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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 8/26/18 – 9/1/18

august 2018 free aldi meal plan

It’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 8/26/18: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday.

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Who needs quick weeknight dinner ideas for back to school?

Here you go: How about 30 quick weeknight dinner recipes that you can have on the table in 30 minutes or less, all rounded up in one handy post?

Use these easy 30 minute weeknight dinner ideas to supplement or swap out nights in these ALDI meal plans — when one or more of the recipes in a given week doesn’t fit your family’s needs, or on nights when you’re in a hurry but still want to get a home-cooked meal on the table!

But now, let’s get back to this week’s ALDI meal plan…

Let’s get ready to make six complete dinners for a family of four, just $60.00 out the door! Hope you find the free ALDI meal plans useful, and you can just scroll down under the grocery list to find the easy printable ALDI meal plan and shopping list for this week. (This is in Word format, but you should be able to open in Wordpad or Google Docs if you don’t have Word.)

ALDI meal planning week of 8/26/18 – 9/1/18

I’m assuming that you already have 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. 

Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00

ALDI meal plan — Start cooking 8/26/18

  • Sunday: Italian wedding soup (use regular spinach) with toasted English muffins.
  • Monday: Korean-style ground turkey & spinach rice bowls (use ground turkey and regular spinach, reserving a couple of oz for tomorrow’s recipe), along with grilled carrots with lime & cilantro (oven roast until tender, if you don’t have a grill handy).
  • Tuesday: Chipotle chicken wraps, leftover Italian wedding soup, and all but 1 cup of the bag of peas (which you will reserve in the freezer for Friday’s recipe): Cook up peas in a small saucepan with a little butter, minced garlic,  salt, and pepper to taste until heated through over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
  • Wednesday: Chipotle turkey chili topped with green onions & sour cream, + garden salad topped with chopped yellow bell pepper, chopped celery, + a couple of hard boiled eggs.
  • Thursday: Spice rubbed fish tacos on corn tortillas, topped with tomato, green onions, and sour cream, plus avocado salad (use yellow onion + orange bell pepper). Also: Cook up a pot of rice and reserve for tomorrow’s recipe.
  • Friday: Tofu & mushroom fried rice (add Sriracha to taste or provide for people to garnish their own bowls), along with Asian garlic green beans.
  • Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 8/25/18

Dairy & refrigerated

Dozen Goldhen eggs, $1.18
Friendly Farms sour cream, $1.49
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99
14 oz Earth Grown extra firm organic tofu, $1.69

Frozen

Season’s Choice green peas, $.95

Grocery

L’Oven Fresh spinach wraps, $2.29
L’Oven Fresh English muffins, $.79
Fusia Sriracha, $1.49
3 lbs Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $1.29
Chef’s Cupboard plain bread crumbs, $.89
2 boxes Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $2.58
El Milagro corn tortillas, $.35
2 cans Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $1.78
Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69
Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.69
Dakota’s Pride Cannellini beans, $.69
Pueblo Lindo chipotles in adobo, $.99
Pasago 7 oz small shells, $.25

Meat

3 lbs Jennie-O 90/10 ground turkey, $6.99
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.29
1 lb tilapia, $5.79

Produce

1 lb limes, $1.99
2 Little Salad Bar 8 oz bagged spinach, $2.38
Bag garden salad, $.89
8 oz mushrooms, $1.49
2 lbs carrots, $1.09
Bunch cilantro, $.69
Bunch green onions, $.89
3 heads garlic, $1.49
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.99
1 lb green beans, $1.49
3 pack multicolored bell peppers, $3.49
Celery, $.99
24 oz vine ripe tomatoes, $1.99
4 avocados, $2.78

That comes to $60.78.

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 and grocery list

*** Download this week’s shopping list and printable ALDI meal plan in Word format so that you can 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 the ALDI 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 come up 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, you can 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 and dates

This week’s ALDI meal plan reflects prices from the current week’s ad (running 8/19-8/25 in Sunday ad markets, and 8/22-8/28 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 8/22/18 at 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 8/26/18.

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Happy ALDI shopping and cooking this week, everyone!

Useful resources for meal planning + ALDI shopping

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

You can always access your current regional ALDI ad here.