Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 8/1/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 8/1/21: This week, we’re cooking up everything from a hearty broccoli cheddar soup with sausage, to skillet chicken tenders topped with a refreshing artichoke tomato salsa — and so much more!

Each week at Mashup Mom brings you a brand new variety of recipes, as well as 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 8/1/21 – 8/7/21

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?

Pickle snacks, berry keepers, and berry cheescake chips: What’s new this week?

Berry keepers, breakfast bowls, aloe vera plants, pickle snacks, and more — Check out my top 25+ ALDI Finds of the week, and let me know what you’re planning on picking up!

And here’s a delicious red-white-and-blue recipe to make with the berries you will be saving so carefully in this week’s berry keepers! Berry cheesecake chips are a simple & tasty summer dessert option.

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 8/1/21.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 8/1/21 – 8/7/21

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

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 8/1/21

Sunday

• Sheet pan pesto chicken with asparagus & mushrooms
• Carrots need butter & thyme (slice up whole carrots, instead of using baby carrots)

Monday

• Easy broccoli mushroom frittata (top with a little chopped green onion)
• Half of the grapes

Tuesday

• Skillet chicken with artichoke avocado salsa (substitute thin-sliced chicken for tenderloins)
• The other half of the grapes

Wednesday

• Broccoli cheddar soup with sausage
• Side salad, topped with 4 hard boiled eggs, chopped green onion, chopped carrot, and avocado

Thursday

• Ground turkey & zucchini pesto pasta skillet

Friday

• Basic easy chili (use ground turkey instead of beef), topped with shredded cheddar & chopped green onion
• Simple creamy coleslaw (use the whole bag of coleslaw, and double the recipe)

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 7/31/21

Dairy & refrigerated

Dozen Goldhen large eggs, $1.09
1/2 gallon Friendly Farms whole milk, $1.15
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99
16 oz Happy Farms shredded cheddar, $4.19

Grocery

Burman’s dijon mustard, $1.59
12 oz Tuscan Garden artichoke quarters in water, $2.79
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.19
Priano Genovese pesto, $2.29
12 oz Reggano bowtie pasta (farfalle), $.99
Can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.59
Can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.59
Can Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.89
Can Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.49

Meat

Parkview Polska kielbasa, $2.89
2 lbs chicken tenderloins, $4.98
2.25 lbs thin-sliced chicken, $5.15
36 oz Kirkwood 85/15 ground turkey, $5.99

Produce

2 lbs red grapes, $1.98
14 oz Little Salad Bar coleslaw mix, $1.39
Little Salad Bar garden salad, $1.69
16 oz broccoli crowns, $1.45
2 lbs carrots, $1.29
Bunch green onions, $.79
1 lb asparagus, $2.79
3 packs 8 oz white mushrooms, $5.67
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.39
3 heads garlic, $1.29
16 oz zucchini, $1.29
3 avocados, $2.25
2 Roma tomatoes, $.40
24 oz tomatoes on the vine, $2.19

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That comes to: $65.70

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 meal plan:

• *** 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

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 7/25-7/31 in Sunday ad markets, and 7/28-8/3 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 8/1/21.

Stay in the meal planning loop

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Happy ALDI shopping & cooking this week! If you find this meal plan useful, why not share it with your friends on Facebook so they can save money with ALDI meal planning as well?

Resources for meal planning & ALDI shopping

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

• Almost All ALDI — for more ALDI goodness, ALDI finds, reviews, and more.
• Master list of meal planning resources
• Come join us in the Almost All ALDI Facebook group for recipes, meal planning ideas, ALDI food finds, and more.
• Get cash back for ALDI shopping with cash back offers on the Ibotta app and through the Fetch Rewards app.
• Pick up a pack of meal prep containers, & pack up any dinner leftovers for easy weekday lunches!
• Cute & handy ALDI quarter keepers.
• Check out my Amazon shop for some of my favorite useful items for your own meal planning. Also useful: Two pack insulated grab bag totes, or two pack clip to cart bags.
• Almost All ALDI, the eBook.
• How fun are these ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys?!

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