Newfoundland Vegetarian Pot Pie: $8.85/Serving

Key Facts

• Vegetarian Pot Pie costs $70.80 total and $8.85 per serving for 8 servings in Newfoundland and Labrador. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Dominion has No Name Whole White Potatoes, 540 ml, priced at $2.00. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Red Carrots are priced at $0.88 at Dominion, the lowest ingredient price in this recipe set. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Foodland has Best Buy Frozen Chopped Spinach Grade A, 300 g, priced at $1.79. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Independent has Green Beans priced at $0.99, Cauliflower at $6.50, and Broccoli at $4.99. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Newfoundland and Labrador active grocery banners in this pricing set include Costco, Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer, and Wholesale Club. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)

Introduction: The cheapest dinner in this guide is $3.47 per serving

The cheapest dinner recipe in this Newfoundland and Labrador guide is the Potato, Carrot, and Green Bean Skillet at $13.86 total, or $3.47 per serving for four servings. That recipe uses Dominion potatoes at $2.00, Dominion red carrots at $0.88, Independent green beans at $0.99, Dominion margarine at $3.99, Dominion seasoning salt at $3.50, and Independent Italian parsley at $2.50. If you are searching for cheap dinner recipes under $4 in Newfoundland and Labrador, this is the strongest option in the current ingredient set because it keeps the meal built around low-priced produce rather than higher-cost herbs, spices, and specialty items.

For family cooking, the larger Vegetarian Pot Pie at $70.80 total and $8.85 per serving gives you eight servings, which can make sense when you want leftovers or a make-ahead dinner. You will spend more upfront, but you also get a broader vegetable mix: potatoes, carrots, zucchini, green beans, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, herbs, flour, margarine, vegetable cubes, and seasonings. 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.

Recipe 1: Vegetarian Pot Pie — $8.85 per serving

Vegetarian Pot Pie costs $70.80 total and $8.85 per serving for eight servings in Newfoundland and Labrador. This is the highest-cost recipe in the guide, but it is also the most complete dinner because it combines multiple vegetables, a flour-based crust or thickener, margarine, vegetable cubes, and herbs. If you are feeding a larger household, you should evaluate this recipe by total servings rather than only by the checkout price, because the eight-serving yield spreads the cost across several meals.

This recipe is especially useful when you want a vegetarian dinner built around familiar grocery items from Dominion, Foodland, and Independent. You get lower-cost anchors such as Dominion red carrots at $0.88, Independent green beans at $0.99, and Foodland frozen chopped spinach at $1.79, but you also absorb higher-cost pantry and seasoning items such as Dominion black pepper at $8.99, Foodland Robin Hood Whole Wheat All Purpose Flour at $6.99, and Independent cauliflower at $6.50. Your best strategy is to treat the higher-priced pantry items as reusable ingredients if you already have them at home; for a strict recipe-costing exercise, however, the full basket is counted at current shelf prices.

Ingredients with Prices

The Vegetarian Pot Pie basket reflects a full grocery shop rather than a small top-up shop. Dominion supplies several of the core items, including No Name Whole White Potatoes at $2.00, red carrots at $0.88, zucchini at $1.85, tarragon at $3.50, black pepper at $8.99, organic low sodium vegetable cubes at $3.99, dry mango slices at $1.59, seasoning salt at $3.50, margarine at $3.99, and whole water chestnuts at $1.49. Foodland contributes Best Buy Frozen Chopped Spinach Grade A at $1.79, Robin Hood Whole Wheat All Purpose Flour at $6.99, and non-hydrogenated margarine at $4.49.

Independent carries several of the fresh vegetable and herb items in this costing set. You will find green beans at $0.99, cauliflower at $6.50, broccoli at $4.99, Italian parsley at $2.50, and rosemary at $3.00. These prices matter because fresh vegetable costs can vary widely by banner, and your final meal cost can shift when you substitute a lower-cost vegetable for a higher-cost one.

