Ralphs · a family of 4 · Los Angeles
Ralphs meal plan for a family of 4: five dinners for $65.95
Built from Ralphs' weekly ad in Los Angeles, CA. 5 sale items, dated October 28, 2026.
The five dinners
Chosen around Ralphs' ad in Los Angeles, CA. On sale this week: broth or stock, butter.
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$3.17/servingWikimedia Commons (Yamaguchi先生 at English Wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0
$3.26/servingcafedelites.com
$3.49/servingWikimedia Commons (Lili from NY, United States), CC BY 2.0- $4.03/servingnatashaskitchen.com
This plan in Los Angeles: Ralphs and 10 other stores
The same five dinners priced with each store's ad this week. Aldi is $8.13 cheaper for these dinners.
Aldi is cheapest in Los Angeles at $57.82, $17.04 less than Save Mart.
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 $65.73, 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 $93.97; the dinners use $65.95 of it. Sale items are marked.
Ralphs grocery list, Los Angeles (October 28, 2026)
Meat & Poultry5items
Produce5items
Dairy & Eggs7items
Canned & Dry5items
Check your pantry (not priced):asian sauces and pastes, cornstarch, vanilla, yeast, cocoa, 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 Ralphs's ad prices for Los Angeles: 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 Ralphs does not list are priced at a typical everyday price. Dated October 28, 2026.
Common questions
What is a good Ralphs meal plan for a family of 4?
Five dinners for a family of 4 for $65.95 in Los Angeles, built from Ralphs's weekly ad read October 28, 2026. 5 items in the plan are on sale.
Does it change by city?
Yes. Ralphs 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, $65.95. At the register you buy whole packs, about $93.97 here.
Make it yours
Change the people, budget or dinners. We keep Ralphs and Los Angeles and rebuild the list.
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