2-Week Meal Plan for a Family of 5 for $170 (2024)

I've been on a mission to stay organized this summer and continue to meal plan even though the warm months bring ball games, vacations and interrupted schedules. Below you will find a REAL food plan, one that requires one shopping trip, yet feeds your family for 14 days. Tried and true homemade recipes, many items organic, all of which you're family will love!

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As many of you know, our family does most of our shopping at ALDI. Although we do get various items elsewhere, I would say 80% of our food is from ALDI. We started shopping there a few years back, when we realized how much money it saved us.

This past spring I was invited to the ALDI headquarters in Chicago. You can read about those visits, here and here. It was a blast! Although I do have ties to them, I am not writing this post on behalf of ALDI, I am simply wanting to give you this meal plan as a gift.

If I've been asked once I've been asked a million times, "how do you meal plan?" "Where do you grocery shop?" "How do you feed your family on a tight budget?".

I put together a meal plan last year and it took off like wild fire. You can read and follow that post HERE. Since it had been awhile, I figured it was time again! But this time I challenged myself and purchased EVERY SINGLE ITEM from one store, ALDI. How good does it feel to do all your shopping at one store and be done? Pretty darn good.

So, here are the details. Below you will find 10 meals, planned out for 12 days. Two of the meals make a LOT, so you will be using the leftovers of one {Slow Cooker Meatballs} for a new meal and one {the Italian Beef} you'll be eating for two meals in a row. The remaining two days are up to you. I'm pretty sure in a span of 14 days every family has two nights where they are gone {out to dinner, at a ball game, at a friend's house, etc.} or they simply have what we like to call "fend for yourself" nights. On those nights it's pretty common in our house to make a sandwich, pull something frozen out of the freezer or {especially when I was pregnant} just grab a bowl of cereal.

Please notice all items purchased were found at my local ALDI's store in Eastern Iowa. Prices and varieties will vary from store to store and season to season, so please keep in mind that what I paid may not be what you pay.

***Note after some ingredients you will not see a price. That is due to that product being bought in a previous recipe, with this new recipe using the remaining leftovers. Directions are listed underneath the recipe or linked back to my site. Pantry staples are not included {examples: salt, pepper, baking soda, spices, etc.}

PRINT THE MEAL PLAN HERE.

Meal #1 - Spicy Egg Bake

crescent rolls - $1.49

dozen eggs - $1.59

organic salsa - $1.89

block cheddar cheese - $1.59

1 lb. ground sausage - $1.89

TOTAL = $8.45

*Directions - Grease a 9x13 baking pan. Lay crescent rolls in the bottom. Whisk together dozen eggs, 1/2 c. salsa and cooked ground sausage. Pour over the crescent rolls. Sprinkle cheddar cheese. Bake at 375 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until eggs are set.

Meal #2 -Crock Pot Shredded Chicken Tacos

1 bag of frozen chicken breasts - $6.69

bag of onions - $1.29

carton of organic chicken broth - $1.79

32 oz. can whole tomatoes - 95 cents

bag of flour tortillas - $1.19

head of lettuce - 99 cents

carton of 4 Roma tomatoes - $1.19

block of cheddar cheese - $1.59

16 oz. container sour cream - $1.29

TOTAL = $16.97

The two crock pots I LOVE and use weekly are the Crock-Pot Cook'n Carry 6 Quart Oval Slow Cooker and the Crock-Pot 3 Quart Round Slow Cooker.

Meal #3 - Lazy Day Slow Cooker Meatballs

2 lb. ground turkey - $1.89/ea.

Parmesan cheese - $2.99

Italian breadcrumbs - $1.79