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

Dominion is the most important stop for this pot pie because it carries many of the listed ingredients in the priced basket, including potatoes at $2.00, red carrots at $0.88, zucchini at $1.85, margarine at $3.99, vegetable cubes at $3.99, and seasoning salt at $3.50. Independent is the key store for green beans at $0.99, cauliflower at $6.50, broccoli at $4.99, parsley at $2.50, and rosemary at $3.00. Foodland is where you would buy the spinach at $1.79 and the flour at $6.99 in this ingredient set.

If you want to reduce the checkout impact, you should check your pantry before buying black pepper, flour, seasoning salt, and herbs. These items are priced accurately in the basket, but you may not need to repurchase them for every pot pie. For meal planning, the best practical approach is to buy the low-cost fresh and frozen vegetables first, then decide whether you need full-size pantry items in the same week.

Recipe 2: Potato, Carrot, and Green Bean Skillet — $3.47 per serving

Potato, Carrot, and Green Bean Skillet costs $13.86 total, or $3.47 per serving for four servings, using current Newfoundland and Labrador ingredient prices. This is the cheapest recipe in the guide because it uses three of the lowest-priced produce items in the data: Dominion red carrots at $0.88, Independent green beans at $0.99, and Dominion No Name Whole White Potatoes at $2.00. If your goal is budget meals in Newfoundland and Labrador rather than a large special-occasion casserole, this is the recipe you should build around first.

The recipe is simple: cook the potatoes until tender, add sliced carrots and green beans, then finish with margarine, seasoning salt, and chopped parsley. The flavour profile is modest, but the cost control is strong because your main ingredients come in under $4 before seasoning and fat are added. You can serve it as a vegetarian dinner on its own or pair it with another protein you already have at home, but the recipe costing below counts only the provided priced ingredients.

Ingredients with Prices

This skillet recipe uses six priced items and deliberately avoids higher-cost vegetables such as cauliflower at $6.50 and broccoli at $4.99. You use Dominion potatoes at $2.00 as the base, Dominion red carrots at $0.88 for sweetness, and Independent green beans at $0.99 for texture. Dominion margarine at $3.99 adds richness, Dominion seasoning salt at $3.50 adds the main seasoning, and Independent Italian parsley at $2.50 provides a fresh finish.

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

For this recipe, you would split the basket between Dominion and Independent. Dominion offers the potatoes at $2.00, red carrots at $0.88, margarine at $3.99, and seasoning salt at $3.50, while Independent offers green beans at $0.99 and Italian parsley at $2.50. Dominion therefore handles the largest share of the basket by item count, but Independent is still relevant because the green beans are one of the lowest-priced vegetables in the entire data set.

Dominion offers red carrots at $0.88, while Independent’s green beans are $0.99 — both are sub-$1 produce items in this Newfoundland and Labrador recipe set. That pairing is the main reason this recipe stays under $4 per serving. If you are trying to keep your weekly dinner plan predictable, you can make this skillet a base meal and reserve the more expensive pot pie for nights when you need a larger eight-serving dinner.

Recipe 3: Spinach, Zucchini, and Broccoli Bake — $5.10 per serving

Spinach, Zucchini, and Broccoli Bake costs $30.60 total, or $5.10 per serving for six servings, using Foodland, Dominion, and Independent prices. This recipe is more expensive than the potato skillet but cheaper than the full Vegetarian Pot Pie on a per-serving basis. It is a good middle option when you want a vegetable-forward dinner with a baked texture, but you do not want the full $70.80 pot pie basket.

The cost structure comes from a mix of affordable and higher-priced items. Foodland spinach is $1.79 and Dominion zucchini is $1.85, which keep the vegetable base reasonable. The price rises once you add Independent broccoli at $4.99, Foodland flour at $6.99, Dominion organic low sodium vegetable cubes at $3.99, Foodland non-hydrogenated margarine at $4.49, Dominion black pepper at $8.99, and Independent rosemary at $3.00.

Ingredients with Prices

This bake works as a low-meat or vegetarian dinner because it uses spinach, zucchini, and broccoli as the central ingredients. You can prepare it by cooking the vegetables, whisking flour with vegetable broth, seasoning with rosemary and pepper, and baking until the mixture sets into a casserole-style dish. In strict recipe-costing terms, the black pepper is the biggest cost pressure at $8.99, so you should check whether you already have pepper before adding it to your grocery list.

