A week of Aldi dinners for two, under £45 at the till

Spaghetti Carbonara19 min · £2.84 for two

Peanut Butter Chicken Curry39 min · £3.50 for two

Garlic Butter Chicken & Rice30 min · £3.58 for two

Lamb Keema with Peas30 min · £4.86 for two

Veggie Black Bean Chilli35 min · £2.00 for two

Speedy Egg Fried Rice15 min · £2.59 for two

Spicy Creamy Tomato Penne22 min · £2.90 for two

This is a real week, not a guess: seven dinners for two people that Aldi can sell in full, priced product by product the way the Quickle app prices them. The food you eat comes to £22.27, or £1.59 a head a night. The basket at the till is £43.50, because you buy packs, not portions, and the leftovers carry into next week.

Dinner	Time	Protein	kcal	Plate for 2
Spaghetti Carbonara	19 min	41 g	804	£2.84
Peanut Butter Chicken Curry	39 min	44 g	892	£3.50
Garlic Butter Chicken & Rice	30 min	45 g	620	£3.58
Lamb Keema with Peas	30 min	35 g	707	£4.86
Veggie Black Bean Chilli	35 min	15 g	370	£2.00
Speedy Egg Fried Rice	15 min	26 g	740	£2.59
Spicy Creamy Tomato Penne	22 min	22 g	765	£2.90
Food used across the week				£22.27
At Aldi, the till (28 items)				£43.50
Cupboard staples, only if you have none (16 items)				£17.70

Protein and kcal are per serving. Cupboard staples here: Salt, Tomato purée, Black pepper, Olive oil, Vegetable oil, Garam masala, Ground cumin, Chicken stock cube, Chilli flakes, Curry powder, Ground turmeric, Peanut butter and 4 more. Prices are Aldi’s as checked in November 2026 and move week to week; the app shows today’s.

What Aldi is good and bad for

Aldi is consistently the cheapest shop for the same plate of food, and the dinners below are built only from what Aldi actually sells.

Aldi has no online grocery shop, so Quickle writes you a priced, aisle-by-aisle list instead of filling a basket. Its range also misses a few things recipes lean on, such as sesame oil, fish sauce and gochujang, so fewer dinners qualify.

How this week was built

Quickle holds a Aldi product, pack size and price for every ingredient in 45 of its 163 UK dinners. From those, this page takes the cheapest seven that still make a week you would cook: one of each protein (two chicken nights allowed), no more than two of one cuisine, nothing over 45 minutes, at least 15 g of protein a plate, and no soups or toasties standing in for dinner. The app does the same for your own household: tell it how many people, how many nights and your budget, and it builds a week to that number, then writes your Aldi list in one tap.

Do it for your week

Download Quickle, pick Aldi, set your budget. You can swap any dinner, add your own recipes from TikTok or a cookbook, and the total updates as you go.

Questions

How much is a week of dinners for two at Aldi?

This week of seven dinners costs £43.50 at Aldi at prices checked in November 2026, plus £17.70 of cupboard staples if you have none of them. The food you actually eat comes to £22.27, or £1.59 a head a night.

Does Quickle fill a Aldi basket?

No, because Aldi has no online grocery shop in the UK. Quickle writes a priced, aisle-by-aisle Aldi shopping list for the week instead, with Aldi's own products and prices.

Why is the total at the till higher than the cost of the food?

Supermarkets sell packs, not grams. A recipe might use 100 g of a 500 g bag of rice; you pay for the bag, and the rest is there for next week. Quickle shows both figures: what the dinners use, and what the basket costs.

How many dinners can Quickle price in full at Aldi?

45 of the 163 dinners in the UK catalogue, as of November 2026. A dinner is only shown to Aldi shoppers when every ingredient has a Aldi product and price.

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