Large Family ALDI Trim Healthy Mama Grocery Haul | Plus, One Week Large Family Meal Plan!
I finally got it up, friends! Here’s my full Large Family ALDI Trim Healthy Mama Grocery Haul | Plus, One Week Large Family Meal Plan on YouTube!
Below you’ll find the entire cost breakdown. My total came in at $200.59 which actually includes the 4th package of chicken I never received (a double-charge). Even still that breaks down to $22.28 per family member for the entire week! If you’re new here, we’re a growing family of nine from 6-foot tall teenage boys down to toddlers plus my 6 foot 6 hubby and my hormonal pregnant self who also homeschools and works from home. This means we have all our meals and snacks at home for the most part. So long story short, that’s a lot of food!
Fruits/Veggies
Frozen Strawberries $2.09 X3
Navel Oranges 4lb/$3.49 X2
Cantaloupe $1.49 X2
Blueberries $1.49 X2
Blackberries $1.49 X2
Banana $0.44/lb X 36lbs
Frozen Peaches/Mix Fruit $2.09 X2
Carrots 2 .lb bag/$1.29 X4
Flat Leaf Spinach $1.79 X1
Organic Kale $2.49 X1
Green Onions $0.99 X1
Cauliflower $1.99 X2
Broccoli Crowns $1.99 X2
Mushrooms $1.29 X2
Radishes $0.99 X2
Cabbage $1.29 X1
Roma Tomatoes 16oz $0.79 X2
Zucchini 3 pk/$1.99 X2
Green Peppers $0.89 X2
Garlic $0.99 X1
Cucumbers $0.29 X10
Dairy/Meat
Cottage Cheese $2.29 X3
Skim Milk $2.16 X7
Unsweetened Almond Milk $1.99 X1
Heavy Whipping Cream $1.69 X1
Large Eggs $0.23/Dozen X14
Boneless/Skinless Chicken Breasts $1.49/lb X19lbs (I realized when Jadin transcribed our Aldi receipt for this post that I was charged for FOUR packs of chicken. I only picked out three packs and as you can see in the video I only came home with three. I’m hoping the manager gives me my 4th pack of chicken next time I go into the store. I’m sure they will 🙂
Ground Beef $1.79/lb X10lbs
Pantry Items
Olive Oil Spray $1.49 X1
Onion Powder $1.19 X1
Garlic Powder $1.19 X1
Garlic Salt $1.19 X1
Tea Bags $1.89 X2
Grape Jelly $1.49 X2
45oz Veg 0il Spread $1.79 X1
Bread
Sprouted Bread $2.99 X2
Split Top Wheat Bread $0.99 X8 (We go through a lot of bread. For example if we get inspired to make french toast that can quickly be several loaves. Otherwise I like having bread in the freezer. 🙂 )
One Week Large Family Meal Plan
Large Family Breakfast
Rotating the following
- Omelets/Toast
- Scrambled Eggs/Fruit
- Fruit/Smoothies
- Oatmeal/Toast
Large Family Lunches
There are two main lunch plans for this week. The first plan is to eat up any dinner leftovers from the night before. We’ll also have a “lunch buffet” where we’ll bring out all available fruits and vegetables and quick items so each family member can make their own healthy lunch plate.
For our “lunch buffet” we had blueberries, blackberries, oranges, cucumbers, avocado, sliced green pepper, sliced broccoli, cottage cheese, lettuce (left from prior grocery haul), and tuna salad (couple cans of tuna left from prior grocery haul), and ranch to dip as needed.
Large Family Dinners
All dinners served with lots of side veggies 🙂
Chicken and Brown Rice Bake Recipe ~ Large Family Style!
Slow Cooker Chicken Broccoli Alfredo Recipe – This is always a winner.
Foil Packet Burgers – add cheese, mushrooms, onions, whatever you’d like! Lots of flexibility with this one.
Slow Cooker Italian Chicken – this also works well with a pork roast.
Leftover Night – I’m sure we’ll have one!
Large Family Weekend Chili – for the weekend I’ll do a large stock pot full of chili and homemade cornbread. You can see how our weekend chili turned out here.
Large Family Snacks
From Instagram, “Large family style smoothie aftermath.”
- Smoothies We do lots of different smoothies around here. Here’s how I do homemade yogurt in the slow cooker. A few ladies have asked me how we use up a gallon of yogurt at a time. It’s perfect for smoothies! On my recent smoothie day, I didn’t have any made, but we love using it up quickly when we do. 🙂
- 8 lbs of Carrot Sticks (Here are my Amazon referral links for the similar storage container that I use for our bulk carrot sticks. These are the smaller size containers I also mentioned.) You can read here about how we keep carrot sticks fresh for a week or more!
- 30+ lbs of Bananas! Of course, bananas (Laugh at this banana humor!)
- 8 lbs of Navel Oranges
- Cucumber Slices
- Hard Boiled Eggs – We’ll boil up a dozen or two just for a quick protein packed snacks.
- Broccoli/Cauliflower/Green Peppers – all of which will be sliced and ready to go in the refrigerator.
- Cottage Cheese
- Special bread from the bread machine (I try to keep several loaves of banana, blueberry, or pumpkin bread in the freezer). Here’s how I do easy banana bread in the bread machine. Here’s a view on Instagram of how our bread machine moments can look!
Large Family ALDI Trim Healthy Mama Grocery Haul | Plus, One Week Large Family Meal Plan!
Here’s my full Large Family ALDI Trim Healthy Mama Grocery Haul | Plus, One Week Large Family Meal Plan on YouTube!
You might also be interested in my Large Family Grocery Budget from 2015 (need to update this soon because of the stores where I shop have changed, but the actual budget has not). And here’s the free family meal planning collection!