Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 5/29/22

Welcome back to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/29/22! This week we’re cooking up everything from naan pesto pizza to skillet chicken with corn, zucchini, & tomatoes — and, so much more.

This morning, it’s hard to carry on with meal planning as if nothing has happened. We do still have to eat, but, as you feed your family, hug your kids and other loved ones a little tighter tonight. Our hearts go out to Uvalde, Texas, and to all of the families there and across the country who have been devastated by gun violence.

Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 5/29/22: Six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door

Welcome to Memorial Day weekend meal planning, where your Monday BBQ is included in this week’s edition. As always: Six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door. Use these recipes and dinner ideas to help reduce mealtime stress, and to save time & money in the process.

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Use this weekly menu plan 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 5/29/22 – 6/4/22

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But first, what’s new? Let’s quickly catch up on ALDI Finds and more:

Mac & cheese pizza, ranch seasoning, and more

As always, let’s start with ALDI Finds for the week of 5/25/22 — which include garden pruners, ranch seasoning, apple cider vinegar sodas, mac & cheese pizza, and more. Check out all of my favorite ALDI Finds of the week here, and let me know what you’re planning to pick up.

Then, just a brief detour into fun and savings over on the Amazon:

Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds ranged from singing pasta timers to bacon lip balm, and more.
This HUGE list of subscribe & save filler items is updated each Thursday.

Now that we’re caught up, here’s your simple ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/29/22. Sign up for our weekly email, so that you never miss another one!

ALDI Meal Planning week of 5/29/22 – 6/4/22

Pick up everything on the shopping list below, and 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, 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 $70

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 5/29/22

Sunday

Skillet chicken drumsticks with corn, zucchini, & tomatoes (substitute frozen corn, sauteeing it for another minute or so if necessary)

Monday

Memorial Day BBQ: Grill (or cook) up the burgers, topping them with sliced cheddar, thinly sliced onion, and BBQ sauce. (Reserve 1 cup sauce for tomorrow.)
Half the watermelon
The potato chips

Tuesday

Slow cooker BBQ chicken drumsticks
The other half of the watermelon

Wednesday

Naan pizza with pesto, zucchini, & tomatoes
Simple sheet pan green beans (roast at 400, putting in a few minutes before the pizza)

Thursday

Easy smoked sausage & spinach soup (use regular spinach)
Side salad with the garden salad + the rest of the bag of spinach

Friday

Ground chicken & zucchini pesto pasta skillet (substitute ground chicken for the turkey)
Baguette

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 5/28/22

Dairy & refrigerated

Emporium Selection shredded Parmesan, $2.29
8 oz brick mozzarella cheese, $1.85
Happy Farms deli-sliced cheddar, $1.49

Frozen

10 oz Simply Nature Organic super sweet corn, $1.29

Grocery

Specially Selected naan, $4.49
L’Oven Fresh hamburger buns, $.85
Specially Selected French baguette, $1.69
Clancy’s wavy potato chips, $1.45
Burman’s BBQ sauce, $.79
32 oz box Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.29
Priano Genovese pesto, $2.49
12 oz box Reggano farfalle, $.95
Can Dakota’s Pride great northern beans, $.71
Can Dakota’s Pride cannellini beans, $.71
Can Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.91

Meat

Parkview Polska kielbasa, $3.79
6 lbs chicken drumsticks, $5.34
1 lb Perdue fresh ground chicken, $2.99
1 lb Thomas Farms fresh grass-fed beef patties, $4.99

Produce

Watermelon, $5.99
8 oz baby carrots, $.89
Celery, $1.29
16 oz green beans, $1.89
8 oz bag spinach, $1.69
Bag of garden salad, $1.45
8 oz white mushrooms, $1.69
8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $1.89
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.29
3 heads garlic, $1.69
2.5 lbs zucchini, $3.48
2 pints grape tomatoes, $3.78
24 oz tomatoes on the vine, $2.29

That comes to: $70.67

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 have on hand, or change regional pricing to match 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.

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 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 5/22-5/28 in Sunday ad markets, and 5/25-5/31 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 5/29/22.

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