Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 6/11/23

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 6/11/23! This week we’re cooking up everything from taco-style tater tot casserole to chicken fried rice, and so much more.

It’s yet another week of totally free-to-you ALDI meal planning, so read on to find:

Every easy family recipe you need for the week,
An editable, printable shopping list to take along to the store, or
An easy add-to-Instacart list, and
Six nights of great homemade dinners for your family!

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

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Free ALDI meal plan week of 6/11/23 – 6/17/23

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

Organic grass-fed ground beef and summer gnomes

ALDI Finds for the week of 6/7/23 include family packs of organic grass-fed ground beef, jalapeño popper pizza, summer gnomes, and 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. Then, you can extend your savings just a little further on Amazon, because this huge list of HUNDREDS of subscribe & save filler items is updated every Thursday.

Lastly, if you need more cool recipe ideas for summer, check out this new post featuring seven cool summer recipes for hot summer nights!

With no further ado, though, here’s your easy ALDI meal plan for the week of 6/11/23, and

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ALDI Meal Planning week of 6/11/23 – 6/17/23

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 6/11/23

Sunday

Taco-style tater tot casserole (use 1 lb ground beef + the 20 oz baby cakes), topped with additional salsa
Half of the grapes

Monday

20 minute ground beef & broccoli stir fry
Serve over cooked rice
Egg drop soup

Tuesday

Keema inspired ground beef quesadillas (use half the bag of peas), and mix the rest of the cream cheese with salsa (to taste) on the side
The rest of the grapes
Cut up a couple of carrots
Also: Hard boil up four eggs and refrigerate for tomorrow

Wednesday

Easy beef, tomato, & spinach tortellini (substitute regular spinach)
Mix the last 3 oz of spinach with the bag of garden salad to make a side salad, & top with sliced hard boiled egg & shredded Parmesan

Thursday

30 minute chicken broccoli mushroom stir fry (use 1 lb of the thighs)
Eggs with soy sauce & scallions, but double this to use four eggs & four green onions. Serve over cooked rice along with the stir fry.
Cooked rice — Cook up a double batch and refrigerate half for tomorrow

Friday

Chicken fried rice (OMIT celery, use the rest of the frozen peas, and quick cook up the rest of the chicken in a skillet on the stove & chop to include here)
Carrot stir fry with green onions — Just use the rest of your green onions.

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 6/10/23

*** Check below this grocery list for Easy One-Stop Instacart Shopping, as well as an editable easy-print version. Note: If you have room in your budget, I’d add some avocado & sour cream to Sunday’s dinner as well.

Dairy & refrigerated

9 oz Priano three cheese tortellini, $2.99
Dozen Goldhen large eggs, $1.19
8 oz Happy Farms cream cheese, $1.39
5 oz Emporium Selection shredded Parmesan, $2.49
8 oz Happy Farms sharp cheddar cheese block, $2.09
8 oz Happy Farms mozzarella cheese block, $2.09

Frozen

McCain baby cakes, $3.49
Season’s Choice steamable 12 oz sweet peas, $.95

Grocery

24 oz Casa Mamita medium salsa, $2.29
3 lbs Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $2.49
Fusia soy sauce, $1.69
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.29
Packet Casa Mamita taco seasoning mix, $.39
El Milagro flour tortillas, $1.16
Can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.79
Can Happy Harvest whole kernel corn, $.69
8 oz can Happy Harvest tomato sauce, $.39

Meat

4 lb family pack Simply Nature organic grass-fed ground beef, $17.96
2 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs, $5.98

Produce

1.5 lbs green grapes, $2.24
Bunch green onions, $.85
2 lbs broccoli crowns, $3.98
8 oz white mushrooms, $1.59
2 lbs carrots, $1.89
8 oz spinach, $1.49
Little Salad Bar garden salad, $1.79
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.29
3 heads garlic, $1.49
5 Roma tomatoes, $1.50

That comes to: $70.91

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 tomatoes quantity to five.
2. Notes for your shopper:
  - Make a note that you want 2 lbs of the chicken thighs.
  - Make a note for them to add one of the FAMILY PACKS of organic grass fed ground beef in this week’s ad; the meat special buy, as usual, is not showing in Instacart.
  - Make a note that you want 1.5 lbs of grapes. (Note: Green aren’t showing in Instacart, so I included red at the same price — whichever you prefer!)
  - Make a note that you want 2 lbs of broccoli.
  - Make a note for them to substitute the (cheaper and better) El Milagro tortillas, if available.

Please use the add your list to Instacart feature at your own risk: Always double check your cart against the grocery list above, and see Notes. 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, canola oil, butter, brown sugar, corn starch, sesame oil, ground ginger, basil, oregano, chili powder, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, paprika, cayenne, crushed red pepper, sea salt, black pepper, salad dressing

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 your 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 6/4-6/10 in Sunday ad markets, and 6/7-6/13 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 6/11/23.

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