Easy Weekly ALDI Meal Plan week of 2/26/17 - 3/4/17
Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 2/26/17: 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 recipes too often, 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 2/26/17 – 3/4/17
Six complete dinners for a family of four for $60.00
Prices here are collected from this week’s ad and my local store in the Chicago suburbs, but may vary by location & region. I’m assuming here that you already have pantry basics like olive oil, vinegar, and spices on hand.
Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00
- Sunday: Italian pulled pork sandwiches on deli rolls with provolone. (Use banana peppers; ALDI doesn't stock hot cherry.) Sides: Oven baked potato wedges and romaine salad (use half of romaine).
- Monday: Meatless Monday breakfast for dinner: Mushroom, provolone, & spinach omelet. Serve with English muffins and fruit: Blueberries, grapes, clementines.
- Tuesday: Salsa chicken (use 3 lbs) served in tortillas with two sliced avocados, cheese, & sour cream. Side: Tomato & onion salad (Slice tomatoes and a couple small onions & toss with a little olive oil & red wine vinegar, garlic salt, pepper, & Italian seasoning to taste, then let marinate in refrigerator for about ½ hour. Reserve one tomato for Friday.)
- Wednesday: Leftover pulled pork ragu (make with penne & substitute dried parsley -- omit Parmesan if not in your pantry already). Sides: Romaine salad (tear up other half of romaine) and garlic bread.
- Thursday: Crunchy chicken tortilla fingers (double recipe but just use 6-7 oz of the tortilla chips, and use the other 2 lbs of chicken). Sides: Baked potatoes, clementines, grapes.
- Friday: Make nachos with the rest of the bag of tortilla chips, leftover salsa chicken, shredded cheese, sliced olives, diced tomato, sour cream, and diced avocado. Side: Garden salad -- and taco that up as well, if desired -- plus clementines.
- Saturday: Leftovers, or date night!
Shopping list
Dairy & refrigerated
Dozen Goldhen eggs, $.79
12 oz Friendly Farms shredded cheddar, $2.29
16 oz Friendly Farms sour cream, $1.19
Friendly Farms sliced provolone, $1.99
Grocery
Clancy's restaurant style tortilla chips, $1.29
SimplyNature organic salsa, $1.89
Casa Mamita taco seasoning, $.35
El Milagro flour tortillas, $.85
Tuscan Garden black olives, $1.19
Two 28 oz cans crushed tomatoes, $1.90
Winking Owl red wine, $2.89
L'Oven Fresh split deli rolls, $1.49
16 oz Reggano penne, $.99
Tuscan Garden salad dressing, $1.29
L'Oven Fresh herb garlic bread, $1.79
L'Oven Fresh English muffins, $.99
Tuscan Garden banana peppers, $1.49
Meat & seafood
5 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, $7.45
6 lb pork butt, $8.94
Produce
4 avocados, $3.96
8 oz whole white mushrooms, $.79
Bag spinach, $1.49
5 lb baking potatoes, $1.39
3 lb yellow onions, $1.29
Garlic, $.99
3 pack romaine hearts, $1.29
16 oz Roma tomatoes, $.89
2 lbs red grapes, $1.99
Pint blueberries, $1.99
3 lb Cuties mandarins, $2.49
Garden salad, $.69
That comes to $60.30.
You can adapt this ALDI meal plan
If one or more of these recipes aren't to your taste or if you have other ingredients to use up, just adapt this ALDI meal plan to your own family’s preferences. Or, use these ideas to supplement 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.
I love ALDI! I am trying to get better about meal planning, and this list lays it all out easy to understand. Thanks!
I was horrible about meal planning & I would barely cook because of it. I bought a planner to write down what I was making & when & what I needed to buy that I didn't already have. Sometimes I plan for more then a week if I'm going to be busy. Not only have I been able to cook more, I've also tried new recipes. Everyone LOVED Rachel's slow cooked Italian beef recipe! I'm making it again this Thursday. Thanks Rachel!
Awesome! I'm so glad it's been useful -- and isn't that an amazingly easy recipe? They'd eat it here every week, too. 😉
These all sound amazing!
Hi Rachel,
I'm LOVING your weekly meal plans and shopping lists. My husband said to me the other day, "thanks honey for all the wonderful balanced dinners you've been making". Shhh, I took all the credit 😉
We're entering Lent this week, so some of us will be looking for meatless meals on Fridays. I have old standbys but always looking for new, yummy meatless meals.
Well, duh -- I just now reread this week's menu and see you have meatless Monday. Sorry! My bad. LOL.
LOL. I'm so very glad they've been useful! I'm trying to include meatless Monday most weeks, so just flip the days around and you have meatless Friday instead. (But on weeks when MM uses more perishable produce, which I'm trying to use up earlier in the week in these plans, you might want to make a Tuesday trip to pick it up on the last day of the sale so that it's still relatively fresh on Friday.)
If you eat fish on Fridays during Lent, ALDI also has some great everyday prices on frozen salmon and more -- just be aware that their frozen fish (along with many grocery name brands, incidentally) is processed in China.
Thank you for your blog. I am a terrible planner and I buy items than try and figure out what to make. You have made dinners easy.
I was wondering, does anyone else not use Word and have a hard time printing the plan and list? I have to copy to a new document or most times, I just hand copy on a piece of paper. What are some things you have found to work?
Try using google docs to open and print it (docs.google.com), or Wordpad -- both of those should open Word documents. Hope that helps!