Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 3/14/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/14/21! This week, you’ll enjoy everything from roast chile-lime chicken & potatoes to easy spice rubbed fish tacos — and so much more.

As always, 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 3/14/21 – 3/20/21

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?

Easter Candy, Crab Cakes, and… Baked Potatoes!

Easter candy, spring gnomes, spicy pizza… These and 25+ more top ALDI Finds of the week! Check out my picks, and let me know what strikes your eye from this week’s special buys.

Also in this week’s ad: Crab cakes! Read my ALDI Fremont Fish Market crab cakes review, and if you’re intrigued, you can pick up a five pack for just $3.99.

And finally, welcome back to the next installment of our irregular “one thing a day” series: Bake some potatoes! Who else regularly buys bags of baking potatoes at ALDI? Future you will thank past you for this easy side dish, base for leftovers or a baked potato bar, and more.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 3/14/21 – 3/20/21

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/14/21. 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

spice rubbed fish tacos in this week's aldi meal plan

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 3/14/21

Sunday

Simple roast chicken & vegetables
Cheesy garlic broccoli — bake this at 400 in the same oven with the chicken, but cover the dish with foil, and check for doneness at 20 minutes

Monday

Easy 25 minute veggie fajitas, served in tortillas with avocado & shredded cheddar
Slightly smashed garlicky black beans (use as a side and/or add them into the fajitas, and top with chopped cilantro to taste)
Mandarins

Tuesday

Slow cooker garlic lime chicken thighs
Garden salad, topped with chopped sweet bell pepper & chopped tomatoes

Wednesday

Slow cooker corned beef & cabbage (use yellow onion, and regular red potatoes)
Mandarins

Thursday

Roasted chile-lime chicken & potatoes (substitute 1.5 lbs red potatoes)
Simple sauteed spinach (use a little splash of lime juice instead of lemon)

Friday

Easy spice rubbed fish tacos, served in tortillas with avocado, chopped cilantro, & shredded cheddar
Tortilla chips & salsa
Any remaining mandarins

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 3/13/21

Dairy & refrigerated

16 oz Happy Farms shredded cheddar, $3.99
Park Street Deli fresh cut salsa, $2.29

Grocery

Clancy’s white round tortilla chips, $1.89
2 packs El Milagro flour tortillas, $1.96
2 cans Dakota’s Pride black beans, $1.18

Meat

3.5 lb corned beef points, $6.97
1 lb tilapia, $4.99
5.5 lbs bone-in chicken thighs, $5.45
5 lb whole chicken, $4.75

Produce

1 lb limes, $1.89
3 lbs mandarins, $2.69
Bunch cilantro, $.79
Bag of garden salad, $1.59
Bag of spinach, $1.49
1 lb broccoli crowns, $1.49
2 lbs carrots, $1.29
2 packs 8 oz white mushrooms, $3.78
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.49
3 heads garlic, $1.19
5 lbs red potatoes, $1.99
1 medium head cabbage, $.35
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.99
8 oz jalapeños, $.69
4 avocados, $3.16
2 Roma tomatoes, $.50

That comes to: $60.84

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, 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

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 3/7-3/13 in Sunday ad markets, and 3/10-3/16 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 3/14/21.

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