Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 5/16/21 – 5/22/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/16/21! This week, we’re cooking up everything from vegetarian burritos to a satisfying salsa verde chicken soup — and so much more.

Enjoy some new meals, because every week provides another chance to save time & money with meal planning, have your dinner time covered, and try something new with your family.

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 5/16/21 – 5/22/21

Use these meal plans to help reclaim some of your precious time, and avoid the perennial question: What’s for dinner?

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But first, what’s new this week?

Pickle Popcorn, Patio Picks, and more savings this week

From huge jars of pickles to pickle popcorn, from patio Finds to all-beef hot dogs for the grill… and so much more! Check out my top 25+ ALDI Finds of the week, and let me know what you’re planning on picking up.

And then, we’ll take a minute to save even beyond ALDI! Check out your ultimate guide to maximizing your savings with Amazon’s Subscribe & Save program, completely updated for 2021.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 5/16/21 – 5/22/21

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/16/21. 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

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 5/16/21

Sunday

• Roast chipotle chicken & potatoes (use yellow potatoes, and reserve 2 cups cooked chicken for Tuesday)
• Cut up the pineapple

Monday

• Mushroom, black bean, & spinach vegetarian burritos (use white mushrooms & chipotle lime salsa)
• Sliced avocados
• Tortilla chips & salsa

Tuesday

• Easy salsa verde chicken soup, topped with a little shredded cheddar & chopped green onion
• The rest of the tortilla chips
• Oranges

Wednesday

• Sheet pan chicken dinner with roasted Brussels sprouts & potatoes (use all 16 oz sprouts)
• Carrots need butter & thyme (cut up whole carrots, roast at 425 on a separate pan from the sheet pan chicken dinner)

Thursday

• Slow cooker buffalo ranch chicken potato casserole
• Side salad made with garden salad & the rest of the bag of spinach, topped with ranch, any leftover chopped carrot, and chopped tomatoes

Friday

• Fajita-inspired sheet pan chicken thighs & peppers
• Oranges

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 5/15/21

Dairy & refrigerated

16 oz Happy Farms shredded cheddar, $4.09

Grocery

16 oz Specially Selected salsa verde, $1.95
16 oz Casa Mamita organic chipotle & lime salsa, $1.89
Clancy’s white round tortilla chips, $1.85
Tuscan Garden bacon bits, $1.25
Tuscan Garden ranch dressing, $1.69
Pueblo Lindo chipotles in adobo, $1.09
El Milagro flour tortillas, $.98
Can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69
2 cans Dakota’s Pride great northern beans, $1.38
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.19

Meat

6 lb whole chicken, $5.70
3 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, $6.87
3.25 lbs bone-in chicken thighs, $4.19

Produce

Whole pineapple, $1.49
4 lbs navel oranges, $2.89
5 lbs yellow potatoes, $3.39
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.49
3 heads garlic, $1.29
2 packs 8 oz white mushrooms, $1.98
Bunch green onions, $.79
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.49
1 lb Brussels sprouts, $1.49
2 lbs carrots, $1.49
8 oz bag spinach, $1.49
Garden salad, $1.69
2 avocados, $1.98
2 Roma tomatoes, $.50

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That comes to: $60.26

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

1. 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.
2. 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 5/9-5/15 in Sunday ad markets, and 5/12-5/18 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 5/16/21.

Stay in the meal planning loop

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Happy ALDI shopping & cooking this week! If you find this meal plan useful, why not share it with your friends on Facebook so they can save money with ALDI meal planning as well?

Resources for meal planning & ALDI shopping

Let’s close things out with just a few resources to help you with your meal planning & ALDI shopping:

• Almost All ALDI — for more ALDI goodness, ALDI finds, reviews, and more.
• Master list of meal planning resources
• Come join us in the Almost All ALDI Facebook group for recipes, meal planning ideas, ALDI food finds, and more.
• Get cash back for ALDI shopping with 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) and through the Fetch Rewards app.
• 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.