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

You would buy the spinach, flour, and non-hydrogenated margarine at Foodland for this recipe, giving Foodland a central role in the bake. Dominion supplies the zucchini, vegetable cubes, and black pepper, while Independent supplies broccoli and rosemary. Because the basket is split across three stores, you should decide whether the extra stop is worthwhile based on your route, especially if you are already visiting Dominion for the lower-cost carrots and potatoes used in the other recipes.

Foodland offers frozen chopped spinach at $1.79, while Dominion charges $1.85 for zucchini — a difference of $0.06 between two core vegetables in this recipe. Independent broccoli at $4.99 is the more expensive vegetable component, but it also gives the bake more volume and texture. For you, the practical decision is whether broccoli’s role in the dish justifies its higher price compared with lower-cost green beans at $0.99.

Basket Index: Newfoundland and Labrador staple prices for these recipes

The lowest-priced staples in this recipe set are red carrots at $0.88 at Dominion, green beans at $0.99 at Independent, and frozen chopped spinach at $1.79 at Foodland. These are the items you should prioritize when building cheap dinner recipes under $4 or $5 in Newfoundland and Labrador. Higher-priced basket items, including black pepper at $8.99, flour at $6.99, cauliflower at $6.50, and broccoli at $4.99, can still be useful, but they have a larger effect on your per-serving cost.

This basket index compares eight practical ingredients across the stores where they appear in the current priced recipe set. It is not a theoretical national average; it reflects the specific Newfoundland and Labrador grocery prices provided for Dominion, Foodland, and Independent as of May 2026. You can use it to decide which recipe components are worth building around when you want the cheapest recipes rather than the most elaborate ones.

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

Top price anchors for cheap Newfoundland and Labrador dinners

The best price anchors in this data set are the ingredients that deliver meal volume at a low shelf price: carrots at $0.88, green beans at $0.99, spinach at $1.79, zucchini at $1.85, and potatoes at $2.00. These products are not all interchangeable, but they give you the most flexibility when you want budget meals in Newfoundland and Labrador. If you start your dinner plan with these items, you can add pricier ingredients only where they materially improve the meal.

Because the provided pricing set does not include separate promotional “regular” and “sale” prices, the table below treats the current tracked shelf price as the reference price and shows 0.0% markdown savings. That keeps the arithmetic transparent and avoids overstating discounts. You should read this as a “best current price anchor” table rather than a flyer-discount table.

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

Price Comparison Table: all recipes side by side

The cheapest recipe is the Potato, Carrot, and Green Bean Skillet at $3.47 per serving, followed by the Spinach, Zucchini, and Broccoli Bake at $6.02 per serving and the Vegetarian Pot Pie at $8.85 per serving. If you want the lowest dinner cost, you should choose the skillet. If you want the most servings from one cooking session, you should choose the Vegetarian Pot Pie because it yields eight servings.

The comparison also shows why “cheapest” depends on what you need from dinner. A four-serving skillet works well for a small household or one meal with modest leftovers. A six-serving bake gives you a middle ground. The eight-serving pot pie costs more upfront, but it may be more useful when you want a family dinner that can stretch into lunches.

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

How to use these prices when planning your grocery trip

You should start with the recipe that fits your household size, then build your list around the lowest-cost ingredients in the basket. For a small dinner, the $13.86 skillet is the most efficient option because the total basket is low and the ingredients are simple. For a larger vegetarian meal, the $70.80 pot pie gives you eight servings, which may be useful if you want leftovers or a planned lunch the next day.

Store sequencing matters because the ingredients are split across Dominion, Foodland, and Independent. Dominion is strongest in this data set for potatoes, carrots, zucchini, margarine, water chestnuts, dry mango slices, vegetable cubes, seasoning salt, tarragon, and black pepper. Foodland is important for spinach, flour, and non-hydrogenated margarine, while Independent is where you find green beans, cauliflower, broccoli, parsley, and rosemary.

If you want AI-powered grocery price comparison for future meal plans, compare recipes before you shop rather than after you have built the menu. 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. For your weekly routine, that means you can check whether a recipe is actually low-cost in Newfoundland and Labrador before committing to a dinner plan.