Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 7/18/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 7/18/21: This week, we’re cooking up everything from an everything sheet pan chicken dinner, to turkey kielbasa chili, to Tuscan chicken soup — and so much more!

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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 7/18/21 – 7/24/21

Use these meal plans to help reclaim some of your precious time, and avoid the perennial question: What’s for dinner?

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But first, what’s new this week?

Vegan cheese and almond butter pretzels: What’s new this week?

Vegan cheese, coconut milk ice cream, grain free granola, and more — Check out my top 30+ ALDI Finds of the week, and let me know what you’re planning on picking up!

And, since everything bagel seasoning features in this week’s meal plan, let’s revisit an older review! ALDI vs Trader Joe’s: Who Needs the Bagel Seasoning vs Everything But the Bagel Seasoning..

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 7/18/21.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 7/18/21 -7/24/21

Pick up everything on the shopping list below, and start cooking on Sunday: As always, six complete dinners for four, $65 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 $65

everything bagel zucchini in this week's ALDI meal plan

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 7/18/21

Sunday

Everything bagel whole chicken — Also, chop up & reserve 2 cups cooked chicken for Tuesday’s recipe
Greek lemon garlic potatoes (use shredded Parmesan to taste instead of grated)

Monday

Vegetarian lemon chickpea wraps (use half a bag of spinach, instead of spring mix)
Sauteed everything bagel zucchini with Parmesan
Cut up half of the watermelon

Tuesday

Tuscan style chicken & white bean soup
Sourdough toast (use half the loaf)
Side salad made with the bag of salad, topped with chopped orange bell pepper, a little chopped celery & carrot, and the other half of the grape tomatoes

Wednesday

Everything sheet pan chicken & veggies (use red potatoes)
Enjoy the other half of the watermelon

Thursday

Easy turkey kielbasa chili, topped with shredded cheddar
Sourdough toast, with the rest of the loaf
Slice up the cantaloupe

Friday

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 7/17/21

Dairy & refrigerated

Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99
8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.95

Grocery

L’Oven Fresh spinach wraps, $2.49
Specially Selected sourdough round, $3.49
Stonemill Who Needs the Bagel? seasoning, $1.99
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.19
2 cans Dakota’s Pride garbanzo beans (chickpeas), $1.18
2 cans Dakota’s Pride Cannellini beans, $1.18
1 can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69
1 can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.59
Can of Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.89
Can of Happy Harvest tomato sauce, $.29
Can of Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $.69

Meat

6 lb whole chicken, $5.70
3 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs, $5.92
2 Parkview turkey Polska kielbasa, $5.78

Produce

2 lbs lemons, $1.49
Large seedless watermelon, $3.89
Cantaloupe, $1.69
20 oz zucchini, $1.24
8 oz white mushrooms, $1.89
2 bags 8 oz spinach, $1.98
Bag of Little Salad Bar garden salad, $1.69
2 lb bag of carrots, $1.29
5 lbs red potatoes, $3.29
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.49
3 heads garlic, $1.29
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.99
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.89
Celery, $1.49
1 avocado, $.89

That comes to: $65.50

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

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*** 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 7/11-7/17 in Sunday ad markets, and 7/14-7/20 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 7/18/21.

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