Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 4/25/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 4/25/21! This week, we’re cooking up everything from garlic soy chicken & mushrooms, to salsa pork tacos, to ground turkey stir fry — and so much more. Every week is another chance to cook along with us, save time & money with meal planning, and try something new with your family.

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 4/25/21 – 5/1/21

Use these meal plans to help restore some rhythm to your weeks, and to help reclaim some of your precious time!

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But first, what’s new this week?

ALDI Finds

From berry bushes to chipotle hummus, from gazebos to veggie puffs — check out 25+ of the top ALDI Finds of the week! What are you planning on picking up?

You know those big bunches of green onions they sell at ALDI? Stretch yours even further by re-growing the ends into whole new scallions — and then plant them in your garden this spring!

ALDI Meal Planning week of 4/25/21 – 5/1/21

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 4/25/21. 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

garlic soy roasted chicken in this week's ALDI meal plan

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 4/25/21

Sunday

Garlic soy roasted chicken & mushrooms
Garden salad on the side

Monday

Ground turkey stir fry with cauliflower rice
Slice up the pineapple

Tuesday

Slow cooker salsa verde pulled pork tacos — serve on corn tortillas with shredded cheddar, diced tomato, and chopped green onion
Cut up mango on the side

Wednesday

Salsa verde pork & spinach baked taquitos
Roast up the rest of the broccoli — toss it with olive oil, sea salt, black pepper, and any other spices of choice to taste, spread out on a rimmed baking sheet, and put it in the oven a few minutes before the taquitos

Thursday

Comforting carnitas stew (use salsa pork), topped with shredded cheddar and chopped green onion
Tortilla chips
Slice up the rest of the tomatoes, and top with a little sea salt

Friday

Kielbasa quesadillas
The rest of the tortilla chips
Cups of leftover carnitas stew

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 4/24/21

Dairy & refrigerated

12 oz shredded Happy Farms cheddar, $3.19
8 oz block Happy Farms mozzarella, $1.95
8 oz Happy Farms cream cheese, $1.29

Frozen

Season’s Choice plain riced cauliflower, $1.99

Grocery

Specially Selected salsa verde, $1.99
Clancy’s white round tortilla chips, $1.89
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard beef broth, $1.19
Can Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $.65
Can Pueblo Lindo chipotles in adobo, $.99
Can Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.39
28 oz can Happy Harvest crushed tomatoes, $.89
Can Happy Harvest corn, $.49
Can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.59
Can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.59
2 packs El Milagro flour tortillas, $1.96
1 pack El Milagro corn tortillas, $.39

Meat

4 lbs split chicken breast, $5.16
16 oz Kirkwood frozen ground turkey, $1.99
6 lb boneless pork butt, $10.14
Parkview Polska kielbasa, $2.49

Produce

Whole pineapple, $1.89
1 lb beefsteak tomatoes, $1.29
2 mangoes, $1.58
Little Salad Bar garden salad, $1.49
8 oz fresh spinach, $1.49
3 packs 8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $3.87
20 oz broccoli, $1.86
Bunch green onions, $.79
3 heads garlic, $1.19
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.29
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.99

That comes to: $60.94

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 4/18-4/24 in Sunday ad markets, and 4/21-4/27 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 4/25/21.

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