Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 5/9/21

Welcome to your free ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/9/21! This week, we’re cooking up everything from a fresh vegetable lo mein, to chicken zucchini burrito bowls, to a sausage, peppers, & onions frittata — and so much more.

Variety is the spice of dinner, and every week provides another chance to cook along with us, save time & money with meal planning, 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 5/9/21 – 5/15/21

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?

ALDI Finds — Mother’s Day, Gluten Free, more!

So many good ALDI Finds this week: A slew of new gluten free products, flowers & gifts for Mother’s Day, and more! Check out my top 25+ ALDI Finds of the week, and let me know what you’re planning on picking up.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 5/9/21 – 5/15/21

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 5/9/21. 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 5/9/21

Sunday

Sausage, peppers, & onions frittata
Toasted bagels
Mandarins

Monday

Tuesday

Zucchini Spanish rice burrito bowls (substitute chicken thighs, don’t halve lengthwise)
Cut up the mangoes

Wednesday

Sheet pan smoky Parmesan chicken & veggies (use thighs)
Mandarins

Thursday

Cheesy sausage rice & spinach skillet
Mix garden salad with the last of the spinach to make side salad; top with sliced bell pepper, chopped carrot, & chopped green onion

Friday

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 5/8/21

Dairy & refrigerated

Dozen Goldhen large eggs, $1.04
12 oz Happy Farms shredded cheddar, $3.19
4 oz Emporium Selection garlic & herb goat cheese, $1.99
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

L’Oven Fresh bagels, $1.49
Casa Mamita organic chipotle lime salsa, $1.89
Fusia Asian Inspirations soy sauce, $1.59
3 lbs Earthly Grains long grain white rice, $2.09
2 boxes 32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $2.38
Simply Nature organic 16 oz spaghetti noodles, $1.09

Meat

Never Any! apple chicken sausage 12 oz, $2.85
Never Any! spinach feta chicken sausage 12 oz, $2.85
3.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs, $5.92
16 oz 85% lean ground beef chub (frozen), $3.29

Produce

2 mangoes, $.98
3 lbs mandarins, $2.69
Bunch green onions, $.79
2 lbs carrots, $1.49
2 bags 8 oz spinach, $2.98
Little Salad Bar garden salad, $1.69
8 oz mushrooms, $1.89
8 oz baby bella mushrooms, $1.99
26 oz broccoli crowns, $2.42
16 oz green beans, $1.69
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.49
3 heads garlic, $1.29
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.99
20 oz zucchini, $.99

That comes to: $60.02

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 5/2-5/8 in Sunday ad markets, and 5/5-5/11 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 5/9/21.

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