Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 11/13/22

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 11/13/22! This week we’ll cook up everything from a slow cooker full of lentil & three bean vegetarian chili, to sheet pan sausage, peppers, & pierogies — and, so much more.

As always, we’re going to be making six complete dinners for four: $70 out the door. Use our weekly menu plan to help bring your family together around home-cooked dinners, and save time & money in the process.

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Meal plans can always be a starting point; just modify your own family dinners around what’s in stock (or on sale) in your area, what’s on hand in your pantry, and dietary needs and preferences.

Free ALDI meal plan week of 11/13/22 – 11/19/22

strawberry spinach salad with chicken & chickpeas

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Before jumping straight into this week’s menu, though, let’s talk briefly about this week’s new ALDI Finds, fall recipes, and news.

Garlic pierogies and chocolate snowmen…

ALDI Finds for the week of 11/9/22 include more Thanksgiving foods, roasted garlic pierogies, acai bowls, cheap tights, and mini gnomes — Plus, so much more!

Check out all of my favorite ALDI Finds of the week here

Let me know what you’re picking up this week.

From the infamous melting chocolate snowman, to cocoa dusted truffles, to marzipan stollen: Read about some great new ALDI Holiday Finds for 2022. What have you spotted near you — and, what are you waiting to see in stores again this year?

And just a reminder: Did you see that ALDI is doing a Thanksgiving Price Rewind? From their press release:

ALDI is pleased to introduce the Thanksgiving Price Rewind offering affordable prices on holiday essentials. Starting November 2, holiday favorites ranging from appetizers, desserts, sides and beverages, will match 2019 prices for discounts of up to 30%.

Lastly, new on the Amazon front:

Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds include a Star Trek cats puzzle, a cell phone umbrella, and more!
This HUGE list of HUNDREDS of subscribe & save filler items is updated every Thursday.

That’s it, so, without further ado, here’s your ALDI meal plan for the week of 11/13/22. *** Be sure to sign up for our weekly emails, so that you never mss a new one.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 11/13/22 – 11/19/22

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 11/13/22

Sunday

Korean style ground beef & spinach rice bowls (substitute regular spinach)
Mix the garden salad with any remaining spinach in the bag, & top with chopped tomatoes & poppyseed dressing

Monday

Vegetarian three bean & lentil chili, topped with shredded cheddar
Serve with tortilla chips

Tuesday

20 minute ground beef & broccoli stir fry
Serve over cooked white rice
Egg drop soup

Wednesday

Strawberry spinach salad with chicken & chickpeas
Hard boil up the rest of the eggs (slice and add to the salad, if desired)
Cups of leftover chili from Monday, topped with shredded cheddar & served with any remaining tortilla chips

Thursday

Sheet pan sausage, peppers, & pierogies
Roasted broccoli & carrots (use sea salt if you don’t have Kosher)

Friday

Saturday

Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells nice big take-and-bake deli pizzas), or order in.

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 11/12/22

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

Dairy & refrigerated

Dozen Goldhen large eggs, $3.39
8 oz Happy Farms sharp cheddar block, $2.09

Frozen

2 boxes of Bremer roasted garlic pierogies, $4.98

Grocery

Clancy’s restaurant style tortilla chips, $1.69
Simply Nature organic poppyseed dressing, $2.49
Burman’s soy sauce, $1.59
3 lbs Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $2.29
16 oz bag Dakota’s Pride green lentils, $1.29
32 oz box Simply Nature organic chicken broth, $1.79
32 oz box Simply Nature organic vegetable broth, $1.49
1 can Dakota’s Pride garbanzo beans (chickpeas), $.79
1 can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.71
1 can Dakota’s Pride great northern beans, $.71
1 can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.79
1 can Happy Harvest whole kernel corn, $.59
1 can Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.99
1 can Happy Harvest tomato paste, $.69

Meat

Parkview Polska kielbasa, $3.49
3 lb pack boneless skinless chicken thighs, $7.17
2 lbs 80% lean ground beef, $7.58

Produce

1 lb strawberries, $3.29
8 oz white mushrooms, $1.49
1 lb asparagus, $1.99
Bunch green onions, $.89
1.5 lbs broccoli crowns, $2.24
2 lbs carrots, $1.89
2 bags 8 oz spinach, $3.58
Bag of garden salad, $1.69
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.89
3 heads garlic, $.99
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.89
1 avocado, $.79
2 Roma tomatoes, $.50

That comes to: $70.72

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 already have on hand, and/or sale produce from your local fruit market.

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*** 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 more than one of an item, or to change the weight of items. Before adding the list to your cart, change the following:
1. The garlic pierogies on special didn’t show up in Instacart. Either change the potato-cheddar pierogies quantity to two, OR, delete that and add a note to your shopper to buy two boxes of garlic pierogies. (Either will work in the recipe.)
2. The family packs of boneless chicken thighs in this week’s add aren’t listed in Instacart; add a note to your shopper that you want about a 3 lb pack.
3. Add a bag of yellow onions (they’re out of stock at my store, so I can’t put on the list at the moment) — OR, make a note to your shopper to look for onions and to substitute red or sweet if not available.
4. Change the spinach quantity to two; change the tomatoes quantity to two.
Click “add” on any items you want to place in your cart; omit any items you don’t want or already have.
Add anything else you need for the week to your cart, and check out!

Add your list to Instacart is a newer program, so please use at your own risk and always double check your cart against the recipes. It’s a work in progress! Note: Instacart prices are generally 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, canola oil, sesame oil, butter, honey, brown sugar, Italian seasoning, oregano, garlic powder, smoked paprika, garlic salt, cumin, chili powder, powdered ginger, crushed red pepper, sea salt, salt, black pepper, cornstarch, baking cocoa, Sriracha or Gochujang or chili garlic sauce

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

Print this week’s meal plan:

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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 11/6-11/12 in Sunday ad markets, and 11/9-11/15 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 11/13/22.

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