Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 2/5/17 — A day earlier than usual this week, because I got out to the store a day earlier than usual this week. 🙂 Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday! Hope you find it useful.
Note: I try not to repeat the same recipe here more often than once a month, but you will see favorite easy recipes come up again on these weekly ALDI meal plans as the same meats and produce items come up on sale again.
ALDI meal planning week of 2/5/17 – 2/11/17
Six complete dinners for a family of four for $60.00
Prices here are collected from this week’s ad and my local store, but may vary by location. I’m assuming here that you already have pantry basics like olive oil and spices on hand.
Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00
- Sunday: St. Louis ribs with BBQ sauce. (Seasonings of choice, wrap in foil, & bake on a rimmed baking sheet at 300 degrees for about three hours, or until tender. Unwrap foil, baste with BBQ sauce, and bake another 15-20 minutes or so until sauce is browned nicely, then serve with additional sauce. Note: If you have an Instant Pot, you can also pre-cook the ribs in there much more quickly and just baste and grill or finish off in the oven.) Sides: Oven roasted potatoes, garden salad.
- Monday: Slow cooker buffalo ranch chicken potato casserole (use 2 lbs of chicken — portion out the rest into 2 lb and 1 lb portions and save for future dinners). Side: Steamed broccoli topped with a little cheddar cheese.
- Tuesday: Creamy tomato hummus soup + grilled cheese sandwiches (use half the loaf of sourdough). Side: Baby carrots and celery with hummus (save 1/2 cup hummus for Friday’s dinner).
- Wednesday: Spinach salad topped with Greek chicken. (Marinate 1 lb chicken with a little lemon juice, olive oil, oregano, garlic and then saute on medium high heat until well browned and cooked through. Slice chicken into strips, then top spinach with chicken, bacon bits, diced feta, half the jar of artichokes, green onions, olives, diced tomatoes, onions, and Greek vinaigrette.) Serve the salad with leftover tomato hummus soup and avocado toast — just spread avocado on toasted sourdough and top with a little sea salt.
- Thursday: Sriracha Hummus Chicken Strips (substitute Burman’s hot sauce if you don’t have Sriracha in your pantry). Side: Easy roasted chili garlic cauliflower.
- Friday: Family pizza night with Mama Cozzi’s deli pizza (add sliced olives, diced tomatoes, minced garlic, crushed red pepper, oregano, artichokes, onion, and feta before baking). Side: Italian salad topped with whatever veggies you have left.
- Saturday: Leftovers — or date night!
Shopping list
Dairy & refrigerated
16 oz Happy Farms mild shredded cheddar, $2.99
Happy Farms Preferred feta crumbles, $1.79
Little Salad Bar 10 oz roasted red pepper hummus, $1.79
Little Salad bar 10 oz roasted garlic hummus, $1.79
Friendly Farms brick cream cheese, $1.29
Mama Cozzi’s Pizza Kitchen 16″ five cheese deli pizza, $4.49
Grocery
Burman’s BBQ sauce, $.99
Burman’s hot sauce, $.85
Tuscan Garden ranch dressing, $1.29
Tuscan Garden bacon bits, $1.29
Specially Selected Greek vinaigrette, $1.89
Can black olives, $1.19
Millville Rice Squares, $1.99
Can vegetable broth, $.59
28 oz can Happy Harvest crushed tomatoes, $.95
Tuscan Garden artichokes, $2.69
Specially Selected sourdough square, $2.99
Meat & seafood
3 lbs St. Louis pork spare ribs, $5.97
5 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, $7.45
Produce
3 lb yellow potatoes, $2.29
Bunch green onions, $.99
3 heads garlic, $.99
8 oz bag spinach, $1.49
3 lb yellow onions, $1.89
Baby carrots, $.49
Celery, $.79
2 avocados, $.98
24 oz tomatoes on the vine, $1.49
Head cauliflower, $.99
Little Salad Bar Italian salad, $1.49
16 oz broccoli crowns, $1.49
Garden salad, $.69
That comes to $60.33.
You can adapt this ALDI meal plan
Adapt this ALDI meal plan to your own family’s preferences or just use it for ideas to add to your own meal planning for the week. 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, produce you have on hand, and/or sale produce from your local produce market. Let me know if you give it a try!
Browse all of the weekly ALDI meal plans here *** note: prices may have changed since originally posted.
Katie Dudley
Friday 3rd of February 2017
I want to subscribe to your blog but cant figure out how to get weekly emails about the weekly aldi meal plan! This is great since our new years resolution was to live off of 1 income!
rachel
Tuesday 7th of February 2017
Hi Katie - I've just set up a separate option to subscribe only to the weekly meal plans. Use the form here:
http://madmimi.com/signups/109450/join
and just check the box for weekly ALDI meal plan. Hope that helps!
rachel
Friday 3rd of February 2017
I'm so glad it is useful! I don't currently have a separate email about the meal plan, but you can subscribe to the daily blog emails (usually 3-4 posts a day) in the upper right of the site to get the meal plans and more, or follow the meal planning Pinterest board here to get them all in one place: https://www.pinterest.com/mashupmom/meal-planning/