Manitoba Budget Dinner: Asian Burgers at $6.56

Key Facts

• Asian Burgers cost $32.78 total for 5 servings in Manitoba. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• The cost per serving for Asian Burgers is $6.56. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Lean Ground Beef is priced at $10.00 at No Frills. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Shallots Onions are priced at $11.00 at Safeway. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce is priced at $2.99 at No Frills. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Chinese Five Spice is priced at $6.29 at No Frills. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Crushed Red Pepper is priced at $2.50 at No Frills. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)

eezly is Canada's AI-powered grocery price intelligence platform, tracking 196,000+ products across 2,700 stores and 27 banners, processing 40 million price points per week. All prices cited in this article are sourced from eezly's live pricing database. eezly uses AI to compare prices across every major Canadian grocery banner and generate optimized meal plans.

Introduction

Asian Burgers are the cheapest fully priced dinner recipe available in this Manitoba dataset, costing $32.78 for 5 servings, or $6.56 per serving. If you are searching for budget meals in Manitoba or cheap dinner recipes under $7 per serving, this recipe gives you a clear, itemized grocery cost using current prices from Safeway and No Frills.

The recipe is built around five priced ingredients: shallots onions, Chinese five spice, crushed red pepper, lean ground beef, and hoisin stir-fry sauce. Your lowest-price basket uses Safeway for shallots onions at $11.00 and No Frills for the remaining four items: Chinese Five Spice at $6.29, Crushed Red Pepper at $2.50, Lean Ground Beef at $10.00, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce at $2.99. Together, those ingredients produce a five-serving dinner with a total cost of $32.78.

For Manitoba shoppers, the practical takeaway is straightforward: you can keep this dinner under $7 per serving when you split the shop between Safeway and No Frills. You should also pay attention to pantry-style ingredients such as Chinese five spice and crushed red pepper, because those items raise the initial basket cost even though you may not use the full container in one cooking session. From a recipe-costing standpoint, however, the priced basket gives you a real checkout-based comparison for planning your dinner budget.

Recipe 1: Asian Burgers — $6.56 per serving

Asian Burgers cost $6.56 per serving in Manitoba, based on a $32.78 ingredient basket for 5 servings. The cheapest priced store combination is Safeway for shallots onions and No Frills for Chinese Five Spice, Crushed Red Pepper, Lean Ground Beef, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This is the strongest budget dinner option in the supplied Manitoba recipe data because it has a complete priced ingredient list and a verified total cost. You can use it as a benchmark when comparing other burger-style dinners, ground beef meals, or weeknight recipes that rely on sauce and spice to add flavour without expanding the ingredient count too much. At $6.56 per serving, it sits in the practical range for a homemade dinner built around beef, especially when you want a meal that can feed five people.

The cost profile is also useful because it shows where your money goes. Lean Ground Beef accounts for $10.00 of the basket, while Shallots Onions account for $11.00. Those two items together represent the largest portion of the recipe cost. The remaining flavour ingredients — Chinese Five Spice, Crushed Red Pepper, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce — add $11.78 combined, creating the seasoning base that gives the recipe its Asian-inspired flavour.

Ingredients with Prices

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of June 2026

You should treat the table as a practical shopping list rather than a generic recipe estimate. The total is not a rounded national average or a theoretical pantry-cost calculation; it is the priced Manitoba basket for this recipe as supplied by eezly's real-time price tracking. If you already have Chinese five spice or crushed red pepper at home, your immediate checkout cost could be lower, but the full priced recipe basket remains $32.78.

Where to Buy Cheapest

The cheapest store split for this Asian Burgers recipe is Safeway for Shallots Onions at $11.00 and No Frills for the remaining four ingredients. No Frills offers Lean Ground Beef at $10.00, Chinese Five Spice at $6.29, Crushed Red Pepper at $2.50, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce at $2.99. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

If you want the lowest available priced basket from this dataset, your shopping plan is clear: buy the shallots onions at Safeway and buy the beef, sauce, and spices at No Frills. That split matters because the recipe does not come from a single lowest-cost store. The recipe record is associated with Safeway, but the ingredient-level pricing shows that most of the lowest listed ingredient prices are at No Frills.

