Where do I find this week's Lidl offers?

On the Lidl website under offers, in the printed leaflet, and in the Lidl Plus app. The app also shows personalised coupons that appear nowhere in the leaflet. Weekly offers start on Monday and run to Saturday.

Can I see next week's offers already?

Yes. Lidl usually publishes the following week's leaflet online from Thursday or Friday. That lets you write the meal plan at the weekend instead of improvising on Monday.

What does a week from Lidl offers cost?

Two people land around 40 to 45 € for seven dinners, four people at 65 to 80 €. What decides it is not the leaflet alone but how much the ingredients overlap across the dishes.

Which ingredients are almost always on offer at Lidl?

The same product groups rotate: chicken thighs or minced beef, peppers, courgettes, tomatoes, mushrooms, mozzarella and grated cheese, skyr, tinned tomatoes and pulses. Knowing the rotation lets you line up dishes in advance.

Is a weekly plan worth it if I only shop once a week?

Especially then. Weekly offers run Monday to Saturday, so one shop on Monday or Tuesday covers the entire offer window. The only thing you miss is the markdown stickers in the chilled aisle, and those are a bonus rather than a planning basis.

Lidl offers this week: recipes & weekly plan for 2 or 4 people

Short answer: This week's Lidl offers only become a cheap weekly plan once you translate them into a few main ingredients and build dishes that share them. Three or four discounted ingredients cover six evenings. For two people that puts the week at 40 to 45 €, for four at 65 to 80 €.

Lidl deals actually running this week

As of September 7, 2026. Pulled straight from the current Lidl data that Flyva uses for meal planning:

TK-Pizza
Gurken
Kekse
Buttermilch
Streukäse
Vollkornbrot
Ganzes Hähnchen
Joghurt (allgemein)
Hähnchen-Geschnetzeltes
Saucen (allgemein)
Falafel
Cevapcici
Cashewkerne
Backfisch

Where the offers are and when

The Lidl offers page. The full weekly leaflet, filterable, with prices.
The printed leaflet in store. Same content on paper.
Lidl Plus app. Weekly offers plus personalised coupons. The coupons are not in the leaflet and are often worth 20 to 30 percent on single items.

The timing:

Day	What happens
Monday	New weekly offers start, valid to Saturday
Thursday	Second fruit and vegetable rotation
Thursday/Friday	Next week's leaflet goes online
Friday/Saturday evening	Markdown stickers, 30 to 50 percent off

Thursday is the most important day and the one most people miss: from then you know next week's offers and can plan calmly at the weekend instead of improvising on Monday.

The translation: from leaflet to weekly plan

Four steps, 20 minutes:

Note 6 to 10 cookable items. Ignore sweets and non-food.
Sort into three groups. Filling (potatoes, rice, pasta, bread), protein (meat, fish, eggs, pulses, dairy), vegetables.
Build dishes that share ingredients. Target: every main ingredient appears in at least two dishes.
Write the list. Subtract what you have, merge duplicates, book one leftovers night.

Step 3 is the actual lever. Seven dishes with four ingredients each always cost more than six dishes sharing four ingredients.

Sample week for two people

Say the leaflet has chicken thighs 1 kg (3.99 €), minced beef 500 g (3.49 €), potatoes 2.5 kg (2.79 €), peppers 500 g (1.79 €), courgettes 500 g (1.29 €), tinned tomatoes 3-pack (1.47 €), mozzarella 2-pack (1.49 €), skyr (1.19 €).

Day	Dinner
Monday	Roast chicken thighs with potatoes and courgette
Tuesday	Minced beef tomato sauce with pasta
Wednesday	Tray-baked potatoes with herby skyr dip
Thursday	Pepper and chicken skillet with rice
Friday	Courgette and tomato bake with mozzarella
Saturday	Potato soup with leftover chicken
Sunday	Leftovers

Around 40 to 45 € including pantry items such as oil, onions and spices. Roughly 3 € per portion.

Sample week for four people

Same logic, different quantities. With four people the larger packs Lidl runs on promotion start to pay:

Day	Dinner
Monday	Chicken thigh tray bake with potatoes (2 kg chicken)
Tuesday	Bolognese with pasta, freeze half for Friday
Wednesday	Potato and vegetable bake with cheese
Thursday	Pepper chicken with rice
Friday	Defrosted bolognese with baked pasta
Saturday	Roast vegetables with bakery bread
Sunday	Leftovers

Around 65 to 80 €, so roughly 2.50 to 3 € per portion. Friday costs almost nothing because it was cooked on Tuesday. More on that technique in the weekly meal plan for four and in freezer meal prep.

What Lidl discounts on rotation

The rotation repeats. Knowing it makes planning faster:

Meat: chicken thighs, chicken breast, minced beef, pork neck. Almost every week has one.
Fish: salmon fillet, frozen prawns, trout. Strong promotions, well below normal price.
Vegetables: peppers, courgettes, tomatoes, mushrooms, salad, onions.
Dairy: skyr, cottage cheese, mozzarella, grated cheese, yoghurt.
Pantry: tinned tomatoes, lentils, chickpeas, pasta, rice.
Themed weeks: Italian, Greek, Spanish, barbecue season. A whole cuisine discounted at once.

What the leaflet does not tell you

Two discount sources appear nowhere in the leaflet:

Lidl Plus coupons. Personalised, 20 to 30 percent on single items. They have to be activated in the app first, or they do not apply at the till.
Markdown stickers in the chilled aisle. 30 to 50 percent off items near their date. Friday and Saturday evening have the widest choice.

Both are a bonus, not a planning basis. Build the weekly plan on them and you eventually face an empty chiller. More in smart ways to save money on groceries.

Matching recipes

Lentil bolognese: for weeks with tinned tomatoes and pulses on offer.
Cheap one-pot recipes: eight dishes from standard staples.
Quick budget recipes: weeknight dinners that hold up.
Shrimp orzo skillet: when frozen prawns are discounted.
Cheap family meals for the week: for the four-person version.

The full set lives in the recipe database, the rolling view at weekly plan from Lidl offers.

Lidl plus a second store

A two-store plan is usually 10 to 15 percent cheaper than a single-store plan:

Aldi for the parallel fresh promotion, often complementary to Lidl.
Kaufland for pantry and bulk packs, cheaper per kilo.
REWE for meat and fish promotions with loyalty points.

Which store for which product group is covered in the discount supermarket recipe planner.

How Flyva does this step

Flyva reads the current Lidl offers automatically and builds a weekly plan with a shopping list, matched to household size, budget and diet. The manual part, reading the leaflet, grouping ingredients, assigning dishes and trimming the list, disappears.

Conclusion

This week's Lidl offers are not a saving while they sit in the leaflet. The saving happens in the translation into a few main ingredients and dishes that share them. Read next week's leaflet from Thursday on top of that, and you plan calmly at the weekend and shop on Monday with a finished list.