Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 11/21/21

It’s your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 11/21/21: This week, we’re cooking up everything from THANKSGIVING DINNER to delicious baked Parmesan pork chops — and so much more!

Happy ALDI Meal Plan Day: And yes, this one even includes Thanksgiving dinner for four, all in the usual $65 weekly budget. Save time & money with meal planning, and relax this Thanksgiving week — in the knowledge that your dinnertime decisions are covered.

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Use this menu plan as a starting point, modifying it 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 11/21/21 – 11/27/21

Use these meal plans to help reclaim some of your precious time, and you may no longer dread the perennial question: What’s for dinner?

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But first, what’s new this week?

Black Forest Bacon, Cranberry Jalapeño Dip, Poinsettias…

Fresh turkeys, gelato flights, poinsettias, and so much more — Check out my top 25+ ALDI Finds of the week, and let me know what you’re planning to buy.

Now that we’re caught up, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 11/21/21!

ALDI Meal Planning week of 11/21/21 – 11/27/21

Pick up everything on the shopping list below, and start cooking on Sunday: As always, six complete dinners for four, $65 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 $65

Note: You can obviously add more items to your Thanksgiving feast if you have room in your budget over the usual $65 this week — pie, cranberry sauce, whatever floats your Thanksgiving boat beyond the basics. 🙂

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 11/21/21

Sunday

• Cracker-y, crumble-y, Parmesan-y pork chops
• Cut up and steam half of the broccoli, and season with a little garlic salt
• Oranges

Monday

• Salsa vegetable soup with beans (use chicken broth instead of vegetable)
• Heat up the baguette to go with

Tuesday

• Sausage & sweet potato sheet pan dinner
• Side salad, topped with restaurant style Italian dressing. (Reserve a cup of dressing for tomorrow’s dinner)

Wednesday

• Olive Garden dressing sheet pan chicken dinner
• Cut up the pineapple

Thursday

• Thanksgiving dinner for four! Roast up your turkey your own favorite way, and serve with
• Roasted Brussels sprouts with Parmesan
• Baked sweet potatoes
• Hawaiian rolls
• For an appetizer: Slice up the Swiss cheese and half of the cheddar, serve with buttery round crackers

Friday

• Leftover turkey chili, topped with shredded cheddar
• Tortilla chips
• Oranges

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 11/20/21

Dairy & refrigerated

Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99
8 oz block Happy Farms Swiss, $1.89
8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.89

Grocery

L’Oven Fresh Hawaiian sweet rolls, $2.09
Specially Selected baguette, $1.39
Casa Mamita restaurant style salsa, $1.89
Clancy’s restaurant style tortilla chips, $1.25
Savoritz golden rounds crackers, $1.49
Tuscan Garden restaurant style Italian dressing, $1.99
2 boxes 32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $2.38
Can of Pueblo Lindo chopped green chiles, $.69
Can of Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69
Can of Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.69
Can of Dakota’s Pride Great Northern beans, $.69
Can of Simply Nature organic pinto beans, $.99
Can of Happy Harvest whole kernel corn, $.49
Can of Happy Harvest cut green beans, $.49
2 cans Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $1.78
Can of Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.49

Meat

Parkview Polska kielbasa, $2.39
11 lb Butterball turkey, $9.57
1.25 lbs thin sliced boneless center cut pork chops, $5.61
1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, $4.04

Produce

4 lbs navel oranges, $3.49
Pineapple, $1.69
16 oz bag of Brussels sprouts, $1.39
16 oz broccoli crowns, $1.89
16 oz green beans, $1.89
8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $1.99
8 oz white mushrooms, $1.89
Bag of Little Salad Bar garden salad, $1.19
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.19
3 heads garlic, $1.19
5 sweet potatoes, $1.23

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That comes to: $65.89

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 produce market.

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.
• If you don’t have Word, you can 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

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, 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 11/14-11/20 in Sunday ad markets, and 11/17-11/23 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 11/21/21.

Stay in the meal planning loop

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Resources for meal planning & ALDI shopping

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

• Master list of meal planning resources
• Come join us in the Almost All ALDI Facebook group for recipes, meal planning ideas, ALDI food finds, and more.
• 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!
• 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.
• How fun are these ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys?!

Lastly: You can always access your current regional ALDI ad here.