Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 4/4/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 4/4/21! This week, we’re cooking up everything from a stay-at-home Easter dinner for four to savory asparagus & grilled cheese sandwiches — and so much more.

As always, use this menu plan as a starting point, modifying it as necessary according to what is in stock in your area, what you have on hand in your pantry, and your own family’s dietary needs and preferences.

Free ALDI meal plan week of 4/4/21 – 4/10/21

Use these meal plans to help restore some rhythm to your weeks, and to help reclaim some of your precious time!

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But first, what’s new this week?

Easter Lilies, Easter ham, and more ALDI Finds

Here are the top 25 ALDI Finds week of 3/31/21 — From Easter lilies to Easter ham, from PB&J snack bites to a Cat Scratch playhouse — and so much more!

Speaking of that Easter ham, here’s how to make yours in a slow cooker: Plus, seven recipe ideas to help use up some leftover ham!

ALDI Meal Planning week of 4/4/21 – 4/10/21

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 4/4/21. Pick up everything on the shopping list below, and start cooking on Sunday: As always, six complete dinners for four, $60 out the door.

I’m assuming that you have on hand some 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; see a summary in the printable grocery list below.

Print your meal plan summary + grocery shopping list below this week’s detailed plan.

Six easy dinners from ALDI for $60

ham hand pies in this week's ALDI meal plan

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 4/4/21

Sunday

Easter ham: Make it in the slow cooker, or use your own favorite method/recipe!
Oven roasted everything asparagus (if you don’t have everything seasoning, you can instead use sea salt & black pepper to taste)
Savory mashed sweet potatoes (top with some chopped green onion instead of parsley)
Cinnamon sugar pie crust cookies (use one crust out of one box of pie crusts, reserving the second for Tuesday)

Monday

Ham hand pies with spinach (use regular spinach instead of baby)
Mix the rest of the spinach with a little spring mix salad, and top with 1 chopped tomato + half the cucumber, chopped

Tuesday

Leftover ham & asparagus quiche
Half of the grapes
Sourdough toast (make sure to reserve 8 slices of bread for tomorrow)

Wednesday

Roasted asparagus grilled cheese
The rest of the grapes
Spring mix salad with chopped tomato & cucumber

Thursday

Sausage & sweet potato sheet pan dinner
Slice up any remaining tomatoes, and top with a little sea salt

Friday

Smoked salmon scramble (use the 7 eggs you have left, instead of 8)
Chop and steam up the rest of the broccoli, topping it with shredded Parmesan to taste
The rest of the spring mix salad, topped with Parmesan

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 4/3/21

With holiday baking prices on & leftover ham at at the ready, restock a bit of butter this week — included in the shopping list below!

Dairy & refrigerated

Dozen Goldhen large eggs, $1.05
Friendly Farms sour cream, $1.49
2 boxes Bake House Creations refrigerated pie crust, $3.30
Happy Farms 8 oz cream cheese, $.99
Countryside Creamery butter quarters, $1.89
8 oz block Happy Farms sharp cheddar, $1.95
Emporium Selected deli sliced Havarti, $2.49
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

Sourdough square bread, $3.09
Burman’s Dijon mustard, $1.65

Meat

9 lb ham, $7.65
Parkview Polska kielbasa, $2.49
Specially Selected 3 oz smoked salmon, $3.99

Produce

2 lbs asparagus, $3.98
4.5 lbs sweet potatoes, $2.66
2 lbs red grapes, $1.98
24 oz tomatoes on the vine, $1.99
3 heads garlic, $1.29
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.49
Bunch green onions, $.79
16 oz organic spring mix, $3.59
8 oz bag spinach, $1.49
8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $2.09
1 cucumber, $.59
24 oz broccoli, $2.24

That comes to: $59.20

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 & grocery list

*** Download this week’s printable ALDI shopping list and meal plan in Word format. (If you don’t have Word, you can open this in Google Docs or in Wordpad.)

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 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, 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 3/28-4/3 in Sunday ad markets, and 3/31-4/6 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices are from 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 4/4/21.

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