Monday
Chicken, pepper and vegetable rice bowls. Adjust portions, seasoning and ingredients for allergies, preferences and individual needs.
Price-checked 31 August 2026 · Aldi UK
£40 Aldi weekly food shop: a real basket and seven dinners
- 13 named products: £18.90
- Seven practical evening meals
- £21.10 left for breakfast, lunch, fruit, dairy and household needs
This is the concrete answer: a dated Aldi basket built from products and prices published by Aldi UK. It is a worked example for one adult—not a universal nutrition prescription or a promise that every store will have identical stock.
Copyable shopping list
The basket, pack by pack.
| Product | Pack | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday Essentials frozen chicken breast fillets | 1 kg | £4.25 |
| Everyday Essentials long-grain white rice | 1 kg | £0.52 |
| Everyday Essentials spaghetti | 500 g | £0.28 |
| WorldWide Foods red lentils | 500 g | £0.99 |
| Everyday Essentials chopped tomatoes | 4 × 400 g | £1.72 |
| Four Seasons red kidney beans | 2 × 240 g drained | £0.78 |
| Four Seasons frozen country vegetable mix | 1 kg | £1.39 |
| Nature’s Pick baking potatoes | 2.5 kg | £1.99 |
| Nature’s Pick brown onions | 1 kg | £0.95 |
| Everyday Essentials wonky mixed peppers | 600 g | £1.59 |
| Nature’s Pick broccoli | 360 g | £0.86 |
| Nature’s Pick baby spinach | 240 g | £1.09 |
| The Fishmonger tuna chunks in water | 4 pack | £2.49 |
| Basket total | £18.90 | |
Seven dinners01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Use the same ingredients more than once.
Tuesday
Red-lentil tomato pasta with spinach. Adjust portions, seasoning and ingredients for allergies, preferences and individual needs.
Wednesday
Tuna and broccoli baked potatoes. Adjust portions, seasoning and ingredients for allergies, preferences and individual needs.
Thursday
Chicken and kidney-bean tomato chilli with rice. Adjust portions, seasoning and ingredients for allergies, preferences and individual needs.
Friday
Vegetable and lentil one-pot rice. Adjust portions, seasoning and ingredients for allergies, preferences and individual needs.
Saturday
Loaded baked potatoes with tomato beans and spinach. Adjust portions, seasoning and ingredients for allergies, preferences and individual needs.
Sunday
Chicken, vegetable and tomato pasta. Adjust portions, seasoning and ingredients for allergies, preferences and individual needs.
Methodology
How this basket was checked
Prices were transcribed from Aldi UK’s public product-category pages on 31 August 2026. Promotional, regional and store availability can change. The basket uses the displayed pack price, not an invented per-serving price, and does not assume pantry staples are free.
Primary price sources
- Aldi frozen meat and poultry ↗
- Aldi rice, pasta and noodles ↗
- Aldi tins, cans and packets ↗
- Aldi fresh vegetables ↗
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