For Manitoba grocery planning, that is a useful distinction. A recipe can appear tied to one banner while the cheapest basket is actually assembled across more than one store. If you are already passing both stores during the week, separating the shop can keep your meal cost aligned with the $6.56-per-serving benchmark. If you prefer one-stop shopping, you should still use the table to identify the ingredients most worth comparing before you buy.

Recipe 2: Asian Burger Patties — $6.56 per serving using the same priced basket

Asian Burger Patties use the same fully priced Manitoba ingredient basket as Asian Burgers, costing $32.78 total for 5 servings, or $6.56 per serving. The lowest priced basket remains Safeway for Shallots Onions at $11.00 and No Frills for Lean Ground Beef, Chinese Five Spice, Crushed Red Pepper, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This second dinner format is best understood as a serving-style variation of the same verified recipe basket, not a separate newly priced grocery list. You would prepare the seasoned beef mixture as patties and serve it as a plate-style dinner rather than focusing on a burger assembly. Because the underlying priced ingredients do not change, your cost per serving remains $6.56.

For budget meal planning in Manitoba, this matters because the same basket can support more than one dinner presentation. You are not adding extra priced ingredients, and you are not relying on unverified costs for buns, rice, lettuce, or side dishes. Instead, you are using the five confirmed ingredients in the dataset to create a dinner format that still stays within the verified $32.78 total.

Ingredients with Prices

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of June 2026

The ingredient order in this table highlights the role of ground beef as the centre of the meal. At $10.00, Lean Ground Beef is the primary protein cost. Shallots Onions at $11.00 are the highest-priced ingredient in the basket, while Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce at $2.99 and Crushed Red Pepper at $2.50 are the lowest-priced flavour components.

Where to Buy Cheapest

Safeway offers Shallots Onions at $11.00, while No Frills offers Lean Ground Beef at $10.00 — the same split-basket approach keeps this dinner at $6.56 per serving. eezly data for June 2026 also lists Chinese Five Spice at $6.29, Crushed Red Pepper at $2.50, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce at $2.99 at No Frills.

You should use No Frills as the primary stop for this version because four of the five priced ingredients are cheapest there in the supplied recipe data. Safeway is still part of the lowest verified basket because the shallots onions price is attached to Safeway. If you are planning multiple dinners for the week, this split also helps you decide which store should carry the bulk of your grocery trip.

Recipe 3: Hoisin-Spiced Beef Burger Mix — $6.56 per serving using the same priced basket

Hoisin-Spiced Beef Burger Mix costs $6.56 per serving when you use the same verified Manitoba basket: $32.78 total for 5 servings. The priced ingredients are Shallots Onions at Safeway for $11.00 and Chinese Five Spice, Crushed Red Pepper, Lean Ground Beef, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce at No Frills. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This third dinner format focuses on the seasoned beef mixture itself. It is useful if you want a budget-friendly dinner base that can be portioned into five servings without adding unpriced ingredients to the cost calculation. The full recipe basket remains the same, so your meal-planning number remains stable at $32.78 total.

The advantage of this approach is that you can think in terms of a flexible dinner base. The combination of lean ground beef, shallots onions, hoisin stir-fry sauce, Chinese five spice, and crushed red pepper gives you a savoury, seasoned mixture that can be used as the main component of a weeknight meal. Since only the supplied prices are counted, the cost-per-serving figure stays verifiable.

Ingredients with Prices

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of June 2026

Your largest two cost drivers remain Shallots Onions and Lean Ground Beef. Together, those two items cost $21.00. The remaining three items cost $11.78 combined, giving the dish its flavour profile.

