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Free ALDI Meal Plan week of 9/22/19 – 9/28/19

free ALDI meal plan week of 9/22/19

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!

Deutsche Küche German breads on the shelf at ALDI for German Week

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.

garden mums from aldi on a front porch

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

perfect Instant Pot ribs

ALDI meal plan — Start cooking 9/22/19

ALDI shopping list — Shop through 9/21/19

sale chicken thighs at ALDI

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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:

How fun are these ALDI themed t-shirts I have for you guys?!

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