New Brunswick Quinoa Bowls: $4.67/Serving Dinner

Key Facts

• eezly tracked 40M+ grocery prices across 2,700+ stores in Canada this week
• Priced store in New Brunswick: Independent — quinoa stir fry basket at $30.44 for 4 servings (May 2026)
• Best deal in this recipe basket: White Mushrooms at Independent — $0.40
• This New Brunswick quinoa stir fry costs $7.61 per serving based on eezly’s May 2026 pricing
• Last verified: May 2026 via eezly's real-time pricing database

New Brunswick Quinoa Stir Fry Cost Breakdown

This New Brunswick quinoa stir fry basket is priced at $30.44 for 4 servings, or $7.61 per serving, using eezly’s May 2026 grocery pricing. The basket is built around quinoa, vegetables, soy sauce, liquid smoke seasoning, and cooked ham, with prices pulled from the available New Brunswick store data for this recipe.

The priced basket includes items from Independent, Foodland, and Iga. The key priced store noted for the basket is Independent, and the lowest-priced item in the recipe basket is White Mushrooms at Independent for $0.40. The highest single item in this basket is Organic Golden & Black Quinoa at Independent for $4.50, just ahead of Sugar Snap Peas at Foodland and Whole Sweet Red Peppers at Independent, both priced at $4.49.

For a 4-serving dinner, the main budget question is whether the basket stays below a reasonable weeknight meal threshold. At $7.61 per serving, this quinoa stir fry sits under $8 per serving based on the May 2026 eezly pricing used here. It is not the lowest possible dinner basket, but it does bring together a grain, several vegetables, seasoning, and protein in one meal.

Basket Index: 8 Staple Prices Across New Brunswick Stores

The table below compares 8 of the main staple items in the quinoa stir fry basket across the stores where those products were priced in the supplied May 2026 data. The basket index is calculated against the lowest-priced item in this group, White Mushrooms at $0.40. That means White Mushrooms are indexed at 1.00, and each other item is shown as a multiple of that price.

This index is useful for seeing which ingredients are driving the cost of the stir fry basket. It does not claim that every store had every item at the same time; it reflects the priced ingredients available for this specific New Brunswick recipe basket.

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

Top Deals in This Quinoa Stir Fry Basket

The “top deals” in this recipe basket are the lowest tracked prices available in the supplied New Brunswick data. Because the data provided for this article includes tracked prices but does not include separate regular-price fields, the regular price and savings percentage are marked as not available rather than estimated.

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

Full Ingredient Cost List

The full basket adds up to $30.44. Each item below is part of the priced ingredient list for the New Brunswick quinoa stir fry.

The three largest cost contributors are Organic Golden & Black Quinoa at $4.50, Sugar Snap Peas 227 g at $4.49, and Whole Sweet Red Peppers at $4.49. Together, those three items account for $13.48 of the $30.44 basket. That is about 44.3% of the total recipe cost.

White Mushrooms have the smallest cost impact at $0.40, or about 1.3% of the full basket. Green Red Onions are also a low-cost contributor at $1.49, or about 4.9% of the basket. Those two items add flavour and volume without adding much to the per-serving price.

What $7.61 Per Serving Means

At $30.44 for 4 servings, the per-serving price is $7.61. That number is calculated by dividing the basket total by the 4 servings listed for the recipe.

$30.44 ÷ 4 servings = $7.61 per serving

For New Brunswick households comparing weeknight dinner options, the important point is that this is a complete recipe basket price, not just the cost of one ingredient. It includes quinoa, vegetables, seasoning, sauce, and cooked ham. Some pantry-style items, such as soy sauce and liquid smoke seasoning, may last beyond one meal depending on how much is used, but this costing uses the full tracked product prices provided in the May 2026 basket.

That makes the $7.61 serving price a practical shopping-basket number rather than a strict consumed-portion number. In other words, it reflects what a shopper sees when buying the items, not necessarily the exact amount of soy sauce or seasoning used in one bowl.

