Meal Plan 7

Using a weekly Meal Plan takes the drama out of midweek dinners. Stay balanced, save money and save your sanity!

This is the 7th weekly meal plan I will be sharing on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, and so many of you asked for all of the info in one place, so here it is. Watch out for the videos of each recipe coming each night this week, so you can cook along.

Just a couple of notes on the shopping list for this plan:

➡️ I have listed the cheapest eggs on the shopping list but I bought free-range instead, just because that’s a choice I’m happy to pay for.

➡️ I also bought a lower % fat mince as it’s my preference. Again, obviously personal choice.

➡️ There are two vegetarian recipes this week, but if you want to add meat to the Crustless Quiche recipe, it’s really easy, just add some ham or bacon to the shopping list.

For reference, I shopped for this Meal Plan in June 2022 at Aldi and it cost £29.48.

Why use a weekly food planner?

⭐️ Knowing exactly what food to buy for avoids food waste, saving you money.

⭐️ Having a plan for dinner avoids the mental load of “what’s for dinner?” question every night.

The printable shopping list can be found here.

You can find more of my Weekly Meal Plans here:

Meal Plan 6 – £35 from Aldi
Meal Plan 5 – £35 from Aldi
Meal Plan 4 – 30 Minute Meals

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Weekly Meal Ideas: The Recipes

Dinner 1

⭐️ Annoyingly, Aldi don’t sell breadcrumbs right now. You can either buy them elsewhere or you can make your own. Make your own by putting stale bread into a food processor or grating it. You can freeze it first to make it easier.

⭐️ The recipe uses a mix of beef and pork mince, but here I’ve just used 500g of beef to keep costs down. They are still delicious.

⭐️ Serve with some of your grated cheddar rather than Parmesan.

⭐️ You could also serve with half of the white cabbage (steamed) on the side for extra vegetables. (We are only using half of this in the other recipes this week.)

⭐️ In the shopping list I’ve put the cheapest mince option (20% fat). I prefer to use a lower fat mince like 5% or 10%, but it is up to you and what your budget will allow.

Dinner 2

⭐️ Serve with homemade potato wedges and coleslaw.

⭐️ For the wedges:

• 1kg Potatoes
• 2tbsp Oil
• 2tsp Salt
• 2tsp Dried Oregano

1. Preheat the oven to 200c, and cut your potatoes into wedges (I don’t bother peeling as am lazy 🤫)
2. Coat in the oil, salt and garlic granules and spread on a single layer on a baking sheet.
3. Bake for 45-60 minutes (depending on your wedge size) turning once.

⭐️ To make the coleslaw:

• 1/2 White cabbage, very thinly sliced
• 1 Onion, very thinly sliced
• 2 Carrots, peeled and grated

1. Mix with yoghurt (from the shopping list) and a squirt or two of mayo to your taste.

⭐️ Save leftover coleslaw to serve with the burgers on Friday!

Dinner 3

⭐️ I used chicken breasts instead of thighs in this plan (just because, ya know, good to live dangerously sometimes) but whichever you fancy is fine.

⭐️ I served with boiled rice and carrots and cucumber (1/2 of the cucumber) cut into strips with a vegetable peeler. Plus another squeeze of lime over everything before serving.

Dinner 4

⭐️ Serve with the leftover coleslaw from earlier in the week and Homemade Chips.

⭐️ I substituted lime for lemon in the recipe as I had them already on the shopping list. You do need zest of 2 limes instead of 1 lemon in the recipe. 

⭐️ I had to cut the skin off of the salmon fillets. It’s worth looking up how to do this on YouTube as once you learn how to do it properly, it’s ridiculously easy.⭐️ I used some of the fresh flat leaf parsley from the shopping list.

Dinner 5

⭐️ This recipe actually serves 6. As the Aldi frozen butternut squash bags come in 500g size, I just used one instead of the full 700g in the recipe. I kept all other measurements the same. So this will probably make 5 portions if you’re following this meal plan? It freezes very well.

⭐️ Aldi also don’t sell curry paste. I used curry powder but you can use whichever you have in your pantry.

⭐️ Serve with boiled rice.

Quick reminder, the printable shopping list can be found here.

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