Every Thursday the flyers change. And every Thursday, the cost of what you eat changes with them.
Ground beef on special at IGA this week? Shepherd's pie just got cheaper. Pork chops on sale? It's a honey-mustard pork chop week. Same dinner, same recipe, two completely different prices depending on the week — and on the store you buy it from.
That's exactly what we calculate for you, every week.
126 dinners, priced with the real flyers
This week — September 10 to 16, 2026 — there are 126 published recipes across 32 stores on the Meal Ideas page.
These aren't generic recipes with "roughly" pricing. Every ingredient is matched against the actual deals running this week, and every recipe shows its cost per serving — because that's the only number that matters when you compare a home-cooked dinner to a frozen tray or a night out.
The average this week: $3.24 per serving.
The 5 cheapest dinners this week
| Dinner | Store | Servings | Total | Per serving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crispy tofu with broccoli in soy-honey-sesame sauce | Provigo | 4 | $7.56 | $1.89 |
| Sheet-pan fresh sausages with broccoli and potatoes | Metro | 4 | $7.76 | $1.94 |
| Honey-mustard pork chops with roasted Brussels sprouts | Super C | 4 | $8.77 | $2.19 |
| Creamy tuna and cucumber pitas | Maxi | 4 | $9.84 | $2.46 |
| Ground beef and sautéed pepper rice bowl | IGA | 4 | $16.65 | $4.16 |
A complete dinner for four for under $10, at five different banners. The most expensive one on the list — the beef rice bowl at IGA — is also the only one where the ground beef and the rice weren't on special this week. It shows up in the total immediately.
One ingredient in three is cheaper somewhere else
This is the part we find most useful, and nobody else does it.
For every recipe, we don't just look at prices inside the recipe's store — we look for the best price anywhere, even at a different banner. This week, out of 617 priced ingredient lines, 207 (one in three) were cheaper at a different store than the one the recipe belongs to.
A few real examples from this week:
- The peppers in the Metro recipe ($0.79) are on special at L'Intermarché, not at Metro.
- The onions are $0.99 at Marché Richelieu.
- The broccoli in Provigo's tofu recipe is $0.99 at Supermarché PA, and the rice is $1.69 at Super C.
- The pork chops in the Super C recipe are $2.79 at Bonanza — cheaper than Super C.
- The lettuce in Maxi's tuna pita recipe is $0.89 at Vie En Vert.
The point isn't to send you running to five stores. The point is that you see the real price, written out, with the store it came from. If you're already stopping at Super C this week, you know the broccoli is cheaper there than at Provigo. If you're not, you know exactly how much more you're paying to stick to one store.
How it works
- Every Thursday, the new flyers land in our database: Metro, IGA, Provigo, Maxi, Super C, Walmart, Giant Tiger, Marché Adonis, Kim Phat, PA, Bonanza, Marché Richelieu and about thirty more.
- For each store, we look at what's genuinely on special — not just one or two items: there has to be enough meat, produce and staples to build real dinners. A store whose basket is too thin gets no recipes that week rather than invented ones.
- Recipes are built around that store's discounted protein, then rounded out with the vegetables and starches that are also on sale.
- Every ingredient gets priced against the real flyers, store by store, to find the best price.
- You adjust the servings: the slider in the recipe recalculates quantities and the total for your household (4, 6, 8 people…).
What we don't do
We'd rather say it plainly, because being straight about the numbers is the whole point:
- Pantry staples count as $0. Salt, pepper, oil, garlic, spices: we assume you already have them. If you're restocking from scratch, add about $10-15 once.
- No invented savings percentages. When regular prices aren't complete enough to calculate an honest saving, we show nothing rather than an inflated number.
- Recipes where not every ingredient was found in a flyer are flagged as estimated — you can see exactly which lines have a real price and which are approximate.
- Past weeks keep their original prices. A recipe from the week of September 3 shows September 3 prices, not today's. Otherwise every old article would look like it was written this morning.
Go see what it looks like this week
All 126 recipes are there, with photos, cost per serving and a grocery list:
👉 See this week's dinners, priced with the real flyers
You can filter by store (click your grocery store and you'll only see its recipes), open a recipe to see every ingredient with the store it comes from, and print your grocery list.
And if you want the Quebec classics — shepherd's pie, meatball stew, pea soup, tourtière — those get priced every week too: repas/classiques.
Methodology: prices come from the active flyers (week of September 10 to 16, 2026). Each ingredient is matched to the week's deals by product name; cost per serving is the sum of the real prices of the ingredients used, divided by the number of servings. Pantry staples (salt, pepper, oil, garlic, spices) are excluded from the calculation. A recipe is flagged "estimated" when some ingredients could not be found in the week's flyers. Archived recipes keep the prices from the week they were published.