Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 2/5/23

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 2/5/23! This week we’re cooking up everything from easy artichoke mushroom pasta to slow cooker Mediterranean chicken drumsticks — and, so much more.

Welcome back, and welcome to February meal planning! (I know, we did some chicken drumsticks last week — but when I saw the jumbo packs on sale in the new ad, some different chicken-ish meals again fit so beautifully into this week’s budget.)

As always, our weekly ALDI menu plans bring you easy recipes and a pre-made shopping list to 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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Free ALDI meal plan week of 2/5/23 – 2/11/23

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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.

Heart shaped everything, and ALDI Poetry

ALDI Finds for the week of 2/1/23 include heart-shaped foods for Valentine’s Day, kitchen organization, and memory foam shoes.

*** 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.

Have you played around with the ChatGPT AI chat yet? Read the rest of the lovely poem it wrote me about ALDI, in: AI meets ALDI on a snowy Saturday.

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

Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds include ramen earrings, a chicken lamp laying a light bulb egg (!), and so much 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 2/5/23. *** Be sure to sign up for our weekly emails, so that you never miss a new one.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 2/5/23 – 2/11/23

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 2/5/23

Sunday

Sheet pan Parmesan chicken drumsticks with carrots & potatoes
Half of the grapes

Monday

Easy artichoke mushroom pasta
Heat up the baguette
Chop up half of the romaine, half of a cucumber, a couple of green onions, and one bell pepper to make a side salad with easy homemade salad dressing

Tuesday

Slow cooker Mediterranean chicken drumsticks
Slice up one of the cucumbers and the Roma tomatoes, serve lightly topped with sea salt
Any leftover pasta from Monday

Wednesday

Chicken drumsticks with mushrooms, tomatoes, & chickpeas (use sliced mushrooms)
The other half of the grapes

Thursday

Potato soup with spinach and lots of bacon, topped with chopped green onion — use the rest of the box of chicken broth, & increase the water to 1.5 cups if necessary
Chop up the rest of the romaine and make a side salad topped with balsamic vinaigrette, chopped green onion, diced avocado, & the last of your cucumber

Friday

Italian sausage, pepper, & potato packets, using roughly chopped regular potatoes instead of baby. Be sure to slice the Italian sausage small so that it cooks through.
Sauteed everything zucchini with Parmesan. No everything bagel seasoning? Substitute sea salt, garlic, and black pepper to taste.

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 2/4/23

*** Psst — check below this grocery list for easy one-stop Instacart shopping, as well as an easy-print version.

Dairy & refrigerated

Countryside Creamery butter quarters, $3.99 — yes, we budgeted to re-stock butter this week!
Priano shredded Parmesan, $2.49
Emporium Selection garlic & herb cheese spread, $3.29

Grocery

Specially Selected French baguette, $1.69
12 oz Tuscan Garden marinated artichokes, $2.59
5.75 oz jar Tuscan Garden Spanish manzanilla olives, $1.59
16 oz Tuscan Garden balsamic vinaigrette, $1.99
32 oz box Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.29
12 oz Reggano farfalle, $.92
28 oz can Happy Harvest crushed tomatoes, $1.29
15 oz can Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $.89
6 oz can Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.79
Can Dakota’s Pride garbanzo beans (chickpeas), $.79

Meat

9 lbs chicken drumsticks (look for jumbo packs on sale in many markets), $7.11
16 oz Appleton Farms premium sliced bacon, $3.89
19 oz pack mild Italian sausage, $4.69

Produce

3 lbs red grapes, $4.47
2 packs 8 oz sliced white mushrooms, $2.58
1 lb baby carrots, $1.09
3 ct romaine hearts, $3.29
2 cucumbers, $.98
Bunch green onions, $.89
5 oz organic baby spinach, $2.99
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.79
3 heads of garlic, $1.59
20 oz zucchini, $1.61
3 pack multicolored bell peppers, $2.79
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.99
4 Roma tomatoes, $1.00
5 lbs yellow potatoes, $3.99
1 avocado, $.49

That comes to: $70.83

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. Special buy cheap jumbo packs of drumsticks in this week’s ad are not showing in Instacart, so I used a family pack as a placeholder. Get two of the 4.5 lb-ish family packs, or make a note to your shopper to look for the cheaper jumbo packs, and to get you a total of 9 lbs.
2. Make a note to your shopper to look for a bigger 3 lb bag of the grapes.
3. Change the quantity of sliced mushrooms to two, cucumbers to two, and Roma tomatoes to four.

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, balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard, seasoned salt, basil, oregano, crushed red pepper, Italian seasoning, parsley, paprika, garlic powder, rosemary, thyme, black pepper, everything bagel seasoning, sea salt

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

Print this week’s meal plan:

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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 1/29-2/4 in Sunday ad markets, and 2/1-2/7 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 2/5/23.

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