Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/25/18: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday!

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But 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.

ALDI meal planning week of 3/25/18 – 3/31/18

I’m assuming here that you already have pantry basics like cooking oil, 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 3/25/18

• Sunday: Lemony pork chops, tomatoes, and potatoes (use 1.5 lbs pork chops), sliced cantaloupe.
• Monday: Southwest quinoa unstuffed peppers (substitute diced tomatoes with green chilies for the mild chopped green chiles; use the yellow and orange bell peppers), mandarins.
• Tuesday: Paprika pork chop sandwiches, with mandarins.
• Wednesday: Lemon chicken skillet madness (substitute vegetable for chicken broth, and yellow onion for red) with garlic butter quinoa on the side.
• Thursday: Sausage, peppers, & onions frittata with sourdough toast and the last of your mandarins.
• Friday: Easy flounder & asparagus packets, baked potatoes, and boil up your last four eggs to slice up 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 3/24/18

Dairy & refrigerated

Dozen Goldhen eggs, $.78
Happy Farms Preferred 4 oz garlic & herb goat cheese, $1.79
8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.79
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

Specially Selected sourdough square, $2.89
Tuscan Garden quartered artichoke hearts in water, $2.79
16 oz SimplyNature organic quinoa, $3.49
32 oz SimplyNature organic vegetable broth, $1.49
Can Happy Harvest corn, $.49
Can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69
Can Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes $.89
Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with mild green chilies, $.59
8 oz jar minced garlic in water, $1.79

Meat3 lbs thick cut pork chops, $8.97
Never Any! chicken apple sausage, $2.99
1 lb flounder (frozen), $4.29
3 lbs bone-in chicken thighs, $3.87Produce

2 lbs lemons, $1.99
3 lb mandarins, $2.69
Cantaloupe, $.99
8 oz mushrooms, $1.69
1 lb asparagus, $2.29
5 lb baking potatoes, $2.49
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.49
3 pack multi-colored peppers, $1.99
Avocado, $1.19
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.99

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That comes to $60.38.

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!

*** Download this week’s shopping list 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 3/18-3/24 in Sunday ad markets, and 3/21-3/27 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 3/21/18 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 3/25/18.

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Useful resources for meal planning + ALDI shopping

Before we get started this week, here are 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 brand new ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys? Check out my just-launched 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 also access your current regional ALDI ad here.