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Meal Plan & Aldi Grocery Haul | January 23, 2017

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

This week I’m sharing a meal plan & grocery haul combo!! I’ve tried something new which was to have planned & shopped for two weeks’ worth of meals. I hope this will prove to help us save both time, money and possibly even the amount of effort put into the meal planning & grocery shopping process.

Meal Plan Aldi Grocery Haul

We do the majority of our shopping at Aldi – we love that place!!! As with almost all of the meal plans I’ve shared, I used PlanToEat.com to organize my recipes, schedule our meals and create the shopping list.

And here’s our family meal plan for the next two weeks – note it is very likely these meals will get switched around:
Monday – Taco Salad Leftovers (http://bit.ly/1XmHyzs)
Tuesday – Chili from the freezer (http://bit.ly/2jrlEfj)
Wednesday – Breakfast Burritos
Thursday – Meatballs & Noodles Leftovers (http://bit.ly/1TQBKhM)
Friday – Aldi Deli Pizza
Saturday – Chili Dip (coming soon!)
Sunday – Meatball Stew (http://bit.ly/2jT6jXZ)
Monday – Pasta & Meatballs
Tuesday – Chili Dip Leftovers
Wednesday – Slow Cooker Pot Roast (http://bit.ly/2jLEyhR)
Thursday – Open
Friday – Pizza Night
Saturday – Sunday Chicken Dinner in Slow Cooker (http://bit.ly/2iYISgt)
Sunday – Open

Below is the video of our two week meal plan as well as our Aldi grocery haul. If you enjoy it, I hope you will subscribe to be notified of future videos and check out my playlist of Grocery Haul videos.

If you’re interested in using Plan To Eat to simplify your meal planning and grocery shopping, they offer a free 30-day trial!! You can import your recipes and use them to quickly and easily make your meal plan. Print the shopping list organized by category for you and head to the grocery store (or send your husband – that’s what I do!!)

Do you meal plan on regular basis? If so, do you do it weekly, bi-weekly or monthly?

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Menu Plan for the Week – Here We Go Again

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

Menu Plan Monday
I’m linking up with Menu Plan Monday at I’m an Organizing Junkie.

Let’s not count how many times I’ve posted a meal plan and spewed on about how I’m back on the wagon and its going to be different from here on out. I’m just gonna be thankful that I got a plan done for this week and let’s see how next goes – because there is no doubt, life is much nicer when there’s a plan. Even if you change it 14 times by Wednesday. (Who me?)

My go-to tool for menu planning for the longest time has been Ziplist. It’s free, it has an easy recipe clipper for my favorites bar, it organizes my recipes into a nice little shopping list…it worked great for me. But recently they did some work to their site and I don’t like it. It’s not intuitive to me and although I’d probably be just fine after awhile of using it, I have no desire to. Weird but oh well.

So I decided to get on board with Plan To Eat. I’ve seen lots of bloggers rave about them and did the trial once but blew it and let it lapse without really giving it a good try. So I decided to get just a one month subscription and give it a really good effort this time. I’ve been adding some of our favorite recipes, playing with the menu planner and shopping list features. So far I like it quite a bit. I’ve got a week left on my month subscription and I see giving it another month or two before I make a final decision. If you want to try it out, go here.

So our plan for this week:

Breakfast
For Mom – I made a big batch of Pumpkin Pie Steel Cut Oats last week so I’m still working my way through them
For Brooke – French toast bites & waffles, need to come up with some healthier, make-ahead options she’ll eat
For Dad – Protein shakes after the gym

Lunch
For Mom – I will probably get stuck with leftovers again, days that I don’t turkey or PB&J sandwiches
For Brooke – turkey or PB&J sandwiches, popcorn, grapes, blueberries, carrot sticks, cheese crackers,
For Dad – salad

Dinner-
Slow Cooker Meatballs & Noodles
Chicken Broccoli Rice Casserole
Grilled Cheese & Popcorn (our standing Thursday night dinner)

We’re hoping the weather and everyone’s immune systems hold out for a third attempt to go to King’s Island in Ohio this weekend. We’re hoping to save some money on food by bringing a cooler and avoiding eating out much. So we’ll have lots of sandwiches and snacky lunches and dinners over the weekend and hoping breakfast will be provided Saturday morning at whatever hotel we stay in.