Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 2/18/18: 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 2/18/18 – 2/24/18

I’m assuming here that you already have pantry basics like cooking oil, condiments, 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 2/18/18

Sunday: Broiled pork chops & zucchini with Greek yogurt sauce, strawberries.
Monday: Skillet pork chops with mushrooms & tomatoes, sliced oranges
Tuesday: Chicken burrito bowls (use 1 lb chicken & the can of broth & top with Greek yogurt, cilantro, sliced black olives, diced avocado, chopped tomato, additional salsa, and shredded cheddar), along with oranges.
Wednesday: Sheet pan Mediterranean spinach salad (use 1 lb chicken & cucumber rather than avocado, vine-ripe tomato rather than Roma), with strawberries.
Thursday: Curried chicken skillet with cauliflower & rice. Also make lemon butter green beans (halve recipe and save the rest of your bag of green beans for tomorrow), plus slice up any remaining tomatoes and top with a little salt.
Friday: Sheet pan salmon & green beans with lemon garlic butter. Serve with lemon rice.
Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 2/17/18

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz Happy Farms block cheddar, $1.79
32 oz tub Friendly Farms full fat plain Greek yogurt, $3.69

Grocery

Can Tuscan Garden black olives, $1.49
3 lbs Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $1.29
Casa Mamita organic chipotle-lime salsa, $2.29
32 oz box Chef’s Cupboard organic chicken broth, $1.19
Can Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $.49
1 can Dakota’s Pride chickpeas (garbanzo beans), $.65
1 can SimplyNature organic black beans, $.89

Meat

2.5 lbs thin sliced boneless pork chops, $7.48
1 lb fresh salmon, $7.69
3.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, $5.07 (Note: This is on a 5 day sale 2/14-2/18 in my area; check your local ad for dates)

Produce

2 lbs lemons, $1.99
4 lbs navel oranges, $2.49
8 oz bag spinach, $1.49
Two packs 8 oz mushrooms, $2.98
1 seedless cucumber, $.69
One head cauliflower, $2.29
Cilantro, $.69
Two packs 16 oz strawberries, $2.98
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.69
3 heads garlic, $1.19
20 oz bag zucchini, $1.59
16 oz green beans, $1.59
1 avocado, $.99
24 oz tomatoes on the vine, $1.69
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.99

That comes to $60.34.

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. *** 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 2/11-2/17 in Sunday ad markets, and 2/14-2/20 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 2/14/18 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 2/18/18.

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