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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 8/22/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 8/22/21: This week, we’re cooking up everything from vegetarian naan pesto pizza with zucchini, to a freshly chopped chicken, avocado, tomato, & cucumber salad — and so much more!

Each week, these ALDI meal plans from Mashup Mom bring 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 8/22/21 – 8/28/21

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?

Oat Milk Ice Cream and Very Large Plants: What’s new this week?

oat milk ice cream in this week's ALDI Finds

Oat milk ice cream, huge indoor houseplants, keychain coin holders, and more — Check out my top 25+ ALDI Finds of the week, and let me know what you’re planning on picking up!

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 8/22/21.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 8/22/21 – 8/28/21

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 8/22/21

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

  • Turkey taco stuffed potatoes (use baked potatoes instead of sweet potatoes), topped with chopped green onion
  • Steam up 12 oz of broccoli, and melt on shredded cheddar

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 8/21/21

pesto at aldi

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz block Happy Farms mozzarella, $1.99
8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.99
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99
9 oz Priano three cheese tortellini, $2.19

Grocery

Specially Selected naan, $3.99
L’Oven Fresh bagels, $1.49
Priano pesto, $2.35
8 oz can Happy Harvest tomato sauce, $.29
Can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.59
8 oz Stonemill minced garlic in water, $1.99

Meat

Parkview Polska kielbasa, $2.89
2.5 lbs bone-in chicken thighs, $3.23
19.2 oz Kirkwood fresh ground turkey, $3.89
3.25 lbs chicken tenderloins, $7.44

Produce

2 lbs green grapes, $1.90
1 red mango, $.59
16 oz limes, $2.29
Bunch green onions, $.79
20 oz broccoli crowns, $1.86
Bag of garden salad, $1.69
16 oz mini cucumbers, $1.99
8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $1.99
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.29
2 lbs zucchini, $2.98
8 oz jalapeños, $.69
5 lbs baking potatoes, $2.79
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.89
5 Roma tomatoes, $1.00
24 oz vine-ripe tomatoes, $2.29
2 avocados, $1.70

That comes to: $65.04

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 8/15-8/21 in Sunday ad markets, and 8/18-8/24 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 8/22/21.

Stay in the meal planning loop

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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.