 oz Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $.59
El Milagro flour tortillas, $.89
El Milagro corn tortillas, $.33
16 oz SimplyNature organic red split lentils, $2.19

Meat

6 oz Mama Cozzi sliced pepperoni, $2.19
3 lbs bone-in chicken thighs, $2.97
1 lb 80/20 ground beef, $2.99
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.29

Produce

2 lb bag of lemons, $2.99
8 oz bag spinach, $1.49
Three packs 8 oz mushrooms, $2.07
1 cucumber, $.59
Pineapple, $1.29
2 mangoes, $.98
3 heads garlic, $1.09
2 lbs red onions, $1.99
Three pack multicolored bell peppers, $2.49
1 pint grape tomatoes, $2.29
2 avocados, $1.98

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That comes to $60.58.

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.

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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.

Ad markets and dates

This week’s ALDI meal plan reflects prices from the current week’s ad (running 1/14-1/20 in Sunday ad markets, and 1/17-1/23 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 1/17/18 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 1/21/18.

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Happy ALDI shopping and cooking this week, everyone!