Make sure you read the introduction prior to reading this post.
For Week 5, I used the Aldi menu planner to help generate the week’s meals and snacks. I will say, it’s a pretty great tool. You do have to register (it’s free!) but it generates not only the menu, but you can get the recipes, the nutrition information and a shopping list. You can save the recipes you like into a “cookbook” and then pick recipes from your cookbook to add to your weekly menu plan. You also have the option of creating more than one week at a time, which is nice, and there are breakdowns by special diet (vegetarian, low sodium) or ethnic foods like chinese or italian. I’m looking forward to trying out the recipes:
Breakfast: yogurt, apple-cinnamon muffins (from the Aldi menu planner), cereal, bagels, eggs, OJ and milk
Lunch: salads, leftovers, tuna sandwiches, vegetable and bean soup (from the Aldi menu planner), veggie straws (free from my parents), pretzels, baby carrots, fruit and popcorn
Dinner: black bean stuffed pitas (this was transformed into a black bean wrap), broiled tilapia with Mediterranean couscous, jalapeno cheeseburgers with pineapple baked beans, General Tso’s chicken, vegetable stir fry pockets and chicken corn tacos with Mexican rice. This is only 6 meals and there are 7 nights in a week; Sunday night’s dinner was bumped from last week’s menu due to having dinner at my nephew’s birthday party on Saturday. All of the recipes for dinner were from the Aldi menu planner.
Snacks: Veggie straws, pretzels, crackers, fruit (apples, bananas and oranges), baby carrots, chocolate snack blocks (from the Aldi menu planner)
Drinks: water, pink lemonade, iced tea, OJ, milk, juice boxes for my daughter
