It’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 9/22/19: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday. Six complete dinners for four, $60 out the door!
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Some super-quick ALDI Finds fun first…
It’s German Week at ALDI!
It’s German Week at ALDI! This one is always fun given that they’re a German company & know how to do it up right, so look for Deutsche Küche everything. More of my favorite ALDI Finds of the week here.
And a quick update on those ALDI mums I got on clearance for $.99 recently: They’re doing great — they just needed a little water and sunlight to grow & bloom. Don’t we all, right? 🙂
But now, on to this week’s ALDI menu plan:
ALDI meal planning week of 9/22/19 – 9/28/19
I’m assuming that you already have 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.
Six Easy Dinners from ALDI for $60.00
ALDI meal plan — Start cooking 9/22/19
- Sunday: Perfect Instant Pot ribs, along with Instant Pot not Syracuse salt potatoes, which you can start in the IP after taking out the ribs. (No Instant Pot? Do the ribs in the oven wrapped in foil at 250 degrees for about 3.5 hours or until tender, then finish under the broiler per original recipe, and do up the little potatoes your own favorite way — these skillet potatoes would be good, for instance; use Parmesan instead of parsley at the end.)
- Monday: One pot Parmesan pasta with spinach & mushrooms (chop and use 8 oz regular spinach), along with pretzel breadsticks.
- Tuesday: Easy shrimp & mushroom quesadillas, with mandarins plus half the bag of baby carrots and cut up celery sticks.
- Wednesday: Sheet pan citrus soy chicken & cauliflower (substitute thighs for drumsticks), along with any leftover pasta from Monday.
- Thursday: Italian chicken thighs w/ zucchini & potatoes (use little potatoes).
- Friday: Easy smoked sausage & spinach soup (use baby carrots, regular 8 oz spinach, and white mushrooms), plus garden salad.
- Saturday: Leftovers, family pizza night (ALDI sells a nice big take-and-bake pizza), eat out, or date night.
ALDI shopping list — Shop through 9/21/19
Dairy & refrigerated
Priano shredded Parmesan, $1.99
Block Happy Farms cheddar, $1.99
Grocery
Burman’s BBQ sauce, $.95
32 oz Chef’s Cupboard chicken broth, $1.39
16 oz SimplyNature organic spaghetti or whole wheat spaghetti, $1.09
1 can Happy Harvest diced tomatoes, $.69
1 can Happy Harvest fire roasted diced tomatoes, $.89
2 cans Great Northern beans, $1.38
12 pack El Milagro medium flour tortillas, $.95
Packet Casa Mamita taco seasoning, $.29
1 can Casa Mamita diced tomatoes with green chilies, $.65
L’Oven Fresh pretzel breadsticks, $2.69
Meat
Parkview Polska kielbasa, $2.29
4 lbs spare ribs, $7.96
5 lbs bone-in chicken thighs, $3.95
12 oz Fremont Fish Market medium EZ peel raw shrimp (frozen), $4.99
Produce
3 lbs mandarins, $2.49
Three packs 8 oz mushrooms, $4.47
Two 24 oz bags dynamic duo potatoes, $3.98
16 oz baby carrots, $.99
Head of cauliflower, $2.29
2 8 oz bags of spinach, $2.78
Garden salad, $1.19
3 lbs yellow onions, $2.29
3 heads garlic, $1.19
20 oz zucchini, $2.11
Celery, $1.29
Pint grape tomatoes, $1.69
That comes to $60.90.
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 and grocery list
*** Download this week’s printable ALDI shopping list and meal plan 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 9/15-9/21 in Sunday ad markets, and 9/18-9/24 in Wednesday ad markets). Non-advertised prices were collected on 9/17/19 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 9/22/19.
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Happy ALDI shopping and cooking this week, everyone!
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:
- 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.
- ALDI is now a participating store for 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.)
- 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.
