Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 2/12/23

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 2/12/23! This week we’re cooking up everything from homemade tuna poke bowls to oven baked chicken thighs & rice, and so much more.

Sure, you might be doing the whole appetizer, chili, & whatnot thing on Sunday instead. Since everyone does something different (or you might be attending or hosting a gathering), I just planned a regular meal that night. If you have alternate big game food plans this week, just skip that dinner — OR, you can shift everything forward a night and start cooking this week’s plan on Monday. Enjoy!

As always, our weekly ALDI menu plans bring you everything you need: Easy recipes and a printable shopping list (or easy add-to-Instacart) that let you make six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door. Bring your family together around home-cooked meals, and save time & money in the process.

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You can use any meal plan as an easy starting point. Modify your own family’s dinners around what’s in stock (or on sale) in your area, what’s on hand in your pantry, and any special dietary needs or preferences.

Free ALDI meal plan week of 2/12/23 – 2/18/23

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Before jumping straight into this week’s menu, though, let’s talk briefly about this week’s new ALDI Finds & updates.

Asian Week and football foods

ALDI Finds for the week of 2/8/23 include Asian Week foods, money trees, football snacks, and so much more.

*** All of my favorite ALDI Finds of the week, here. ***

Check out this week’s picks (and pix), and let me know what you want to Find.

Lastly, here’s what’s new on the Amazon front:

Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds include measuring beakers, Rubik’s cube earrings, & more.
This HUGE list of HUNDREDS of subscribe & save filler items is updated every Thursday.

But with no further ado, here’s your ALDI meal plan for the week of 2/12/23. *** Be sure to sign up for our weekly emails, so that you never miss a new one.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 2/12/23 – 2/18/23

Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday. As always, six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door.

*** Print your meal plan summary + grocery shopping list below this week’s detailed plan, in Word, .rtf, or PDF format. ***
I’m assuming that you have on hand some pantry basics like cooking oil, condiments, and spices. Read through the recipes before you shop, to make sure that you have the necessary pantry staples on hand for this week’s ALDI menu plan. *** The printable shopping list includes a separate section of needed basics for the week.

Six easy dinners from ALDI for $70

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 2/12/23

Sunday

Ramen noodle stir fry (use 80/20 ground beef)
Garlic green beans
Half of the grapes

Monday

25 minute veggie fajitas
Slightly smashed garlicky black beans (add in some diced jalapeño as well, if you like spice)

Tuesday

Ground beef & broccoli stir fry
Carrot stir fry
(Any leftover ramen stir fry from Sunday, throw that on into your meal, too!)
Cooked rice

Wednesday

Slow cooker garlic lime chicken thighs
Serve with creamy rice with butter & chicken broth, and
Garden salad on the side, topped with sliced radishes and carrots
Tonight, put your frozen tuna in the fridge to thaw slowly for tomorrow’s recipe.

Thursday

Ahi tuna poke bowls (substitute the rest of the bag of edamame for the seaweed, and add some shredded carrot)
The rest of the grapes

Friday

Oven baked chicken thighs and rice
Steam up the rest of the broccoli, and melt on shredded cheddar

Saturday

Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells nice big take-and-bake deli pizzas), carryout, mix it up!

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 2/11/23

*** Psst — check below this grocery list for easy one-stop Instacart shopping, as well as an easy-print version. We came in under budget, so are re-stocking condiments like minced garlic, soy sauce, and butter this week! 😉

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $2.09
Countryside Creamery butter quarters, $4.09

Frozen

16 oz shelled edamame, $2.49

Grocery

3 lbs Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $2.29
Fusia soy sauce, $1.59
Fusia ramen noodles, $2.99
8 oz Stonemill minced garlic in water, $2.29
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.29
El Milagro flour tortillas, $1.16
2 cans Dakota’s Pride black beans, $1.58
Can of Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $.89

Meat

2 lbs 80/20 ground beef, $7.58
12 oz ahi tuna (frozen), $5.49
5 lbs family pack chicken thighs, $8.95

Produce

16 oz bag of limes, $2.29
3 lbs green grapes, $2.98
1 cucumber, $.69
2 lbs carrots, $1.79
Bag of radishes, $1.39
16 oz green beans, $1.89
Bunch green onions, $.89
Bag of garden salad, $1.79
8 oz mushrooms, $1.89
1.5 lbs broccoli crowns, $2.99
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.79
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.79
8 oz jalapeños, $.79
3 avocados, $1.47
2 Roma tomatoes, $.40

That comes to: $70.60

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 have on hand, and/or sale produce from your local fruit market.

Shop this week’s meal plan with Instacart

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Easy-peasy: *** Add this week’s grocery list to your Instacart. ***

IMPORTANT! READ BEFORE CHECKING OUT:

You’ll need to check your pantry for staples not included in this Instacart list. *** See needed pantry staples, below.
The list feature doesn’t allow me to add multiples of a single item or to change the weight of items. So: Before adding the list to your cart, change the following
1. El Milagro flour tortillas aren’t listed (though they’re in my stores), so I added Pueblo Lindo instead. Add a note to your shopper to buy El Milagro, if available.
2. The Fusia ramen noodles that are a special buy this week aren’t showing, so put a note to your shopper to add them.
3. Change the quantity on the black beans to two, avocados to three, and tomatoes to two.
4. Make a note to your shopper that you want around a 5 lb pack of chicken thighs, and 1.5 lbs broccoli crowns.
5. Green grapes aren’t showing bc my store is out; I substituted red. Get 3 lbs of either.

Please use the add your list to Instacart feature at your own risk, always double checking your cart against the recipes. Also note that Instacart prices are higher than in store, so your total will be higher than shown in the above grocery list.

** Pantry staples to check for before shopping: Olive oil, canola oil, sesame oil, honey, brown sugar, corn starch, powdered ginger, crushed red pepper, chili powder, cumin, smoked paprika, oregano, garlic powder, parsley, sea salt, Kosher salt, black pepper

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, or:
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If you don’t have Word, try opening this in Google Docs or Wordpad.

Edit and add in your own meal ideas, remove items you have on hand, and/or change regional pricing to match your own store. *** Day(s) next to each item in the printable shopping list show which nights use each ingredient, so that you can easily see what to delete if you’re skipping a night or modifying.

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 up, 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 2/5-2/11 in Sunday ad markets, and 2/8-2/14 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices are from my local store in the Chicago suburbs. Prices and produce deals *can vary* by location & region. In either ad market, shop any time through Saturday and start cooking on Sunday 2/12/23.

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