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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 7/4/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 7/4/21! This week, we’re cooking up everything from a sheet pan Mediterranean salad, to ground beef gyros, to 4th of July burgers — and, we’re taking advantage of sales on fresh summer fruit like strawberries & watermelon!

Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 7/4/21: Six complete dinners for four, $65 out the door!

As always, you get a brand new variety of recipes, and a brand new chance to save time & money with meal planning. Get dinner time covered, and try something different with your family. Be sure to sign up to receive a weekly email alert about each new plan, too.

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 7/4/21 – 7/10/21

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?

Fiddle leaf figs and friendly bad kitties: New this week

fiddle leaf figs in this week's ALDI Finds

Garlic bread potato chips, easy set pools, fiddle leaf figs… Check out my top 25+ ALDI Finds of the week, and let me know what you’re planning on picking up!

And, on the “almost” all ALDI note: How’s your summer going lately? Over here:

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 7/4/21.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 7/4/21 -7/10/21

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

ground beef gyros in this week's meal plan

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 7/4/21

Sunday

  • 4th of July BBQ! Grill (or pan fry) burgers with 3 lbs of the ground beef; serve on buns with your favorite toppings.
  • Half of the watermelon
  • Boil or grill up the corn on the cob

Monday

  • Ground beef gyros (use 2 lbs of the fattier ground beef), topped with 4 sliced Roma tomatoes, thinly sliced onion, & romaine
  • The other half of the watermelon

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 7/3/21

Dairy & refrigerated

32 oz Friendly Farms plain whole milk Greek yogurt, $3.49
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

L’Oven Fresh hamburger buns, $.79
Specially Selected original naan, $3.99
Tuscan Garden black olives, $1.49
16 oz Simply Nature organic linguine, $1.09
1 can Dakota’s Pride chickpeas (garbanzo beans), $.59

Meat

5 lbs 73% lean ground beef, $8.95
2.5 lbs thin-sliced boneless pork chops, $7.48
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49

Produce

4 pack corn on the cob, $1.99
Whole seedless watermelon, $3.99
1 lb strawberries, $1.49
2 lbs lemons, $3.49
2 cucumbers, $1.18
3 pack hearts of romaine, $2.49
8 oz spinach, $1.49
2 packs 8 oz white mushrooms, $3.58
1 lb asparagus, $2.49
1 head cauliflower, $2.49
3 heads garlic, $1.29
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.49
20 oz zucchini, $1.61
6 Roma tomatoes, $1.50
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.89


That comes to: $65.81

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

print this week's ALDI meal plan

Print this week’s meal plan:

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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 6/27-7/3 in Sunday ad markets, and 6/30-7/6 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 7/4/21.

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Resources for meal planning & ALDI shopping

master list of meal planning resources from Mashup Mom

Let’s close things out with just a few resources to help you with your meal planning & ALDI shopping:

Lastly: You can always access your current regional ALDI ad here.

Ron

Wednesday 28th of July 2021

These Gyros were so good. Thanks for the recommendation.

Deanne

Thursday 1st of July 2021

My daughter and husband doesn’t like Greek yogurt. Is there something you suggest to substitute it for? I like all your recipes this week and want to shop at Aldi and try them all!! Thanks for any suggestions!!

rachel

Thursday 1st of July 2021

Well in some of the recipes it's easy -- like, on the gyros, they can just leave off the sauce or substitute a pre-made tzatziki sauce (and you can also leave it off the pork chops & zucchini), and on the Mediterranean salad they can just substitute a different dressing of choice. As far as with the linguine, it creates the sauce -- But, I'll say that it doesn't taste like eating plain Greek yogurt, so even if they don't like that, they might like it as a sauce ingredient.