Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 4/30/23

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 4/30/23! This week we’re cooking up everything from a cheesy smoked sausage & rice skillet to slow cooker Mediterranean chicken drumsticks — plus, so much more.

Get ready for another week of home cooked dinners; just ALDI meal plan along with us! Read on for all of the easy recipes, printable shopping list, and easy add-to-Instacart list.

These easy ALDI meal plans always feature six complete dinners for four, $70 out the door. Bring your family together around the table for a week of delicious dinners — and, of course, save time & money in the process.

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Free ALDI meal plan week of 4/30/23 – 5/6/23

cheesy smoked sausage & rice skillet, topped with fresh jalapeños

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

Cinco de Mayo and outdoor fun

ALDI Finds for the week of 4/26/23 include Cinco de Mayo foods, outdoor plants and gardening fun, new seasonal products, & 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.

Next, here’s what’s new on the Amazon front lately:

Last week’s fun & weird Amazon finds include measuring spoons for musicians, a Tetris lamp, & more.
This huge list of HUNDREDS of subscribe & save filler items is updated every Thursday.

But here, with no further ado, it’s your ALDI meal plan for the week of 4/30/23.

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ALDI Meal Planning week of 4/30/23 – 5/6/23

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 4/30/23

Sunday

Slow cooker Mediterranean chicken drumsticks
Serve over cooked rice
On the side: Cut up several tomatoes, the cucumber, and a little onion; toss with balsamic vinaigrette to taste

Monday

Beef & cabbage stir fry with giardiniera
Steam up the frozen mixed vegetables on the side, tossing these with a little butter & sea salt to taste

Tuesday

Oven baked chicken and rice (substitute 2.5 lbs of drumsticks for the thighs, browning for about 3 minutes a side)

Wednesday

Creamy tomato hummus soup
Jalapeño popper grilled cheese — Use the remaining 6 oz of cream cheese, and substitute bacon bits for sliced bacon. Reserve 1 cup cheddar for Friday.

Thursday

Slow cooker Italian chicken sandwiches (use vegetable broth)
Serve these on the rest of the sourdough bread instead of on rolls
On the side: Garden salad, topped with chopped tomato, thinly sliced onion, and any remaining vinaigrette

Friday

Cheesy smoked sausage & rice skillet (use 1 cup of cheese), topped with thinly sliced jalapeño if desired
Cut up the mangoes

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 4/29/23

*** Check below this grocery list for Easy One-Stop Instacart Shopping, as well as an editable easy-print version.

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz Happy Farms cream cheese, $1.49
12 oz Happy Farms shredded sharp cheddar, $2.99
10 oz Park Street Deli roasted red pepper hummus, $2.49

Frozen

Season’s Choice steamable frozen mixed veggies, $.89

Grocery

16 oz jar Simply Nature organic salsa, $2.29
Specially Selected sourdough square, $3.69
16 oz Tuscan Garden balsamic vinaigrette, $1.99
Tuscan Garden real bacon bits, $1.69
5.75 oz jar Tuscan Garden Spanish manzanilla olives, $1.49
16 oz jar Tuscan Garden mild giardiniera, $3.69
3 lb bag Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $2.29
32 oz box Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.29
32 oz box Simply Nature organic vegetable broth, $1.89
2 cans of Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $1.78
28 oz can Happy Harvest crushed tomatoes, $1.29
Can of Happy Harvest whole kernel corn, $.49

Meat & seafood

Parkview jalapeño cheddar smoked sausage, $3.39
5.5 lb family pack chicken drumsticks, $4.90
14 oz Old Neighborhood beef shaved steak, $5.89
2.5 lbs boneless chicken breast, $8.23

Produce

2 mangoes, $1.78
8 oz white mushrooms, $1.69
Little Salad bar classic coleslaw, $1.29
Little Salad bar garden salad, $1.79
Cucumber, $.69
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.49
3 heads garlic, $1.49
24 oz tomatoes on the vine, $1.94
3 pack multicolored bell peppers, $2.79
8 oz jalapeño peppers, $.69

That comes to: $70.78

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 a 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, and the meat special buys don’t usually show up. So: Before adding the list to your cart, change these quantities and make the following notes.
1. Quantities:
  - Change the quantity of diced tomatoes to two.
  - Change the mangoes quantity to two.
1. Notes for your shopper:
  - Make a note that you want a 5.5 family pack of the sale special buy $.89/lb chicken drumsticks in this week’s ad in many markets, rather than the regularly priced family pack I used as a placeholder.
  - Make a note that you want 2.5 lbs of the boneless chicken breast.

Please use the add your list to Instacart feature at your own risk, and always double check your cart against the grocery list above. 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, chili powder, oregano, rosemary, thyme, smoked paprika, garlic powder, parsley, cumin, basil, cayenne, Italian seasoning, crushed red pepper, black pepper, sea salt

Printable ALDI meal plan & grocery list

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If you don’t have Word, open the shopping list in Google Docs or Wordpad.

Edit and add in your own meal ideas, remove items you have on hand, and/or change regional pricing to match that at 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 4/23-4/29 in Sunday ad markets, and 4/26-5/2 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 4/30/23.

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