It’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 7/8/18: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday.

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Happy 4th of July!

I’m declaring my independence from capri pants this year; how about you? 😉

ANYway, let’s get back to this week’s ALDI meal plan…

Let’s get ready to make six complete dinners for a family of four, just $60.00 out the door! Hope you find the free ALDI meal plans useful, and you can just scroll down under the grocery list to find an easy printable shopping list for your week. (This is in Word format, but you should be able to open in Wordpad or Google Docs if you don’t have Word.)

ALDI meal planning week of 7/8/18 – 7/14/18

I’m assuming here that you already have pantry basics like cooking oil, condiments, and spices. 🙂 *** Read through the recipes before you shop to make sure you have the necessary pantry staples on hand. With a little extra room in the budget this week, I did include the butter needed for this week’s recipes in the shopping list below — and you’ll still have plenty left over for future weeks.

Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00

ALDI meal plan — Start cooking 7/8/18

Sunday: Skillet chicken drumsticks with corn, zucchini, and tomatoes.
Monday: Slow cooker garlic chicken drumsticks and spring mix salad topped with strawberries.
Tuesday: Taco zucchini boats. Serve with sour cream for dipping and with sliced nectarines.
Wednesday: One pot Parmesan pasta served with sourdough garlic bread and spring mix salad.
Thursday: Easy turkey kielbasa chili topped with cheddar, green onions, and sour cream, served with sourdough toast and nectarines.
Friday: Tilapia skillet with tomatoes & onions (use 14.5 oz can of tomatoes, and go ahead and dice up your last bell pepper and saute it in with the onions to punch things up a little more). On the side, spring mix salad and Parmesan fried broccoli.
Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 7/7/18

Dairy & refrigerated

Countryside Creamery butter, $3.09
8 oz block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.99
Friendly Farms sour cream, $1.49
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99

Grocery

Specially Selected sourdough square, $2.89
16 oz box SimplyNature organic spaghetti, $1.09
Can of Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $.49
14.5 oz can Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $.69
14.5 oz can Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.89
Can Dakota’s Pride black beans, $.69
Can Dakota’s Pride kidney beans, $.69
Can Happy Harvest corn, $.49
10 oz Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with lime, cilantro, & green chilies, $.45
Two 8 oz cans Happy Harvest tomato sauce, $.58

Meat

Two Fit & Active turkey kielbasa, $4.58
1 lb fresh tilapia, $5.79
4.5 lbs chicken drumsticks, $3.16
1 lb 80/20 ground beef, $2.99

Produce

2 lbs nectarines, $1.98
5 oz SimplyNature organic baby spinach, $2.49
16 oz SimplyNature organic spring mix, $3.49
8 oz mushrooms, $1.49
16 oz broccoli, $1.69
Bunch green onions, $.99
Strawberries, $1.29
3 lb yellow onions, $1.99
3 heads garlic, $1.49
Two 20 oz packs zucchini, $2.22
3 ears of corn, $.87
3 pack multicolored bell peppers, $3.29
2 pints grape tomatoes, $3.38

That comes to $60.69.

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!

*** Download this week’s shopping list in Word format so that you can 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 the ALDI 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 come up 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, you can 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 and dates

This week’s ALDI meal plan reflects prices from the current week’s ad (running 7/1-7/7 in Sunday ad markets, and 7/4-7/10 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 7/4/18 at 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 7/1/18.

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Useful resources for meal planning + ALDI shopping

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

Come join us in the Almost All ALDI Facebook group for recipes, meal planning ideas, ALDI food finds, and more.
How fun are these ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys? Check out my Amazon storefront, and browse several tees that show our mutual ALDI love.
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.

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Jessica

Wednesday 11th of July 2018

My family really enjoyed this week’s meal plan! I now get excited to get your emails each Wednesday to see what I’ll be cooking up next.

Katie Yankauskas

I am so excited I found something that will actually work for me and my family. I do have a question or two: 1. What Days do you post your new week? 2. If I feed a family a 5 how do I adjust the recipe so? Thank you!

rachel

The new meal plans are posted every Wednesday. If you are feeding a family of five, sometimes the recipes stretch, sometimes people add an extra side, sometimes you can add a little more meat -- it really depends on the recipe and how old your kids are.

Melissa

Sunday 8th of July 2018

Thank you for creating these money-saving meal plans. I wasn't taught to cook because my mom wasn't. I've had to learn throughout the years. I'm a very frugal person who wants to cook healthy meals for my family, so I'm in love with your website due to all the benefits: healthy, money-saving, time-saving, flavorful, EASY, etc. I feel so blessed to have found this. Again, thank you for creating & sharing all of this!

Paula

Wednesday 4th of July 2018

My husband won't eat chicken after he saw how they were raised and processed. Could you include pork, ham, beef, seafood more often?

Kaylynn

I'd like to suggest what we do- I am allergic to fish/seafood so when Rachel has dinners with that, I try to keep the dinner/recipe and just replace the protein. Switching between fish to chicken and pork is usually pretty easy. I imagine it would be easy to switch from chicken to seafood/pork. Happy planning! :)

The meal plans are often around the meats on sale, in order to fit into that $60 budget. This week, it happens to be chicken -- last week was very beef heavy, so it depends on the week. Since everyone has different diets, I unfortunately can't tailor them to everyone's specific preferences, needs, and restrictions. I'd suggest picking the meals that work for you, and then you can always pick recipes from the older plans or your own family's favorites to fill in on the other nights.