It’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 8/5/18: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday.

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A whole foods diet on an ALDI budget — that’s what we’re all about!

This week, let’s again revisit an oldie but a goodie: A whole foods diet on an ALDI budget, how to save on real foods! Do you have tips to add here? Please do comment! 🙂

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 an easy printable shopping list for your 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 8/5/18 – 8/11/18

I’m assuming that you already have pantry basics like cooking oil, 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 8/5/18

• Sunday: Slow cooker BBQ chicken drumsticks (use 3 lbs). With these, put out a bowl of red grapes, plus: Trim & halve 8 oz green beans. Cover green beans with water in a large skillet, bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for about 5 minutes. Drain, then stir in a little butter, minced garlic, sea salt, crushed red pepper, and black pepper to taste. Saute for another few minutes until beans are tender.
• Monday: Sheet pan pesto chicken drumsticks with green beans, spinach salad topped with sliced strawberries.
• Tuesday: 15 minute stir fried steak tacos. Top with avocado, sour cream, & shredded cheddar & serve in tortillas alongside smoky pan roasted corn on the cob.
• Wednesday: Green pepper chili (use a whole pound of ground beef, and use one can each black and kidney beans). Top with chopped avocado, cheddar, and sour cream & serve with tortilla chips & raspberries.
• Thursday: Grilled cheese & tomato naan (substitute regular pesto), cantaloupe, & tortilla chips.
• Friday: Italian sausage, pepper, and potato packets (use green bell pepper & red onion), green leaf lettuce salad, grapes.
• Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 8/4/18

Dairy & refrigerated

Friendly Farms sour cream, $1.49
Happy Farms Preferred deli sliced Havarti, $1.99
8 oz Happy Farms block cheddar, $1.99

Grocery

Specially Selected naan, $3.79
Burman’s regional BBQ sauce, $1.99
Priano jarred pesto, $2.19
Clancy’s restaurant style tortilla chips, $1.49
Pueblo Lindo white corn tortillas, $1.39
1 can Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.39
1 can Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $.69
1 can Dakota’s Pride Cannellini beans, $.69
1 can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.69
1 can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69

Meat

5.5 lbs chicken drumsticks, $4.35
1 lb skirt steak, $6.99
1 lb 80/20 ground beef, $2.99
19 oz mild Italian sausage, $2.49

Produce

Cantaloupe, $1.29
Green leaf lettuce, $1.29
8 oz spinach, $1.19
2 lbs red grapes, $1.56
Strawberries, $1.79
Raspberries, $1.49
3 heads garlic, $1.49
2 lbs red onions, $1.99
24 oz baby potatoes, $2.99
16 oz green beans, $1.89
4 pack sweet corn, $1.39
3 pack green bell peppers, $1.29
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.49
4 Roma tomatoes, $.60
3 avocados, $1.38

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That comes to $59.41.

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!

*** Download this week’s shopping list 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.

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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 7/29-8/4 in Sunday ad markets, and 8/1-8/7 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 8/1/18 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 8/5/18.

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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:

• Come join us in the Almost All ALDI Facebook group for recipes, meal planning ideas, ALDI food finds, and more.
• How fun are these ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys? Check out my Amazon storefront, and browse several tees that show our mutual ALDI love.
• 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.

You can always access your current regional ALDI ad here.