Aldi Meal Plan for One: 7 Days of Meals for Around £30-Including shopping list and meal plan printable
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Cooking for one can be surprisingly expensive, especially when supermarket pack sizes are designed for families. This Aldi meal plan for one is designed to make the most of the food you buy, using the same ingredients across several meals so that very little goes to waste.
The plan includes seven breakfasts, seven lunches, seven dinners and snacks for around £30, based on Aldi UK prices.
You’ll cook some meals once and eat them twice, use one whole chicken across several different meals and make good use of inexpensive basics such as potatoes, eggs, bread and rice.
[Prices Correct UK August 2026]
Aldi Meal Plan for One
Breakfasts
- Eggs (2) and toast (2 slices) with spread × 3 mornings
- Porridge with milk and sliced banana × 3 mornings
- Beans (½ tin) and toast (2 slices) × 1 morning, with cheese if you like
Lunches
- Egg, salad and ham sandwiches × 2 days
- Ham and cheese sandwiches or toasties × 2 days
- Chicken fried rice × 2 days
- Chicken, ham and egg mayonnaise salad bowl × 1 day
Dinners
- Roast chicken, roast potatoes, peas and gravy × 2 days
- Sausages and mashed potatoes with peas and gravy × 2 days
- Sausage and pesto pasta × 2 days
- Fish finger burger with homemade chips and beans × 1 day
Snacks
- Bananas × 2, with the remaining bananas used at breakfast
- Apples × 6
- Aldi multipack chocolate bars-Seal bars
- Biscuits-Rich Tea
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Stretch That Chicken!
One of the easiest ways to make a cheap meal plan for one work is to plan exactly what you’re going to do with larger packs of food.
For this plan, one roast chicken provides:
- 2 roast dinners
- 1 chicken salad lunch
- 2 chicken fried rice lunches
Once you’ve cooked the chicken, strip the remaining meat from the carcass and divide it according to your meal plan. Store in air tight containers in the fridge or freezer in portions if you prefer.
How to portion a whole chicken
If you end up with more chicken than expected, don’t be afraid to add a little extra to your fried rice or salad. The aim is to use what you’ve bought rather than follow the quantities unnecessarily rigidly.
Make the Most of a Bag of Potatoes
A 2.5kg bag of potatoes is another ingredient that earns its place in this meal plan.
You’ll use potatoes for two roast dinners, two sausage-and-mash dinners and homemade chips with the fish finger burger.
This is one of the simplest ways to keep the shopping list affordable: buy versatile ingredients and use them differently throughout the week. For example, if you prefer to have a baked potato for lunch one day and you can balance your ingredients, then go for it!
Cook Once, Eat Twice
Several of the dinners deliberately appear twice.
When you’re making roast potatoes, mash or sausage pesto pasta, prepare enough for the second planned meal at the same time. Cool leftovers promptly and store them appropriately in the fridge until you’re ready to reheat them.
This saves time as well as making it much easier to stick to the meal plan.
Plan Your Fresh Ingredients First
Check the date on your salad when shopping and plan the salad-based meals fairly early in the week.
You don’t have to eat the meals in the exact order I’ve listed them. In fact, I would arrange the week around the ingredients that need using first.
Dry and frozen ingredients can wait. Fresh food gets priority. With this in mind, take full advantage of any discounts that may be available on shorter dated items as long as you are confident you can use them before the use by date.
Making 12 Eggs Last the Week
The plan uses a 12-pack of eggs:
- 6 eggs for breakfasts
- 2 boiled eggs for sandwiches
- 1 egg for chicken fried rice
- 1 boiled egg for the chicken, ham and egg salad
That still gives you two spare eggs, which gives the plan a little flexibility.
What About the Bread?
An average sliced loaf contains roughly 20 slices, giving you around ten two-slice portions.
The bread in this plan is used across breakfasts and lunches. If you’re running short towards the end of the week, look at what you have left before buying another loaf. The burger buns can sometimes provide an alternative for a sandwich or breakfast.
Store-Cupboard Ingredients
I’ve kept basic store-cupboard ingredients and condiments outside the main shopping cost.
Before buying anything extra, check what you already have. Salt, pepper, cooking oil, gravy granules and sauces are exactly the sorts of things that can sit forgotten at the back of a cupboard.
Use what you have and adapt the meals to suit it.
A Little Preparation Makes This Easier
You don’t need to spend Sunday afternoon filling dozens of meal-prep containers.
A few small jobs will make the week easier:
- Cook and portion the chicken.
- Grate the block of cheese and refrigerate it in an airtight container.
- Boil three eggs, cool and refrigerate them.
- Make two portions when cooking mash, roast potatoes and sausage pesto pasta.
- Keep an eye on the salad and other fresh ingredients so they are used before they spoil.
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Snacks & Treats
There are a few treats in the meal plan. Have those when ever you want or eliminate them if you prefer. Perhaps you’d prefer a bit more fruit than sweets. If this is the case, then replace the sweets as you wish.
A £30 Weekly Meal Plan for One
Eating on your own doesn’t mean you need seven completely different dinners or lots of individual portions. This Aldi meal plan for one works by repeating a few meals, buying versatile ingredients and deliberately planning how larger packs will be used.
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