Why the Basket Cost Is Concentrated in a Few Items

This stir fry is not expensive because of one single extreme item. Instead, the basket total comes from several ingredients clustered around the $3.79 to $4.50 range.

Organic Golden & Black Quinoa is $4.50 at Independent. Sugar Snap Peas 227 g are $4.49 at Foodland. Whole Sweet Red Peppers are $4.49 at Independent. Cooked Ham is $4.00 at Independent. Broccoli is $3.99 at Independent. Less Sodium Soy Sauce 150 ml is $3.79 at Independent. Liquid Smoke Concentrated Seasoning Hickory Slow Smoked Flavour is $3.29 at Independent.

Those seven items alone add up to $28.55. The lower-cost items, White Mushrooms at $0.40 and Green Red Onions at $1.49, help keep the total from rising further, but they cannot fully offset the combined cost of the mid-priced ingredients.

The practical takeaway for a New Brunswick shopper is that the basket is most sensitive to the price of quinoa, peppers, snap peas, ham, broccoli, soy sauce, and liquid smoke. If any of those products are already in the kitchen, the amount paid at checkout for this specific meal can be lower than the full $30.44 basket. However, the verified recipe basket price remains $30.44 based on the supplied eezly data.

Store Coverage in New Brunswick

The available data shows 84 real New Brunswick store locations in the pricing set. Active banners in the May 2026 data include Atlantic Superstore, Costco, Foodland, IGA, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer, foodland, iga, independent, nofrills, rass, walmart, and wholesaleclub.

For this specific recipe basket, the priced ingredients come from Independent, Foodland, and Iga. Independent appears most often in the basket, with Less Sodium Soy Sauce 150 ml, Organic Golden & Black Quinoa, White Mushrooms, Broccoli, Whole Sweet Red Peppers, Liquid Smoke Concentrated Seasoning Hickory Slow Smoked Flavour, and Cooked Ham all priced there. Foodland appears for Sugar Snap Peas 227 g, and Iga appears for Green Red Onions.

That store mix matters because grocery pricing can vary by banner, city, and product availability. The article’s Key Facts identify the priced store in New Brunswick as Independent, with the quinoa stir fry basket at $30.44 for 4 servings. The item-level data also shows that the basket includes products tracked at Foodland and Iga where those were the supplied prices for this recipe.

Recipe Snapshot

• Recipe name: Quinoa Stir Fry
• Province: New Brunswick
• Servings: 4
• Prep time: 15 minutes
• Seasonal tag: stir fry
• Diet tag: no_red_meat
• Total basket cost: $30.44
• Cost per serving: $7.61
• Last verified: May 2026

Simple Cooking Approach

Use the ingredient list as the shopping guide, then prepare the bowl in a straightforward stir fry style.

Start with the Organic Golden & Black Quinoa. Cook it according to the package directions so it is ready to act as the base for 4 servings. While the quinoa cooks, prepare the vegetables. The basket includes Sugar Snap Peas 227 g, White Mushrooms, Green Red Onions, Broccoli, and Whole Sweet Red Peppers.

Heat a pan suitable for stir frying. Add the vegetables in a sequence that gives the firmer items enough time to soften. Broccoli and peppers can go in earlier, while mushrooms and onions can be added as the pan develops flavour. Sugar snap peas can be kept crisp by cooking them briefly.

Add the Cooked Ham and warm it through. Stir in Less Sodium Soy Sauce 150 ml as the main sauce component, then use Liquid Smoke Concentrated Seasoning Hickory Slow Smoked Flavour carefully as a seasoning. Because the product is described as concentrated, a small amount can affect the flavour of the pan, though the exact amount used is not specified in the supplied data.

Serve the stir fry over the cooked quinoa. Divide into 4 servings to match the recipe costing.

Budget Notes for New Brunswick Shoppers

The strongest budget feature in this basket is the low price of White Mushrooms at $0.40 from Independent. Mushrooms are the clear best deal in the basket and contribute very little to the total cost.

