Foodland Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 in New Brunswick

Key Facts

• Foodland lists Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 in New Brunswick. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Seafood Pasta costs $59.70 total for 8 servings, or $7.46 per serving. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• IGA lists Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Independent lists Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• IGA lists Crab Apples at $3.73 and Northumberland 1% Chocolate Milk at $3.69. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• New Brunswick has 84 tracked stores across banners including Foodland, IGA, Sobeys, Walmart, No Frills, Costco, and Atlantic Superstore. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)

Introduction

According to eezly's real-time tracking of 196,000 products across 2,700 Canadian grocery stores, Foodland Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 in New Brunswick anchors a $4.76-per-serving Creamy Red Pepper Penne dinner as of May 2026. For your New Brunswick grocery planning, the three budget meals below all come in under $8 per serving using real prices from Foodland, IGA, and Independent. The lowest-cost featured recipe is Creamy Red Pepper Penne at $38.07 total for 8 servings, while the full Seafood Pasta recipe costs $59.70 total, or $7.46 per serving. These prices are especially useful if you are comparing budget meals New Brunswick shoppers can build from common pasta, sauce, dairy, and prepared seafood-style ingredients.

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.

This guide focuses on practical recipe costing rather than abstract meal-planning advice. You will see the ingredient-by-ingredient cost, the cheapest store shown for each item, and a side-by-side comparison of all three dinners. Because every recipe is costed from the same May 2026 New Brunswick price set, you can decide whether you want the lowest per-serving cost, the fullest seafood-style pasta dinner, or the simplest pasta-and-sauce meal for your household.

Recipe 1: Creamy Red Pepper Penne — $4.76 per serving

Creamy Red Pepper Penne is the cheapest featured New Brunswick dinner at $4.76 per serving, based on Foodland, Independent, and IGA prices in May 2026. The full 8-serving recipe costs $38.07, built from Penne Pasta Meal at Foodland for $20.90, Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at Independent for $5.99, Silk Whole Next Milk at Foodland for $7.49, and Northumberland 1% Partly Skim Chocolate Milk at IGA for $3.69. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This is the best option if your goal is a filling pasta dinner under $5 per serving without relying on a long ingredient list. You are paying most of the recipe cost for the pasta base, while the sauce and dairy ingredients add creaminess and flavour at relatively modest prices. The $5.99 Independent sauce price is particularly important because it keeps the meal from depending entirely on higher-cost dairy or prepared components.

From a household budgeting perspective, this recipe gives you the most flexibility. You can serve it as a main dish for a family dinner, portion leftovers for lunches, or pair it with pantry vegetables if you already have them at home. If you are searching for cheap dinner recipes under $8 in New Brunswick, this is the strongest cost-per-serving result in the available May 2026 data.

Ingredients with Prices

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

You should buy the Penne Pasta Meal and Silk Whole Next Milk at Foodland based on the available New Brunswick price data, because Foodland is the listed store for the $20.90 pasta item and the $7.49 Silk milk. You should buy the Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at Independent, where it is listed at $5.99. For the lower-priced dairy add-on, IGA lists Northumberland 1% Partly Skim Chocolate Milk at $3.69.

This recipe works best when you are comfortable shopping across more than one banner, especially if you already pass Foodland, IGA, or Independent during your weekly routine. If you want to reduce stops, Foodland carries the largest share of this recipe’s cost because the pasta and Silk milk together account for $28.39 of the $38.07 total. You can use https://eezly.com/deals to check current grocery deals before finalizing your trip, especially if you are deciding whether a multi-store shop is worth the time.

Recipe 2: Surimi Alfredo Penne — $5.60 per serving

Surimi Alfredo Penne costs $44.79 total for 8 servings, or $5.60 per serving, using Foodland Penne Pasta Meal, IGA Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad, and Independent Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. This is the middle-cost recipe in the comparison: it is $0.84 more per serving than Creamy Red Pepper Penne and $1.86 less per serving than the full Seafood Pasta recipe.

The cost structure is straightforward. Foodland’s Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 provides the main base, IGA’s Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90 adds the seafood-style prepared component, and Independent’s Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99 provides the sauce. Together, those three items produce a higher-protein, more substantial pasta dinner while still staying comfortably below the $8-per-serving threshold.

This is the recipe to choose when you want a more complete dinner than a sauce-only pasta but do not want to buy every ingredient in the full Seafood Pasta basket. You avoid the two milk items and the crab apples, which keeps the recipe simpler and lowers the total cost compared with the full $59.70 basket. For New Brunswick households planning budget meals, it offers a useful compromise between price, convenience, and dinner-table appeal.

Ingredients with Prices

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

You should buy the pasta at Foodland, the surimi salad at IGA, and the sauce at Independent based on the available May 2026 New Brunswick price records. Foodland lists the Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90, IGA lists the Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90, and Independent lists Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99. Those three prices are the complete cost basis for the $44.79 recipe total.

If you are trying to minimize the number of stops, the question is whether the $5.99 sauce at Independent is worth a separate trip. Since the sauce is the lowest-priced item in this recipe, your time and transportation costs matter. If Independent is on your route, this recipe is easy to justify; if not, you may prefer to check https://eezly.com/recipes for other pasta dinners that align with the stores you already visit.

