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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 7/26/20 – 8/1/20

Free Mashup Mom ALDI meal plan week of 7/26/20

How are we into August already? This is both the slowest and fastest summer on record. As always: Use this meal plan for the week of 7/26/20 as a starting point, modifying 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 7/26/20

As our strange times continue, I do hope you can use these meal plans to help restore some rhythm to your weeks.

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First up, what’s new this week?

Pickle Potato Chips, Sandwich Bags, and Face Masks?

dill pickle potato chips on the shelf at ALDI

From dill pickle flavored potato chips, to big packs of sandwich bags, to veggie straws, to… reusable straws! Lots of great Finds in this week’s ALDI ad; check them all out here.

star wars themed face mask

And, ALDI will be requiring face masks for entry nationwide — customers need to wear face coverings in stores across the United States, even in states that don’t have a broad mandate.

ALDI Meal Planning week of 7/26/20 – 8/1/20

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 7/26/20. 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

shrimp taco salad in this week's aldi meal plan

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 7/26/20

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

  • Shrimp taco salad — add 3 oz spinach to the garden salad, too, for extra punch and vitamins
  • Sliced nectarines

Wednesday

  • Veggie fajitas (use the orange and yellow bell peppers)
  • Garlicky black beans — if desired, also saute a little onion and jalapeño in olive oil until softened, before adding the garlic & proceeding with the rest of the recipe

Thursday

Friday

  • Chipotle taco soup, topped with chopped green onions, a little shredded cheddar, and the rest of the tortilla strips
  • Slice the rest of the nectarines

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 7/25/20

Dairy & refrigerated

8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.65
9 oz Priano three cheese tortellini, $1.99
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

Specially Selected Italian loaf, $1.99
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard beef broth, $1.29
Tuscan Garden tri-colored tortilla strips, $1.29
12 pack El Milagro medium flour tortillas, $.98
Can of Happy Harvest corn, $.49
4 cans Dakota’s Pride black beans, $1.92
8 oz can Happy Harvest tomato sauce, $.29
Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $.69
Pueblo Lindo chipotles in adobo, $.99

Meat

6 lbs bone-in chicken breast, $5.94
12 oz Fremont Fish Market medium peeled shrimp (frozen), $5.49
2 lbs 80/20 ground beef, $6.98

Produce

2 lbs nectarines, $1.78
2 lbs limes, $1.89
Bunch green onions, $.79
16 oz baby carrots, $.89
8 oz mushrooms, $1.89
12 oz garden salad, $1.19
8 oz spinach, $1.39
3 heads garlic, $1.29
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.89
5 lbs baking potatoes, $2.99
8 oz jalapeños, $.69
3 pack multi-colored bell peppers, $2.99
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.89
7 Roma tomatoes, $1.75
3 avocados, $2.67

That comes to: $59.95

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, 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 7/19-7/25 in Sunday ad markets, and 7/22-7/29 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 7/26/20.

Stay in the meal planning loop

More ways to stay connected:

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

master list of meal planning resources from Mashup Mom

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

Lastly: You can always access your current regional ALDI ad here.

Sheri

Tuesday 28th of July 2020

Rachel, thank you for adding the new feature of a list of pantry staples needed for the weekly meal plans!! That's a great time saver for me as I look through my pantry and prepare my shopping list! Thanks for all of your weekly posts and meal plans! I've told so many people about how fantastic they are and now they use them, too!

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