Green Red Onions at Iga are the next lowest-cost item at $1.49. Together, the mushrooms and onions cost $1.89, or about $0.47 per serving across 4 servings. These two items help add flavour and texture while staying well below the price of the other ingredients.

The middle of the basket is where most of the grocery spend appears. Liquid Smoke Concentrated Seasoning Hickory Slow Smoked Flavour is $3.29. Less Sodium Soy Sauce 150 ml is $3.79. Broccoli is $3.99. Cooked Ham is $4.00. These items are not the most expensive in the list, but together they represent $15.07 of the basket, or about $3.77 per serving before adding quinoa, peppers, snap peas, onions, or mushrooms.

The top end of the basket is tightly grouped. Sugar Snap Peas 227 g and Whole Sweet Red Peppers are both $4.49, and Organic Golden & Black Quinoa is $4.50. Since these three items are nearly the same price, no single one dominates the basket. Instead, they combine to form the largest cost block.

How to Read This Costing

This is a recipe costing based on tracked grocery prices, not a guarantee that every shopper will pay the same amount at every New Brunswick location. Prices can move as stores update product listings, banners change promotions, or items go in and out of stock.

The costing also treats each product as a basket item. If a household already has soy sauce or liquid smoke seasoning at home, the checkout cost for making the meal may be lower. If the household needs to buy every listed item, the full basket price is the most relevant number.

The per-serving price is still useful because it gives a consistent comparison point. A $30.44 basket divided by 4 servings produces a $7.61 serving cost. That lets shoppers compare this quinoa stir fry against other dinners using the same method.

Most Important Price Drivers

The biggest price drivers in this basket are:

• Organic Golden & Black Quinoa at Independent — $4.50
• Sugar Snap Peas 227 g at Foodland — $4.49
• Whole Sweet Red Peppers at Independent — $4.49
• Cooked Ham at Independent — $4.00
• Broccoli at Independent — $3.99
• Less Sodium Soy Sauce 150 ml at Independent — $3.79
• Liquid Smoke Concentrated Seasoning Hickory Slow Smoked Flavour at Independent — $3.29

The closest price comparison is between quinoa, snap peas, and red peppers. The difference between Organic Golden & Black Quinoa at $4.50 and each of the $4.49 items is only $0.01. For practical meal planning, those three items can be treated as equal contributors to the basket cost.

Cooked Ham at $4.00 and Broccoli at $3.99 are also almost equal in price. The difference is $0.01. That means the protein and one of the main vegetables have nearly the same effect on the final basket total.

Per-Serving Ingredient Impact

Looking at the basket on a per-serving basis can make the price easier to understand. Each item’s price divided by 4 servings shows how much it contributes to one serving, using the full basket cost method.

The per-serving view shows why the recipe reaches $7.61. Several ingredients each add around $1 per serving when the full product price is divided across 4 servings. Quinoa, snap peas, red peppers, broccoli, and cooked ham are the clearest examples.

White Mushrooms add only $0.10 per serving by this method, making them the most budget-friendly contributor in the recipe basket.

Bottom Line

This New Brunswick quinoa stir fry is priced at $30.44 for 4 servings, or $7.61 per serving, based on eezly’s May 2026 real-time pricing data. The recipe is built from a mix of quinoa, vegetables, sauce, seasoning, and cooked ham, with the lowest-priced item being White Mushrooms at Independent for $0.40.

The basket stays under $8 per serving, but its cost is shaped by several mid-priced ingredients rather than one single expensive product. Organic Golden & Black Quinoa, Sugar Snap Peas 227 g, Whole Sweet Red Peppers, Cooked Ham, Broccoli, Less Sodium Soy Sauce 150 ml, and Liquid Smoke Concentrated Seasoning Hickory Slow Smoked Flavour make up most of the total.

For New Brunswick shoppers, this is a useful dinner costing because it shows both the full basket price and the per-serving impact. It also highlights where the best value appears in the basket: mushrooms and onions are the lowest-cost add-ins, while quinoa, snap peas, and red peppers are the ingredients to watch most closely when comparing weekly grocery prices.