Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 5/21/23

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/21/23! This week we’re cooking up everything from leftover pulled pork chili to tortellini with broccoli & tomatoes — plus, so much more.

Hello, and welcome back! You are definitely in the right place for a week of delicious dinners from ALDI, so: Read on for all of the easy recipes, printable shopping list, and easy add-to-Instacart list, shop for your ingredients, and get going on some great homemade meals.

Our affordable ALDI meal plans always feature six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door. Bring your family together around the table for a week of delicious dinners — and, of course, save time & money in the process.

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Free ALDI meal plan week of 5/21/23 – 5/27/23

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Before jumping straight into this week’s menu, though, let’s talk briefly about new ALDI Finds & updates.

BBQ burgers and cold brew coffee

ALDI Finds for the week of 5/17/23 include everything you need for backyard BBQs, the useful cold brew coffee system, gluten free cheesecake, & more.

*** All of my favorite ALDI Finds of the week, here. ***

Check out this week’s picks (and more pix!), and let me know what you want to Find.

What’s new on the Amazon front? Well:

Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds include cute little people utensils, a cat tongue grooming brush, and more.
This huge list of HUNDREDS of subscribe & save filler items is updated every Thursday.

But here, with no further ado, it’s your easy ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/21/23.

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ALDI Meal Planning week of 5/21/23 – 5/27/23

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 5/21/23

Sunday

Slow cooker pulled pork sandwiches — mix some of the pulled pork with BBQ sauce, and serve on the hamburger buns
Everything bagel potatoes topped with chopped green onion, cutting up red potatoes instead of using baby. No everything seasoning? Use garlic, sea salt, black pepper to taste. No Instant Pot? Boil potatoes until fork tender, then proceed with the rest of the recipe.
Half of the oranges

Monday

Southwest pulled pork & potato bowls (use the frozen corn & colby jack)
The rest of the oranges

Tuesday

Easy leftover pulled pork chili, topped with shredded colby jack & chopped green onion
Scoop up with tortilla chips

Wednesday

Cheese tortellini with broccoli & tomatoes
Heat up the baguette

Thursday

Italian chicken thighs with zucchini & red potatoes

Friday

Fajita inspired sheet pan chicken thighs
Slice up the avocado
The rest of the tortilla chips

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 5/20/23

*** Check below this grocery list for Easy One-Stop Instacart Shopping, as well as an editable easy-print version.

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz block Happy Farms colby jack, $2.09
Emporium Selection shredded Parmesan, $2.49
2 packs 9 oz Priano three cheese tortellini, $6.18

Frozen

12 oz Season’s Choice steamable sweet corn, $.95
12 oz Season’s Choice steamable broccoli florets, $.99

Grocery

L’Oven Fresh hamburger buns, $1.29
Specially Selected French baguette, $1.79
Clancy’s restaurant style tortilla chips, $1.89
Specially Selected salsa verde, $3.29
Burman’s BBQ sauce of choice, $1.49
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.29
Can Happy Harvest whole kernel corn, $.49
2 cans Dakota’s Pride great northern beans, $1.42
1 can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.79
1 can Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $.89
1 can Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $.85
Stonemill minced garlic in water 8 oz, $2.29

Meat

7 lb Smithfield boneless pork butt, $13.93
6 lb family pack bone-in chicken thighs, $9.54

Produce

3 lbs cara cara oranges, $2.99
Bunch of green onions, $.85
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.29
5 lbs red potatoes, $3.99
1.25 lbs zucchini, $1.61
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.79
Grape tomatoes, $1.89
1 avocado, $.59

That comes to: $70.94

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 a 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, and the meat special buys don’t usually show up. So: Before adding the list to your cart, change these quantities and make the following notes.
1. Quantities:
  - Change the quantity of tortellini to two
  - Change the quantity of great northern beans to two
2. Notes for your shopper:
  - Make a note that you want a six lb family pack of the chicken thighs
  - Make a note to add a 7 lb pork butt; the meat special buy is not showing in Instacart but should be available in store
  - Make a note that you want 20 oz of the zucchini

Please use the add your list to Instacart feature at your own risk, and always double check your cart against the grocery list above. 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, butter, Kosher salt, chili powder, paprika, smoked paprika, cumin, brown sugar, oregano, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, cayenne, bay leaves, crushed red pepper, black pepper, sea salt, seasoned salt, everything bagel seasoning (optional)

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

Print this week’s meal plan:

*** Download this week’s printable ALDI shopping list and meal plan in Word format, or:
- Download in .rtf format
- Download in PDF format
If you don’t have Word, open the shopping list 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 that at 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.

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 5/14-5/20 in Sunday ad markets, and 5/17-5/23 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 5/21/23.

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