It’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 10/21/18: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday.

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But now, let’s get 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, and you can just scroll down under the grocery list to find the easy printable ALDI meal plan and shopping list for this week. (This is in Word format, but you should be able to open in Wordpad or Google Docs if you don’t have Word.)

ALDI meal planning week of 10/21/18 – 10/27/18

I’m assuming that you already have 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. 

Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00

ALDI meal plan — Start cooking 10/21/18

• Sunday: Caprese chicken thighs + kale skillet (use half the bag of kale). Have honeycrisp apples on the side.
• Monday: Garlic mushroom chicken thighs (skip garnish, or use a little dried parsley instead of fresh). Serve with crispy potato wedges (use 3 of the big bakers instead of four smaller russets) and any apples you have left.
• Tuesday: Mushroom, black bean, & spinach veggie burritos. Serve with avocado & tomato salad (cut down on the vinaigrette to taste, and substitute yellow onion).
• Wednesday: Pepperoni pizza soup with kale. Top with shredded mozzarella + a little Parmesan if you like, and serve with chopped salad made with 1 1/2 hearts of romaine, half a pint of grape tomatoes, 4 oz chopped baby carrots, and balsamic vinaigrette.
• Thursday: Smoked sausage, zucchini, and spinach pasta (use 4 oz regular spinach instead of 5 oz baby). Serve with salad made with the rest of your romaine, carrots, and grape tomatoes, along with sliced pears.
• Friday: Lazy girl turkey salsa chili in the Crock-Pot (sub olive oil if you don’t have coconut; use the rest of your salsa & two smaller cans of diced tomatoes rather than the one big one ALDI doesn’t carry). Serve over baked potatoes, top with shredded cheddar, and slice up some more pears on the side.
• Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 10/20/18

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz brick Happy Farms mozzarella, $1.99
8 oz brick Happy Farms cheddar, $1.99
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

SimplyNature organic aged balsamic vinaigrette, $1.99
32 oz SimplyNature organic chicken broth, $1.89
12 oz Reggano tri-colored rotini, $.79
14 oz SimplyNature organic pizza sauce, $1.99
12 El Milagro medium flour tortillas, $.95
16 oz Specially Selected salsa, $1.99
14.5 oz fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.89
Two 14.5 oz diced tomatoes, $1.38
2 cans Dakota’s Pride black beans, $1.38
1 can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.69
1 can Great Northern beans, $.69
8 oz Stonemill minced garlic in water, $1.79

Meat

3.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs, $5.92
19.2 oz pack Fit & Active ground turkey, $3.49
13-14 oz Polska kielbasa (turkey or regular), $2.29
5-6 oz Mama Cozzi pepperoni (turkey or regular), $2.19

Produce

2 lbs honeycrisp apples, $1.89
3 lbs Bartlett pears, $1.89
12 oz organic chopped kale, $2.19
3 hearts romaine, $1.99
8 oz bag spinach, $1.19
Three 8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $2.97
16 oz baby carrots, $.99
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.99
5 lb baking potatoes, $2.49
20 oz zucchini, $1.29
2 pints grape tomatoes, $1.98
4 Roma tomatoes, $.60
4 pack organic avocados, $2.79

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That comes to $60.53.

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 and grocery list

*** Download this week’s printable ALDI shopping list and meal plan 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. See: Pantry staples to stock up on and how to modify a meal plan for your family.

** Ad markets and dates

This week’s ALDI meal plan reflects prices from the current week’s ad (running 10/14-10/20 in Sunday ad markets, and 10/17-10/23 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 10/17/18 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 10/21/18.

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Useful resources for meal planning + ALDI shopping

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

• Come join us in the Almost All ALDI Facebook group for recipes, meal planning ideas, ALDI food finds, and more.
• How fun are these ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys? Check out my Amazon storefront, and browse several tees that show our mutual ALDI love.
• Pick up a pack of meal prep containers & pack up any dinner leftovers for easy weekday lunches!
• Cute & handy ALDI quarter keepers.
• Check out my Amazon shop for some of my favorite useful items for your own meal planning. Also useful: Two pack insulated grab bag totes, or two pack clip to cart bags.
• Almost All ALDI, the eBook.

You can always access your current regional ALDI ad here.