This $40 Aldi Dinner Will Feed Your Entire Friend Group (Perfect for Friendsgiving!)
Thanksgiving is approaching, which means Friendsgiving is approaching even faster (depending on when you celebrate it)! Grocery prices are really high right now, but that doesn’t mean a fun dinner with friends has to be out of reach. In fact, Aldi just announced a 10-person Thanksgiving meal for $40. If you split it evenly among your friend group, that’s $4 a person (cheaper than my usual Starbucks coffee order), which might just mean enough savings to splurge a little on some cute Friendsgiving decor.
What Is Aldi’s $40 Thanksgiving Dinner?
The Aldi Thanksgiving dinner is a $40 meal designed to feed 10 people (it’s $7 cheaper than the store’s similar promotion last year!). It’s not a premade meal kit but rather an affordable menu-planning shortcut with a list of 21 individual ingredients with newly reduced prices. You can shop these Thanksgiving deals at Aldi stores or order them online and have your groceries delivered via services like Instacart or DoorDash.
You’ll definitely get all the holiday feels with this meal, too, because this $40 Thanksgiving dinner shopping list includes everything you need to make all the hits. Your final menu will include:
- A 14-pound turkey
- Rolls
- Cranberry sauce
- Mac and cheese
- Mashed potatoes and gravy
- Sweet potato casserole
- Green bean casserole
- Stuffing
- Carrots
- Pumpkin pie
Aldi will be offering these reduced prices until December 24, so even if you don’t fit in your Friendsgiving before you head home for break, you can always round up your besties for a delicious home-cooked meal later in the season.
What Ingredients Does Aldi’s $40 Thanksgiving Dinner Include?
The Thanksgiving meal deal covers 21 ingredients that you can use to make everything from a whole seasoned turkey, to several sides, and, of course, dessert:
- Whole turkey
- Chicken broth
- Condensed cream of mushroom soup
- Hawaiian sweet rolls
- Miniature marshmallows
- Cut green beans (x2)
- Shells & cheese (x2)
- Brown gravy mix (x3)
- Poultry spices & herbs
- French fried onions
- Chicken or cornbread stuffing (x2)
- Pie crust
- Yellow onions (3 lbs.)
- Baby peeled carrots
- Celery
- Cranberries
- Sweet potatoes (3 lbs.)
- Russet Potatoes (10 lbs.)
- Evaporated milk
- Canned pumpkin
- Whipped dairy topping
Why It’s Perfect for Friendsgiving
The Aldi Thanksgiving dinner deal is great for college students wanting to host a cute Friendsgiving and looking to ball on a budget. You can even make a fun day out of it and cook and prepare the meal all together, listening to some autumnal jazz or your favorite Taylor Swift lyrics for fall.
