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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 7/30/17 – 8/5/17

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Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 7/30/17: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday.

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But 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.

ALDI meal planning week of 7/30/17 – 8/5/17

I’m assuming here that you already have pantry basics like cooking oil 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 7/30/17

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 7/29/17

Dairy & refrigerated

Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99
Friendly Farms 16 oz sour cream, $1.19

Grocery

13.25 oz Fit & Active whole grain thin spaghetti, $.89
Can of Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $.49
14.5 oz can Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $.49
Three cans Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $1.35
4 oz can Pueblo Lindo chopped green chiles, $.65
Can Happy Harvest corn, $.48
15 oz can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.55
30 oz can Dakota’s Pride pinto beans, $1.15
Clancy’s restaurant style tortilla chips, $1.19
Bottle Burman’s organic BBQ sauce, $1.99
Specially Selected French bread, $1.69

Meat

4 lbs chicken drumsticks, $2.76
2 lbs 80/20 ground beef, $5.78
19 oz Parkview Italian sausage, $1.99
3 lbs country style ribs, $7.47

Produce

3 lb yellow onions, $1.99
3 heads garlic, $1.19
8 oz mushrooms, $1.49
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.99
8 oz Little Salad Bar spinach, $1.49
3 lbs yellow potatoes, $2.99
16 oz broccoli crowns, $1.49
16 oz green beans, $1.89
Avocado, $1.09
Strawberries, $.99
3 pack multi-colored peppers, $3.49
4 pack sweet corn, $1.29
Seedless watermelon, $2.99
Pint blueberries, $.99
Cantaloupe, $.99
Caesar salad kit, $1.99


That comes to $60.44.

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. *** New: This week I’ve added day(s) next to each item 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, 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.

Ad markets and dates

This week’s ALDI meal plan reflects prices from the current week’s ad (running 7/23-7/29 in Sunday ad markets and 7/26-8/1 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 7/26/17 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 7/30/17.

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Happy ALDI shopping and cooking this week, everyone!

Alexandra Evans

Tuesday 1st of August 2017

Found your website from comments on amazon about your ebook. I am loving your site already! Doing the August Pantry challenge through Dave Ramsey-Budget Meal Ideas page. Helpful site. Our new Aldi's opened last Thursday so I am on board! Thanks for your posts. I am back reading and really enjoying.

rachel

Tuesday 1st of August 2017

Thanks! Glad you found us and that the meal plans look useful. :)

Kristy

Sunday 30th of July 2017

I'm so glad to see you are getting new followers from all over. I'm loving these new meal planners. I meal plan from what's in my stockpile and freezer, but as I've been couponing less and less (due to the less favorable couponing landscape) my stockpile of easy sauces and whatnot has been dwindling and I've gone back to my old recipes. Your meal plan recipes are a nice change from or twist on the recipes I've been cooking since I was 12. They're also a nice reminder that, oh right, watermelon and peaches are in season.

Katie

Saturday 29th of July 2017

There are many Aldi meal planning resources out there, but yours is by far the best! I recently tried yours out and as a new mom I am in love with how easy it is (the Word download- amazing!!!) and good recipes I actually will enjoy. Thank you!

rachel

Saturday 29th of July 2017

Aw, thanks! I try to fill these with family friendly recipes, so glad they are working for you. :)

Kylie

Saturday 29th of July 2017

I cannot say how excited I am to have found your website! Someone shared it in a budget meals group I am in on Facebook & I nearly screamed aloud with joy. I've been meal planning from scratch for over a year--spending at least two hours a week on it. I've looked at other meal plans online but have never found one my family would eat more than one meal off of, making them pretty useless. I showed this to my husband & we will eat every single meal! And the grocery list download! You are magical!

rachel

Saturday 29th of July 2017

LOL! I don't know about that, but awesome -- so glad it's useful, and welcome. :)

Christina

Friday 28th of July 2017

I found your website yesterday thanks to Pinterest. As we needed to do our grocery shopping today, my daughter and I headed to Aldi's in Hurst, TX this morning. We noticed some prices were slightly higher than yours and some slightly lower, but they balanced out in the end. We can't wait to try the recipes and it's so nice knowing dinner is already planned and the shopping trip went very quickly. Thank you!

rachel

Saturday 29th of July 2017

Awesome! Glad it worked out, and hope you enjoy. :)

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