Food Lion · a family of 4 · Washington DC
Food Lion meal plan for a family of 4: five dinners for $67.62
Built from Food Lion's weekly ad in Washington DC. 12 sale items, dated October 28, 2026.

The five dinners
Chosen around Food Lion's ad in Washington DC. On sale this week: ground beef, eggs, butter, mushrooms, shrimp and more.
$2.65/servingcafedelites.com
$3.35/servingkitchenswagger.com
$3.60/servingnatashaskitchen.com
$3.63/servingrecipetineats.com
$3.66/servingfoodiecrush.com
This plan in Washington DC: Food Lion and 8 other stores
The same five dinners priced with each store's ad this week. H Mart is $6.89 cheaper for these dinners.
H Mart is cheapest in Washington DC at $60.73, $20.17 less than Harris Teeter.
The same five dinners at each store. Items in the store's ad cost the ad price, sale or regular; items it does not list cost the typical price. At typical prices alone the plan is $70.10, so a store can come out above that. Stores with fewer than 2 sale items in this plan are left out.
Grocery list by aisle
Prices are for whole packs, so the trip is $96.13; the dinners use $67.62 of it. Sale items are marked.
Food Lion grocery list, Washington DC (October 28, 2026)
Meat & Poultry2items
Seafood2items
Produce8items
Dairy & Eggs8items
Bakery1item
Canned & Dry4items
Check your pantry (not priced):asian sauces and pastes, cornstarch, vanilla, yeast, cocoa, dried herbs, spices and seasoning blends, dried spices, flour, mustard, mayo, ketchup, olive and cooking oil, salt and pepper, wine, beer and spirits.
How this plan was made
We ran Salefork's plan builder on Food Lion's ad prices for Washington DC: five familiar dinners with a real photo for a family of 4 that fit $75, at most two per main protein, favoring dinners that use sale items. Cost counts only the amounts the recipes use. Items Food Lion does not list are priced at a typical everyday price. Dated October 28, 2026.
Common questions
What is a good Food Lion meal plan for a family of 4?
Five dinners for a family of 4 for $67.62 in Washington DC, built from Food Lion's weekly ad read October 28, 2026. 12 items in the plan are on sale.
Does it change by city?
Yes. Food Lion runs different ads by region, so sale items and totals differ. Open the planner to price it for your city.
Why is the shopping trip higher than the plan total?
The plan total counts only what the five dinners use, $67.62. At the register you buy whole packs, about $96.13 here.
Make it yours
Change the people, budget or dinners. We keep Food Lion and Washington DC and rebuild the list.
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