Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 10/6/19 - 10/12/19
It's your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 10/6/19: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday. Six complete dinners for four, $60 out the door!
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Some super-quick ALDI Finds fun first...
You get a pumpkin, you get a pumpkin, EVERYONE gets a pumpkin...
All things pumpkin and pumpkin spice are back at ALDI this week, including giant and affordable Halloween pumpkins, Baker's Corner canned pumpkin, and everything pumpkin spice.
And on the "almost" all ALDI note, here's a little confession time: Why I don't (usually) buy my spices at ALDI. Thoughts?
But now, on to this week's ALDI menu plan:
ALDI meal planning week of 10/6/19 - 10/12/19
I’m assuming that you already have pantry basics like cooking oil, common condiments, and spices. *** Read through the recipes before you shop, to make sure you have the necessary pantry staples on hand for this week's ALDI menu plan.
Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00
ALDI meal plan -- Start cooking 10/6/19
- Sunday: Bacon-wrapped chicken (use 2 lbs of chicken), with sliced honeycrisp apples and perfect roasted potatoes (add more seasonings of choice -- I like Italian seasoning, smoked paprika, and garlic powder myself). While your chicken and potatoes are roasting, do a little meal prep -- place ¾ lb boneless chicken breast in a saucepan, enough water to cover to about an inch. Gentle boil for 8-12 minutes or until cooked through to temperature, then let cool and shred for tomorrow's chili. Also, cook up any leftover bacon.
- Monday: White chicken chili (substitute the shredded chicken you cooked up yesterday for the turkey, & top it with cheddar, sour cream, and green onion), spring mix salad on the side topped with chopped orange bell pepper, green onion, and any leftover bacon (cooked and crumbled).
- Tuesday: Chicken, avocado, & mozzarella chopped salad (serve on a mix of 4 oz spinach + some spring mix salad, instead of on romaine; cut up the fresh mozzarella instead of using the smaller balls), along with cups of leftover chili. Slice up the rest of your apples.
- Wednesday: Italian sausage, pepper, & potato packets (cut potatoes into smaller pieces, since you're not using baby), along the rest of your spring mix salad, and half the bag of grapes.
- Thursday: Southwest salsa turkey burgers served on buns & topped with shredded cheddar + avocado, grapes on the side.
- Friday: Mushroom, black bean, & spinach veggie burritos served with sour cream, plus the tortilla chips with the rest of the salsa.
- Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.
ALDI shopping list -- Shop through 10/5/19
Dairy & refrigerated
Friendly Farms sour cream, $1.49
12 oz Happy Farms shredded cheddar, $2.89
Priano 8 oz fresh mozzarella, $2.49
Grocery
L'Oven Fresh hamburger buns, $.85
Specially Selected black bean & corn salsa, $1.99
SimplyNature organic blue corn tortillas chips, $1.89
32 oz Chef's Cupboard chicken broth, $1.39
Chef's Cupboard bread crumbs, $.89
El Milagro medium flour tortillas, $.95
3 cans Dakota's Pride Cannellini or Great Northern beans, $2.07
1 can Dakota's Pride black beans, $.69
2 cans Pueblo Lindo chopped green chiles, $1.30
Meat
3.75 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, $6.34
19.2 oz ground turkey, $3.29
Appleton Farms premium sliced bacon, $3.99
19 oz mild Italian sausage, $2.49
Produce
2 lbs green grapes, $1.78
2 lbs honeycrisp apples, $1.99
5 lbs yellow potatoes, $2.19
Bunch green onions, $.79
Cucumber, $.49
2 packs 8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $3.78
16 oz SimplyNature organic spring mix, $4.19
8 oz bag spinach, $1.39
3 heads garlic, $1.29
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.99
3 pack multicolored bell peppers, $2.89
2 Roma tomatoes, $.40
2 avocados, $1.98
That comes to $60.15.
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!
Printable ALDI meal plan and grocery list
*** Download this week’s printable ALDI shopping list and meal plan 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.
Things to know about the ALDI 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 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.
- 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 9/29-10/5 in Sunday ad markets, and 10/2-10/8 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 10/1/19 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 10/6/19.
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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:
- Almost All ALDI -- for more ALDI goodness, ALDI finds, reviews, and more.
- Master list of meal planning resources
- Come join us in the Almost All ALDI Facebook group for recipes, meal planning ideas, ALDI food finds, and more.
- ALDI is now a participating store for cash back offers on the Ibotta app! (Search “ALDI” at the top of the app, if you can’t find it in the store list.)
- 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.
How fun are these ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys?!
Lastly: You can always access your current regional ALDI ad here.
What are the tortillas for this week? I skimmed through the recipes and notes, and I was wondering if I had missed something. 😬
They're under "grocery" in between the bread crumbs and the Great Northern beans -- or if you mean what recipe, in the veggie burritos on Friday. 🙂
I’m confused too about the honey crisp apples for the bacon wrapped chicken recipe. They’re mentioned but not included in as part of the perfect potato recipe either. I would’ve just left them off of my grocery pickup if I had caught it. Can you clarify Rachel?
They’re to slice up and eat on the side, not as part of the recipe itself. Sorry if that was unclear!
The bacon wrapped chicken was moist & delicious. I turned out to need 35mins for cooking time instead of 50. I even had left over seasonings, so I put them in a ziplock to use again for this meal another time or for anything else. I wasn’t sure about the apples because it was also such a big bag. And I didn’t see them being used in another recipe for the week. Good substitutes though (if you needed them). Broil those exact same potatoes for less than 10 mins. Just keep your eye on the for the golden brown crisp look! Thanks Rachel for this amazing plan. My Frienf Karen & I are starting today for the first time. Mozzarella balls & romaine lettuce hearts were missing From the shopping list. Enough spring mix for the whole week & Tuesdays salad main course.
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I'm glad you enjoyed the chicken! Cooking time might vary if yours was thinner.
As far as the mozzarella and romaine, see the note right next to that salad main about substituting -- the mozzarella balls are seasonal, so cut up the 8 oz fresh mozzarella instead and serve on spring mix/spinach instead of on romaine.
I found MashUpMom last week, showed my neighbor and we both used your plan with smashing success! We liked all the meals and are so thankful for this resource! Looks like this week is another home run. Thanks for all you are doing, it's changing our whole week! 😀
White Turkey Chili was made like you suggested with boiling & shredding 3/4lb of chicken on Sun. Had to use tomatoes with green chili’s instead because our ALDI didn’t carry just the 4oz cans of green chili’s. No biggie. I used both 10oz cans & yes it was spicy, but I’m sure about the same.
Loved it! Used a hand potato smasher rather than a food processor. I just didn’t want to drag it out from the bottom of the cabinet.
I didn’t any salt!
I used a can of tomatoes with green chiles in place of the diced green chiles too! Turned out great.
I just found this site and I love it!! One question I have is when do you usually add the weekly meal plans? I am looking forward to using that going forward. With a family of 6 it's hard to plan new menus and this is a great tool to use! Thank you for your time and commitment to this page!
New meal plans are posted every Weds -- look for the new one to be up soon, here! There's a link in the post to subscribe for email notifications when new plans are posted.
I have been using your weekly meal plans for over a year now and must say THANK YOU! I enjoy cooking and love your recipes, menus and the grocery list!