Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 3/27/22

Welcome back to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/27/22! This week we’re cooking up everything from sausage, egg, & spinach hand pies to many mushroom quesadillas — and, so much more.

Every meal plan (even this one!) includes six complete dinners for four, $65 out the door. Use these easy family recipes to help save time & money with meal planning, and to help take the stress out of dinnertime decisions.

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This menu plan can also be used as a starting point: Modify 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 3/27/22 – 4/2/22

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But first, what’s new this week?

Hawaiian crescents and Easter candy

ALDI Finds for the week of 3/23/22 include Easter candy, Hawaiian crescent rolls, crab cakes, and so much more. Check out all of my favorite Finds of the week here, and let me know what you’re planning to pick up.

And over on the Amazon:

Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds ranged from a banana phone to a giant cookie pillow, and more!
This HUGE list of subscribe & save filler items is updated each Thursday.

But now that we’re caught up with all of that, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/27/22.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 3/27/22 – 4/2/22

Pick up everything on the shopping list below, and start cooking on Sunday: As always, six complete dinners for four, $65 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, common 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; a list is included in the printable shopping list below.

Six easy dinners from ALDI for $65

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 3/27/22

Sunday

Sausage, egg, & spinach hand pies — add 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper, if using non-hot breakfast sausage
Slice up the strawberries on the side

Monday

Many mushroom quesadillas
Easy black bean soup (use chicken broth), topped with chopped green onion
Half the tortilla chips

Tuesday

Smoked sausage & veggies skillet
Toast up some of the Italian bread on the side

Wednesday

Beef, tomato, & spinach tortellini — Use 4 oz regular spinach, instead of 5 oz baby
Make garlic bread with the rest of the loaf of Italian bread — use butter & garlic salt

Thursday

Easy chipotle chili (make this with ground beef instead of ground turkey & drain the beef after browning), topped with shredded cheddar + chopped green onion
The rest of the tortilla chips

Friday

Smoked salmon, avocado, and ricotta frittata — use the last 7 eggs; it’s OK to use one less when you have to!
Slice up the mangoes

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 3/26/22

Dairy & refrigerated

2 blocks 8 oz Happy Farms cheddar, $3.78
Priano shredded Parmesan, $2.19
8 oz block Happy Farms mozzarella, $1.89
Emporium Selection whole milk ricotta, $1.69
Dozen Goldhen large eggs, $1.27
Bake House Creations refrigerated pie crust, $1.69
9 oz Priano 3 cheese tortellini, $2.99

Grocery

Clancy’s tortilla chips, $1.25
L’Oven Fresh Italian bread, $1.79
32 oz box Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.19
El Milagro flour tortillas, $.98
Can Pueblo Lindo chipotles in adobo, $1.29
4 cans Dakota’s Pride black beans, $2.76
1 can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.69
2 cans Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $1.92

Meat

2 lbs 80/20 ground beef, $7.98
16 oz Appleton Farms pork sausage roll, $2.49
Parkview Polska kielbasa, $3.29
Specially Selected 3 oz smoked salmon, $4.19

Produce

3 lbs yellow onions, $1.89
3 heads garlic, $1.29
1.25 lbs zucchini, $1.61
8 oz spinach, $1.59
3 packs 8 oz mushrooms, $5.07
2 lbs strawberries, $3.98
Bunch green onions, $.79
7 Roma tomatoes, $1.40
1 avocado, $1.09
2 mangoes, $1.78

That comes to: $65.81

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 fruit market.

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

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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 3/20-3/26 in Sunday ad markets, and 3/23-3/29 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices are from my local store in the Chicago suburbs, and 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 3/27/22.

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