Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 8/30/20

Well, I’m moved! That’s about all I can say about this last week, as I write to you today from my fortress of boxes and chaos.

So, please excuse any typos in this week’s ALDI meal plan: 8/30/20 – 9/5/20! As always: Use this 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 8/30/20

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

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But first up — what’s new this week.

From dairy free mochi to children’s face masks

From dairy free mochi to children’s masks, from chicken fries to garden mums, from electric pressure cookers to summer Stilton — All in this week’s ALDI ad. Check out all of my favorite Finds of the week!

ALDI Meal Planning week of 8/30/20 – 9/5/20

But without further ado, here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 8/30/20. 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

ALDI Meal Plan — start cooking 8/30/20

Sunday

Skillet pork chops with mushrooms & tomatoes
Garden salad topped with a little thinly sliced onion & pepperoncini

Monday

Naan pesto pizza with roasted tomatoes, mushrooms, & spinach
Sliced nectarines

Tuesday

Easy spice rubbed fish tacos — topped with 1 diced avocado, 2 diced Roma tomatoes, & onion
Sliced nectarines

Wednesday

Slow cooker Italian pulled chicken sandwiches — (use 2 lbs chicken, served on Kaiser rolls with deli sliced mozzarella)
Half of the grapes

Thursday

Chopped chicken avocado tomato cucumber salad (use 1 lb chicken sliced lengthwise, substitute a seeded regular cucumber for mini, and omit green onion)
The other half of the grapes

Friday

Pesto tortellini with chicken, spinach, & tomatoes
Baguette

Saturday

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

ALDI Shopping List — Shop through 8/29/20

Dairy & refrigerated

Emporium Selection fresh mozzarella ball 8 oz, $2.49
9 oz Priano three cheese tortellini, $1.99
8 oz Happy Farms deli sliced mozzarella, $1.99

Grocery

Specially Selected naan, $3.99
L’Oven Fresh Kaiser rolls, $1.99
Specially Selected French baguette, $1.49
Tuascan Garden pepperoncini, $1.69
6.7 oz Priano Genovese pesto, $2.19
El Milagro flour tortillas, $.98
8 oz can Happy Harvest tomato sauce, $.29
14.5 oz can Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $.59

Meat

1 lb thin sliced pork chops, $3.89
4 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, $6.76
1 lb fresh tilapia, $5.79

Produce

16 oz limes, $1.99
2 lbs nectarines, $1.98
2 lbs grapes, $1.98
3 lbs yellow onions, $1.69
3 heads garlic, $1.19
Cucumber, $.59
2 packs 8 oz mushrooms, $3.58
8 oz bag of spinach, $1.39
Bag of garden salad, $1.19
3 pints grape tomatoes, $5.07
7 Roma tomatoes, $1.50
3 avocados, $2.67

That comes to: $60.94

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

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 8/23-8/29 in Sunday ad markets, and 8/26-9/1 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 8/30/20.

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