Recipe 3: Seafood Pasta — $7.46 per serving

Seafood Pasta costs $59.70 total for 8 servings, or $7.46 per serving, making it the highest-cost but most complete dinner in this New Brunswick comparison. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. The recipe uses six priced ingredients: Penne Pasta Meal at Foodland for $20.90, Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at IGA for $17.90, Silk Whole Next Milk at Foodland for $7.49, Northumberland 1% Partly Skim Chocolate Milk at IGA for $3.69, Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at Independent for $5.99, and Crab Apples at IGA for $3.73.

This is the best fit when you want a fuller meal and are comfortable paying closer to the $8-per-serving ceiling. The total remains below $60 for 8 servings, which makes it a reasonable family-style dinner for New Brunswick households comparing cheapest recipes by serving cost. You pay more than the other two options because the recipe includes both the seafood-style prepared item and the additional dairy and fruit components.

The important budgeting point is that Seafood Pasta is not the cheapest dinner in the article, but it may be the most complete. If you are feeding people who expect a more substantial main dish, the extra $2.70 per serving compared with Creamy Red Pepper Penne buys more variety in the ingredient mix. If your priority is strictly cost, choose Recipe 1; if your priority is a fuller pasta dinner still under $8 per serving, Seafood Pasta is the stronger option.

Ingredients with Prices

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

You should split this recipe across Foodland, IGA, and Independent if you want to follow the lowest listed prices in the available New Brunswick data. Foodland carries the Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 and Silk Whole Next Milk at $7.49. IGA carries the Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90, Northumberland 1% Partly Skim Chocolate Milk at $3.69, and Crab Apples at $3.73, while Independent carries the Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99.

Your practical route depends on where you live in New Brunswick and which stores are already part of your weekly shop. The province’s tracked banners include Atlantic Superstore, Costco, Foodland, IGA, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer, RASS, and Wholesale Club, giving you several places to compare similar dinner ingredients. Before you shop, you can review meal-planning options at https://eezly.com/meal-plans and decide whether this full recipe is worth the higher per-serving cost compared with the two lower-cost alternatives.

New Brunswick Basket Index: Ingredient Prices Across Stores

The six-item New Brunswick basket for these recipes totals $59.70 when you buy the listed ingredients at Foodland, IGA, and Independent. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. This basket is useful because it shows exactly where the recipe budget goes: the two highest-cost items are Foodland’s Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 and IGA’s Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90, while the three lowest-cost items are IGA’s Northumberland milk at $3.69, IGA’s Crab Apples at $3.73, and Independent’s sauce at $5.99.

For your grocery budget, the basket index shows that the main savings opportunity is not in the small add-ons; it is in the highest-priced pasta and prepared seafood-style components. If you are choosing between the three recipes, removing the surimi salad lowers the recipe from the full Seafood Pasta cost of $59.70 to the Creamy Red Pepper Penne cost of $38.07. Removing the dairy and fruit components but keeping the surimi gives you the $44.79 Surimi Alfredo Penne option.

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

Top Priced Items for Budget Meal Planning

The best low-price building blocks in this New Brunswick recipe set are IGA’s Northumberland 1% Partly Skim Chocolate Milk at $3.69, IGA’s Crab Apples at $3.73, and Independent’s Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. These items do not carry the full cost of the meal, but they help determine whether a recipe stays under the $8-per-serving mark.

Because the available extract provides live tracked prices rather than separate regular-price and sale-price fields, the table below lists the tracked price and does not invent a regular price or savings percentage. You should treat this as a practical “top priced items” table for recipe costing: it identifies the products that make the meals possible and shows which store has each listed price. If you want current flyer-style discounts, you can compare live listings at https://eezly.com/deals before you shop.

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

Price Comparison Table: All Recipes Side by Side

Creamy Red Pepper Penne is the lowest-cost recipe at $4.76 per serving, while Seafood Pasta is the fullest recipe at $7.46 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. The difference between the cheapest and highest-cost recipes is $2.70 per serving, which matters when you are cooking for 8 people.

For your own meal plan, the right choice depends on whether you want the lowest total bill or the most complete dinner. Creamy Red Pepper Penne keeps the grocery cost to $38.07, Surimi Alfredo Penne raises the total to $44.79 by adding the surimi salad, and Seafood Pasta reaches $59.70 by including all six priced ingredients. All three recipes remain under $8 per serving, which makes them relevant for searches such as cheap dinner recipes under $8, budget meals New Brunswick, and cheapest recipes for families.

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

How to Use These Prices for a Smarter New Brunswick Grocery Trip

You should start with the per-serving cost, then decide whether extra ingredients are worth the additional money for your household. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. If you need the cheapest dinner, Creamy Red Pepper Penne at $4.76 per serving is the clear choice; if you want a fuller meal with a seafood-style component, Surimi Alfredo Penne at $5.60 per serving is the better middle option; if you want the complete basket, Seafood Pasta costs $7.46 per serving.

The store pattern also matters. Foodland accounts for the pasta base and one dairy item, IGA accounts for the surimi salad, crab apples, and one milk item, and Independent accounts for the sauce. If you are already visiting IGA, the $17.90 surimi salad and $3.73 crab apples can be added to the basket efficiently. If you are already going to Foodland, the $20.90 Penne Pasta Meal is the key item to plan around.

You can also use these prices to make a practical substitution decision without guessing. The difference between Creamy Red Pepper Penne and Surimi Alfredo Penne is $6.72 per full recipe, calculated from $44.79 minus $38.07. The difference between Surimi Alfredo Penne and Seafood Pasta is $14.91 per full recipe, calculated from $59.70 minus $44.79. Those exact gaps help you decide whether the additional ingredients fit your weekly grocery budget.