Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 10/11/20

Mashup Mom ALDI Meal Plan week of 10/11/20: Six dinners for four, $60.

This week’s ALDI meal plan takes us another week closer to Halloween! Spoooky, right? Me, I’m just enjoying the fall flavors (and the excuse to jump right back into comfort food…).

As always, use this menu plan as a starting point, modifying 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 10/11/20 – 10/17/20

As our strange times keep on keeping on, I do hope you can use these meal plans to help restore some rhythm to your weeks.

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But first, what’s new this week?

Tacos, Prime Day, and ALDI Finds (oh my)

This past Sunday October 4 was National Taco Day (hooray!). In that spirit, here are five easy taco (and taco-adjacent) recipes from this past year to help get your creative cooking juices flowing. Take a look and swap a taco recipe in for a meal in this week’s plan (if something here doesn’t meet your fancy).

Amazon Prime Day is fast approaching! Those of you looking to save beyond ALDI, check out some early access Prime Day deals and details here.

This week’s ALDI Finds range from steamable diced beets to 3-wick Halloween candles, from an electric chainsaw to pumpkin-shaped pizza, from single serve caramel cheesecake to Halloween pumpkins. Check out this week’s ALDI Finds rundown here — And, what are you picking up?

ALDI Meal Planning week of 10/11/20 – 10/17/20

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 10/11/20. Pick up everything on the shopping list below, and start cooking on Sunday: As always, six complete dinners for four, $60 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 $60

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 10/11/20

Sunday

Squash-age harvest vegetable stew
Heat up the take-and-bake baguette

Monday

Chipotle quesadillas with pan-roasted veggies & black beans (use 8 oz Mexican style cheese; see note on recipe)
Half the tortilla chips
Half the grapes

Tuesday

Easy chipotle taco soup
The other half of the tortilla chips
The other half of the grapes

Wednesday

Sweet & savory stuffed acorn squash dinner (use the Mexican style cheese)
Glazed carrots

Thursday

Roasted broccoli pasta with chicken and mushrooms
Salad topped with chopped bell pepper and dried cranberries

Friday

Chicken & cauliflower sheet pan dinner (use trimmed tenderloin instead of breast)
Slice up the rest of the apples

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 10/10/20

Dairy & refrigerated

12 oz Happy Farms shredded Mexican style cheese, $2.55
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

Southern Grove dried cranberries, $1.69
Specially Selected French baguette, $1.19
Clancy’s restaurant style tortilla chips, $1.69
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.19
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard beef broth, $1.19
12 oz Reggano rotini, $.99
El Milagro flour tortillas, $.98
Can Dakota’s Pride garbanzo beans (chickpeas), $.49
2 cans Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.96
Can Happy Harvest green beans, $.49
2 cans Happy Harvest corn, $.98
6 oz Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.39
8 oz Happy Harvest tomato sauce, $.29
Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.89
Pueblo Lindo chipotles in adobo, $.99
Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $.69

Meat

Parkview Polska kielbasa, $2.39
2 lbs 80/20 ground beef, $4.98
2.75 lbs chicken tenderloin, $5.47

Produce

3 lbs Gala apples, $1.49
2 lbs red grapes, $1.70
2 lbs carrots, $1.35
8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $1.99
8 oz mushrooms, $1.89
16 oz broccoli crowns, $1.49
Head of cauliflower, $2.49
8 oz fresh spinach, $1.35
Garden Salad, $1.19
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.89
3 heads garlic, $1.29
3 medium acorn squash, $6.60
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.79

That comes to: $59.98

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.

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

*** Download this week’s printable ALDI shopping list and meal plan in Word format. (If you don’t have Word, open this in Google Docs or in Wordpad.)

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

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.
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 10/4-10/10 in Sunday ad markets, and 10/7-10/13 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 10/11/20.

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