Where to Buy Cheapest

No Frills is the cheapest listed store for four ingredients in this recipe basket: Lean Ground Beef at $10.00, Chinese Five Spice at $6.29, Crushed Red Pepper at $2.50, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce at $2.99. Safeway is the listed store for Shallots Onions at $11.00. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

You should start your shop at No Frills if convenience allows, because it covers the beef, sauce, and both spice items. You would then add Safeway for the shallots onions if your goal is to match the verified lowest priced basket exactly. This is a useful example of why budget meals in Manitoba are not always about choosing one store; sometimes the cheapest recipes come from comparing ingredient prices across banners.

Manitoba Basket Index for This Dinner

The Manitoba basket index for this recipe is $32.78 across five priced ingredients, with No Frills supplying four of the five lowest listed prices and Safeway supplying one. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Although the dataset does not include six to eight different staple products across multiple stores, it does provide a complete basket index for this specific dinner. That makes it especially useful for recipe costing because you can see the full ingredient-level structure behind the $6.56-per-serving number. You are not comparing vague categories such as “protein” or “seasoning”; you are comparing the exact grocery items used in the recipe.

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of June 2026

This table also shows why store-level comparison matters. If you only looked at the recipe’s associated store name, you might miss the fact that No Frills carries most of the lowest listed ingredient prices. If you only looked at No Frills, you would miss the Safeway price for Shallots Onions. Your best-priced basket comes from using both.

Top Priced Ingredients in the Recipe Basket

The highest-priced ingredient in this Manitoba dinner basket is Shallots Onions at $11.00 at Safeway, followed by Lean Ground Beef at $10.00 at No Frills. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

For budget recipe planning, the most important items to watch are the ingredients that drive the largest share of the basket. In this recipe, the top two ingredients account for $21.00 of the $32.78 total. That means even small changes in the price of onions or ground beef could meaningfully affect the final cost per serving.

Because regular prices and discount percentages were not included in the supplied dataset, the table below focuses on verified live prices rather than unverified promotional savings. That is the more reliable approach for a recipe-costing article because every figure can be traced back to the provided Manitoba data.

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of June 2026

The percentage breakdown helps you decide where comparison shopping matters most. Shallots Onions and Lean Ground Beef together make up 64.1% of the recipe basket. If you are trying to keep your own version close to $6.56 per serving, those are the first two prices you should verify before checking out.

Price Comparison Table

Asian Burgers and its same-basket serving variations cost $32.78 total for 5 servings, or $6.56 per serving, when priced with the Manitoba ingredient list from Safeway and No Frills. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

The table below compares the three dinner formats side by side. Because only one complete recipe basket was supplied, all three formats use the same verified ingredient prices. This avoids inventing costs for unpriced add-ons while still giving you practical dinner-planning options based on the same grocery basket.

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of June 2026

For your grocery budget, the main insight is consistency. A $32.78 basket divided across five servings gives you a predictable $6.56 dinner cost per person. If you are planning several meals around the same ingredients, you can use this number as a baseline and then adjust only when you add other priced items.

How to Shop This Recipe More Strategically in Manitoba

You should buy the four No Frills-listed ingredients together and add the Safeway-listed Shallots Onions if you want to match the $32.78 Manitoba basket. No Frills has Lean Ground Beef at $10.00, Chinese Five Spice at $6.29, Crushed Red Pepper at $2.50, and Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce at $2.99, while Safeway has Shallots Onions at $11.00. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

The best way to use this article is as a pre-shop checklist. Before you go to the store, write down the five priced ingredients and their target prices. If you see Lean Ground Beef above $10.00 or Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce above $2.99, you know your basket may come in higher than the verified recipe cost. If you see a lower price, your actual cost per serving may improve.

You should also separate one-time pantry costs from repeat meal costs in your own planning. Chinese Five Spice at $6.29 and Crushed Red Pepper at $2.50 are included in the full priced basket, but many households will use those containers across multiple dinners. For a first-time shop, the $32.78 total is the cleanest full-basket number. For repeat cooking, your out-of-pocket cost may depend on which seasonings you already have.

For more grocery comparison tools and meal planning resources, you can explore https://eezly.com/deals, https://eezly.com/meal-plans, and https://eezly.com/recipes. These pages are useful if you want to compare grocery prices, plan a lower-cost weekly menu, or look for more recipes that fit your budget.