It’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 3/17/19: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday!

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But now, let’s get back to the ALDI menu plan you’ve all been waiting for…

ALDI meal planning week of 3/17/19 – 3/23/19

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 3/17/19

• Sunday: Corned beef & cabbage (use about 1.5 lbs potatoes cut into quarters or eighths, since they’re the regular size ones). Also cut half the head of cauliflower into florets, steam it up, and top with a little shredded cheddar cheese. 
• Monday: Black bean, tomato, & spinach frittata topped with sour cream. Serve with mandarins and tortilla chips (reserve 8 oz of chips for Friday).
• Tuesday: Roast chipotle chicken & potatoes (substitute red potatoes, chopping them slightly larger). Serve with strawberries and zucchini tots (use regular cheese, add a little Italian seasoning bc you have plain breadcrumbs, and throw them in the oven to cook up while the chicken is resting before carving).
• Wednesday: Italian wedding soup with turkey meatballs (use the whole 19.2 oz pack of turkey & substitute 4 oz regular spinach for 5 oz baby; shredded Parmesan for grated). Serve with baguette and grapes.
• Thursday: Sheet pan smoky Parmesan chicken tenders & veggies, along with easy roasted red potatoes (I like to use seasoned salt instead of Kosher salt, and add additional Italian seasoning & smoked paprika to taste) plus mandarins & grapes.
• Friday: Crunchy tortilla chicken fingers (double recipe & use tenders instead of cut up chicken breast). You can stir a little chopped chipotle and adobo sauce into sour cream to taste to dip these in, and serve with carrot & celery sticks (If you are out of carrots, just celery!), along with cruciferous crumble. Note: You can cook everything at 425 degrees; just reduce the cooking time slightly on the chicken fingers and check them a bit sooner.
• Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 3/16/19

Dairy & refrigerated

Dozen Goldhen eggs, $1.18
Friendly Farms sour cream, $.99
8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.99
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

Bake Shop baguette, $1.69
Clancy’s restaurant style tortilla chips, $1.69
2 boxes Chef’s Cupboard  chicken broth, $2.78
Chef’s Cupboard plain bread crumbs, $.89
Can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69
Can Dakota’s Pride Cannellini beans, $.69
Can Pueblo Lindo chipotles in adobo, $.99
Pagasa 7 oz shells, $.25

Meat

3 lbs point cut corned beef, $5.97
5 lb whole chicken, $4.75
3.5 lbs chicken tenderloins, $6.97
Fit & Active 19.2 oz ground turkey, $3.29

Produce

3 lbs mandarins, $2.49
Strawberries, $1.69
2 lbs green grapes, $2.38
5 lb red potatoes, $1.89
2 lbs carrots, $1.09
Head cabbage, $.89
8 oz bag spinach,$1.19
16 oz broccoli crowns, $1.69
Head cauliflower, $2.49
3 lbs yellow onions, $.99
3 heads garlic, $1.29
16 oz zucchini, $1.39
Celery, $1.39
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.99

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That comes to $59.65.

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.

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Things to know about the ALDI meal plans

A couple of notes

1. 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.
2. 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 3/10-3/16 in Sunday ad markets, and 3/13-3/19 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 3/13/19 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 3/17/19.

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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.
• 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.