I’m currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 budget for our family of six (two adults, two teens, a pre-teen, and a baby). This includes almost all of our breakfasts, snacks, and dinners + most household products (toiletries, feminine products, etc.). Jesse and I usually eat lunch at home. The kids have lunch at school.
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So many of you have begged me to do another Aldi shopping trip, so this week — since I needed to buy a lot of basic ingredients — I stopped by there for this week’s shopping trip. (Psst! Have you seen my post on my 25 Favorite Things to Buy at Aldi?)
Since we had a lot of ice and snow last week, I had heard that the delivery trucks had trouble getting through to some grocery stores — and that was very obvious by the produce section. (However, the produce section was the only section that was really sparse.)
I was excited to find some marked down meat! I had been hearing from people that Aldi has been doing lots of markdowns recently, but this was my first time to find it myself!
I also found these heart-shaped pizzas marked down by 50% so I bought two and we had them for dinner on Saturday night.
ALDI Shopping Trip
- 2 pizzas — marked down to $2.49 each
- Half & Half — $1.55
- Toilet paper — $1.49
- Orange Juice — $1.59
- Almond milk — $1.79
- Mozzarella — $2.75
- 2 cans green beans — $0.47 each
- Butter — $2.19
- 2 bags frozen veggies — $0.95 each
- 1 can diced tomatoes — $0.45
- 2 can cream of chicken soup — $0.50 each
- Crispy Oats cereal — $1.09
- Honey Crispy Oats cereal — $2.39
- 3 boxes Mac & Cheese — $0.34 each
- Honey Crunch Oats cereal — $1.29
- Brown sugar — $1.29
- Lettuce — $1.29
- Chocolate chips — $1.65
- Bacon — $3.39
- Celery — $1.29
- Chicken Thighs — marked down to $3.53
- Milk — $2.57
- 2 bags frozen broccoli — $0.85 each
- 2 3-lb bags chicken tenderloins — $5.45
- Cheddar cheese — $2.99
- 2 3-lb bags Gala apples — $2.99 each
- 2 Cucumbers — $0.59 each
- Sugar — $1.94
- Oyster crackers — $0.79
- Total with tax = $71.70
Menu Plan Ideas
Be sure to follow along on Instagram Stories to see what I’m cooking every day. I’ll likely change a few of these things up! We’ll see!)
Breakfast Ideas: Cereal/Milk, Green Smoothies, Energy Bites (yes, I eat them for breakfast!), Oatmeal
Lunch Ideas: Salad, Leftovers, Sandwiches, Mac & Cheese (The kids eat lunch at school during the week.)
Dinner Ideas:
- Take N’ Bake Pizza
- Chicken Broccoli Rice (I bought rice last week.)
- Chicken Stuffing Casserole (We have some stuffing mix I got marked down.)
- Lasagna Casserole (We have some pasta sauce in the freezer, pasta I bought on a great sale, plus cottage cheese I got on sale last week)
- Homemade Rotisserie Chicken (We have some whole chickens in the freezer)
- Breakfast for dinner: Waffles, bacon, orange juice
- Dinner out
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