Crystal’s $137 Aldi Shopping Trip (+ full menu plan)

Printed: by Crystal Paine on September 11, 2023  |  This put up could include affiliate hyperlinks. Learn my disclosure coverage right here.

Should you noticed my grocery purchasing journey put up final week, you recognize that I’m testing out/considering a grocery funds improve once more as our youthful children are getting older and our older children are doing extra sports activities, so everyone seems to be consuming extra, which is implausible!

This week, I attempted one thing I’ve by no means completed earlier than: I went to Aldi and I didn’t calculate my working whole as I put issues in my cart. As an alternative, I simply purchased what I assumed can be sufficient meals to final us for the week. Sure, I checked out offers and gross sales however I wished to see what it might value to purchase what I assumed would truly final us properly for the complete week with out specializing in sticking to the funds to assist me decide what a practical funds is.

I’m truthfully pondering we’ll go together with $150/week after this experiment — simply to present loads of respiration room — however I wish to strive yet another week and see if I believe that’s the quantity that I really feel like will work for us for a minimum of the subsequent 12 months or so!

Right here’s what I purchased for $137:

Right here had been among the finest offers I discovered…

Mandarins are $2.49 for a 3-lb bag. We love these for fast snacks or they’re nice to pack in lunches.

Grapes are $0.99/lb!

And this was loopy and I needed to look 3 times to ensure it was truly right — 10 pound baggage of potatoes for $0.99!!!! They did appear like they’d should be used up within the subsequent few weeks, however I purchased three baggage and am excited to get inventive over the subsequent few weeks to make use of them up!

Right here’s our menu plan for the week:

Breakfasts: Granola over yogurt, Baked Oatmeal, Smoothies, Fried Eggs/Avocados, Scrambled Eggs with Cheese and Toast, Oatmeal, Cereal

Lunches: Snack-y lunch, PB&Jelly, Turkey & Cheese, Leftovers, Salad (Kaitlynn and Silas have lunch at college among the days)

Snacks: Ice cream & snacks I purchased, Apples with Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chips, Cheese, Mandarins, Home made Vitality Bites, Pumpkin Bread, Chocolate Cake for Jesse’s birthday

Dinner: Potato Soup, Breakfast for Dinner, Meat Potato Quiche, Hen Salsa Pizza, Sausage/Potatoes/Peppers/Onions, Dinner out, Leftover/Fend-For-Your self