Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 1/29/23

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 1/29/23! This week, we’re making everything from an easy three bean & lentil chili, to delicious naan pizza, to simple sheet pan dinners.

Can you believe we’re already a month into 2023? Keep your meal planning resolutions going with us, though: We make it easy! As always, these weekly ALDI menu plans bring you all the recipes you need (complete with shopping list!) to cook up six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door. Bring your family together around home-cooked meals, and save time & money in the process.

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Free ALDI meal plan week of 1/29/23 – 2/4/23

Sausage, Peppers, & Onions (plus artichoke!) Naan Pizza

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Before jumping straight into this week’s menu, though, let’s talk briefly about this week’s new ALDI Finds & get a couple more updates.

Keto ice cream and salty snacks

ALDI Finds for the week of 1/25/23 include Valentine’s treats & cards, salty crunchy snacks for the playoffs, keto ice cream pints, & more.

*** All of my favorite ALDI Finds of the week, here. ***

Check out this week’s picks (and pix), and let me know what you want to Find.

And quickly, here’s what’s new on the Amazon front:

Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds include plush demigorgons, a kitty cat taco holder, and so much more.
This HUGE list of HUNDREDS of subscribe & save filler items is updated every Thursday.

But with no further ado, here’s your ALDI meal plan for the week of 1/29/23. *** Be sure to sign up for our weekly emails, so that you never miss a new one.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 1/29/23 – 2/4/23

Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday. As always, six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door.

*** Print your meal plan summary + grocery shopping list below this week’s detailed plan, in Word, .rtf, or PDF format. ***
I’m assuming that you have on hand some pantry basics like cooking oil, condiments, and spices. Read through the recipes before you shop, to make sure that you have the necessary pantry staples on hand for this week’s ALDI menu plan. *** The printable shopping list includes a separate section of needed basics for the week.

Six easy dinners from ALDI for $70

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 1/29/23

Sunday

Vegetarian three bean & lentil chili (use the orange or yellow bell pepper so that the red one is left to be prettier in Thursday’s recipe, if you like)
Note: the budget didn’t allow for any shredded cheese and/or green onions to top the chili this week, but I highly recommend adding some if you have wiggle room in yours, or have these on hand.
Serve with the hint of lime tortilla chips

Monday

Rosemary chicken & white bean soup
Toast up the English muffins

Tuesday

Sheet pan tilapia dinner (roughly chop larger potatoes instead of using baby)
Cups of leftover soup from Monday

Wednesday

Sheet pan rosemary chicken drumsticks
Cups of leftover chili from Sunday

Thursday

Sausage, peppers, & onions naan pizza
Roasted veggies — roughly chop potatoes, broccoli, and the remaining bell pepper. Toss these in olive oil, seasoned salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning to taste. Start these in the oven while you’re getting the pizzas together; roast on a rimmed baking sheet for 30-40 minutes at 400 degrees or until potatoes are softened, stirring halfway through.

Friday

Rustic mushroom lentil soup
Garden salad with easy homemade salad dressing. Chop up the rest of the artichokes and add them to your salad, as well as some chopped carrots and celery.

Saturday

Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells nice big take-and-bake deli pizzas), carryout, mix it up!

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 1/28/23

*** Psst — check below this grocery list for easy one-stop Instacart shopping, as well as an easy-print version.

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz Happy Farms mozzarella, $2.09

Grocery

Specially Selected naan, $4.29
L’Oven Fresh English muffins, $1.29
Clancy’s hint of lime tortilla chips, $1.54
12 oz jar Tuscan Garden marinated artichoke hearts, $2.59
16 oz Dakota’s Pride green lentils, $1.29
32 oz box Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.29
32 oz box Simply Nature organic vegetable broth, $1.89
48 oz box Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.99
2 cans Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $2.18
2 cans Dakota’s Pride great northern beans, $1.42
1 can Dakota’s Pride cannellini beans, $.79
1 can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.79
1 can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.79
1 can Happy Harvest whole kernel corn, $.59
1 can Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.79

Meat

5 lb family pack chicken drumsticks, $6.45
1 lb tilapia, $6.38
Appleton Farms premium sliced bacon, $3.89
Parkview Polska kielbasa, $3.49

Produce

2 lbs carrots, $1.69
1.5 lbs broccoli crowns, $3.74
1 lb asparagus, $2.49
Bag of garden salad, $1.49
2 packs 8 oz white mushrooms, $3.78
3 lb bag of yellow onions, $1.59
3 heads garlic, $1.29
5 lbs yellow potatoes, $3.99
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.79
Celery, $1.39

That comes to: $70.06

Or, maybe less…! These meals can run 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 have on hand, and/or sale produce from your local fruit market.

Shop this week’s meal plan with Instacart

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Easy-peasy: *** Add this week’s grocery list to your Instacart. ***

IMPORTANT! READ BEFORE CHECKING OUT:

You’ll need to check your pantry for staples not included in this Instacart list. *** See needed pantry staples, below.
The list feature doesn’t allow me to add multiples of a single item or to change the weight of items. So: Before adding the list to your cart, change the following
1. The “hint of lime” tortilla chips are a special buy this week and not showing in Instacart — add a note to your shopper to please add them to your order.
2. Change the quantity on the fire roasted diced tomatoes to two, on the mushrooms to two, and on the great northern beans to two.
3. Pick up 5 lbs of chicken drumsticks; add a note to your shopper.
4. Pick up about 1.5 lbs of broccoli; add a note to your shopper.
Add anything else you need for the week to your cart, and check out!

Please use the add your list to Instacart feature at your own risk, always double checking your cart against the recipes. Also note that Instacart prices are higher than in store, so your total will be higher than shown in the above grocery list.

** Pantry staples to check for before shopping: Olive oil, butter, coarse ground mustard, dijon mustard, balsamic vinegar, brown sugar, baking cocoa, rosemary, thyme, parsley, smoked paprika, Italian seasoning, paprika, chili powder, crushed red pepper, cayenne, cumin, oregano, bay leaf, parsley, tarragon, garlic powder, sea salt, salt, seasoned salt, black pepper

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

Print this week’s meal plan:

*** Download this week’s printable ALDI shopping list and meal plan in Word format.
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If you don’t have Word, try opening in Google Docs or in Wordpad.

Edit and add in your own meal ideas, remove items you have on hand, and/or change regional pricing to match your own store. *** Day(s) next to each item in the printable shopping list show which nights use each ingredient, so that you can easily see what to delete if you’re skipping a night or modifying.

Things to know about these meal plans

A couple of notes

I try not to repeat main dish recipes more often than once a month, but you will see favorite easy recipes 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.
If one or more of these recipes isn’t to your taste, or if you have other ingredients to use up, 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 & dates

This week’s ALDI meal plan reflects prices from the current week’s ad (running 1/22-1/28 in Sunday ad markets, and 1/25-1/21 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices are from my local store in the Chicago suburbs. Prices and produce deals *can vary* by location & region. In either ad market, shop any time through Saturday and start cooking on Sunday 1/29/23.

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